R.E.M. Dublin 04/07/07 Mr. Richards snippet

[kenscott63]

I may be totally out of the loop here, but is 'Mr Richards' a protest against Seinfelds' Micheal Richards (aka Kramer) and his racist rant?

[pusshat]

I'm a fool...I read the Text Comments again after promising myself I never would...D'OH!

[KR4Prez]

love this song...dont get it though (if i had a dime for every time ive sed that about an REM song...)

[lefttodrown]

this happens to be one of my favourite songs on the album, very full sounding. so what if the guitar part is simple, who cares? it's one of them songs where it's about the overall sound, and if people actually opened their ears they'd grow to appreciate the song much more

[neilno1]

Just me or is the structure of the lyrics sound very beatles like?

[cungar]

Peter's Guitar sounds like Finest Worksong.

[cespiner]

Dull? This is fantastic. You're philistines. So what if it's only got a couple of chords? So do most of the greatest songs ever written

[easypeesyjapanese]

''how interesting is this?''. Did you mean your post or the song? What do you want to hear? As a better man than me once said: ''Pluck all your silly strings, and bend all your notes for me''. I could tell you how and why you're wrong, but it would take too much typing and effort - and I don't think you'd get it anyway. No offence, though.

[PubliusD7]

Well, from what I've worked out by listening to the song a few times, the verses are an E chord (with octave VI pattern slideups from F# to G#), then changing to an A (on, "Mr. Richards, your decision; pay attention, pay attention"). I play the open A those first few times, then a barred A when Rieflin's drumming picks up a bit ("You can thump your chest and rattle, stand in front of your piano") before the chorus part ("But, we know what's goin' on," etc.), which is a G, to F#m, back to the E.

[Wavedrumor]

I like REM, but really, Peter Buck is just playing an E chord throughout most of this as a drone thing....how interesting is this?

[aerportman]

your right. the most interesting song would be one where they played entirely different chords at every note, where no chord was the same as any other chord in the entire song. that would be really awesome.

[easypeesyjapanese]

Wow, toyoboe: such reaching insight. Did you sit down, cogitate, distill your breathtaking wisdom and then think: 'better share that with the world'? Sir, I look forward to your next review: after all, the English language will always need its athletes.

[toyoboe]

dull.

[feedbackinhibition]

miiiiiiiike! yayyyyy!

[bertisfan]

Excellent song! Anyone got the entire song?

[felicevbagnato]

similar to HOPE on UP...