A while back, someone mentioned the time the band went off the rails and could pinpoint it to 1991's "Shiny Happy People". Sure they brought in Kate Pierson from the B-52's. Sure it was bouncy. Sure it was everything that Michael Stipe is not. But it never made me cringe.
That song is not the worst thing out there, let alone from the band. Yet, it's not at the top of its craft either.
I can take that cringe factor of REM back a few years from that example to 1988 with "Stand" from the album Green.
Just annoying as fuck. Especially when it the next song in sequence was arguably one of their best songs ever, "World Leader Pretend".
The official video for "Stand" is just as cringe-inducing, so I won't show it. I'll do a similar one, but done with LEGO.
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They turned out to be such a disappointment. Ti still remember the first time I heard So. Central Rain https://g.co/kgs/Z2nJxp
I loved that song so much. My Aunt and cousins and I used to do the dance in her living room. Good times. I still can't hear it without dancing!
This is as much as I could take of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jqKiVHS6x4
Methinks you and I have this strange overlap of songs that make you cringe to songs I like playing...
Although maybe it's because I'm slightly sadistic.
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