R.E.M. Z.Z.Z.
September 22, 2011 4 Comments
Seriously, I can’t be the only one who didn’t even realize R.E.M. was still together. Who’s the next big announcement gonna be about, Game Theory?
That might be a bad example; for all I know, Game Theory are still together. You know, like R.E.M. apparently totally was until today.
I felt the same exact way when New Order broke up – like 4 years ago (not 15).
I liked a couple of REM songs. I even have one of their albums. But for the most part I thought they were whiney.
lol. I had two reactions to the news.
1. Only now? They were still together?
2. It’s very sad news. Who’ll provide us with cliched honey-covered sensitive+wise psuedo-alternative music now?
When you ask yourself who was better, The Cars or R.E.M, the answer is the former. At least the Cars didn’t pretend to be deep.
Once my friend and I went to a concert hall where Radiohead and REM were playing. REM were, of course, the headliners. But we’d come to see Radiohead; when REM came on we stayed a bit but left because we were bored.
A couple years before that we did the same thing at a Pretenders concert. We’d come to see Iggy Pop, who opened. We weren’t Pretenders fans.