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post #16 of 19
9/4/09 at 12:53pm
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Originally Posted by sno1man View Post
And you get people singing/mumbling along with Pilgrimage- If you ask them what the song's about you get lots of 'um ah, well"
Murmuring along with it, you mean?

That's where the album title supposedly came from, the early recording engineers saying that Stipe was mumbling/murmuring the lyrics too much.
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post #17 of 19
9/4/09 at 1:09pm
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Originally Posted by joincoolkidclub View Post
Here here!
And why does no one like Up? A perfectly reasonable album by my estimation.
Because we are not talking about "perfectly reasonable" music. We are talking about which REM album you absolutely LOVE.
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post #18 of 19
9/4/09 at 6:12pm
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Originally Posted by userlander View Post
Murmuring along with it, you mean?

That's where the album title supposedly came from, the early recording engineers saying that Stipe was mumbling/murmuring the lyrics too much.
Yeah and I'm old enough to remember when it was new and the "altered" state I was frequently in when listening to this album. Kind of made the discussion about "moral kiosk" seem more important at the time
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post #19 of 19
9/5/09 at 12:58am
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Originally Posted by leichnitz View Post
Because we are not talking about "perfectly reasonable" music. We are talking about which REM album you absolutely LOVE.
Fine. I "absolutely LOVE"d Up.
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