It has been so inspiring to read Pop Songs 07's single-minded dissection of every single track ever recorded by R.E.M. (and don't forget Drive XV the cult-like blog devoted to one, specific R.E.M. album) that I have decided to hop on board this Fad Train, quoting and commenting upon specific lyrical stanzas from various tracks throughout R.E.M.'s storied career. First up, Lotus from their college rock/alt-rock masterpiece Up:Let it rain, rain, rain
Save me from myself again
Wash away my ugly sins
Opposing thumb, dorsal fin
Applicable copyright is implicit (Copyright © R.E.M./Athens Ltd. for all R.E.M. originals).
[If by "wash away my ugly sins" you mean "wash away the dip-shit pretentious blue streak of makeup across my face", then yes, by all means, let it rain, rain, rain, rain, rain! FOR GOD'S SAKE, SOMEONE BRING THE FUCKING RAIN ALREADY!!!]
4 comments:
I'm with you on this one. I like REM up to a point but I can't imagine a whole blog devoted to each and every song.
Agreed. Now let us never speak of R.E.M. again.
I, along with the great unwashed masses, abandoned R.E.M. after Automatic for the People.
I jumped ship long before that. When I viewed the iceburg up ahead named Out of Time, I grabbed me a lifeboat and scrambled overboard faster than Michael Stipe tears through an issue of Butt Magazine. As my meager vessel headed back to shore, I turned around to see the mighty HMS REM sinking slowly into the murky waters of Post-College Rock. There was a momentary tinge of guilt but then I forgot all about it and moved on, confident in my decision and eager to abandon the next chart-topping artist coursing through unchartered run-on metaphors such as this one.
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