When I was in the eighth grade my boyfriend loaned me two albums from his favorite band: Automatic for the People and Green. I was a different person from that day forward. For the duration of our two month relationship we spent every night on the phone listening to these amazing albums and all other REM albums and gushing. That is the only way to describe it.
I can't not gush when you mention REM. My intials are - not lying - REM. I didn't marry my husband because of that (I married him because he can see the top of the refrigerator) but it was a huge bonus.
There are four men of such genius that exist in our world that give me hope beyond hope that art will never stop being revolutionary and brilliant. Three of those men make up REM (Bill - quitters never win! I miss you) and the fourth is Adam Duritz. Adam will someday have his own post...
The thing about REM is that they are my favorite band. I LOVE the Beatles. I LOVE Counting Crows. I LOVE a lot of bands, but the real truth is that REM inspires creativity and hope for me that other bands cant. I wallow in other bands. I get emotional when I hear 1979 because of its relevance in my life. I cannot listen to Anna Begins without shouting along the most painful parts and feeling the pleading in my soul. But I just emote with it. World Leader Pretend makes me question reality. Nightswimming (the song I walked down the aisle to) reminds me that life is short and I have to go and be. I am motivated to live my life to the fullest and seek out challenges and reach for my potential by REM.
It seems totally crazy, but I told you - gushing.
Listen to Green. What do you think? What bands make you gush?
"Good music makes you think about the musicians, What they´re playing, how they´re playing. But great music makes you think about yourself, what you wanna do in life, your sense of possibility. It sends you back into your own imagination and makes you feel like you have no limits, no restrictions."
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