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    DoobyOneAlex McLevy
    2/21/18 1:54pm

    REM was that band I saw on 120 Minutes, the Driver 8 video, that blew the back of my skull off. I rushed for pen and paper to get the band name, took it to my local record store and gave it to the long-haired dude behind the counter. He smiled, “Come with me, little man.” I left with Murmur, Reckoning and Fables. That shit is still in my playlist (remastered iTunes albums with outtakes and demos and live shit.

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      treatment_boundDoobyOne
      2/21/18 3:12pm

      This sounds like a scene right out of “High Fidelity”, only the long-haired dude behind the counter was a short, obnoxious fat guy who could get the better part of a Big Mac in his mouth while gyrating to Katrina and the Waves.

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      bfredDoobyOne
      2/21/18 3:30pm

      The Atlanta local hard rock station started playing REM early on since they were from right up the road in Athens. Radio Free Europe completely launched young me out of the cock rock ghetto. Today it’s probably my third or fourth favorite song on Murmur alone.

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    Mr. PilkingtonAlex McLevy
    2/21/18 11:50am

    How come no coverage on the other R.E.M. podcast that dropped today, R U Talking R.E.M. are E Me, from The Boys over at Hollywood Handbook?

    They covered a lot of ground in the first episode, plus it dropped a whole second before Scott and Scott’s podcast!

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      achosidMr. Pilkington
      2/21/18 3:26pm

      It was nice how they covered the BIG songs right away and scooped the Scotts. 

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    dj jim0Alex McLevy
    2/21/18 12:09pm

    I really like both Adam Scott and REM but I don’t like podcasts. I’m in a quandary.

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      MwFullerdj jim0
      2/21/18 12:18pm

      But if you really want to rock, you’ll need to head to the quarry, man.

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      Bart Fargodj jim0
      2/21/18 12:34pm

      I feel the same way, and when I tried listening to their U2 podcast I found it aggressively unfunny.

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    ApathyMongerAlex McLevy
    2/21/18 12:01pm

    I’m very excited to follow along, as I know very little of 80s R.E.M. My first album was the 88-2003 compilation In Time, so that’s the stuff I know best. I’d never heard any of the songs they played today, save Radio Free Europe.

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      Drew8MRApathyMonger
      2/21/18 1:44pm

      What? Huh? Uh, you should immediately acquire whatever the most comprehensive anthology of the IRS years happens to be. Or just grab all the records. After that, chuck all the WB stuff in the trash.

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      Scotty RayApathyMonger
      2/21/18 1:48pm

      80s REM is best REM. Fables of the Reconstruction is their best album. Get Eponymous if you’d like a crash course on that era.

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    krayfishyAlex McLevy
    2/21/18 12:00pm

    I refuse to believe that Adam Scott’s favorite band is anything other then Letters to Cleo!

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      DoobyOnekrayfishy
      2/21/18 1:50pm

      Nice pull. Long live Li’l Sebastian.

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    Hagbard Selina KyleAlex McLevy
    2/21/18 12:09pm

    Thankfully, I was already subscribed to the U2 podcast and I didn’t have to subscribe to a new one to get this. I guess you could say it came Automatic for the Peepholes. By peepholes I mean ears. Because peeps are noises you hear. And, ears are holes in which you hear noises.

    Automatic for the Peepholes.

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      blehblahblehHagbard Selina Kyle
      2/21/18 12:32pm

      Is this another episode of Ears Are Holes?

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      austenpaulblehblahbleh
      2/22/18 3:20am

      Great ep.

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    twenty0neAlex McLevy
    2/21/18 12:41pm

    Adam Scott and Scott Adams should get a show where they talk about famous Adams and Scotts (or scots) in history. Granted, this would involve Scott Adams doing something other than drawing the same mediocre comic hes been drawing for 30 years or trolling forums, but I think Adam Scott would be great at constantly belittling him and that would be great entertainment.

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      Raymond Luxury-Yachttwenty0ne
      2/21/18 1:03pm

      I think Adam Scott should get shithoused and record an episode of the R.E.M. podcast as his drunk persona, “Scott Lit”.

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      bfredRaymond Luxury-Yacht
      2/21/18 3:31pm

      He could take a stab at replicating their awesomely drunken recording of King of the Road from Dead Letter Office.

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    GACAlex McLevy
    2/21/18 12:39pm

    The constant references around here led me to give the Scott/Scott U2 podcast a try. After fifteen or twenty minutes of listening to them screw around and/or get stuck in a high-concept frame story about...an uncle and a briefcase or something (I’m not particularly eager to refresh my memory on it) I decided that it wasn’t really working for me on a U2 level.

    Which, fair enough. I guess that the appeal here is rooted to a significant degree in these guys themselves and whether or not one enjoys their off-topic rambling.

    But hey, at least R.E.M. is known for working with Scott Litt. I’m not aware of any U2 adjacent Scotts...I don’t think.

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      psybabGAC
      2/21/18 1:52pm

      I would say the podcast was so tangentially actually related to U2 (especially after the first three or so episodes) that it might aggressively repel U2 fans.

      That said, I think it might be the second best stretch of podcast episodes ever, after Andy Daly’s Podcast Pilot Project.

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      egghogpsybab
      2/24/18 7:15pm

      The reviews on iTunes from angry U2 fans not understanding how they couldn’t even get their names right were brilliant.

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    Mr. MajestykAlex McLevy
    2/21/18 3:55pm

    I keep thinking I’ve seen the whitest thing I’ve ever seen, and then you guys keep upping the ante.

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      PhartusMr. Majestyk
      2/22/18 8:09am

      I’ve thought about it a lot and in my opinion I think the whitest thing that ever happened was when a white guy looked at the clues in Ice Cube’s “It Was a Good Day” (Lakers beat Supersonics, no murders or smog in LA) and came up with the exact date.

      Then it got even whiter when he crowdfunded the Goodyear blimp to fly that day with the message “Ice Cube’s a Pimp”.

      Then it got whiter still when Goodyear took the money but wouldn’t print the word “pimp” so it said something like “Congrats on your good day, Ice Cube!”

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    VandelayAlex McLevy
    2/21/18 1:59pm

    The important question is what silly nicknames they assign to each band member.

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      Lucky WilburyVandelay
      2/22/18 7:31pm

      Michael Stipend (or Michael Stip&), Peter Dollar Bill, Mike Miller, and Buckberry.

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