What rock music are you listening to? Non-Jazz, Non-Classical.

[Holy Ghost]

On 8/14/2025 at 11:19 AM, ghost of miles said:

My God, how did I not notice this recent thread activity?! I've been on a binge of R.E.M.'s IRS records in recent weeks...long story, *long-time* fan.  These albums remain absolutely transcendental to me, all these years (decades!) on.  

Been thinking a *lot* about these two albums recently and how newly-relevant they sound (Document in particular). I was living here in Bloomington as a student when the band came to town to record Lifes Rich Pageant. Here's an article i wrote about it for Bloom Magazine, subsequently expanded for Indiana's Musical Family Tree site:

Talk About The Pageant: When R.EM. Came To Bloomington In 1986

Can't say I've ever seen Chronic Town. Released around the same time as Mur Mur?

[ghost of miles]

23 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

Can't say I've ever seen Chronic Town. Released around the same time as Mur Mur?

A few months before, in the autumn of 1982. It’s a five-song EP that was reissued on CD a few years later as part of the B-side compilation Dead Letter Office.

[BFrank]

[Holy Ghost]

11 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

A few months before, in the autumn of 1982. It’s a five-song EP that was reissued on CD a few years later as part of the B-side compilation Dead Letter Office.

Thanks, didn't know there was more material!

11 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

A few months before, in the autumn of 1982. It’s a five-song EP that was reissued on CD a few years later as part of the B-side compilation Dead Letter Office.

Wow, thanks for hipping me to this, I'm getting it, liked Dead Letter Office already. 

[Holy Ghost]

On 8/11/2025 at 2:12 AM, EKE BBB said:

Revisiting R.E.M.'s discography chronologically, starting with:

and

 

A good friend of mine back in 1989, who was a promoter at Warner Bros gave me these two promo posters, which I will someday put in a frame:

 

[BFrank]

The Plimsouls "Everywhere At Once"

[Aggie87]

All Them Witches - Live on the Internet

[Chuck Nessa]

[BFrank]

[jlhoots]

Patty Griffin: Crown Of Roses

[Aggie87]

Icehouse - Icehouse plays Flowers

 

[BFrank]

13 hours ago, Aggie87 said:

Icehouse - Icehouse plays Flowers

 

Is that because of the heat in your region? 😆

[Aggie87]

13 hours ago, BFrank said:

Is that because of the heat in your region? 😆

Ha - some cooler weather would be great right about now.  We've got a few trips planned to get out of the heat over the next 6 weeks or so, and then hopefully it's the beginning of hiking season here.  Looking forward to that!

It's tarantula season right now (which corresponds to monsoon season here - the rain & relatively higher humidity triggers a breeding instinct or something), and we're seeing them.  Posted this pic on FB the other day, this AZ blonde tarantula was right in front of my garage.

[BFrank]

On 8/28/2025 at 1:18 PM, Aggie87 said:

Ha - some cooler weather would be great right about now.  We've got a few trips planned to get out of the heat over the next 6 weeks or so, and then hopefully it's the beginning of hiking season here.  Looking forward to that!

It's tarantula season right now (which corresponds to monsoon season here - the rain & relatively higher humidity triggers a breeding instinct or something), and we're seeing them.  Posted this pic on FB the other day, this AZ blonde tarantula was right in front of my garage.

YIKES!

Those, and the heat, and the haboobs and ... WOW!