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Originally posted by lagas:
Does anyone know when tickets for REM go on sale?
Thanks

yeah, do we have general ticket prices for this show? like, is it going to be obscenely expensive or are lawn seats going to be about 40 bucks

Originally posted by lomein:

Originally posted by lagas:
Does anyone know when tickets for REM go on sale?
Thanks

yeah, do we have general ticket prices for this show? like, is it going to be obscenely expensive or are lawn seats going to be about 40 bucks

me three.. Kosmette and I were talking about this show the other day, wondering exactly what R.E.M. sets one back these days…

Lawn tickets for Duran Duran (without any listed openers) are $40. So what does that imply the REM with Modest Mouse and the National lawn tickets will be?

Originally posted by kosmo:

Originally posted by lomein:

Originally posted by lagas:
Does anyone know when tickets for REM go on sale?
Thanks

yeah, do we have general ticket prices for this show? like, is it going to be obscenely expensive or are lawn seats going to be about 40 bucks

me three.. Kosmette and I were talking about this show the other day, wondering exactly what R.E.M. sets one back these days…

the only date for this tour (w/modest mouse and the national) that's listed on ticketmaster so far is in Chicago and tickets are $37.50 - $85.00. aren't ticket prices usually pretty standard across the board?
I only ask because I heard from a questionably reliable source that lawn seats were going to be $80 and I'm hoping this is not the case…

REM is 40.60 Euro in Paris (or that might be Nice). Based on how strong the Euro is - Id assume were looking at ticket prices in the $60 range.

Im a member of their fanclub and theyve not yet announced any presale info for any of the US shows.

I guess I should reserve judgement until I hear the studio "Accerlerate" in full but I heard most of it during a live simulcast from a SXSW show.

Has R.E.M.'s batting average dipped below .500? Have they released more below average albums than above average ones?

My suggestion is that not ALL of the early IRS ones were "great." "Fables of the Reconstruction?" I'm looking at you.

After "Automatic for the People" it got pretty dire. I'd even say "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" was a good one. But from the songs I've heard of this new one, it just seems like totally generic R.E.M. Even "Reveal" and "Around The Sun" had one or two good songs on it. Nothing, in my opinion, is memorable from the live versions of "Accelerate" songs. And that new single "Supernatually Superserious" or whatever? At what point does the melody kick in? That song is like a one of those bar/computer memory games. You hear the song and once it's over you couldn't remember anything about it.

Brian

I don't think you can use the price of something in Europe as an accurate gauge of what it will cost in America.

Hey Brian, I've heard all of Accelerate, and I think it's a winner. And I've never even really been an REM fan.

Originally posted by xneverwherex:
REM is 40.60 Euro in Paris (or that might be Nice). Based on how strong the Euro is - Id assume were looking at ticket prices in the $60 range.

Im a member of their fanclub and theyve not yet announced any presale info for any of the US shows.

It was the only thing I could find at the moment. I had heard somewhere else it would be priced in the $60 range. And besides, I live in NYC. Im sure our prices will reflect the same prices people pay in Europe, if not more.

And I happen to love the new REM album on first listen.

Also, considering that Duran Duran, The Cure and others are pricing that high (if not much higher), I would not doubt that REM prices will be in the same range. Yaz is playing for $65 at Terminal 5.

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
I don't think you can use the price of something in Europe as an accurate gauge of what it will cost in America.

Hey Brian, I've heard all of Accelerate, and I think it's a winner. And I've never even really been an REM fan.

Originally posted by xneverwherex:
REM is 40.60 Euro in Paris (or that might be Nice). Based on how strong the Euro is - Id assume were looking at ticket prices in the $60 range.

Im a member of their fanclub and theyve not yet announced any presale info for any of the US shows.

The R.E.M. batting average discussion is a decent one. I can't just go "yay" or "nay," so I have to put a few as "meh" like ties in old-school hockey.

Murmur - Yay!
Reckoning - Yay!
Life's Rich Pageant - Yay!
Fables Of The Reconstruction - Meh.
Document - Yay!
Green - Yay!
Out Of Time - Meh.
AFTP - Yay!
Monster - Yay!
New Adventures In Hifi - Meh.
Up - Nay.
Reveal - Nay.
Around The Sun - Double Nay.
Accelerate - Meh.

7-3-4

Certainly not a good trend of late, but for my money, still more greats then bombs. My liking Accelerate might have something to do with me liking Monster, of which, Accelerate is basically "II: Electric Boogaloo."

Originally posted by Julian, gay agenda ILLUMINATI:
The R.E.M. batting average discussion is a decent one. I can't just go "yay" or "nay," so I have to put a few as "meh" like ties in old-school hockey.

Green - Yay!
Out Of Time - Meh.

i don't know what it is about those two albums. i far more enjoy out of time than green, even though, on an individual basis, i like more songs on green than out of time. maybe i am just so enthralled with texarkana and country feedback (ok, and near wild heaven) that i have been able to successfully block out those other three collaborative songs on that album. as for green, i don't know- i've never been entirely comfortable with listening to the entire album, but i'd rather just pick out songs from the album and listen to them separately.

Originally posted by Julian, gay agenda ILLUMINATI:
The R.E.M. batting average discussion is a decent one. I can't just go "yay" or "nay," so I have to put a few as "meh" like ties in old-school hockey.

Green - Yah!
Out Of Time - Meh.

I have to agree with Julian on this one. "Country Feedback" is one of their best but I think "Losing My Religion" and the rest of the album is really overrated. Maybe I just think that "Radio Song" should have been the big hit off that record. Not "Losing My Religion" or "Shiny Happy People."

I really like "Green." "I Remember California" "Hairshirt" (especially the first line.) After "Green" they sort of lost their "mystique" which happens to every band, I guess. "World Leader Pretend" may be one of the best things they ever did. I'm not sure if they knew how good they were back then.

Brian

Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
I have to agree with Julian on this one. "Country Feedback" is one of their best but I think "Losing My Religion" and the rest of the album is really overrated. Maybe I just think that "Radio Song" should have been the big hit off that record. Not "Losing My Religion" or "Shiny Happy People."

I really like "Green." "I Remember California" "Hairshirt" (especially the first line.) After "Green" they sort of lost their "mystique" which happens to every band, I guess. "World Leader Pretend" may be one of the best things they ever did. I'm not sure if they knew how good they were back then.

Brian

wtf is going on around here? have brian's meds finally kicked in? where's the anger? "out of time" came out in 1991… "green" in 1988.

Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
My suggestion is that not ALL of the early IRS ones were "great." "Fables of the Reconstruction?" I'm looking at you.

And we're looking right back. My favorite REM album, and the only one I would even remotely consider listening to nowadays.

I still remembe the afternoon I brought home Fables, Meat is Murder and a Matilda Bay box of wine. What a day that was.

"Losing My Religion" really exposed R.E.M. to the "That One Song" crowd, of which most of the meaning of the song went right over their head.

I stopped going to R.E.M. shows after that song came out because they had became a bona fide arena act at that point… at the time their ticket prices were rapidly raising, and i couldn't stomach a bunch of lawyers, business exec and their significant others waiting around to hear "Their Song".

Originally posted by kosmo:
"Losing My Religion" really exposed R.E.M. to the "That One Song" crowd, of which most of the meaning of the song went right over their head.

I stopped going to R.E.M. shows after that song came out because they had became a bona fide arena act at that point…

They were a bona fide arena act in 1989, well before LMR came out.

Fans have been arguing the relative merits of Fables on the Internet since almost before there was an Internet. Before there were web sites and forums, there were Usenet news groups. And before there were Usenet news groups, there were mailing lists. The R.E.M. mailing list came out of a list server from MIT, I believe, and it was called Murmurs. Back in '89 or '90, a raging flamewar over Fables took place on that mailing list, and the echoes of it would be seen years later in people's .signature files. In that spirit, I'll just say

FABLES RULES!

(Yes, I'm ancient, at least in Internet terms.)

Also, New Adventures in Hi-Fi is a vastly underappreciated album. I urge anyone who thinks it's "meh" to give it another listen. It's the perfect anti-pop album, and I think it's maybe R.E.M.'s best post-'80s album. I won't defend any of R.E.M.'s albums that came after it (although I think they each have a bright spot or two), but I'll defend that album with my dying breath.

As for the new album, I'm pretty excited about it. What I've heard of it has been very good, better than their recent albums. I'm not too crazy about "Supernatural Superserious", but "Living Well Is the Best Revenge" kicks ass. I love the Vincent Moon video.

Originally posted by Darth Ed:
The R.E.M. mailing list came out of a list server from MIT, I believe, and it was called Murmurs.

I think it was just called "Murmur", but I may be wrong. You're definitely right about the MIT part though. Good memory :)

FABLES RULES!

Indeed.

Also, New Adventures in Hi-Fi is a vastly underappreciated album. I urge anyone who thinks it's "meh" to give it another listen. It's the perfect anti-pop album, and I think it's maybe R.E.M.'s best post-'80s album. I won't defend any of R.E.M.'s albums that came after it (although I think they each have a bright spot or two), but I'll defend that album with my dying breath.

Same here. I blew this one off shortly after it was released, but went back to it a few years later and was kind of surprised how good it was. I'd call this their last great record. Hell - I might call it their last good record.

I've been avoiding the new record until it gets released next week. I've heard nothing but good things though, overall.

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:

Originally posted by Darth Ed:
The R.E.M. mailing list came out of a list server from MIT, I believe, and it was called Murmurs.

I think it was just called "Murmur", but I may be wrong. You're definitely right about the MIT part though. Good memory :)

You're right! Murmur was the mailing list. Murmurs.com was (still is) a fan web site that came later.

Note to The Director: Your mailbox is full, so I can't reply to your PM.

Originally posted by Julian, gay agenda ILLUMINATI:
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4/29/2009

From Pollstar. Kinda weird they have an entire spring 2009 tour already planned out.

isn't the lead singer scheduled to be in rehab right about then?

very poor planning.

Originally posted by Relaxer:
I just can't imagine a Stars of the Lid show. I'd be asleep w/in 15 minutes.

the organizers of the philly show stated that you could bring a pillow and crash out on the floor… just sayin'

Originally posted by miss pretentious:
I would gladly take the Jens tickets of anyone looking to hit up Marnie now.

aren't most tickets for BC shows will-call?