R.E.M. - Just a Touch

[apemanstreetwalker]

aww c'mon this is great!

[RainJetSprinklers]

Well what in the world?!

[Picnicl]

I love Just a Touch. It seems similar in a way to 'I believe' from the same album- both great songs.

[rem857]

Ok get this, I was downloading the CD i barrowed to get this song and they dont got it on iTunes, right. So when it has 1 second left, it hits a scratch and can't download. DAMN!

[voodookook]

Can't believe this band was booed after opening up for the Police in Norfolk back in the early/mid 80's!!!!!!!

I really dug their sound!

Were they ever underestimated?????

I don't hear too many Police songs anymore although I enjoyed them. lol

[Afireinside912]

@voodookook

The police should have been boo'd.. they were awful.

[Issicra]

This song will forever remind me of my best friend from high school.

[lovablerogue75]

i hear u i have a 19 yr old daughter and she has the attention span of a gold fish! although i have turned her on to some other bands of that era and she likes them a lot! but she cant dig r.e.m.or the smiths it makes me wonder why?

[lovablerogue75]

document was there last good record! it shits me the amount of people who like this band after hearing man on the moon on the radio!!! stipe done his best stuff when you couldnt understand him!!! i think the producer on lifes rich pagent encouraged him not to obscure his lyrics but that was all part of the charm and i belive that was the begining of the end 4 r.e.m. although l.r.p & doc are still great albums the 1st 3 are the real business!!!

[Hibbleton666]

i'll agree with you that they lost it after document (even though I bought and enjoyed green),a lot of bands go that way,maybe they amassed too much money ;)

i laugh when people say" everybody hurts,that's my special song" LOL,when they know nothing of R.E.M.s' back catalogue and the political stance the group took.

i'm being hypocritical though..i secretly liked it !

this song is played LOUD...just a touch,almost punk in its nature...

fantastic to dance to wildly !

[lovablerogue75]

can you imagine if say the 1st record got the production automatic for the people did? they would have been super huge straight away! they had the songs then but lowsey prodution by the time the world woke up to them they had already peaked! after that i think they decided to cash in with a couple of hits per album and a lot of filler. i think peter buck would take pride in the fact that the masses get the watered down r.e.m. and true fans of rock n roll will dig the gold from the back catalouge

[Hibbleton666]

are you saying that buck is responsible for rem becoming another band that lost their energy and passion only to be seduced by money ?

shock horror...not again !

the thing is..being an oldie now,the younger peeps will probably never "get" the earlier stuff and just giggle at folk like us and think " that early stuff is an impenetrable dirge"..

thats my two penneth worth.

i'd like to think they could get into it though...

hope springs eternal :)

[1michelemichele1]

The younguns get it.

Generally they prefer Radiohead, but R.E.M.'s respected (more than I can say for quite a few of their contemporaries).

To each his/her own.

[Hibbleton666]

nice to hear that the youngn's get it michelle.I thought i "got it" at the time,but now,older and wiser,the political messaging is a lot more profound,being a teenager is more about rebelling and having an exciting time rather than being "turned on" to political activism,that ;for me at least,came later,but only through experience of life,and life's rich pageant at that :)

[1michelemichele1]

Don't you think that depends on the kid? Seriously. Of course our perceptions shift as we get older, but in a lot of ways, quite a few of us become more intractable and petty. I mean, dayum, ever try conversing with people you went to high school with (think Facebook or something). Never ceases to amaze me how narrow-minded people I used to know have become. Course, that's me.

It's depressing

[Hibbleton666]

of course it depends on the kid,highly intellectual kids probably "get it",as for people you used to know when you were young,some never grow up,others just follow money or hedonism/consumerism/fashion and some become powerful,others join unions,become politically active,some just live quietly and peacefully,minding their own business.

To me, there seems to be a lack of music around that has a social conscience at the moment.

[stbr68]

@Hibbleton666 Oh, it's there. You just have to search for it.

[Hibbleton666]

michelle.. have you seen The Alchemists of sound (part one)?

bbc radiophonic workshop, bet you've already seen it :)

[PilotTP150]

I have to disagree with the early production value....that is why I love old REM SO MUCH and why I was drawn to them. I think not being able to understand Stipe and the music having the garage/college band feel made the band what it is/was.

[ord1711]

Yep. First three with little production are the best. I saw them a year ago and people were yelling over the top of "Pretty Persuasion" for "Man on the Moon."

[Issicra]

Oh man..  that's just wrong.

[MusicJew158]

Fucking amazing song!