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Pet Sounds tribute – REM

I found out yesterday that REM had split up. It’s my opinion that they always got a bum deal with the cool kids, lumped in with U2, Simple Minds and other 80s/90s rock bores. I’ve put this together to show that love them or hate them, to deny the sheer volume of memorable songs they contributed to the world is just a bit naïve. There are tons of obvious omissions but this is my pick. It’s chronological save for the first and last track.
I went to see REM in 1995 at Milton Keynes Bowl and it was brilliant, they commanded an elated and adoring crowd like very few bands I’ve seen since. People are going to be listening to REM for a long time and hopefully these 30 tracks will remind you why.

If they were good enough for KRS-One and Patti Smith, then they’re good enough for me.

Grab the Pet Sounds playlist HERE and check the past playlists HERE.

01 It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
02 Radio Free Europe
03 (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
04 So, Central Rain
05 Can’t Get There From Here
06 Driver 8
07 Fall On Me
08 The One I Love
09 Orange Crush
10 Stand
11 Get Up
12 Losing My Religion
13 Radio Song
14 Near Wild Heaven
15 Nightswimming
16 Drive
17 Man On The Moon
18 What’s The Frequency, Kenneth
19 Strange Currencies
20 E-Bow The Letter
21 Electrolite
22 Daysleeper
23 At My Most Beautiful
24 All The Way To Reno
25 Imitation Of Life
26 Supernatural Superserious
27 Until The Day Is Done
28 Mine Smell Like Honey
29 UBerlin
30 Find The River


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  1. Barry Abrook

    22 September

    What no Smiley Happy People…surely an error!

  2. Charlie (Pet Sounds)

    22 September

    Shiny. And this was one of the obvious omissions, sorry, had to trim to 30. Hope you enjoyed it anyway…

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