My big bro @leslieplatt59 turned me onto this lot when I was still a teenage metal head in the early 80s. Can still remember thinking this was nanny pamby rubbish. Then when Ii turned 16 I suddenly got it. Fables still my fave but I'd happily take any of their first five onto my desert island
Someone at work suggested going to see them around the time of Fables of the reconstruction. I didn't know anything about them at the time, but went along to the Hammersmith Palais to witness one of the best gigs I've ever been to.
@AndyWilkinson properly jealous. Saw them on the Green tour and they were great but to have seen them touring on the back of my fave album would have been something
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Bukowski
From one of the Top Five R.E.M. Their albums provided signposts for my life. This one is leaving school and starting work.
hilldavids
@Bukowski Beginning of high school for me. I remember it as one of the first albums where I started to discover "my own" music.
Bukowski
@hilldavids And I discovered that here was more to music than The Chart Show.
simonp
My big bro @leslieplatt59 turned me onto this lot when I was still a teenage metal head in the early 80s. Can still remember thinking this was nanny pamby rubbish. Then when Ii turned 16 I suddenly got it. Fables still my fave but I'd happily take any of their first five onto my desert island
Schell
my still-favorite REM album!
AndyWilkinson
Someone at work suggested going to see them around the time of Fables of the reconstruction. I didn't know anything about them at the time, but went along to the Hammersmith Palais to witness one of the best gigs I've ever been to.
simonp
@AndyWilkinson properly jealous. Saw them on the Green tour and they were great but to have seen them touring on the back of my fave album would have been something
philipnareike
@AndyWilkinson I went to that Palais gig too. Was prety great.. 1985...