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They've split up then.

D'you know, in spite of them being like MASSIVE I don't think I've ever seen them discussed in depth on these boards. Bit odd considering the 80s/early 90s (when they were in their pomp) is usually very well covered on here...

I like REM. Although I can't think of an REM album that I actually enjoy from start to finish. I mean when they were good, they were very VERY good but all of their albums to me seem to be 30% exquisite; 50% ok; 20% turgid. Well, their best albums anyway.

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I made my mind up back in Chelsea, when I go I'm going like Elsie

I'm with Westie. I love the odd few tracks by them but I'm not a big fan. I wouldn't listen through a whole album out of choice.

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Definitely isn't inbred...has the GCSEs to prove it!

REVOLUTION PURITY LOVE SUICIDE ACCURACY

http://www.thesoundofconfusion.com

Amazing band who wrote amazing songs. They kinda got so big/twatty that no-one could admit how fuckin' good their songs were.

I Love listening to REM best ofs, actually. Just quality song after quality song, it floors me.

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Pukka Pie pest

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Always Changing at Retford http://sptxx.tumblr.com/
Not Changing at Retford http://sptxx2.tumblr.com/

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Alas, not actually Gryff Rhys Jones...

"Little Jack Horner sitting on the corner
With no shoes and clothes
This aint funny, but he took his money
And sniffed it up his nose"

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Curmudgeonly Rock 'n' Roll time traveller from ye olden days

2nd verse same as the 1st...

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Definitely isn't inbred...has the GCSEs to prove it!

REVOLUTION PURITY LOVE SUICIDE ACCURACY

http://www.thesoundofconfusion.com

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Definitely isn't inbred...has the GCSEs to prove it!

REVOLUTION PURITY LOVE SUICIDE ACCURACY

http://www.thesoundofconfusion.com

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If Ian Curtis had lived, and enjoyed the ale…

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Curmudgeonly Rock 'n' Roll time traveller from ye olden days

2nd verse same as the 1st...

Oh they were simply awful - I mean they were known by more than ten people (and liked by them too!) and they played at well known venues and sold millions and trillions of records - simply awful.

No wait, that's the music snob in me. You've had a lobotomy if you can't acknowledge their contribution to music.

On a different note can comebody explain Everett True's blog on the matter because I simply don't get it. I clicked on the link, wasted a minute of my life, and I don't get it. Is this male humour in all its glory? He's obviously a higher being than myself, oh so clever, bathing in his intellectual superiority.

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Jarvis Cocker or David Bowie or AVB or Johnny Borrell, she isn't picky

Cavey Cocker, Cup Cake Queen, Saint Thomas.

The list of pictures showing the face of utter indifference should give away his opinion.

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Definitely isn't inbred...has the GCSEs to prove it!

REVOLUTION PURITY LOVE SUICIDE ACCURACY

http://www.thesoundofconfusion.com

I love Automatic For The People, but none of their other albums have really grabbed me as a whole. A 'best of' would be ace, tho. (Bit like The Cure in that respect.)

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Curmudgeonly Rock 'n' Roll time traveller from ye olden days

2nd verse same as the 1st...