REM "Radio Song": C or D?

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Umm, yes, I'm serious -- they covered it and it is painfully awkward. It sounds exactly like the original except somehow really creepy and blood-curdling. (Granted, I was never big on the original, but this one is ... I dunno.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

a monster of a dud

worst way to start an album ever

― charminator (charminator), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

WHEN I GOT TO THE SHOW
YO HO HO

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

say what say what say what

― PPlains (PPlains), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I've probably posted this to ILX at some point in the past, but Blount and I decided at some point that this song would be greatly improved if Fred Schneider from the B-52s had been the guest vocalist. "SurpRIIIIIIIIIIISE!"

This can be easily applied to any other almost-great REM track, but it's most effective on "Crush With Eyeliner": "I'm the REAAAAAAL thing!"

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

haha I might almost find Fred Schneider tolerable in that context.

(I really relish Stipe's serious and pointed "Hey. Hey. Hey." as well.)

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Schneider would have torn it up, no question. Maybe it should have been him in BDP too.

― Mark (Mark R), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't really like this song.

but i heard "finest worksong" the other day on the radio, hadn't heard it in years...reminded me a lot more of gang of four than i remember!

― sir lord baltimore club music (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

DEEJAYS COMMUNICATING TO THE MASSES

― nklshs (nklshs), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

This song was somehow really good in 1991, and sounds like the most dated thing ever in 2007. "Kool Thing" is better, but both songs are lame.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think I've actually listened to this song in 10 years. I covered this in a band in high school - I was so excited to do the KRS-One parts. We were gonna do it at our school's Battle of the Bands, only we didn't get in because they (Student Council) decided at the last minute that, instead of the 4 bands with the highest vote count getting in, they would have the top 3 and a grown-up local band (none of the members of which had ever gone to our school) in the hopes of increasing attendance/ticket sales. We were that 4th band that didn't get in. In retrospect, that you oh merciful God.

― nklshs (nklshs), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I was so excited to do the KRS-One parts

Gah, I left out that this was because we had a lead singer who usually did all the singing, but he needed my help on this one, this was (supposed to be) my first gig "singing" in front of a crowd. Later I provided the Mary Magdalene vocals in our cover of "Everything's Alright" from Jesus Christ Superstar, but that was only because I could sing those high notes that he couldn't hit nanny nanny boo boo.

― nklshs (nklshs), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

pretty sections C
other sections mostly D

― Ross Godfrey (scatter), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link

T/S: KRS-One on "radio song" vs. q-tip on "the outsiders"

― Eisbär (Eisbär), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:36 (seventeen years ago) link

this would work for flava-flav, too, i think.

― Eisbär (Eisbär), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link

... or eazy-e, come to think of it. though i suspect that eazy-e wasn't serious or high-concept enough for stipey & crew.

― Eisbär (Eisbär), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link

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