I love synths, but there are some places that they just don't belong... On the plus side, you can actually understand what Stipe is singing in this version!Eldritch wrote:Have you ever wondered what REM had sounded if Stephen Hague had produced them? Well, I just found out that they actually did work with Hague in 1982 but didn't get more than one song on tape before the sessions were called off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUv4tn3zGj0
You can hear that it really wasn't a match made in heaven.
REM Go Into The Great Beyond
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Your Funny Uncle
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of matter. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
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Currently listening to the latest greatest hits. That line "you are the greatest thing since bread came sliced" is still godawful. I struggle to think of a worse lyric.
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I think that tune "all the way to reno(your going to be a star) was their best tune. it kinds reminded me of a PSB ballad with orchestra.
Re: REM Go Into The Great Beyond
Have you ever heard of a Mr. A BellPatrick Bateman wrote:Currently listening to the latest greatest hits. That line "you are the greatest thing since bread came sliced" is still godawful. I struggle to think of a worse lyric.
That lyric is bad because you can tell it is obviously written to be very clever and arch. As bad as a Robbie Williams 'pun'
Still waiting to hear the Adam Freeland, Manhattan Clique and Axwell mixes of Integral.