[atari 2600]

I like both of those too (Document (last for IRS) and Green (first for WB))...
he was writing about Out of Time...

stepping stones to superstardom

"Radio Free Europe" on Letterman '83 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA57Pafq_NU
"So. Central Rain" Letterman '83 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykp0Vq77IBw

USA channel's Night Flight aired selections from the Passaic, NJ and Seattle (both from June '84) concerts. MTV's I.R.S. The Cutting Edge aired rehearsal and interview segments.

Can't Get There From Here airs on MTV 120 Minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXscBQ9HHKE
Driver 8 MTV 120 Minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCPRsxvCoHU
Feeling Gravitys Pull directed by Jim Herbert MTV 120 Minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGRijAMkl8
Life and How to Live It had airplay on the 120 Minutes program a handful of times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwcib...eature=related

The upstart Spin magazine put them on the cover. Then Rolling Stone hailed them as "America's Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Band" with a cover story. I wish I still had the issues. There's some libraries that have bound volumes in periodicals, I suppose.
Fall On Me was played in regular rotation. and R.E.M. are nowhere to be seen in it; the content featured upside-down footage of a railyard and song lyrics. A purposeful mystery. Stipe and Co. became fairly regular items on MTV News hosted by Kurt Loder. The band were prominently featured in the Athens, GA Inside/Out documentary. The "R.E.M. Succumbs" video compilation appeared in '87 and featured "Left of Reckoning" and their early music videos.

The One I Love (virtual no-show) and It's the End of the World As We Know it (And I Feel Fine) (again the band was a no-show) came out.
Orange Crush was released from Green. Per their new contract with WB, pressure began to be applied that they occupy their videos more. Pop Song '89, and Stand came along. By the time Losing My Religion became a critically-acclaimed smash hit video by Tarsem, they had really arrived.

[diskaholic-anonymous]

i love their artwork, and my favourite album is "monster".
(not only 'cause of "Crush with Eyeliner"...!)
Long live r.e.m!

[acousticrock87]

Don't much like the I.R.S. stuff, but the later stuff is good car music.

[atari 2600]

ack!

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by pbradley

What album are you saying is unremakable? Because I consider both Document and Green to be remarkable albums and both represent their immediate before and after breakthrough.

I was thinking of Out of Time.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

The One I Love (virtual no-show) and It's the End of the World As We Know it (And I Feel Fine) (again the band was a no-show) came out.
Orange Crush was released from Green. Per their new contract with WB, pressure began to be applied that they occupy their videos more. Pop Song '89, and Stand came along. By the time Losing My Religion became a critically-acclaimed smash hit video by Tarsem, they had really arrived.

It was a great sequence of singles from The One I Love up to Stand, that saw England's media doing all they could to boost the band via TV slots. Losing My Religion was, of course, their commercial breakthrough - and then there was Shiny Happy People, which became a bit of a perverse anthem for the nation's post Acid House comedown (along with the B52s Love Shack(!)) That was quickly forgotten about (fortunately) and, in the UK at least, it was the arrival of Everybody Hurts (with blanket airings of the video) that really solidified their place (at least in terms of singles - albums are more straightforward.)

[LittlePuppetBoy]

Murmur is a freaking masterpiece!