Yeah, someone did.  It was Joel Keller, in the article.

To the last two songs discussion, I will contribute "Nightswimming" and "Find the River" from Automatic for the People.

@WelcomeShaqKotter:disqus Mishearing is perfectly understandable, considering this is 1) an R.E.M. song we're talking about, even if it was the beginning of their more intelligible phase and 2) a backing vocal.

Funny, I always think "alright" looks bizarre.  I forget who, but some writer once said it looked like Welsh, and I couldn't agree more.

I'd say the parenthetical's not that unnecessary there.  A major part of the song is the cheerful counterpoint. My only quibble with it is I always thought the parentheses should contain Mills's vocal on the counter-melody, "It's time I had some time alone."

Bitch got owned.

The worse offense of "It's Alright, Ma" is the use of the misspelling "alright," which isn't even a legitimate word.

I can't tell you how jealous I am of you!  I wish I could watch all those again for the first time. Also, if you're a Tarantino fan, I think you'll especially appreciate the spirit of Godard's films.  Plus, you'll get the thrill of recognizing QT's subtle (and less subtle) nods to Godard both when watching Godard's…

I agree, Live at the Olympia is great.  It's what I wanted R.E.M. Live to be, but it really never had a chance to be since it was from a tour in support of their worst album (though admittedly, the Around the Sun songs never sounded better than on that tour, served well by the quicker tempos and lack of…

Between Casa de mi Padre and his work for Old Milwaukee, I'm really liking the way Will Ferrell's career is trending.  Last night's was some glorious Bizarro-world Wong Kar-wai shit.

Such a dope concert film.  My second favorite of all-time, second to R.E.M.'s Tourfilm, which despite my best efforts remains ridiculously underrated.  It's from the Green Tour and features Stipe at his peak as a showman, the band perfectly balanced between their more ragged (in a wonderful way) early performances and…

Funny, I was about to say I thought it weakened it a tad.  Don't get me wrong, I think Miller's Crossing is terrific but I think Barton Fink is their masterpiece.

I would argue that these three directors' first three features are all all-time classics:

Begin the Beygin.

My favorite Heller anecdote is that when he was told that he hadn't written anything else as good as Catch-22, he replied, "Who has?"

I still kind of wish they'd bowed out after NAIHF.  Not just because of the Berry thing—four of their last five albums certainly have things going for them—but just because that album would have felt like such a perfect capper.  A double album to get everything out of their system and closing on "Electrolite"'s last…

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Also, Parks upped its own expectations in a way that hurts it these days with Season 3, which really was sixteen close-to-perfect episodes.

This is true for me too, and yet he is probably the member of R.E.M. I think would be least interesting to interact with.  My order would probably be Buck, Mills, Berry, Stipe.

I co-sign @avclub-c1fe85b855c6d045b827f74a1e2c3fd7:disqus 's recommendation of "Glad Girls" as an excellent song, although if that were the only GBV song you ever listened to, you might very easily mistake it for a Big Star song.