How did these white boys become so popular?
>>122905546Students.
>>122905546>thinly-disguised rap/popshit thread
>know how to write really smart but catchy songs>release a bunch of albums that are great from to back>don't have any fighting or feuding going on with the band>tour their fucking asses offTruly one of the greatest bands ever
>>122905546>One more Night - Maroon 5If anybody finishes listening onto this track, such person becomes werewolf.Nobody could though.Else im paying at somebody.
>>122905546They were at the forefront of alternative rock and once that genre started gaining traction they were naturally elevated to the top. They were also just a really solid band, their run from Murmur to New Adventures is legendary.
>>122905732>They were also just a really solid band, their run from Murmur to New Adventures is legendary.This was a huge reason honestly. By the time REM was starting to get truly big they already had 4 totally solid albums under their belts, and that's if you were relatively early and getting into them when The One I Love and It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine). So people would go back and find out their earlier stuff was great too, and then their new releases kept smashing it out of the park as well.
>>122905546gather around me young one rock music used to be popular
>>122905708>really smartloathe michael stype and his lyrics
For me, it's Pilgrimage
>>122907053You sound like a dumbass
>>122905546This was an amazing album and yet the band are all but forgotten and barely even talked about.They shit on U2 and nobody gives a shit who they are anymore either
>>122905546When they were a college band they played music people could dance to
>>122907053Ignoreland is the only song with bad lyrics
They should've called it quits before 2000. They really didn't belong in that decade and their music released then shows it
>>122907053But yet you like shit lyrics like Charli xcx.. what a fucking dumb fuck you are
>>122907865People say that but they're still played constantly. I hear End of the world, one I love, man on the moon and losing my religion a lotAnd I heard and sang along to Shiny Happy People on the radio last nightPeople are just disingenuous scumbag retards because that's how the.media are. A bunch of peddling conniving pieces of shit trying to shill their garbage on people. Real people know REM is classic
>>122908059Imagine if Stipe had died after Automatic like people thought was going to happen. They'd be talked about like The Beatles
>>122905708>>know how to write really smart but catchy songswhat's so smart abou them
>>122908497Whatever subject they were taking on, personal or emotional, seemed to be approached in a way that was thoughtful and abstract. We've had several threads where people had wildly different ideas about what they are about. Stipe is a thoughtful writer and a unique vocalist in a band that could seemingly do anything. They had amazing hooks and melodies and there was a lot there to ponder about if you pay attention.
>>122905732*from Chronic Town
>>122908644>lyrics
>>122905546They were soft and squishy
>>122909124Yeah?
>>122907053You're a fucking chud I bet. Fuck you.
For me, it's Life's Rich Pageant
>>122905546College radio/thread
>>122905546Does anyone else find REM songs really difficult to sing? Michael Stipe doesn't something with his voice that's not ordinary
>>122912454He has a pretty unique tone. Never heard anyone else who sounds like him.
>>122908129They thought he’d die? Why? Suicide?
>>122912546Assuming he is referring to people thinking Michael had aids because he is a skinny bald guy
>>122912641Turns out he's just vegan
