Your ten favourite REM songs are...

In particular order...

Fall On Me
The Great Beyond
Whats The Frequency, Kenneth
I'll Take The Rain
Cuyahoga
Maps And Legends
World Leader Pretend
Country Feedback
Near Wild Heaven
Imitation Of Life

Yours?

 

Fall on Me
The Great Beyond
Cuyahoga
World Leader Pretend
We All Go Back To Where We Belong
Leave
Bittersweet Me
Find The River
The One I Love
Driver 8

 

I Believe
Driver 8
Sitting Still
Begin the Begin
So. Central Rain
Find the River
Fall on Me
Me in Honey
Gardening at Night
Nightswimming

...in that order, I guess.

 

Don’t go back to Rockville not mentioned? Crazy as it is their best song.

Do you guys even like REM?

 

Lotus
The Lifting
All The Way To Reno
Drive
Electron Blue
Turn You Inside-Out
High Speed Train
9-9
Bang And Blame
Sing For The Submarine

 

First post not to include Fall On Me. I'll collate all votes and update with a list sporadically.

In your opinion.

Not in question.

 

Stand
Radio Free Europe
Fall On Me
Orange Crush
Binky The Doormat
Strange Currencies
Let Me In
Leave
Near Wild Heaven
It's The End Of The World As We Know It

And it killed me to leave out so many

 

Minus ‘You’ and ‘King Of Comedy’

 

Be Mine
Perfect Circle
Man On The Moon
Crush With Eyeliner
Drive
Bang And Blame
Texarkana
The One I Love
Ebow The Letter
You Are The Everything

..haven’t included many I.R.S songs simply because I’ve forgotten a lot of them, need to get listening again.

 

it's the end of the world
the one i love
oddfellows local 151
these days
cuyahoga
radio free europe
feeling gravitys pull
be mine
drive
fall on me

 

Losing My Religion
The One I Love
What's the Frequency Kenneth?
At My Most Beautiful
Country Feedback
Night swimming
Harbourcoat
Leaving New York
All The Right Friends
It's The End of The World as We Know It

 

In no particular order:

The Wrong Child
Guardening At Night
Near Wild Heaven
Flowers Of Guatemala
Radio Free Europe
You Are The Everything
Laughing
We All Go Back To Where We Belong
Sitting Still
Half A World Away

*"Strange Currencies" made my first list of choices but "You Are The Everything" edged it out in the end.

 

Good topic. Okay, this is hard because they had SO many good songs, and from 1981 to 1996 pretty much everything was first rate. But I'll try...

10. Electrolite
9. Daysleeper
8. Losing My Religion
7. Find The River
6. Belong
5. Fall On Me
4. New Test Leper
3. Nightswimming
2. Strange Currencies
1. Cuyahoga

1) and 2) are tied, you could say, for my favorite R.E.M. song. Each would rank very high in my list of top tracks by anybody in the 80s and 90s respectively.

Everybody likes 'Nightswimming'. I suspect I rate 'New Test Leper' a lot higher than most, but that song totally floors me. Everybody loves 'Fall On Me'.

'Belong', 'Daysleeper', and 'Electrolite' I probably rate higher than most. (I was torn between 'Electrolite' and 'Radio Free Europe' at #10, but the former has such lovely lyrics and imagery, I went with it.) Everybody likes 'Find The River' and 'Losing My Religion'.

My "bubbling unders" that didn't quite make the top 10:
Radio Free Europe
Shiny Happy People
Talk About The Passion
I Remember California
You Are The Everything
All The Right Friends
Try Not To Breathe

 

Man on the Moon
Great Beyond
What's the Frequency Kenneth?
All the Way to Reno
Imitation of Life
Crush With Eyeliner
I Took Your Name
It's the End of the World
Losing My Religion
Fall on Me
-------
Begin the Begin, Drive just missed the cut

Speaking of REM, Perfect Square needs to get a Blu Ray release!

 

i don't trust my responses to these things if they aren't instant off top of head so....
Nightswimming
Fall on Me
Drive
Rockville
Pretty Persuasion
Begin the Begin
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight
Driver 8
Electrolite
7 Chinese Bros.

 

Country Feedback
Perfect Circle
Drive
E-Bow The Letter
Until The Day Is Done
Driver 8
Radio Free Europe
Orange Crush
Talk About The Passion
Find The River

 

Perfect Circle
Losing My Religion
Orange Crush
Everybody Hurts
The One I Love

Of what I have heard these are what grabbed me.

 

Over the years, I've noticed a lot of people like 'Country Feedback'. What am I missing here? I'm not sure it would make my top 10 on Out Of Time, let alone overall...

 

E-bow The Letter
Fall On Me
Let Me In
Drive
Get Up
Crush With Eyeliner
S. Central Rain
Radio Free Europe
Strange Currencies
Nightswimming

 

My top ten for R.E.M. looks a little like this:

Moral Kiosk
These Days
Kohoutek
King Of Birds
Texarkana
Maps And Legends
Turn You Inside Out
Pretty Persuasion
Sitting Still
9-9

 

OK, quickly doing this inside 10 minutes off the top of my head....

1. Fall On Me
2. Find The River
3. World Leader Pretend
4. At My Most Beautiful
5. So. Central Rain
6. Texarkana
7. It's The End Of The World As We Know It
8. Radio Free Europe
9. The Great Beyond
10. Electrolite

 

1. So. Central Rain
2. Radio Free Europe
3. Pretty Persuasion
4. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
5. Talk About the Passion
6. All the Right Friends
7. Fall On Me
8. Sitting Still
9. Catapult
10. Cuyahoga

 

I like the expletive. That's what does it for me.

They use the F word in Kenneth too.

If it's done well it can work. I don't understand these days why filters have to block such things.

 

Nightswimming
Country Feedback
Strange Currencies
You’re in the Air
The Great Beyond
Perfect Circle
E-Bow the Letter
Star Me Kitten
Electrolite
Hairshirt

 

Man only 10? That is way too hard they had so many great songs. Gonna try off the top of my head w/out cheating and looking them up
Find The River
Sitting Still
Gardening At Night
Lotus
I've Been High
I Believe
Begin the Begin
Perfect Circle
Disturbance At The Heron House
Harborcoat
High Speed Train