It's all just art, you don't have to like it, you don't have to hate it. Myself, I love it. Been a fan for nearly all of the 31 years. Too many gems to list, but Shaking Through, Wendell Gee, King of Birds, Untitled (from Green), Half a World Away, Find the River, Crush with Eyeliner, Why Not Smile, I'll Take the Rain, and It Happened Today. Not a hit single among them for REM, but that's a Greatest Hits record for most any other band. I think Nightswimming will be played at my funeral.
I saw them only once, at the Hollywood Bowl in '07, but I had been a fan since Document. After Green they only seemed to tour on every other album so it was hard to see them. They leave a great body of work to go back and listen to and enjoy for a lifetime. Still, I can't wait for the reunion tour.
Saw them play a local club in 1982 in front of about 80 people. They were unknown and everyone was blown away by their energy. It was fun watching them evolve into a national act and never really lose their integrity. You will be missed guys. Look forward to the reunion concert in a few years.
@D3thN1ght: Piss off, idiot! You only listened to ONE song of this great band - and for me this one is not even the best one (although it might be one of the famous songs and I like it, too)! I ask myself, why persons like you have to comment things they don't like nor even understand! Now, I want to tell YOU - we don't need your opinion here!!! You are very impiously! So come on everybody: Let's rate him to the ground and tell HIM: "Good riddance!"
I think the ONLY song I have ever heard by them is "Losing My Religion". Pretty much everyone has heard that one. Either way though, I never heard anything else by them and well, all their other songs probably suck. So good riddance. One less shitty band out of...uh...about 99999999999999999999999. Just another 99999999999999999999998 to break up now and the world will be a better place. :)
@D3thN1ght: Piss off, idiot! You only listened to ONE song of this great band - and for me this one is not even the best one (although it might be one of the famous songs and I like it, too)! I ask myself, why persons like you have to comment things they don't like nor even understand! Now, I want to tell YOU - we don't need your opinion here!!! You are very impiously! So come on everybody: Let's rate him to the ground and tell HIM: "Good riddance!"
In absolute respect to R.E.M. I will not leave a comment here on the Associated Press page for a band I hold dear. If it didn't sell them time they wouldn't care. Moving on...
They are from nearby but I don't think much about them either way. I do get annoyed with Bands who are around a long time and never learn to play their Instruments.
@kissarmy110936 Howcome Kiss isn't in the rock & roll hall of fame? Kiss is never the band it once was with Peter Criss and Ace Frehley. They completely disrespected those guys when they two other guys dress up as Criss and Frehley. Now Kiss is just two senior citizens in heels and god awful makeup. R.E.M. is way BETTER.
I have been a huge and unyielding fan since Murmur came out in 1983. I'm so sad to see the ride is over. They will go down as the best, and one of the most influential American band ever.
I think that 'Try not to breathe' is the very best tribute song to them at the moment, partly because it hasn't been played endlessly by radio stations. 'I want you to remember'.
The seminal band of the 80's and 90's calls it quits. Thanks for 30 years of great music. You guys provided the musical soundtrack for my college days!
Nossa . Era uma das minhas banda de rock preferida. Hoje sou mais aberto a escutar e curtir outros ritmos. Mas o r.e.m marcou minha adolêscência. Sei que eles tem poucos admiradores no Brasil.Mas não importa. Suas melodias e letras são ótimas para mim. Obrigado por fazerem rock de bom gosto Michel Stipe e companhia!!!!!.Picos-Piauí-Brasil.
awww, did i hurt your poor wittle feewins with my opinion? i sorwy wittle guy.
Maybe some day you will grow up and figure out that people have opinions different from yours. rem sux. deal with it, why you mad? Oh i see, your only fourteen. get over yourself fascist.
@DFTWProductionsLTD yes, I guess I am immature for NOT putting actual/factual information on a internet profile. how naive of me. god forbid I have sense of humor, obviously one that is above your mental capacity.
@echo962 yeah obviously i dont, considering the "talent" you speak of is essentially some tight jeans FAG whining into a mic to, I guess what YOU would consider, "talented" guitar playing.
they have no skills why do you think they are breaking up? thirty years of being looser hipster flavor of the week one hit wonder every ten years and they are just now breaking up? must have been the "talent" that kept them together so long.
This band is so unique in it's lyrics. I never heard anything like them before. Of course, my favorite song like most others is End of the World (As we know it).
@eazymindz Really? You think that poser who can't even rap is better than a ACTUAL ROCK BAND that can write their own songs and play their own instruments???
@eazymindz - You sir win the prize of stating one of the DUMBEST goddamn things I've ever read. Quit being a jigaboo. Want something more for yourself than guns & grillz. People like you are the reason why racism still exists because people like you promote the "gangsta" lifestyle. As far as rap goes, Lil Wayne is a WEAK BITCH. Check out some Immortal Technique, or some K-Rino if you want to witness TRUE RAP. RAP= Rhyme & Poetry. Lil Wayne has neither. & R.E.M. are far beyond Lil Wayne...
@eazymindz - You sir win the prize of stating one of the DUMBEST goddamn things I've ever read. Quit being a jigaboo. Want something more for yourself than guns & grillz. People like you are the reason why racism still exists because people like you promote the "gangsta" lifestyle. As far as rap goes, Lil Wayne is a WEAK BITCH. Check out some Immortal Technique, or some K-Rino if you want to witness TRUE RAP. RAP= Rhyme & Poetry. Lil Wayne has neither. & R.E.M. are far beyond Lil Wayne...
@eazymindz - You sir win the prize of stating one of the DUMBEST goddamn things I've ever read. Quit being a jigaboo. Want something more for yourself than guns & grillz. People like you are the reason why racism still exists because people like you promote the "gangsta" lifestyle. As far as rap goes, Lil Wayne is a WEAK BITCH. Check out some Immortal Technique, or some K-Rino if you want to witness TRUE RAP. RAP= Rhyme & Poetry. Lil Wayne has neither. & R.E.M. are far beyond Lil Wayne...
REM you were absolutely brilliant.
Not even this new greatest hits can truly show you (plus it's got no 'Near Wild Heaven' one of your best songs)
BringItBackITV 4 months ago
It's all just art, you don't have to like it, you don't have to hate it. Myself, I love it. Been a fan for nearly all of the 31 years. Too many gems to list, but Shaking Through, Wendell Gee, King of Birds, Untitled (from Green), Half a World Away, Find the River, Crush with Eyeliner, Why Not Smile, I'll Take the Rain, and It Happened Today. Not a hit single among them for REM, but that's a Greatest Hits record for most any other band. I think Nightswimming will be played at my funeral.
rcmt4 4 months ago
Bye Bye REM !
bluemoonshinya 4 months ago
One of most over rated american band ever in my opinion.
DEKMAN99 5 months ago
I saw them only once, at the Hollywood Bowl in '07, but I had been a fan since Document. After Green they only seemed to tour on every other album so it was hard to see them. They leave a great body of work to go back and listen to and enjoy for a lifetime. Still, I can't wait for the reunion tour.
whoami7721 5 months ago
Saw them play a local club in 1982 in front of about 80 people. They were unknown and everyone was blown away by their energy. It was fun watching them evolve into a national act and never really lose their integrity. You will be missed guys. Look forward to the reunion concert in a few years.
eiffler714 5 months ago
THANK YOU R.E.M. I got those great songs playin into my life
it happened that wednesday bye
YAMJ90 5 months ago
cheers boys
fubar333 5 months ago
We will miss you, thank you so much for the life changing tunes!
redsockrocker 5 months ago
It's the end of R.E.M. as we've seen it...and I'm not feeling fine. :'(
Well so long R.E.M., thank you for entertaining us for your great music after all these long years.
Discosaturn 5 months ago
Guys we're already waiting for the announcement of the reunion. Don't make us wait too long :)
Macsimus75 5 months ago
Goodbye R.E.M., you made me happy, at all times, no matter what, you will be missed<3
ADDHTunes 5 months ago
Remmembered in Every Momments
raamxito 5 months ago
@D3thN1ght That's funny dood, cause it goes to show what a little boy you are. Don't you think that's funny? hehe
legunncat 5 months ago
@D3thN1ght: Piss off, idiot! You only listened to ONE song of this great band - and for me this one is not even the best one (although it might be one of the famous songs and I like it, too)! I ask myself, why persons like you have to comment things they don't like nor even understand! Now, I want to tell YOU - we don't need your opinion here!!! You are very impiously! So come on everybody: Let's rate him to the ground and tell HIM: "Good riddance!"
@R.E.M.: Thank you very much for great music
ThxREM 5 months ago
I think the ONLY song I have ever heard by them is "Losing My Religion". Pretty much everyone has heard that one. Either way though, I never heard anything else by them and well, all their other songs probably suck. So good riddance. One less shitty band out of...uh...about 99999999999999999999999. Just another 99999999999999999999998 to break up now and the world will be a better place. :)
D3thN1ght 5 months ago
@D3thN1ght you've never heard anything else by them but you think they'll probably suck? is there something wrong with you?
DjD3vil7 5 months ago
@D3thN1ght: Piss off, idiot! You only listened to ONE song of this great band - and for me this one is not even the best one (although it might be one of the famous songs and I like it, too)! I ask myself, why persons like you have to comment things they don't like nor even understand! Now, I want to tell YOU - we don't need your opinion here!!! You are very impiously! So come on everybody: Let's rate him to the ground and tell HIM: "Good riddance!"
To R.E.M.: Thank you very much for great music
ThxREM 5 months ago
@D3thN1ght world will be a better place without you. hope u have a very painful agonic death
instinctct 5 months ago
@ kiss lovers...if you love them more...then go like their videos and fight the trolls over there...plz leave R.E.M. to their fans...
peace...
rytuas 5 months ago
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One of the best ten bands in the history of music.Thank you for everything.
fgalaxy91 5 months ago
In absolute respect to R.E.M. I will not leave a comment here on the Associated Press page for a band I hold dear. If it didn't sell them time they wouldn't care. Moving on...
gtakilla01 5 months ago
They are from nearby but I don't think much about them either way. I do get annoyed with Bands who are around a long time and never learn to play their Instruments.
steelydrwu 5 months ago
FUCK REM
santran 5 months ago
I remember when they guessed voiced on that one episode of the simpsons, I was so happy.
antisadism 5 months ago
lol there not togather but kiss still is. KISS IS BATER these guys suck
kissarmy110936 5 months ago
@kissarmy110936 Howcome Kiss isn't in the rock & roll hall of fame? Kiss is never the band it once was with Peter Criss and Ace Frehley. They completely disrespected those guys when they two other guys dress up as Criss and Frehley. Now Kiss is just two senior citizens in heels and god awful makeup. R.E.M. is way BETTER.
Warlord328 5 months ago
@kissarmy110936 yeah...kiss is 'bater'...just like your english...
rytuas 5 months ago
I have been a huge and unyielding fan since Murmur came out in 1983. I'm so sad to see the ride is over. They will go down as the best, and one of the most influential American band ever.
REM, thanks for the music and the memories.
M3CoupeC50 5 months ago 2
I think that 'Try not to breathe' is the very best tribute song to them at the moment, partly because it hasn't been played endlessly by radio stations. 'I want you to remember'.
Picnicl 5 months ago
History. A good one. Farewell and thanx.
moosgruenable 5 months ago
wow.. such flash backs...
TheLegendaryLinx 5 months ago
The voice of my generation, sad to see you go REM you will be missed
pleepleep23 5 months ago
The seminal band of the 80's and 90's calls it quits. Thanks for 30 years of great music. You guys provided the musical soundtrack for my college days!
echo962 5 months ago
@echo962 must have been some pretty shitty college days. LULZ!
bamdizzle08 5 months ago
@bamdizzle08 Lots of good weed, booze, and loose women. Is that your definition of shitty?
echo962 5 months ago
@echo962 LOL, touche. but if REM was playing in the background it def had to be a buzzkill.
thanks for having a sense of humor, seriously, don't see that much anymore.
have a good one bud.
bamdizzle08 5 months ago
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Nossa . Era uma das minhas banda de rock preferida. Hoje sou mais aberto a escutar e curtir outros ritmos. Mas o r.e.m marcou minha adolêscência. Sei que eles tem poucos admiradores no Brasil.Mas não importa. Suas melodias e letras são ótimas para mim. Obrigado por fazerem rock de bom gosto Michel Stipe e companhia!!!!!.Picos-Piauí-Brasil.
CarlosLeitao1 5 months ago
Fuck the haters! R.E.M. will always be one of the best American bands ever!!
gdwwefan 5 months ago
I suddenly feel really old.
MrAnthropophagy 5 months ago
great band to get high and trip to we still have all the music let em rest
MrGroovy888 5 months ago
A band with raw talent and complete originality. Kurt Cobain said he was in awe of these guys. How much more endorsement do you need?
TheLeatheryman 5 months ago 2
Everybody hurts!!! :(
R.E.M. will always that sugar cane that tasted good
R.E.M. will always be shining down on happy people
R.E.M. will always be the Man on the moon
Thank You!!!!!
PAL669 5 months ago 22
Thank you for everything, you're music will never die.
AlexMarch88 5 months ago
most overrated band in rock history
str8metal 5 months ago
BOOOO HOOOO....
allenmaa2 5 months ago
Lost their band damn
IwasaBushfan 5 months ago
Its about fucking time they shut up.
bamdizzle08 5 months ago
@bamdizzle08 lol that is great!
oOSLEEPAHOo 5 months ago
@bamdizzle08 No, I think its about time you shut up
DFTWProductionsLTD 5 months ago
@DFTWProductionsLTD
awww, did i hurt your poor wittle feewins with my opinion? i sorwy wittle guy.
Maybe some day you will grow up and figure out that people have opinions different from yours. rem sux. deal with it, why you mad? Oh i see, your only fourteen. get over yourself fascist.
bamdizzle08 5 months ago
@bamdizzle08 "Maybe some day you will grow up"
Says the person who has 'University of Doing You Mum' set as their 'University/school'...
DFTWProductionsLTD 5 months ago
@DFTWProductionsLTD yes, I guess I am immature for NOT putting actual/factual information on a internet profile. how naive of me. god forbid I have sense of humor, obviously one that is above your mental capacity.
bamdizzle08 5 months ago
@bamdizzle08 Go fuck yourself! You evidently wouldn't know talent if it bit you on the ass!
echo962 5 months ago
@echo962 yeah obviously i dont, considering the "talent" you speak of is essentially some tight jeans FAG whining into a mic to, I guess what YOU would consider, "talented" guitar playing.
they have no skills why do you think they are breaking up? thirty years of being looser hipster flavor of the week one hit wonder every ten years and they are just now breaking up? must have been the "talent" that kept them together so long.
bamdizzle08 5 months ago
i didn't have the chance to see them live, it really hurts me to see another great band that have been on the road more than 30 years.
im sure kids like me who weren't there in the 80s feel the same way.
"oh no i said too much.. i haven't said enough!"
CallMehSam 5 months ago
One of the best bands ever and forever
klarinetta 5 months ago
I feel so discouraged right now... They're one of my favorite alternative bands.
THEINDUSTRIALProject 5 months ago
The best american band ever in my opinion,15 classic albums too.They sold over 80 million albums which most artists never get to!
They'll be REMemebered :-)
delboy20091 5 months ago 25
@delboy20091 Does anyone know their website?????
theshootingstar05 5 months ago
@delboy20091 Kiss is whay bater!
kissarmy110936 5 months ago
@kissarmy110936
No chance.
delboy20091 4 months ago
REM has been around for the past ten years?!
pvtpain66k 5 months ago
@pvtpain66k DUH!!!! They were out when I was a kid in the 80s!
xxxWarriorGoddessxxx 5 months ago
Meh, it started to get weird towards the end...painting a blue line across your face isn't profound, its pretentious.
3GBlog 5 months ago
@3GBlog <-- hahaha...now thats funny :-D
FreedumbFighter28 5 months ago
Good riddance. One of the most overrated bands ever.
boskinator 5 months ago
@boskinator i agree
eazymindz 5 months ago
I'll look forward to their reunion tour.
gerfall 5 months ago
I'll look forward to their reunion tour.
gerfall 5 months ago
This band is so unique in it's lyrics. I never heard anything like them before. Of course, my favorite song like most others is End of the World (As we know it).
KaiLuck 5 months ago
Know when to hold em',know when to walk away. ..Thanks R.E.M for all you have given us.
Bobofet241 5 months ago
:((( Thanks for the memories...
NerdyCanadian 5 months ago
They haven't been good since they went all political back in the 90's. I didn't even know they were still together. So is this really news?
athiog 5 months ago
@athiog I suggest you check out their later albums. Even though they didn't get a lot of "air play" the material was consistently good.
echo962 5 months ago 2
glad
Adawg4008 5 months ago
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good riddance they made nothing but shit
eazymindz 5 months ago
@eazymindz Really? That's how you think of them? WTF do you listen to, Justin Beiber and Lady Gaga? Fuck off and die, cunt!
LMCMInterloper 5 months ago
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eazymindz 5 months ago
@LMCMInterloper i'm more of a lil wayne fan ya know the only artist that actually makes good music !!
eazymindz 5 months ago
@eazymindz Really? You think that poser who can't even rap is better than a ACTUAL ROCK BAND that can write their own songs and play their own instruments???
*sigh*
LMCMInterloper 5 months ago
@eazymindz You know, also, people from your generation just doesn't appreciate good music anymore. WTF has happened to our society? ;-(
LMCMInterloper 5 months ago
@eazymindz You know, also, people from your generation just doesn't appreciate good music anymore. WTF has happened to our society? ;-(
LMCMInterloper 5 months ago
@eazymindz - You sir win the prize of stating one of the DUMBEST goddamn things I've ever read. Quit being a jigaboo. Want something more for yourself than guns & grillz. People like you are the reason why racism still exists because people like you promote the "gangsta" lifestyle. As far as rap goes, Lil Wayne is a WEAK BITCH. Check out some Immortal Technique, or some K-Rino if you want to witness TRUE RAP. RAP= Rhyme & Poetry. Lil Wayne has neither. & R.E.M. are far beyond Lil Wayne...
wretchedSTONER 5 months ago
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@eazymindz - You sir win the prize of stating one of the DUMBEST goddamn things I've ever read. Quit being a jigaboo. Want something more for yourself than guns & grillz. People like you are the reason why racism still exists because people like you promote the "gangsta" lifestyle. As far as rap goes, Lil Wayne is a WEAK BITCH. Check out some Immortal Technique, or some K-Rino if you want to witness TRUE RAP. RAP= Rhyme & Poetry. Lil Wayne has neither. & R.E.M. are far beyond Lil Wayne...
wretchedSTONER 5 months ago
@eazymindz - You sir win the prize of stating one of the DUMBEST goddamn things I've ever read. Quit being a jigaboo. Want something more for yourself than guns & grillz. People like you are the reason why racism still exists because people like you promote the "gangsta" lifestyle. As far as rap goes, Lil Wayne is a WEAK BITCH. Check out some Immortal Technique, or some K-Rino if you want to witness TRUE RAP. RAP= Rhyme & Poetry. Lil Wayne has neither. & R.E.M. are far beyond Lil Wayne...
wretchedSTONER 5 months ago
@eazymindz "music"
passion4drums 5 months ago
@eazymindz At least REM could speak. Lil Wayne slurs and can't even come up with a decent punch line. His one-liners are fucking shit.
gerfall 5 months ago
*tear*
YouGotNeck 5 months ago
Hmm?
schwartsbruder 5 months ago