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Add your site... | » INFO | did you know? « R.E.M. is a rock band formed in Athens, Georgia in early 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and vocalist Michael Stipe. Throughout the '80s, they worked relentlessly, releasing records every year and touring constantly, playing both theaters and backwoods dives. Along the way, they inspired countless bands, from the legions of jangle pop groups in the mid-'80s to scores of alternative pop groups in the '90s, who admired their slow climb to stardom. REM | Polyphonic RingtonesDisplaying 1 - 5 of 5 ringtones:
» INFO | did you know? « R.E.M. formed at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, in 1980. Discovering they had similar tastes, vocalist Michael Stipe (b. 1960-01-04 in Decatur, Georgia) and guitarist Peter Buck (b. 1956-12-06 in Berkeley, California) began working together, eventually meeting bassist Mike Mills (b. 1958-12-17 in Orange County, California) and drummer Bill Berry (b. 1958-07-31 in Duluth, Minnesota). In April 1980, the band formed under the name Twisted Kites to play a party for their friend, rehearsing a number of garage, psychedelic bubblegum, and punk covers in a converted Episcopalian church. By the summer, the band had settled on the name R.E.M. after flipping randomly through the dictionary, and had met Jefferson Holt, who became their manager after witnessing the group's first out-of-state concert in North Carolina. Eventually the band dropped out of the university to concentrate on their musical career. REM | Monophonic RingtonesDisplaying 1 - 5 of 5 ringtones:
» INFO | did you know? « Over the next year and a half, R.E.M. toured throughout the South, playing a variety of garage rock covers and folk-rock originals. At the time, the band was still learning how to play, as Buck began to develop his distinctive, arpeggiated jangle and Stipe ironed out his cryptic lyrics. During the summer of 1981, R.E.M. recorded their first single, "Radio Free Europe", at Mitch Easter's Drive-In Studios. Released on the local indie label Hib-Tone, "Radio Free Europe" was pressed in a run of only 1000 copies. The single became a hit on college radio and topped the Village Voice's year-end poll of Best Independent Singles. Their country/folk sound was contradicted by a driving bassline and an urgency that put the listener more in mind of The Who in their early mod phase. Add to this the distinctive voice of Stipe and his inaudible, perhaps even non-existent, lyrics, and R.E.M. sounded quite unlike any other band in the USA in the post-punk era of the early 1980s. » INFO | did you know? « The band members picked the name R.E.M. out of the dictionary. They liked the name because it was so ambiguous. They started out as Twisted Kites for the first show they played at a party, but, according to "It Crawled From the South," considered Negro Eyes, Slut Bank, and Cans of Piss before settling for R.E.M. According to one box set of their albums, R.E.M. stands for Rapid Ear Movement, a play on Rapid Eye Movement The video for "Losing My Religion" was banned in Ireland due to its religious connotations. Michael Stipe was originally offered the role of "John Doe" in the 1995 film Se7en. Michael Stipe made a cameo on the first episode The Adventures of Pete and Pete as Captain Scrummy, an ice cream salesman. R.E.M. also made a guest appearence in The Simpsons episode "Homer the Moe". » INFO | did you know? « The video for "Losing My Religion" is the first video to feature Michael Stipe lip-synching the words to the song. When Rolling Stone named R.E.M. "America's Best Band" in November 1987, R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry said, "We're not the best rock 'n' roll band in America." Pylon, he said, was the best. The band's official website, remhq.com, was launched in 1999, making them relative latecomers to the web, considering their worldwide popularity. Manager Bertis Downs made light of this in a statement, announcing "We're officially the last band to join the electronic age and have our own Web site". This comment was repeated by Stipe at at least one live show in 1999. [BACK] What do you think about REM? |
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