(Hi. Hi.)

adulthood has opened me up to REM. when i was a teenager, it was all thrash and hip-hop and not a lot in between. i had no interest in softer rock musics, save for Jane's Addiction, and certainly little tolerance for REM. "Shiny Happy People", are you kidding? they got a pass very briefly because "Stand" was used as the opening theme song to a tv show i liked a lot, Get a Life, starring Chris Elliot as a 40 year old paper boy. the show didn't last long, under two seasons, and if i remember correctly Chris began dying at the end of every show close to the end of its run..... anyway, so REM was okay with me for that. the song they did with KRS-ONE, notsomuch. nice try, though.



in my 20s, the band i was in got compared a lot to REM, and other groups i didn't (and still don't) enjoy. the similarity wasn't lost on me but i was having fun playing bass and keyboards so i got over it.

and now, because i've been in XM Radio hell for the last few years on this job, REM has grown on me. the whiny British bands of the 80s are too sad and i just don't feel their pain. REM at least liked to have fun once in a while, play games. when they lost their religion, (oh no!), that song was WAY too played but now, in the wake of what the last and current generation of pop bands and idols and icons has slopped out... REM's sounding damn good.


this one goes out to your patient from earlier today


so did you ask me to write earlier? oh yeah. cool and sunny

LRV, b