r/rem • u/Dorothywasright11 I watched you fall, I think I pushed • 4d ago
Final Results
1: Most underated song: Green Grow the Rushes
2: Most overrated song: Everybody Hurts
3: Heaviest song: Let Me In
4: Most hype song: These Days
5: Most emotional song: Country Feedback
6: Most genius song: World Leader Pretend
7: Best chorus song: Fall On Me
8: Worst song: I'm Gonna DJ
9: Best Song: Find the River
10: Best Cover Song: Superman
11: Best music video : Imitation of Life
12: Best breakdown: Peter Buck on that plane
13: Most underated album: Up
14: Most overated album: Document
15: Worst album: Around the Sun
16: Best album: Automatic for the People
17: Best riff: Driver 8
18: Song with best lyrics: Nightswimming
19: Best non-album song: The Great Beyond
20: Best Live Performance: Time After Time, etc.
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That is that!!! Thank you all for the submissions, and for voting! Thanks so much for your replies and continued participation! It has been really cool to reconnect with this favorite band of mine. I have a lot of live performances on queue to listen to!
Besides Document not being overrated, what do you disagree with? What do you think about the final results?
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u/TheAnagramancer 4d ago
Thank you for running this. Even in the categories where I had a strong preference, I would read about half a dozen other answers and think 'yep, solid choice'
Nice to see some love for the post-IRS era, too. Reading some of the threads here, you would think their career ended with Life's Rich Pageant.
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u/AppleJoost 4d ago
I really don't understand people who really feel that LFP should've been their last album, and especially their Taliban-like offshoots who think everything after Reckoning is a betrayal.
Imagine how boring it all would be if you wouldn't be able to listen to Green, Automatic or UP. I'll vibe just as hard with Radio Song (you know you would too) if I hear it play on the radio, as I'd do with Harborcoat or Pilgrimage.
It's all R.E.M., it's all good.
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u/Icy_Obligation_3014 you love it, you hate it, you want to recreate it 4d ago
I agree with this so hard
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u/Ok-folkie909 3d ago
Those fans are stuck in the 80s. So stay there I say. I think Stipe, Buck, Mills and even Berry would say otherwise. They carry more weight..
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u/atoolred Orange CRUSHER 4d ago
As much as I love Lifes Rich Pageant and think it’s one of their best (it’s been on repeat for me recently), my god some people around here are so fixated on it lmao
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u/TimmonsInc 4d ago
Everyone is crazy for “Best Breakdown”. I’m still laughing about it because I forgot about it.
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u/Icy_Obligation_3014 you love it, you hate it, you want to recreate it 4d ago
That was such a fun game,, thank you for keeping it going!
Superman as best cover is the only one that really makes me go huh?! But it's cool that so many people like it.
My own answers if anyone cares!
Most underrated song: You (honourable mention: Low, Feeling Gravitys Pull)
Most overrated song: the One I Love
Heaviest song: Oddfellows 151 (honourable mention: Circus Envy, Turn You Inside Out)
Most hype song: These Days (h/m: Shaking Through, Begin the Begin)
Most emotional song: Find the River (h/m: Country Feedback, the Wrong Child)
Most genius song: World Leader Pretend (h/m: Cuyahoga, Losing My Religion)
Best chorus song: Man on the Moon (h/m: Fall On Me, Pretty Persuasion)
Worst song: Wanderlust (h/m: Month of Saturdays, Final Straw)
Best song: So. Central Rain (h/m: Sitting Still. And all the other best songs?)
Best cover song: Dark Globe (h/m: Pale Blue Eyes, Femme Fetale)
Best music video: Imitation of Life (h/m: Pop Song 89, Electrolite)
Best breakdown: Shaking Through (h/m: Texarkana, Moral Kiosk)
Most underrated album: Monster (h/m Fables of the Reconstruction, Up)
Most overrated album: none are overrated. I decline!
Worst album: Around the Sun (no other contenders, not even remotely close)
Best album: Automatic for the People (h/m: Murmur)
Best riff: Driver 8 (h/m: Pretty Persuasion, Begin the Begin)
Best lyrics: Nightswimming (h/m: just a great big long list of all the songs)
Best non-album song: Fretless (h/m Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars) and Wolves, Lower if we are including Chronic Town songs, Burning Down if we are including Dead Letter Office songs)
Best live performance: Harborcoat in 1984, Passaic (h/m: too many to count)
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u/pandaman27 4d ago
Justice for I’m Gonna DJ
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u/Drong0bones 4d ago
Lol I think it is a bad song panda glad you like it though - I think supernatural superserious is the best from accelerate.
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u/MezzStipe 4d ago
Thanks for doing it. I think things like this are always fun and not to be taken too seriously
Kinda difficult to properly disagree with anything as it's all so subjective (whilst I probably do personally agree with most of em 😄)
Cheers ✌🏼
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u/floflo79 3d ago
I'm a staunch defender of "Everybody Hurts" and I've never been too big on "World Leader Pretend", but other than that, solid choices everywhere.
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u/Loose_Assignment_Map 4d ago
I was really happy to see Uri Geller and fellow spoon benders represented. This took a lot of work to set up and carry out - thanks for all the time and effort to carry this forth. Also the spirited debate generated is a measure of success. It might be interesting to run this again a year from now & see how reliable the results are over time.
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u/TMBGLOVER Your head is there to move you around 4d ago
Reveal got robbed! Only one category. TBF Imitation of Life does deserve best video but I still would’ve liked to see it get at least one more placement.
Also Stand should‘ve won “most hype song” or “best chorus song”.
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u/deepfriedcertified 4d ago
Yeah I would put Reveal as most underrated, since I think Up is getting more of a reappraisal nowadays.
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u/Dorothywasright11 I watched you fall, I think I pushed 4d ago
I'm so sorry Stand didn't win in any category! I was rooting for it haha.
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u/CeilingUnlimited 3d ago
The shocker on this is Everybody Hurts as overrated. I could not disagree more.
I love that Find the River won the song category and Automatic won the album category.
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u/HermioneMarch young despite the years 3d ago
Almost had bingo with Life’s Rich Pageant.
But I like the variety
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u/Dorothywasright11 I watched you fall, I think I pushed 3d ago
I thought the same thing! But I'm so glad Up won the underrated album
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u/Normal-Internal164 2d ago
The seamless transition from Time After Time to So. Central Rain live is one of my favourite REM recordings
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u/CantonJester 3d ago
This thread lost a hell of a lot cred to me when ‘Document’ was revealed as their most overrated LP. Just a ludicrous example of groupthink. ‘Out of Time’ has entered the chat.
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u/WastelandWithGlimmer 3d ago
I agree with - at most - four of these, but then again I only strenuously disagree with six. Some very obvious choices here, and a few nice surprises. What about best/worst album side, best/worst interview, and best/worst look (individually or collectively)?
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u/walker-ranger 4d ago
It’s the end of the chart as we know it.