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Win an R.E.M. singles vinyl box

By Paul Sinclair

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We have a superb R.E.M. vinyl box set to give away to one lucky SDE reader…

Our friends over at Udiscover music have kindly donated a copy of 7IN-83-88, the vinyl box issued last December. This desirable set contains 11 seven-inch singles that accurately recreate the releases of the band’s original I.R.S. era.

How to Enter:
This competition is open to all until noon GMT/UTC on Friday 20 March 2015. To be in with a chance of winning please follow the instructions below:

  • 1. Subscribe to the free SDE weekly newsletter – click here.
  • 2. Leave a comment – tell us your favourite I.R.S. era REM track?

If you already receive the newsletter, then please just leave a comment. The winner will be picked at random and announced via the newsletter on Sunday 22 March 2015. Good luck!

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  41. ‘The One I Love’ – Stipe’s lyrics move on from the ambiguous to the downright dark. And don’t you love all those idiots who dedicate the song to their loved one without actually listening to the words?!!

  43. One of my favorite songs is not truly one that they wrote, but a cover of one. DREAM (ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM) One of the first songs I heard from them.

  59. Probably my favorite is the original Hiptone version of “Radio Free Europe” as it was the first time I had heard the band back in 1981 (if memory serves).

  61. It’s the End of the World As We Know It – I used to live near Cleveland OH, and the local alternative rock station WENZ 107.9 started off by playing this non-stop for 24hrs. I’d moved back to the UK when the station was replaced by something less brilliant – apparently they signed off by playing it again, it really was The End….

  62. Ages of You (b-side of Wendell Gee). Not very well known, but instrumentally and lyrically (where the musical/tonal quality of the words was more important than the straight denotations) the epitome of the I.R.S. years.

  75. Favorite track of the I.R.S. era? That would be “Laughing” from _Murmur_ — the playing of Berry, Buck and Mills is so beautifully separated and each is so virtuosic. It sounds otherworldly but still also sounds like it could be played in your basement.

  78. Hard choice between two tunes I’m afraid.
    It’ll be either Stumble (as the Chronic Town was my first introduction at the time) or She Just Wants To be (for more – very – private reasons. love that tune to bits…)

  81. Wendell Gee. Totally floored when I first heard this on (i’m sure) Janice Long’s evening show, and umpteen years later this track still does it for me.

  97. My favourite tune of REMs altogether is I Believe. Love the banjo opening to it and it’s so totally catchy. Of course REM is quite good at a catchy tune!

  98. Disturbance at the Heron House is to me the perfect R.E.M. song, a good balance between their past and hinting at what was to come, a song on the cusp.

  155. I moved to the States in 1988. One record that was all over the local Boston station, WFNX was Finest Worksong. Will always be remembered as a song that helped me ‘adjust’ and hey I’m still here…..

  164. They were all great, but I submit Oddfellows Local 151. In a pre-wiki world, I could imagine they were singing about the Oddfellows’ fortress* of a building overlooking the Thames River (the one in Connecticut, rhymes with aims.) It was a senior citizens home, and therefore a potential source for pearls of wisdom.

    * It may well have doubled as a fortress, as that entire stretch of river has been gearing up for Benedict Arnold’s Second Coming for the last two centuries.

  207. Mate says to me, ‘Ere, Wedge, you’ll like this’ and played me ‘It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)’. He was right. I did and it’s THE song that got me hooked on REM.

  256. Hard to choose but probably So. Central Rain. Particularly the the acoustic version that comes in at the end of Time After Time, Etc. (live) from the Finest Worksong single.

  257. The ‘Time After Time/Red Rain/So. Central Rain’ acoustic medley from the Finest Worksong 12″. Was a fan before; with this track they became a favorite

  264. Got to be Don’t Go Back to Rockville – competition closes 2 days before my 50th birthday, what a lovely present this would be!!!!

  265. Some awesome answers for this one. I’ve enjoyed just reading the stories.

    I have to go with Begin the Begin off of Life’s Rich Pageant.

    Out of Time was my first REM album (cassette, naturally), but LRP was the first IRS album I owned. My aunt gave it to me as a birthday gift and that opening riff and those drums just kicked my adolescent brain something fierce! It wins by a landslide because it kicked open the doors to their back catalog in a HUGE way.

  270. Wendell Gee!
    I won the 7 inch single on a radio phone in competition back in the day. All the other singles I received where rubbish, except a 7 inch of Hangin On A String by Loose Ends.

  275. It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) for me – surreal stream-of-consciouness lyrics around a catchy chorus. Brilliant.

  294. I’m rare in that I mostly prefer REM after Bill left (‘Up’ is their best album for me) but the best track from the IRS years is ‘Perfect Circle’.

  300. Murmur was such an incredible album. When everyone else was listening to M.J’s Thriller, I was spreading the word about R.E.M.
    Moral Kiosk would be in my top 25 songs of all time.

  316. For me now it is Orange Crush. I remember being at their Balloch gig down Loch Lomond and whilst playing the One I Love, somebody threw a pint on stage (good throw considering the distance!) and it landed right next to Scott McCaughey and he was furious!!! So much so he stopped playing and Stipe had to calm him down and request the crowd calm it or they might walk off…the crowd stopped but who knows if they would have walked off? Great gig though and REM were on top form. So that song has always been a favourite but that personal story from a gig I was at just compounds it, ha!

  329. No question. Superman.

    It was the song that opened R.E.M. up to me after I borrowed the Pageant album from the local library on cassette!

  335. Driving 3 hours to Cologne in the early 90’s to see them live at a free outdoor concert, only to find out that the place was full when getting there. Eventually saw the concert on a big screen just outside the main square.

  372. Fall On Me, it had more passion and resonance than anything I had heard as a wee lad living in a decade where a song like We Built This City could top the charts. It never gets old.

  374. That’s a tough one. I feel like my favorite R.E.M. shifts back and forth between 5-6 songs depending on, well, who knows what. Last week it was “So. Central Rain” but I think right now it’s “Feeling Gravitys Pull”.

  388. ‘Orange Crush’ does it for me every time – it’s the template for a perfect REM track in guitar and vocal arrangements and just conjures images of 1970’s ‘gumshoe’ movies like The Long Goodbye………..

  394. Nice prize….I was a tad obsessed with R.E.M back in the 80’s (I’m better now – although I’d love to get my paws on this for old times sake).

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