5115-Ep 7:Has R.E.M. Been Erased? (Or, Nostalgia Is A Disease)

Based off a conversation around one of Lee’s favorite bands, R.E.M., they were one of the biggest bands in the world in the early 90s-fast forward to today and it seems they’ve all but been erased.  

Their first 5 albums are masterpieces (IOO), yet current indie bands rarely name them as influences, unlike The Replacements, The Smiths, or The Cure, to name a few of their contemporaries.

In response, Cass mentioned a topic that comes up often in music, nostalgia, and threw out  “nostalgia is a disease”. And so she does a deep dive into the reasons why R.E.M doesn’t factor into music influence today and how nostalgia plays a part. 

But first:

-Sprinkles Are Monstrous

-Has Taylor Swift reached a Michael Jackson level of fame? Cass has thoughts.

-Busch Apple! Busch Peach! And now . . .Busch Corn?

-Hype Men: There’s Chuck D & Jerome with The Time, for example. Then there’s Bez, from The Happy Mondays.  Watch and wonder-they pay him to do this.

https://www.tiktok.com/@fuckyralgorithm/video/7243475564072340779

-New segment! Band Names we made up-dig it!

-Next Door App: What horrors lie within?

-Country Crap Corner: (Thanks to new Asst. Producer Haley Klatt) We dare you to watch: Jeremy Macklin: Hickin’ It-Per usual, Cass reads some lyrics.  Yikes.

https://youtu.be/efOAIUW_FEg

Music

-This is the Kit-Sort of like if Stereolab met Sea and Cake, and throw Nick Drake and Wilco in there (more Sky Blue Sky era)

Inside/Outside: https://open.spotify.com/track/6m6uR64TEt5yO6cVO6oDkE?si=f2cb28a4e1fd42af

-Sweat-Who Do Think They Are=LOVE!!  New classic rock- Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, good Jefferson Starship, a little Rush-if they were fronted by Anne Wilson & Patty Smythe. 

Jane: https://open.spotify.com/track/4wZuVdRyzfMxCrLnEZpVVz?si=a8c515bd242140a8

My Side of the mountain: https://open.spotify.com/track/33OqIgll2O15demhuwe2YP?si=e246c13f8cb349c5

-The Mary Onettes- Forever Before Love: https://open.spotify.com/track/3SJct7KLxsuRhpjU8jWaRs?si=580a46079bd6472d

Sounds like Radio Dept.,The Amazing, Wild Nothing

-Squid-The Blades https://open.spotify.com/track/5BhxiOotM5oBArkkSTjrkD?si=5aee0973596d44dd

Sounds like a lot of things- Dry Cleaning, Shame, a little Slint, a little Radiohead, Idles

-Trust Fund- London https://open.spotify.com/track/5y8V2IG9iCzYHcUGiweHO7?si=abf9157d84384970

Think Nick Drake, early Belle & Sebastian, Richard Thompson, Nick Heyward

-Tapir!- On a Grassy Knoll (we’ll Bow Together) https://open.spotify.com/track/4kIwOQ1ViI0ZcdnZdFChm2?si=905d6cb815554a24

Initial acoustic lick=very Radiohead, OK Computer era, but then the singer sounds a bit like Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hote

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