time to rise has been engaged - R.E.M.

[toolipano]

http://90days90reasons.com/index.php

stipe sostiene Obama con una delle reason to vote for. (#23)

tra i "coming soon" c'è pure win butler

[Pilgrim]

R.E.M.: Fox News Not Authorized To Use 'Losing My Religion' During DNC Coverage

"We have little or no respect for their puff adder brand of reportage," R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe said in the statement. "Our music does not belong there." R.E.M. said that Fox News is not authorized or licensed to use the song -- a cheeky way for the cable news network to comment on the perceived lack of faith at the DNC -- in the future.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/0 ... lp00000003

[AFX]

pitchfork recensisce la reissue del celeberrimo Document.
solo 8.2


so far:

Murmur 10
Reckoning 10
Fables of the Deconstruction 8.5
Lifes Rich Pageant 8.8
Document 8.2

Io devo dire che sono d'accordo. È l'album meno bello di un gruppo di 5 uno meglio dell'altro. Però è come dire che tra Pelè, Romario, Ronaldo, Zico e Ronaldinho... quest'ultimo è stato il meno forte.

[Magus Perde]

Green Best New Reissue su P4k

Code: Select all

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18049-rem-green-25th-anniversary-deluxe-edition/

Voto 8.4, secondo me meritava qualcosa in più, è uno dei dischi più sottovalutati della loro discografia e anche uno di quelli che ascolto di più.

[AFX]

sono sicuramente d'accordo, Green è uno dei più fighi in assoluto.

[Odradek]

Scoprendoli effettivamente è uno di quelli che apprezzo di più. Stupendo.

[AFX]

ho parcheggiato per prendere un pezzo di pizza per pranzo e mi sono trovato questi che penso di poter annoverare tra i miei migliori amici illuminati da questa bella luce.

Presto un articolo nel blog su questo tipo di relazione, non per forza sui REM

[AFX]

Presto un articolo nel blog su questo tipo di relazione, non per forza sui REM

Eccolo: http://doyourealize.it/panopticon/micha ... elong.html

inoltre, in arrivo box con una 50ina di rarità (più e meno interessanti) i cui proventi andranno in beneficenza

[rick81]

Se Stipe facesse un disco solista le mie aspettative sarebbero altissime, con grande rischio di delusione, quindi forse meglio se non lo fa. Ma in qualche modo ci si deve manifestare quest'uomo, non mi perodnerò mai di non averki visti dal vivo mai.

[rick81]

Intervista a Peter Buck


You’ve continued to play a lot with Mike Mills — with the Baseball Project, he joined you in New York with Robyn Hitchcock, in London with Tired Pony.

We just pretty much finished a Baseball Project record. Mike is in the band now. Michael [Stipe] isn’t really into performing in public now, and I totally accept that. That’s totally cool. I saw him three nights ago. He knows he has a standing offer every time he feels like getting up — but I haven’t asked him because I know he doesn’t want to. I don’t want him to feel bad turning me down. But Mike, he’s played in a solo band, he’s played with the Baseball Project, he’s played with Robyn and the Minus Five. We’ll continue to cross paths.

Tired Pony’s doing Letterman tonight. Have you ever had a moment with Dave where you just kind of lock eyes and be like, “Man, it has been a 30-year path, to who we are now and who we were then”? R.E.M. were one of the very first musical guests on his late night show.

My daughter asked me, when did you first do the show? I looked it up: October 6, 1983. I almost said 1930. It was a brand-new show. We were third-billed to a guy who welded.

(laughs)

No, literally a welder. He welded some stuff. You could smell it all through the hall. Dave has the weight of the world on his shoulders. We always say hello. Last time I was on he goes, “Hey, Peter! Good to see you again.” You could tell he knew who I was. And he really loved the Baseball Project. But you know, it is weird. It’s like, “Oh god! I’ve been playing this guy’s show for 30 years.”

Doing what I do, the same people keep cropping up — if they don’t die, you know. There’s a lot of us who haven’t given up making music. And everyone’s finding a way to do it.

But as far as R.E.M.: It sounds like you all knew on that tour in 2008 that the band was coming to an end — that there would be another album, but probably not another tour.

I don’t think we knew it at the beginning of the tour. Definitely by the end of the tour, we were talking about it. And the feeling was,“Well, haven’t we done this?” Done this in the sense of been done with it. And you know, we were in kind of a convenient place, last record on our record deal. No one really wanted to tour much like that again.

Do you miss playing those songs?

Well, I love those songs. But I never want to play “Losing My Religion” again. “Man on the Moon,” it’s a great song. But it’s five minutes long and I’ve played it a couple thousand times.

So once we’re thinking we’re not going to tour, and we’re not going to get a record deal probably, we talked about what we wanted to do. What we could possibly do. And there wasn’t anything that we decided we needed to do. And there also wasn’t anything that we really agreed on that we all wanted to do. ‘Cause I was saying, “You know we could always do what Tom Waits does. Write a record on an independent and play theaters.” And everyone’s like, “I dunno.” That sounded OK to me, but I’m not going to push for it. You know, some people wanted to get away from it for a while. I wanted to pursue it, maybe not with R.E.M. I think we were all really ready for a change. Which is why I started singing and writing lyrics. I’ve never done this, but I’m just going to try it.

I saw two of the shows on that tour, and as a fan, you’re always looking for a sign. At the end of both shows Michael was like, “We’ll see you soon!” I’m like, “OK, we’re safe. There will be another one.”

Well, you know …

I was taking him at his word!

I love the Rolling Stones. I wish I’d seen them in this last tour. But I don’t want to be playing 30-year-old songs when I’m 70. I mean, the thing that I really enjoy about my solo show is that every song I’m playing is a year old. I’ve done plenty of things where I’ve written it at 4 in the morning, taught it to myself.

You get to start over.

Completely start over. There’s no one going, “Well, why don’t you play that thing from your first record?”

Is there an album from the catalog that you feel is underappreciated?

I think if you asked all of us, we’d all have “New Adventures in Hi-Fi” in the top third, in the top five. And I love “Collapse Into Now.”

It’s a beautiful album. And the perfect way to write your own ending.

But you know, I also think if you put “Oh My Heart” on “Automatic for the People,” you’d make it a better album.

Would you ever want to write a book? A novel, a memoir?

I guess I could write something about my life, but I don’t really want to do that. I like being a little bit private. At one point when I could write, and couldn’t really play guitar, I outlined a novel. And I was going to start it and it just wasn’t original enough, and I just didn’t think I had the energy in me. I don’t think I have a novel in me. I’ve read Graham Greene, so I can’t say I can write.

Your journalism and criticism is terrific.

I’m kind of glib. I can figure out which end of the sentence the period goes. I’m not sure I need to go and try to find a book deal, and I don’t want to talk about the band because that’s private. I don’t want to talk about my kids because they don’t want that. Relationships, no way. I was thinking at one point I would write something that was non-sequential. Just about various things, mostly non-musical.

Like Dylan’s “Chronicles.”

Yeah, but then I know I’d only be getting a deal because I’m a guy in a band. And they’d say, “Where’s the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll?” So, I’m just kind of enjoying kind of media silence. I haven’t done any interviews since –

It has been a long time …

And I don’t think I’ll do anymore. No videos, not photos. The only photo session I ever did – for myself – I wore a monkey mask. You know, I kind of like the fact that maybe I’m done saying things to the public. I’m just finished.

Well, maybe that’s a good last word.

Of course, I’m saying this in an interview. How hypocritical is that?

David Daley is the editor-in-chief of Salon
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