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Author:   the lambchop herself  
Posted: 5/7/04; 10:57:43 PM
Topic: I can't believe I forgot R.E.M.
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I can't believe I forgot R.E.M.

I have DirecTV (have had it since late 1997, right after my first surgery), and every month they run free concerts, usually two of them, several times a day on the weekends. This month, along with a Blues Traveler concert, we get to see R.E.M. in Germany last summer.

I know almost everything from 'Fables of the Reconstruction' through 'Automatic for the People.' And then it was like I grew up or something - I left them behind. Actually, I don't think that's it at all. I got sick. I didn't remember that until a minute ago, when I started thinking about album release dates. Today, while watching this concert, I remembered why I love them.

I learned 'Bad Day,' which I think has the best line of any song written in the last four years:

have you ever seen the televised st vitus subcommittee prize investigation dance

(copyright, of course, Buck/Mills/Stipe)

almost as soon as it came out, but the albums from 1996 to 'In Time' have passed me by. No more.

I collect lambs, which probably isn't much of a shock from someone with a blog named as this one is, and I always look for songs with lambs, or about lambs, or including lambs (or tenderizing lambs...). And as I said, after 'Automatic' I just wasn't paying attention. So, all you hardcore R.E.M. nuts. please forgive me for not knowing 'Walk Unafraid.' Not only does it say 'lamb' twice, it's a great song.

The DVD of this concert is now available on Amazon.com. It's on my wish list. As soon as I figure out how to put my wish list up here, I'll do that. (Give me a break here - I take enough fentanyl to put you to sleep for two weeks. I don't learn as fast as I used to.)

I promise I won't be an absent fan anymore. For four (now three) guys from Athens, Georgia, they didn't do too badly.

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