REM - Crazy

[Swede]

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[underpants]

1. Love Dead Letter Office

What a gem of a album.

[jpak]

2. They dedicated that Pylon song to me in 1983

I saw them 50+ times in Athens GA

And knew Peter Buck before REM.

After I moved back to Maine I never thought I would see them again.

They did a gig at U Maine Orono that fall with Let's Active

I went to the men's room and ran into Michael Stipe.

I was wearing a Pylon Chomp tshirt and he said "what are you doing here!". I told him that I lived in Maine.

And he invited me back stage to drink beer.

I asked him if my girlfriend and brothers could come too and he said yes and waited for us.

We all drank beer and swapped Athens stories and left when Let's Active went on - we wanted to see them. We did the best thing thing you could ever do when meeting with a band.

Michael put his arm around me and my brothers as we left.

In the middle of their set they dedicated this song to "that guy with the Pylon shirt "

The local cool radio jocks we were hanging with were astonished.

True story.

Yup

[underpants]

3. Wow that's great

I have a co-worker who was in Athens in the early early days. She transferred to UVa.

[jpak]

4. Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson of the B52s were our waitresses at the El Doral

Kate came to Maine and gave my Aunt a gold record for Cosmic Thing.

She read them their Tarot cards at a party in Manhattan and it came true.

Hence the name Cosmic Thing

She's in the album credits.

True story

Edit that should be El Dorado

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. Freaking epic story bruh!

SUPER EPIC, actually.

Damn.

I also love this album ... not quite AS MUCH as the other IRS albums, but the really good ones are really good. This Pylon cover being one of the best.

My FAVORITE is Voice of Harold, but this is probably second. And then Ages of You. And Burning Down.

Then all the VU/Lou Reed covers.

If you have the Spotify, here's my Best of IRS mix ...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Or0uTG57fMlH9GL3vbP5J?si=e05de5c1fc3e48c7

[jpak]

6. Actually

My cousin's band the Fleshtones was an IRS band

And they weren't to nice to them.

Nope

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. Ummm ... nothing to do with the actual record company ...

When I'm saying IRS I'm entirely referring to the output of R.E.M. on IRS records, i.e. their first 6 records

[jpak]

8. We're OK

[Hugh_Lebowski]

9. Glad we're good

Cause you're my new hero