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Thread started 03/15/05 6:24am

mrdespues	The Best REM Song Ever? My vote is "Beachball" off the "Reveal" album. Pretty much anyone I've played it to loves this song, too. Close second for me would be "Electrolite" off the New Adventures In Hi-Fi album.
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Reply #1 posted 03/15/05 6:28am

Gold319	For me its Everybody Hurts, but also I absolutely LOVE the whole of the new CD Around The Sun!! One of the best tracks off that is The Outsiders!! Sheer genius!!!
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Reply #2 posted 03/15/05 6:46am

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Reply #3 posted 03/15/05 6:48am

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Finest Worksong? Shit, this is hard.

a psychotic is someone who just figured out what's going on

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Reply #4 posted 03/15/05 6:48am

mrdespues	Everybody Hurts IS great, but it is also very commercial, and I usually don't go for the singles off an album when it comes to an artists' best tracks. "Beachball" is a swirling, calypso-ish, afternoon in the tropics, orchestrated masterpiece, in my opinion. But yes I do love Everybody Hurts, too...it would be about #3 of my favourite songs of theirs.
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Reply #5 posted 03/15/05 6:50am

mrdespues	Stax said: Finest Worksong? Shit, this is hard. That's a great one, too....but somewhere in my top 20, not top 10. I exclude most of their earlier work because I think they got a lot better later in their career.
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Reply #6 posted 03/15/05 7:20am

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Everybody Hurts devastates me. Commercial as it may be, the song really is moving.

The world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

"You still wanna take me to prison...just because I won't trade humanity for patriotism."

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Reply #7 posted 03/15/05 7:31am

CinisterCee	early REM: "Radio Free Europe" later REM: "E-Bow The Letter" My favorites.
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Reply #8 posted 03/15/05 9:38am

senik

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Man, all the "pick one song" Threads are too hard

"..My work is personal, I'm a working person, I put in work, I work with purpose.."

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Reply #9 posted 03/15/05 12:12pm

endorphin74	I'm prolly alone in this choice, but I do believe "Hope" is my favorite REM song (Off the 'Up' album). Not far behind would be: Half A World Away and Pilgrimage
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Reply #10 posted 03/15/05 1:26pm

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endorphin74 said:

I'm prolly alone in this choice, but I do believe "Hope" is my favorite REM song (Off the 'Up' album).

Not far behind would be:
Half A World Away
and
Pilgrimage

Hope is my favorite too. Followed by Don't Fall on Me.

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Reply #11 posted 03/15/05 3:17pm