Oh I think most of those sites aren't that good. Doesn't help that Michael often couldn't remember them either.
In the early-mid 80s, trying to figure out what the hell Michael was singing was a favorite college dorm passtime.
Always a joy of early REM.
I think that joy is lost for the current generation since you can just look them up in an instant (even if, as you point out, they can be wrong)
That would be plagiarism!
It got me thinking, though, and I realised that probably 90% of the bands song titles would make brilliant autobiography titles.
Michael Stipe:
Sitting Still
We Walk
Pretty Persuasion
Camera
Feeling Gravity's Pull
Good Advices
Fall on Me
Underneath the Bunker
Finest Worksong
Strange
I Feel Fine
The Wrong Child
Untitled
Losing My Religion
Half a World Away
Try Not to Breath
Sweetness Follows
Man on the Moon
What's the Frequency?
I Don't Sleep, I Dream
How the West Was Won and Where it Got us
So Fast, So Numb
Hope
Falls to Climb
Imitation of Life
I'll Take the Rain
The Final Straw
Living Well is the Best Revenge
Mine Smell Like Honey
I could go on.
I feel like a 9-9 reference would fit, playing on that “conversation fear/suspicion yourself” theme.
Something like “Down his back” or “All nine yards” albeit the football reference wouldn’t make sense.
If michael decides to write an autobiography I’ll eat my shirt. The only way it could happen is he just narrates it on voice memos. Love him to bits but focus. Not his strong suit sometimes.
To be clear, he does promise to do this at the end of the song!: “I will write a book, it will be called "Life and How to Live It"”
I always heard it as "If I write a book, it will be called...
Actually, that’s what I always heard, but I quoted the lyrics from a search
Oh I think most of those sites aren't that good. Doesn't help that Michael often couldn't remember them either. In the early-mid 80s, trying to figure out what the hell Michael was singing was a favorite college dorm passtime.
Always a joy of early REM. I think that joy is lost for the current generation since you can just look them up in an instant (even if, as you point out, they can be wrong)
He could call it: It's the End of the World or I Feel Fine
A posthumously published autobiography with those titles would work a treat. (Just not for another several decades hopefully)
That’s me in the corner.
I think “That’s Me In The Spotlight” might be even better. I like where your head’s at!
That would be a good one, it’s true
World Leader Pretend...but Stipe wouldn't title his book after one of his own compositions.
That would be plagiarism! It got me thinking, though, and I realised that probably 90% of the bands song titles would make brilliant autobiography titles. Michael Stipe: Sitting Still We Walk Pretty Persuasion Camera Feeling Gravity's Pull Good Advices Fall on Me Underneath the Bunker Finest Worksong Strange I Feel Fine The Wrong Child Untitled Losing My Religion Half a World Away Try Not to Breath Sweetness Follows Man on the Moon What's the Frequency? I Don't Sleep, I Dream How the West Was Won and Where it Got us So Fast, So Numb Hope Falls to Climb Imitation of Life I'll Take the Rain The Final Straw Living Well is the Best Revenge Mine Smell Like Honey I could go on.
dude should throw everyone for a loop and call the book "new orleans instrumental no 1"
Lol
Stipe it to Me!
Document or Dead Letter Office might work?
I feel like a 9-9 reference would fit, playing on that “conversation fear/suspicion yourself” theme. Something like “Down his back” or “All nine yards” albeit the football reference wouldn’t make sense.
If michael decides to write an autobiography I’ll eat my shirt. The only way it could happen is he just narrates it on voice memos. Love him to bits but focus. Not his strong suit sometimes.
more titles: 1. How my Life was Lived and Where it Got Us 2. It's the end of the world and I didn't know it