Thread by @EsotericCD

I 100% guarantee you I can find an R.E.M. song that you will positively adore, even if you think you hate R.E.M.

Also, why would you hate R.E.M.? R.E.M. recorded this song!

Seriously, if you don't like this song, you missed the entire point of postpunk altogether.

And let's not fall into that "early R.E.M. were good, but they became shitty when they signed to a major label" nonsense either. This is one of their best songs and they made it a hidden track without a name:

CATAPULT! CATAPULT!

Who the hell knows what it means, you hear it once you'll be humming to yourself tomorrow morning as you putter around on the street. Did we miss anything?

There are R.E.M. songs that nobody has ever successfully explained to me on a rational level. Which I guess is sort of the point, because they work on a SUB-rational level, a wallop to the heart. To wit:

Long, long, LONG ago (right near the start!) @Political_Beats did an R.E.M. episode w/@MattWelch, and we all agreed on two things: DOCUMENT actually kind of sucks, and LIFES RICH PAGEANT is their most underrated LP of all time.

No R.E.M. thread can ever go by w/o pointing out that @m_millsey wrote one of R.E.M.'s most famous and beloved songs about where I grew up and went to school, but he'd never been there and thought it was like a factory town or something. Rockville, MD!

Let me conclude this little nonsense mini-rapture by pointing out that @m_millsey might've missed out on the true spirit of Rockville, MD, but he's the major owner of R.E.M. finest love song ever, one of the finest I know. I performed it to win Mrsoteric.

"Be Mine." There it is. You want the single most underrated R.E.M. song of all time? There it is. Gaze upon it. Hear it. It's the one. Also, if you're a guitarist, those are such satisfying changes to play.

Goodnight. Live your life filled with joy and wonder. 'Til tomorrow.