If time travel is really possible we would have already heard the most listless tune about time travel because someone would have traveled to the future and brought it back to the past

It's not often I listen to something and audibly react with a "meh". This was one of those times.

To heck with R.E.M.

I just hope now that they are done, Bill Rieflin will go back to KMFDM were he belongs.

KMFDM sucks :D

F that I want to hear the solo album of their unibrow drummer.

I will check this out when I get home. If it is louasy as people are saying, I will be that much more sad about R.E.M.'s retirement.

yes, it's but generic but it also sucks.

wtf..I suck at typing.

minus one but please

My favorite REM Song is actually sung by Mike Mills: Texarkana.

Couldn't care less about this. Bring on the Mike Mills solo album!

True Fact: I talked Peter Buck into buying his first CD player.

SuburbanCowboy: My favorite REM Song is actually sung by Mike Mills: Texarkana.

Lousy choice. Pick again.

I'm REM and you're just a farkin' captain!

It's what the Cramps would sound like if the Cramps were boring and lame.

NutznGum: I'm REM and you're just a farkin' captain!

+1 for the reference

Notabunny: So Love And Rockets and the Beach Boys got together to lose their enthusiasm?

That should be the official blurb.

Anyone who plays side projects with Robyn Hitchcock, produced iconic Uncle Tupelo albums and played on Replacements songs is fine by me.

It sounds like a Flat Duo Jets demo song or something, but I'll still give the album a chance.

Also, Bill Rieflin is too awesome for one band. I think he was best with Ministry, personally. He and Martin Atkins on the '92 tour were unstoppable!

Celerian: rotorschnee: To heck with R.E.M.

I just hope now that they are done, Bill Rieflin will go back to KMFDM were he belongs.

KMFDM sucks :D

I hear their music is sampled, totally fake
And its done by machines, cause they don't make mistakes.

it must be true because when you play their music forward, it's the ultimate sound
but I also hear it contains a message from satan if you turn it around

lake march: It sounds like a Flat Duo Jets demo song or something, but I'll still give the album a chance.

Also, Bill Rieflin is too awesome for one band. I think he was best with Ministry, personally. He and Martin Atkins on the '92 tour were unstoppable!

Dueling drums on the Breathe video... YOU CANNOT BEAT THAT!

I was looking at some REM Remembered magazine put out by Rolling Stone or something or another... and I am just looking for any mention of Bill. Barely anything.. just listed in the margins here and there as a "contributor" to an album.

Bah! This man deserves WAAAYY more credit.

Just listened to it. The comment about it sounding like the Cramps if they were boring? Yep - that.


/still love the guy and his guitar playing though

bwilson27: SuburbanCowboy: My favorite REM Song is actually sung by Mike Mills: Texarkana.

Lousy choice. Pick again.

Raspberry Beret by Hindu Love Gods. REM minus Stipe plus Warren Zevon. So good!!!!

Since I'm in the process of putting together an R.E.M. tribute band at the moment, I'm getting a kick...

My name is Buck and I like to...put out solo records now that R.E.M. called it quits!

This makes me wish that Mike and Michael will get back together and record albums of breezy, keyboard-based pop music along the lines of Out of Time and Around the Sun, only way more breezy and fey.

Better than this crud.

killzoe: Couldn't care less about this. Bring on the Mike Mills solo album!

THIS.

Brought to you by the Committee to Catapult Mike Mills Into Musical History (C2M3H).

waiting for Stipe's Banana Splits and/or Monkees tribute album

REM's only real singer.

No band had an influence on me more than REM. They were one of the first bands I got into as a kid, during the Out of Time era. I soaked up as much of the early catalog as I could. Because of the unintelligible and outright WTFness of Michael's lyrics early on, to this day, I hardly ever pay attention to lyrics in any song or genre and just hear the voice as another instrument.

And, seeing a nebbish guy wearing glasses playing the hell out of the bass made we want to learn how to play bass too, seeing as how I was also a nebbish guy wearing glasses. Still am, to this day. Playing bass and wearing glasses.

So thanks, Mike, Michael, Bill, and I guess Peter too. He always looked like a grumpy douche, but he came up with jangly riffs like nobody else.

Pontious Pilates: No band had an influence on me more than REM. They were one of the first bands I got into as a kid, during the Out of Time era. I soaked up as much of the early catalog as I could. Because of the unintelligible and outright WTFness of Michael's lyrics early on, to this day, I hardly ever pay attention to lyrics in any song or genre and just hear the voice as another instrument.

And, seeing a nebbish guy wearing glasses playing the hell out of the bass made we want to learn how to play bass too, seeing as how I was also a nebbish guy wearing glasses. Still am, to this day. Playing bass and wearing glasses.

So thanks, Mike, Michael, Bill, and I guess Peter too. He always looked like a grumpy douche, but he came up with jangly riffs like nobody else.

I always like REM threads cause of these kinds of posts.

Buck's a talented guy, but also a renown asshole.

Singing is not his strong suit.

meh...don't like it..but I don't hate it

/desperately wanted to make a "The bucks stops here" type joke
//decided against it
///didn't want to shiat on the guy just to make a bad joke
////slashies!