R.E.M.

never herd of them

New Adventures.. is definitely my favourite.
Can't understand the lack of love for 'Leave' in this thread.

1. Leave
2. Perfect Circle
3. Find The River
4. Electrolite
5. The One I Love
6. Orange Crush
7. Country Feedback
8. At My Most Beautiful
9. Leaving New York
10. Radio Free Europe

Honestly forgot about Leave. That is the best song on HiFi though, agreed.

Leave is a huge tune

Guess they're readying their next record. Just read on Twitter that Patti Smith and Pearl Jam are guests on it.

Its just Vedder apparently, here are the details on the new record....

R.E.M.’s fifteenth studio album, the twelve-song Jacknife Lee-produced Collapse Into Now, is due in early 2011. SPIN spoke with Mike Mills, who says it’ll have a more “expansive” sound than 2008’s Accelerate. Part of that expansion comes via guest spots from Eddie Vedder, Patti Smith, and, of course, Peaches. More from Mills:


With Accelerate we were trying to make a point by making the songs as short and as fast as possible … So we wanted this new one to be more expansive. We wanted to put more variety into it and not limit ourselves to any one type of song. There are some really slow, beautiful songs; there are some nice, mid-tempo ones; and then there are three or four rockers.

Mills also told SPIN that, as opposed to the more political Accelerate, Collapse is a “very personal, very human record. Not only to Michael [Stipe], but personal and human in the sense of the narrative of the songs, the protagonists of the songs.”

As far as those guests? Patti Smith sings on closer “Blue” and her regular collaborator Lenny Kaye plays guitar on another song, the one that includes Peaches. Vedder sings on a track called “It Happened Today.”

I think Stipe looks kinda cool here....

I think almost anyone would look kinda cool stood next to those two

Was about to say that, but adding the word "frogs"

out of time re-issue looks juicy lucy.

 one of the best bands of all time 

just going thru the live dvd's.

perfect square looks decent.

anyone have a favourite gig?

I've never been a fan Murphs.

I use to have that album that had What's The Frequency Kenneth on it though.. collected a fair bit of dust.