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Have seen Dinosuar Jr twice. After "Farm" came out was great. The first tour with no new material was crap

Let's face it reunions suck for the most part. When the Pixies and Dinosaur Jr. (before they released any new material) reformed I was so excited only to have my hopes dashed by the reality of seeing teenage idols as middle-aged adults going through the motion in exchange for the mullah. I didn't bother with Pavement which seems like a good choice from the reviews. Funnily enough the Police were the only band worth the money. They were really good.

First album is one of the best debuts of all time but Ian Brown is a terrible singer live. For me this is one reunion that didn't need to happen. Let's face it reunions suck for the most part. When the Pixies and Dinosaur Jr. reformed I was so excited only to have my hopes dashed by the reality of seeing teenage idols as middle-aged adults going through the motion in exchange for the mullah. I didn't bother with Pavement which seems like a good choice from the reviews. Funnily enough the Police were the only band worth the money. They were really good.

This is great and new - Neil Young and REM doing "Country Feedback" from the Bridge Benefit Show in 1988 http://www.spin.com/articles/exclusive-watch-rems-country-feedback-neil-young-1998-bridge-school-benefit

Would love to see an R.E.M. box-set. Don't know if there's that much good unreleased material but fan-club singles and soundboard recordings of some of their covers would be great.

The run from "Chronic Town" in 1982 through "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" in 1996 is peerless. Even if Bill Berry hadn't quit there's a good possibility that what came after wouldn't be considered as favourably. I was listening to "Up" again this week. What a great record and unlike anything else R.E.M. did.

Yes, it's a fantastic show. It's sort of amazing in a way how good they were so quickly.

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Do you know I can convert FLAC files for I-Tunes?

Some cool stuff has popped up on youtube since news of their demise. Namely: the Stephen Hague demo of "Catapult" with a bunch of synths (that seemingly the band hated) and an alternative version of "Sitting Still" from the "Murmur" sessions which has some additional guitar overdubs and backing harmonies. Surprised these didn't come out with the re-issue of "Murmur". Wonder if the masters are missing.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/alternate-take/exclusive-why-r-e-m-are-calling-it-quits-20110926 Short interview with Mike Mills.

Totally agree. Wilco: The Whole Love By Matthew Fiander 26 September 2011 If you Google “American Radiohead”, you’re going to get a lot of results involving Wilco. Plenty are in reference to a Chuck Klosterman article, but most just mention it as a way to praise the band. But no one seems to be able to illuminate exactly what that means. As a matter of explaining Wilco’s approach to music, or its sound, it explains very little. In fact, comparing them with Radiohead says a good deal more about how our view of these bands has narrowed over time. In some ways, the comparisons a

Absolutely brilliant - the new stuff sounds fantastic too. The band sound amazing. Maybe the best Wilco live performance I have seen on TV. Definitely up there with something that was shown on Spanish TV in 2007. Can't wait to see them in the Northwest next year. Hopefully they'll play Coachella for the first time in ages too. Have my tickets for the first weekend.

"As a HUGE R.E.M. fan, I have zero interest in the new greatest hits discs. I'll likely pay $3 on iTunes for the new songs." Agreed too. I can understand why the record company is doing it but it seems like a completely worthless exercise. I am hoping that we get a limited edition with a free live CD. Would love a "Pageantry" show or something from the tour in 2008. As a complete aside I just got the Soft Boys "Underwater Moonlight". Absolutely brilliant. As a 25 year-long REM fan album I'm amazed didn't get this years ago.

What chance that Wilco might play a REM cover on this tour?

As a fan since the mid-eighties I am one part sad, two parts happy. Like other have noted discovering them in the mid-eighties meant the opening of a gateway to so many great bands from the Velvets, the Byrds, Big Star, Husker Du and the Replacements too. Am really glad I saw them again in 2008 when they put on a brilliant show. Would have loved to see them tour "Collapse Into Now" but it sounds like Michael Stipe wasn't into the idea. With the exception of "Around The Sun" they didn't release a truly duff album in three decades. I expect to be regularly playing the first four albums

Just watched the trailer. It's a shame that an album and period for U2 that was characterised by playfulness and irreverence looks like it will be covered in a documentary that is characterised by pompousness and self-reverence. My love/hate relationship with them continues.

Hope a recording of the shows up. Love Neil Finn. Split Enz's "I Got You" was a great choice to do especially right after Wilco's "I Got You (At The End of The Century)"

http://freegotham.com/2011/05/01/my-morning-jacket-goes-metal/ Holdin Onto Black Metal Anyone else heard this from the new album? Anyone else hear echoes of "Owner of A Lonely Heart" by Yes in this?

Bono's voice is even weaker thsn his hair piece Sure it will sound better going forward.

Tell me i I am wrong but aren't there well-established anti-trust laws in place to protect against monopolistic behavior and to protect against restraint of free-trade? I could be wrong but I think this was the basis of Pearl Jam's legal actions back in the 1990's. I think the more flagrant abuse now is how massive amounts of tickets immediately end up in the hands of resellers. I'd be surprised if Ticketmaster aren't getting a massive cut on this business.

I'd love to see a Congressional Inquiry into 1. ticket prices and 2. how so many end-up with ticket resellers immediately. Tickets touts now have websites called Stubhub and the like. Just an awful, awful fucking rip-off. That said I did pay about $80 to see Neil for the second-time about three years ago. Absolutely amazing and maybe more so because he played with an intensity and passion that would have put people a third-of-his-age to shame. I decided to incorporate Coachella into vacation time this year based on the fact that at $100 a day it's still great value over what individual

Greg Kot's review is lazy, plain and simple. Also a cheap headline. He's taken familiarity and extrapolated it into the album being a carbon copy of previous stuff. "Uberlin" has the most passing resemblance to "Drive" and "Alligator..." similarity to "It's The End Of The World...." is non-existent. I could easily make the case that "It Happened Today" shares a lot with "New Test Leper" and that "Blue" is "Country Feedback" part two. But so what? My guess is that REM have always thrown a lot of ideas away over the years because they sound too familiar. Ironic he references U2's "All That

First R.E.M. I owned when it came out was "Life's Rich Pageant". Pored over the sleeve for weeks. Did a factory job during summer whilst at University. Me and my mate Chris would spend hours trying to crack the lyrics on the first four albums to kill time. I'd pour over old NME's and Melody Makers at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow when I should have been studying to find any interview, live review or nugget on R.E.M.. Would go to record fairs every three months looking for the latest bootleg tapes. Buying "Succumbs" on video and spending hours watching the different video's. It is indeed