Ice Cream Man- John Brim
Slipped, Tripped & Fell In Love- Ann Peebles
Swerve- Tin Men
The Waterboy- You Am I
Love And Danger- Rosie Flores & Joe Ely
A Pair Of Brown Eyes- The Pogues
Sitting Still- R.E.M.
Ice Cream Man- John Brim
(I heard this on a Van Halen album before hearing the original. I love both.)
Slipped, Tripped & Fell In Love- Ann Peebles
(We lost the great Don Bryant this week, a partner both in songwriting and in real life of Ann Peebles. This gem was not written by Bryant, but by George Jackson.)
Swerve- Tin Men
(Always a must-see when In New Orleans, they are without question, the world's foremost guitar, washboard and tuba trio. I think it was Paul In DK who said, "this sounds like Bobby Charles fronting NRBQ.")
The Waterboy- You Am I
(One of many fantastic tracks on their new 2 CD collection, "The Dollop & The Wallop.)
Love And Danger- Rosie Flores & Joe Ely
(We lost the great Joe Ely this week. Here he is with the great Rosie Flores. This is a great song.)
A Pair Of Brown Eyes- The Pogues
(There is a just released new vinyl remaster of "Rum Sodomy & The Lash" that also features a bonus LP with the entire
"Poguetry In Motion" E.P., as well as b-sides and live tracks. Excellent remastering and package. Highly recommended.)
Sitting Still - R.E.M.
(I hated "Murmur" when it was released, and I can't say I liked the next two either. It was "Life's Rich Pageant" that made me come around, and it remains my favorite R.E.M. record. I do love "Murmur" now, though.)
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12 comments:
You didn't like "Murmur"? Jeebus, that was a life changer for me. 😎
I hated the sound of Peter Buck's guitar and the way he played it. It's like he bought a guitar and an amp and left both at their factory settings. Not what I wanted in the 80's. I'm over it. I really like "Murmur" now.
"Life's Rich Pageant" rocks out. A classic. I rank it along with Murmur and Automatic for the People as their three peaks. Happy Sunday!
Oh and it took me a year to get into Murmur.
It began with Reckoning for me - Heard “Pretty Persuasion” somewhere on the radio when the album came out. That was all it took. Still a classic.
Pavement agrees - “Unseen Power of the Picket Fence” where only R.E.M. can stop Sherman’s march thru Georgia:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/unseen-power-of-the-picket-fence-remastered/1589167854?i=1589168226
They would also cover “Camera” from the album: https://music.apple.com/us/album/camera/1589144048?i=1589144652
:)
MG: "it took me a year to get into Murmur". I guess I just never had the time. If you guys all like them I'll have to assume there is something there.
Let me give a big thumbs up to Tin Men & John Brim!
Captain Al
Big R.E.M. fan here, but not until all the way to 'Document' in my case ... then I went backwards and forwards. "Sitting Still" might be the best song they ever wrote, other than "King Of Birds" and "I Believe."
And nice to see the name George Jackson pop up. I have two of his comps on Kent and love them.
Are we ranking R.E.M. albums? Mine would go like this:
Automatic for the People
Document
Murmur
Fables of the Reconstruction
Reckoning
Lifes Rich Pageant
Accelerate
Out of Time
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Collapse Into Now
Green
Monster
Reveal
Up
Around the Sun
Fave REM albums?
Reckoning (pips Murmur because that was first when I saw them live and have fond memories of the shows)
Murmur
LRP
Fables/Reconstruction
Automatic
Green
Document
New Adventures
Collapse Into Now
Accelerate
Monster
Out Of Time
Up to now, we're in the territory of albums I like most of and would happily stick on anytime...
Up
Reveal
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Oh, okay then Around The Sun.
I was a freshman at Georgia Tech when I first heard the original Radio Free Europe/Sitting Still single on Georgia State’s radio station WRAS. The station did a weekly Georgia music radio show. I loved Sitting Still and found the single at The Record Bar on the GT campus. Somehow I ended up with two copies. I still prefer the original versions of these two over the versions released on Murmur. I later saw R.E.M. perform live at Piedmont Park as part of the Arts Festival of Atlanta with maybe 50 other people. They performed both songs from the single as well as some songs from their upcoming Chronic Town E.P. and others that ended up on Murmur. I thought they were great but never expected they would become one of the biggest bands in the world.
Cleveland Jeff: Ha! On the other hand, sometimes everyone else is wrong or a band just isn't your thing. I didn't spend a year listening to Murmur over and over, though. I bought it due to the rave Rolling Stone review (back when that meant something), played it once or twice and then set it aside. It wasn't clicking for me, but I didn't think it was crap or hate it. Then a year later I was on my college campus and heard R.E.M. were giving a free concert literally hundreds of yards away from me. Instead of going over and checking them out, I put on Murmur...and was astonished at how well I remembered the album. It was as if I HAD been playing it over and over during the past year. It immediately sounded like an old favorite. The only other time I remember such an experience was with Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out The Lights; I'm not a guitar fanatic but after playing it briefly and then a long gap, I played it again and knew every guitar solo intimately, or at least felt like I did. On the other hand, some albums just suck, no matter what other folk think or I just don't care! It's us, not you!
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