Mount Rushmore: R.E.M. Songs

[cartman]

The lads from Athens called it a career this week. What four songs of theirs make your Mount Rushmore?

To kick things off, here's my picks:

Losing My Religion
This song to me is R.E.M. at their peak. This song was their official arrival to rock super-stardom.

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Fall On Me
This was the first song of theirs I really got into. Once I heard this song, I started investigating their earlier stuff.

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Everybody Hurts
A truly great song that hits on so many different levels. If you are having a bad day, this song helps it make it seem not so bad.

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The One I Love
This song put them on the map. Before this, they were still mainly an alt/indie band. A glimpse into what was to come.

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[Matthean]

Even if it's not top four, I have a soft spot for Nightswimming.

[TRO]

Can I have a blank mountain?

[CrimsonFox]

I can't get enough of Shiny Happy People

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCQ0vDAbF7s&ob=av3e

[digamma]

Cuyahoga
New Test Leper
Superman
Finest Worksong

[Peregrine]

So many fucking great songs.

[Chief Rum]

Shiny, Happy People
Man On the Moon
Stand
Radio Song

Oh, I am sorry, I thought you said the Mount Rushmore of Most Annoying REM Songs. :D

[Matthean]

Shiny, Happy People
Man On the Moon
Stand
Radio Song

Oh, I am sorry, I thought you said the Mount Rushmore of Most Annoying REM Songs. :D

Stand and Shiny, Happy People made me hate the band for a long time.

[King of New York]

Almost everything on the first four albums is great--after that, it was very hit-and-miss, with more misses than hits, but here goes:

Driver 8
Begin the Begin
Kohoutek
Swan Swan H

[Peregrine]

I grew up around an hour from Athens, and started listening to REM in 1986 or so when I was in high school. Their music has been up and down but taken as a whole, they have a large number of really great songs. Don't think I could do a Mount Rushmore though - my favorite album is Automatic for the People - I love the low-fi, slower sound to it and love almost all the songs on it.

A lot of their recent albums haven't been so great but they are really one of the bands that has been part of the soundtrack of my life, from highschool till now.

[Passacaglia]

World Leader Pretend
I Remember California
Near Wild Heaven
Find the River

[Draft Dodger]

Not a big fan. I can only do 3

Drive
It's the End of the World and We Know It
Everybody Hurts

[Passacaglia]

But man, the 2nd half of Out of Time is so good -- I'm tempted to also just roll with Belong, Half a World Away, Texarkana, and Country Feedback, and pretend I'm 14 again.

[Peregrine]

Listening to Half a World Away right now while playing Minecraft. Good song.

[Radii]

Stand and Shiny, Happy People made me hate the band for a long time.

+1. Still two of the most annoying songs ever imo.

[Warhammer]

Rockville
Superman
The One I Love
Its The End of the World

[CrimsonFox]

screw you all! :)

Radio Free Europe
Shiny, Happy People
Man On the Moon
Stand

[Pyser]

anything off new adventures in hi fi

[CrimsonFox]

actually of course I like End of the WOrld and Losing My Religion too and Everybody Hurts.
I really don't know my 4 favorites. High time I listened to their more obcure stuff.

[path12]

Bought everything from Reckoning through Up on the day of release, one of my all-time favorite bands........though I did not enjoy the last three at all and it was time to hang it up.

Harborcoat
Country Feedback
Electrolite
Fall On Me

[Mustang]

Loved their early stuff and then they just fell out of favor with me in the late 90s.

1. Fall on Me
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2. Radio Free Europe
3. So Central Rain
4. Great Beyond

I put a huge gap between 1 and the rest because Fall on Me is one of my favorite songs by any band.

[DaddyTorgo]

Saw them in concert once in hmm..the late 90's? Was still awesome. Great frigging show.

[CrimsonFox]

1st letterman appearance...

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[Ryan S]

Driver 8
What's the Frequency, Kenneth
Near Wild Heaven
Electrolite

[CraigSca]

Orange Crush
These Days
Begin the Begin
Swan Swan H