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mr_lebowski

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1. They shifted the statutes for harboring ghosts ... reddened their necks & collared their cloaks ...

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Wed Jul 5, 2017, 01:51 PM

Jul 2017

The Lifes Rich Pageant album came out right when I moved off to college at a sunny beach town in CA ... and that tape was my first musical purchase as a real away-from-home 'college student'. That and the following albums Document, Green and Out of Time (and of course the 3 earlier ones such as Reckoning) provided the friggin' soundtrack to my college experience, man. Along with the cure, the replacements, inxs, u2, pavement, violent femmes, the stranglers ...

To this day I know pretty much every word to every song of IRS-era REM ... well, of course by that I mean ... I have words closely resembling Michael's mumbling ...

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They shifted the statutes for harboring ghosts ... reddened their necks & collared their cloaks ... mr_lebowski Jul 2017 #1

That was one of the things that drew me to them underpants Jul 2017 #2

I say the one-two punch of side two of the Murmur album i.e. Catapult and Sitting Still ... mr_lebowski Jul 2017 #3

White Tornado is my theme song underpants Jul 2017 #4