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I always thought it was ashame that once they decided to make it a single, they shorted the title. The original title, With Love Come Strange Currencies was much cooler imo but I guess not very top 40 friendly. Surprised you dont like Kenneth.

No doubt, I cant believe they had this in them, as I said before. Dont hold your breath for a tour. Mills basically said it was JMS who didn't want to go out. Seems to Buck and Mills would pretty much tour whenever, but it's Stipes call, which is fair considering how much work it has to be for him. Like I said before, I'm kind of 50/50 on the whole tour thing. Love seeing them but have seen them so much that I can live with no tour. And lateley, I think they are still a great live band but I feel they have the worst paced sets of any good band I know of. Slow song (2 minute break to ch

Only song I'm having trouble getting is Everyday is Yours To Win and I love the way it sounds, just not connecting. I agree, it really is a hook fest. I'm ready to stop with this hybrid, MP3 leak/stream burn and listen to the real thing. Know of any rips from Australia or Europe where it's already out floating around?

Wish I had thought of that. Seriously, i dont have a spot for it that wouldn't keep it out of harms way of a 3 and 6 year old. Really? Interesting, the only song that reminds me at all of Monster is All the Best. To me, one of the biggest problems with monster is that even though they're all loud, they are also pretty much all slow, the only one with a fast tempo is Star 69. All the rockers on CIN are really fast, much more reminicent of LRP. How was Saturn Return, what was the instrumentation?

Have fun. I went in 1999 when REM played. They did e-bow w/patti, PJ's The Long Road witht some dude playing a 20ft horn and At My Most Beautiful with Mills and Philip Glass sharing the same piano. It's gotta be one of the most interesting 3 song sets the band ever played and it kills me there has never been a recording surface. I love Carnegie Hall too. You'll enjoy this next part of the story given your user name. Trey was playing as well and there was this obnoxious phish fan who wouldnt shut the fuck up yelling Trey, Trey every 5 fucking minutes until he came on. Some one finally r

Guess I'm gonna have to be disagreable on this, You're in the Air would be one of the 3 tracks I'd have left off Up, To me, it's kind of blah and just slows things down between Sad Professor and Walk Unafraid. The other 2 i'd scratch are Apologist and Diminished. Apologist for me is in the running for the worst song in the catalog, definitely beat his own record for saying I'm Sorry in a song and Diminished is just too slow and drags the record out. What I've noticed is that most people think Up is too long by 3 songs but no one agrees on the 3 that should have been cut. Guess were lucky t

Got me thinking as i never really thought of rem records by whether they were challenging or not. I would say, by and large rem records aren't challenging at all. Even the funkier ones like monster or up are still, at the core pop records, one had fuzz, the other, synth noises but stripped to their essense, they are still rem. Where they got into trouble is when they lost that governor, maybe BB, maybe a good producer to keep them focused. One record was still great (up) one was pretty damn good (reveal) and one kinda sucked (ats). Now they have 2 in a row that are great. I am actually s

Gotta say, I'm pretty surprised they had this one in them. I think, even though I'm a huge fan that I can be pretty objective about them and this is a pretty great record. R.E.M. ceased being cool a long time ago so this record won't likely get the respect or recognition it deserves. At the end of the day, if you liked them back in the day , there is something here for you. It rocks as hard as LRP and Document, it has the acoustic feel of OOT and Automatic and closes with what can only be described as a tone poem with patti smith that is the child of country feedback, belong and live for t

No Moonie for me either, at least we got to see the Ox. That solo he was doing on 5:15 in those later years was sick, and i'm not a big solo guy. Saw Glass Spider too, what the hell was he thinking?

Yes indeed!

Grateful Dead The Band - 3 weeks before Richard Manuel hung himself Brian Wilson Smile tour - yeah he's still around but that tour isn't and doubtful it will ever come back Bowie - Sound and Vision tour, last tour of the catalog people care about Warren Zevon - "and if California slides into the ocean, like the mystics and statistics say it will. I predict this motel will be standing, until I pay my bill." So glad I saw this live. The Kinks - many times. Damn were they fun. Edit. The Who - with John Entwistle

Nirvana - should have seen them on the In Utero tour and just figured I'd have another chance, big fuck up. Fleetwood Mac (with Christine McVie) - didn't go to see The Dance tour because they were basically doing the The Dance reunion concert, note for note and all of the same between song banter and I hate that whole, glad we're in (your city here) rock 'n roll bullshit. Then Christine McVie left and it doesn't seem the same to me. Stevie's voice is shot, hers was still beautiful. Lindsey came solo a few years back but I was away, really need to see him. Velvet Underground - Really wis

Yup. Why isnt that out? I just pulled off Traders Den a month ago and it's pretty f'in good quality, I dont really care if it comes out or not but seems silly not release it.

Thanks for the info, I would love to go this, Drexel is 20 minutes from me, but 6pm is tough. Will try though.

Me either

Thanks guys. I know there would be quality issues but there is stuff I want to have archived; some old REM electronic press kits and old bootleg videos etc. Companies that do this charge like $25 per 2 hour DVD so I could buy that software and be ahead after 3 DVD's. I think I'll investigate a litter further and then probably buy a piece of software. The Roxio looked cool as it came with a usb plug that had the red/white/yellow RCA jacks on the other end. Just plug a vcr in and go, looks simple.

Thanks A-man, I'll check those out.

This seems like the most applicable forum for this question. Looking to start converting old VHS to DVD and wondering if anyone has any experience/suggestions on methods/software etc. Roxio has a software package that looks pretty simple for $60 and wondering if anyone has experince with this, pro or con, or with anything else. Thanks.

It's a friendly thread this is Hope you enjoyed the link.

I think that's a big part about why people, including me, missed this at the time, because you are rooting for him even though he's scum. If this analysis doesn't convince you, nothing will.

Yeah, no doubt, that guy does a great job and the fact that he just updated it in december says that a lot of people are still discovering it. I read that link about a year ago but some guy at work sent it to me today and he got me thinking about again so i thought I'd post it since a lot of people i know aren't familiar with it. Don't know why i added the apostrophe, just busy i guess and not thinking. Hopefully a couple people check it out because it is a great read and makes you think about that last episode again. HBO just had season 4 up on demand and that last episode of that season

Guess I did, thanks.

You're welcome, it's a pretty cool analysis. I miss the show too.

FU. I thought some people would find this interesting, sorry to bother you.

Hi all, I searched and didn't see there was thread about this but if I missed it, I apologize. Click the link below to read an amazingly detailed description of the final scene of the Soporano's that comes to the conclusion that Tony died. It's amazing long and amazingly detailed so don't read until you have a half hour or so but if you haven't read this and were a big Soprano's fan, I think you'll enjoy it. After reading it, I was so pissed at myself for not seeing it at the time. I came to the conclusion that why me and many people didn't realize it is that no matter how much of a scum