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Formation (1980-1982) R.E.M. formed at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, in January 1980. Discovering they had similar tastes, vocalist Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960 in Decatur, Georgia) and guitarist Peter Buck (born December 6, 1956 in Berkeley, California) began working together, eventually meeting bassist Mike Mills (born December 17, 1958 in Orange County, California) and drummer Bill Berry (born July 31, 1958 in Duluth, Minnesota). In April 1980, the band formed under the name Twisted Kites to play a birthday party for their friend Kathleen O'Brien, rehearsing a number of garage, psychedelic bubblegum, and punk covers in a converted Episcopalian church. By the summer, the band had settled on the name R.E.M. after flipping randomly throug More... (Submit New R.E.M. Lyrics) (Submit New R.E.M. Lyrics) Review about R.E.M. religion means love of course! | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Losing My Religion performed by R.E.M. so when i say religion is stupid i mean love is stupid, at least the love for religion. don't take me wrong, i think religion is a great thing, and it has AWESOME POWER! like the ability to convince yourself that "losing my religion" means "losing love" and that a magical space daddy exists. The world has certain truths, deal with it, some are unpleasant, like that a song can be good even if you don't agree with the lyrics. Rockville not in CA | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song (Don't Go Back To) Rockville performed by R.E.M. And it's not Rockville, California. Despite being less than an hour away from the bay area's urbanity, it's as small of a small town you can get. In fact, the only real town part is the shopping area on the four corners of the Rockville Rd. and Suisun Valley Rd. Rest is farms and homesteads. Great song. REM rocks. Read what it actually says | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Ignoreland performed by R.E.M. Yeah, "rick La pull the wool over your eyes" who butters your bread? The torturers masquerading as liberators? Grow up? I tell you to WAKE UP!! What the hell has what happens here got to do with Cuba? Absolutely fu@&ing nothing!!! That's just a fu$&ing ruse and you know it!! The song has nothing to do with some alleged "pinko paradise." That's just your idiot attempt to dodge real and actual thought about what your country engages in: Oh, we're not quite as bad as Hitler or Stalin so everything is perfect? Hardly fu$&ing likely!! Grow some analytical skills for fu$&s sake!!!! Been there, done that | Reviewer: pjr ------ About the song Losing My Religion performed by R.E.M. Funny, but I remember this song from 1991. When it was popular I was going through exactly what he was singing about. Lost love, one that may or may not have even been real. You'll abandon all of your core beliefs just to hang onto it--losing your religion. You say too much, not enough at the same time. Nothing you can do is right, that was just a dream, just a dream. If you're going through that right now, just DON'T LISTEN to this song. It will make you dwell on it, and the melody and the mandolin in the background just locks itself into your brain preventing you from letting the pain go. Move on. To this day that mandolin takes me back to the pain even though I've let it all go. I guess that's a sign of a very successful song and composer. AwayDay | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite performed by R.E.M. This is a song which, if you listen carefully to the instrumental input, you cannot help but be intrigued by how the strings. guitars and percussion all segue. REM is a band, thankfully, that has been sharing their stuff with us. Only M has any overview of the lyrics. This is my most played- thought about- hummed- Song. In a way, it is sometimes better not to know x good song. stupid lyrics | Reviewer: rick La hood ------ About the song Ignoreland performed by R.E.M. Ahh yes, the fatherland is still alive and well out there in the fever swamp. Its all a republican ruse to keep you suppressed and medicated. Its them, them, them, them. You idiots. We are them. You want your pinko paradise? Go to fucking Cuba. Until then, you gotta know who butters your bread. GROW UP. This is not an REM song. | Reviewer: Jim ------ About the song Mad World performed by R.E.M. Mad World is a song by British band Tears for Fears. Written by Roland Orzabal and sung by bassist Curt Smith, it reached no.3 on the UK Singles Chart in Nov 1982. The song was covered by composers Michael Andrews and Gary Jules for the soundtrack to the movie Donnie Darko. This version reached no.1 in the UK in December 2003. This version is often mistaken for REM. Now i see myself at thirty... | Reviewer: Ross ------ About the song Little America performed by R.E.M. I remember being a freshman in high school hearing this song, right after Rockville. After all that soaking in it, REM just kicked your butt right out of bed and the door to end on this song. For me, this song is about how much we lost our way from the Founders' dream, but this is early eighties condemnation...no wonder REM is hard to follow now...too ahead of their own time. Yes, for us idjits, the biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest... Vertigo | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Stand performed by R.E.M. I recently awoke with an extreme case of Vertigo. The room was spinning and worsened with any movement. I went back to sleep and awoke nearly every hour with the same experience. I figured out that I was awaking during 'dream time' while experiencing rapid-eye-movement. The r.e.m. continued even after I awoke. Lying down actually made the dizziness worse. The next morning I decided my theme song was Stand. I mistakenly thought the lyrics said, "Don't think about direction." Anyway, it helped me remember to stand straight and focused the rest of the day. I had to laugh when I thought of the band: R.E.M. - coincidence? I don't think so ;} From now on this is the theme song for Vertigo. :) I don't think Mills ever went to Rockville before writing this | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song (Don't Go Back To) Rockville performed by R.E.M. nice little song, but that isn't Rockville Maryland at all. I was born and raised there since 1982. Girl from Rockville - "soul less" is the last term I'd use to describe Rockville. I grew up watching symphonies and shakespeare performed in the old Rockville Town Center on warm summer nights, Hometown holidays, 4th of July on the lawns at Richard Montgomery, etc. This is not a dreary factory town as Mills seems to believe his girlfriend was going to return home to. Seattle is a lot drearier than Rockville ever was. It's about Kurt | Reviewer: Dimitris from Greece ------ About the song Let Me In performed by R.E.M. This song is dedicated by Stipe to Kurt Cobain.Stipe and Kurt arranged to make a song just a few days before kurt was murdered(yes he WAS MURDERED).Just understand it.for those who believe he killed himself just visit to justiceforkurt.com and cobaincase.com and you will understand that he was murdered.So Stipe told about a song they would write days after Cobain's death.It's A lovely song to hear and just to think of Kurt.Kurt we luv u and we miss u soooo much.world would be better if you were here with us.and for those hip hop guys that tell bad things about rock music just stay and listen these craps and don't speak about rock music.rock music it's about TALENT.and unknown word for you.so just SHUT UP!Kurt Cobain 20-2-1967--forever....a 17 year old fan of Kurt from Greece...<3 it's about kurt | Reviewer: dimitris from greece ------ About the song Let Me In performed by R.E.M. michael stipe wrote this song For Kurt Cobain.few days before kurt was murdered(yes kurt WAS MURDERED)Kurt has agreed to make a song with Stipe.Stipe told that they agreed to make a song only few days before his death.So do some people still believe he killed himself???just see the facts at justiceforkurt.com and cobaincase.com and understand what happened.Kurt we luv u and we still miss u soooo much.a 17 years old fan of you from Greece kurt we <3 u...! RIP Kurt Cobain we miss ya | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Let Me In performed by R.E.M. Michael Stipes tribute to Kurt Cobain....his friend and fellow rocker who he wished to collaborate with...Cobain was a big REM fan, and envied their music for falling away from the mainstream music I believe it is about what I am experiencing... | Reviewer: Thomas Gottfried ------ About the song Losing My Religion performed by R.E.M. This song speaks directly to me, at this time of my life. I think love, if you feel it in the deepest, most personal level of yourself (Ger.: "selbst" as opposed to "ich/es" =id and "über-ich"), is something so near to you that it becomes a part of you. As religion does to those who *really believe*. It is God-like, it is a close as we come to an ultimate truth. People who have religion say, "God is love." The sentiment in the song is, to me, about the realization that the thing I believed in either - *isn't* there, or - "apparently" *isn't* there, or - maybe never was there... The general tone of both the music and the lyrics is one of utter loss, sadness, disbelief, and confusion. The confusion you feel when this happens to you, when you have this extremely discomforting "revelation", is beautifully expressed in lines such as I thought that I heard you laughing I thought that I heard you sing I think I thought I saw you try When you lose a love that touched you to the core -- but you might never have really had -- you are so confused that every signal, every thing that ever happened becomes questionable, and it is enough to drive you mad. You have no clear orientation, and it seems like it was all "just a dream". I had never really listened to this song very closely or exactly before this all started occurring in my life. Then it just popped into my head and I knew that R.E.M. had already put my feelings to words and music. Stipe's explanation about it being a "classic obsession love song" is also valid, when this started to happen, I almost automatically slipped into an obsessive state, doing everything and anything to stop her from going, thus: Trying to keep up with you And I don't know if I can do it Oh no, I've said too much I haven't said enough Whatever you say isn't enough for you and yet is too much, you are left feeling helpless and powerless. Some of the most heartfelt and gripping song lyrics I have ever heard. not the easy way out | Reviewer: elaine ------ About the song Everybody Hurts performed by R.E.M. everybody hurts is such an amazin song and brings such sadness to my life cos i just wish my dad had of expressed his feelin wit the family instead of listenin to this song but he didnt hang on he let go :( The meaning | Reviewer: AssToMouth ------ About the song Losing My Religion performed by R.E.M. In the song, Michael Stipe sings the lines "That's me in the corner/That's me in the spotlight/Losing my religion". The phrase "losing my religion" is an expression from the southern region of the United States that means losing one's temper or civility, or "being at the end of one's rope." Stipe told The New York Times the song was about romantic expression.[5] He told Q that "Losing My Religion" is about "someone who pines for someone else. It's unrequited love, what have you."[6] Stipe compared the song's theme to "Every Breath You Take" by The Police, saying, "It's just a classic obsession pop song. I've always felt the best kinds of songs are the ones where anybody can listen to it, put themselves in it and say, 'Yeah, that's me.'"[7] More true now then it was in 1992 | Reviewer: Scott ------ About the song Ignoreland performed by R.E.M. Reading through these lyrics make me even more mad that American still is Ignoreland. The Shrub, Cheney, Rove, Rummy all came back to finish/continue what they started in the late 70s thru the early 90s. First they stole an election and then they blinded the masses with fear and over ran the country. Torture, war, oil, domestic spying, fear mongering, destruction of Habeas Corpus, etc. It's been a national nightmare that we are living once again. Republican = Criminal. From Watergate to Iran/Contra to Weapons of Mass Destruction to Valerie Plame. They have succeeded in destroying America's standing in the world and putting us on the brink of ruin. Yes, Michael, "I feel better having screamed". rem is AMAZING | Reviewer: ben ------ About artist/band R.E.M. rems early stuff is amazing. they had some good stuff in the 90s. all the grunge bands would not have existed without them. as for this u2 verses rem bullshit both are amazing live and its definitely a close contest. i will give it to u2 based on longevity though. i could give it to rem for influence but the bands that followed nirvana or pearl jams blueprint laid by rem wernt very good. both bands have had their missteps of course rem had shiny happy people and stand and u2 had the album pop and songs like stuck in a moment you cant get out of walk on the sweetest thing and of course one which i have heard about 400 times too many. but this reveiw is about rem and i have to say they are and always will be an amazing band. Shiny happy people | Reviewer: AnTwan ------ About the song Shiny Happy People performed by R.E.M. I've heard this song before but it was a while ago. Yhis is the firt time I ever saw the video. Love it. Love the bright colors and smiles. Even the dude on sticks is having fun. What's wrong with having a litle fun? This cheered me right up after a boring day. Thank you REM & pretty redhead lady. Haunting | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Find The River performed by R.E.M. This song is and always will be my favourite. The haunting melody coupled with clever lyrics and harmony drive a river through the soul. It is not a sad song, but a song of hope in the same vein as Tynnyson writing the poem "Ulysses" talks about the loss of youth, but also says "made weak by time and fate, but strong in will, to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield." 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