FabSwingers.com forum: Favorite REM song

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Has to be "Bad day" for me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Man on the Moon..

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

nightswimming is just so haunting....

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

Everybody Hurts.

The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite and Losing My Religion are a couple of my favourites as well.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Losing my religion

Love that

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

Tough question. I think mine is Daysleeper

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Losing my religion

Love that "

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By *olliPineCouple
over a year ago

swingers clubs

What's the frequency Kenneth

Man on the moon comes a close second.

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By *lanPartridgeMan
over a year ago

nottingham

Old Man Kensey or Begin the Begin

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Everybody hurts - masterpiece.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

everybody hurts.great song iconic video

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If i had to chose id say "Everybody hurts" but i love most of them. I was lucky enough to see them live many years ago and they were brilliant

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That’s a hard one, but Night swimming or Perfect circle.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

At my Most Beautiful .. happy memories

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Lot of good songs there. Stands good as well

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Being that The only album of theirs that I've got is Automatic For The People, it has to be Drive

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UE7tXDKIus

Although they have other good tunes on the album as well

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Loosing my religion is only one i know so that

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

Never liked them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

At my most beautiful

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Whichever is the shortest

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

"At my most beautiful

That is very high on my list as well

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"At my most beautiful

That is very high on my list as well"
it's mine

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

"At my most beautiful

That is very high on my list as well it's mine

Oh so it is, lovely song. I'm making a wee playlist now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

like pretty much all of them, at a push my fave would probably be everybody hurts

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By *notherGirlTV/TS
over a year ago

Somewhere

Perfect Circle for me

So many though, unfair question

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's the end of the world.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So many fab songs, I remember seeing them years ago. I need to add to my Spotify playlist.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"It's the end of the world. "

That's mine too. Followed by Night Swimming and Everybody Hurts.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Losing my religion.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Orange crush

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have seen everybody hurts music video before, and it's a really emotive video. It always makes me cry.

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By *imandHerNottsCouple
over a year ago

North Notts

You are the everything or strange currencies

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By *agluvrMan
over a year ago

Airdrie

Losing my Religion

Everybody Hurts

It’s The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

That last one was the closer at their gig in Hyde Park London in 2005, a week after the bombs went off. I still have the tee-shirt I bought that night. AND it still fits me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I will think of one when I want to kill myself

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By *imandHerNottsCouple
over a year ago

North Notts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Orange Crush

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

"I will think of one when I want to kill myself

Booooo

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By *imandHerNottsCouple
over a year ago

North Notts

"I will think of one when I want to kill myself

Booooo "

Here here. Musical ignoramus!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Everybody Hurts... All time classic

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anything off Automatic. Top album from start to finish. Hard to pick a fave off that but I do love Drive.

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By *ubiousOatcakeMan
over a year ago

Aberdeenshire

This would be like asking me to pick my favourite child, if I had children. I mean, obviously I’d have a favourite, but I’m not so cold-hearted as to say which one it actually is, in case the others hear.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Losing my religion

Love that "

Go for that.

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By *xx90292Man
over a year ago

London

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By *xx90292Man
over a year ago

London

Never been a fan to be honest ...that’s me in the corner!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I will think of one when I want to kill myself

Booooo

Here here. Musical ignoramus! "

Chill out, you probably still use a Walkman

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By *ubiousOatcakeMan
over a year ago

Aberdeenshire

"Here here. Musical ignoramus! "
It’s ‘hear, hear,’ by the way. Spelling ignoramus.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Here here. Musical ignoramus! It’s ‘hear, hear,’ by the way. Spelling ignoramus.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Drive is pretty excellent!!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

There are so many great songs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Never been a fan to be honest ...that’s me in the corner!"

That's me in the spotlight

Sometimes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How wierd is that!!!! I told the the barstaff tonight in my local they should listen to some R.E.M.

Drive....

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By *unshine05Man
over a year ago

Sherborne

leaving new york

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By *ykoCouple
over a year ago

york

Everybody Hurts is one of my favourite songs all together but also like

Orange Crush

Whats the frequency Kenneth

and a lot of the early ones on the irs label

Radio free Europe

Fall on me

End of the world as we know it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bang And Blame.

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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago

Slough Windsor ish

Whats the one about Pushing an elephant up the stairs? I like that one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Losing my religion

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"nightswimming is just so haunting...."

Yep.

Loosing my religion.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"How wierd is that!!!! I told the the barstaff tonight in my local they should listen to some R.E.M.

Drive...."

Coincidence.. maybe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Near Wild Heaven

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Whats the one about Pushing an elephant up the stairs? I like that one"

I looked online ... the great beyond

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fall On Me or So.Central Rain, I prefer their earlier stuff, his voice on later albums grates on me a bit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

World Leader Pretend.

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By *olliPineCouple
over a year ago

swingers clubs

XY you are wrong!

Everybody Hurts comes a close second to Losing My Religion

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By *olliPineCouple
over a year ago

swingers clubs

"XY you are wrong!

Everybody Hurts comes a close second to Losing My Religion"

Just browsing and saw this ridiculous statement on the thread.

I mean, they're great songs, but pleeeease...I must say XX, that you couldn't be more wrong.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Can't say I know loads of REM songs but I do like Losing My Religion or Everybody Hurts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shiny Happy People!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cuyahoga

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Daysleeper

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By *inky Biscuit DunkerMan
over a year ago

Gloucestershire

Orange Crush

Losing my religion

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Everybody hurts

Loosing my religion

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By *ayMyName2018Man
over a year ago

Where the Wild Things Are

Pop Song 89

Find the River

....also, +1 for Orange Crush

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By *he_virgin_maryWoman
over a year ago

Here, there and everywhere!

Furry happy monsters....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Near wild heaven.. for sentimental reasons.

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By *lfacatMan
over a year ago

Cumbria

'Standing on the shoulder of giants' and 'Perfect circle', its not an easy choice...

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By *hort fat n ugly!Man
over a year ago

manchester

It’s the end of the world.. closely seconded by man on the moon.

And if you haven’t seen the movie of the same name with Jim Carey you’ve seriously missed out!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Losing my religion

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Furry happy monsters....

Muppets

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Losing my religion and Everybody Hurts, joint faves

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By *he Silver FuxMan
over a year ago

Uttoxeter

Driving home after a good friend had drowned while we were kayaking a tough descent of the River Lyn when it was in flood. Couldn’t save him despite all of us being medically trained, working on him where we managed to get him out of the water onto a sandbank at Lynmouth.

Part way into the long and seemingly impossible journey home I switched on my car stereo to ease a dreadful silence. R.E.M. Automatic For The People was in the CD player and Find The River came on straight away, from the beginning. The last track on the album. After about one minute of listening I had to swerve into a parking area at the side of the road where the 4 occupants of the car bawled our eyes out.

Even now having just cued it up, I can’t get past the intro where the accordion starts without tears streaming. Some of the lyrics hurt to listen to “The recklessness of water” is particularly poignant. Some of the group that day never paddled again.

Powerful stuff music

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Driving home after a good friend had drowned while we were kayaking a tough descent of the River Lyn when it was in flood. Couldn’t save him despite all of us being medically trained, working on him where we managed to get him out of the water onto a sandbank at Lynmouth.

Powerful stuff music

Woah...

Indeed. Music is tremendously powerful!

Mine is without a doubt losing my religion. I love the lyrics in this one; how they create a song about losing ones temper but make it so melancholy is just genius!

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By *he Silver FuxMan
over a year ago

Uttoxeter

Powerful stuff music

Woah...

Indeed. Music is tremendously powerful!

Mine is without a doubt losing my religion. I love the lyrics in this one; how they create a song about losing ones temper but make it so melancholy is just genius!

Love that one too, never been one for hero worship or celebrity and not a fan of big live concerts but I took my sister on the 30 July 1995 to see R.E.M. on the last date of their UK Monster tour at the Milton Keynes Bowl. The support acts were Sleeper, Radiohead and The Cranberries. The show was broadcast live on BBC radio and it was amazing. Stipe stood on a front stage speaker and really delivered. It was a really hot summer day, no clouds and everyone around us was sunburnt, literally begging for sun cream - luckily our family go brown easily and we were okay with giving what we had away

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By *oupertrooperMan
over a year ago

dundee

Orange crush

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By *lanPartridgeMan
over a year ago

nottingham

Interesting how most folks have chosen later songs. I kind of lost interest in them after about 1991, but the first 4 albums are among my favourites of all time.

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By *agluvrMan
over a year ago

Airdrie

"It’s the end of the world.. closely seconded by man on the moon.

And if you haven’t seen the movie of the same name with Jim Carey you’ve seriously missed out! "

Man On The Moon is a brilliant song, and as a dedicated and longtime singer of karaoke I can tell you that it’s extremely easy to sing (unlike Its The End Of The World). Haven’t seen the Jim Carey film though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Everybody Hurts always gets to me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Everybody Hurts

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

I really like "Near Wild Heaven"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Find the river.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

E-bow the Letter

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