Michael Stipe

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Deuce Bigolo
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Re: REO Speedwagon

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Catchy album names as well

You Can Tune A Piano But You Can't Tuna Fish

The Earth, A Small Man, His Dog And A Chicken

I kid you not
fudgeflaps
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Re: Michael Stipe

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Produced their best stuff under the IRS label, weren't a resounding commercially successful then though, despite high critical praise.

'Eponymous' and 'Life's Rich Pageant' superb.

My fave REM song is 'Fall on Me', beautiful. Give it a go.

The Last Word
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Re: Michael Stipe

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REM can still knock out a strong single but all their albums since Monster have been patchy to say the least.

They made this evident with their following release. E-bow The Letter - superb. New Adventures - er...oops.

"Let's do it..."
Deuce Bigolo
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Re: Michael Stipe

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Eponymous was their 1st album I heard,all be it a collection

They've certainly got a distinctive style unlike anyone i've ever heard

talk about the passion and fall on me are absolute classics
fudgeflaps
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Re: Michael Stipe

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'Talk about the passin' is great.

I remeber going to Berti Vogts ill-fated Scotland managerial home debut at Hampden, we were playing Denamrk.

The team lacked passion, and my mates and I were going a bit daft!!

I got up and started singing 'talk about the passion' and everyone looked at me as if i was a weirdo!!! !laugh!

Just too cultured.

There's a REM called "Don't go Back To Rockville"; Falkirk's home ground is called Brsckville, which was soon to be made into a branch of Tesco. I got up and started singing, very passionately, "Don't Go back to Brockville"- only my mates 'got it'.

Brockville was a scream, dire, dire facilities!! Pissing down the back of the stand, as you couldn't access the bog.

Happy days.

Deuce Bigolo
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Re: Michael Stipe

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Passion with a german defender in charge...never going to happen

Good old rockville...we got 2 types of music i this here little ditty
country & western...so sit back and enjoy

I can relate to those awful run down grounds
Sounds almost as bad as motor racing(V8 touring cars) at Sandown Victoria
5 toilets for 100,000 crowd...pissing from 6 deep standing in 3 inches of urine...I kid you not...went religiously for 6 years ;-)
fudgeflaps
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Re: Michael Stipe

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It's bad, but has a certain romance about it! !confused!!

Deuce Bigolo
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Re: Michael Stipe

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In the same way gardening at night appeals to.....?
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