Michael Stipe
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 30: Michael Stipe arrives at the Food Bank For New York City's Can-Do Awards celebrating 30 years of service to NYC on April 30, 2013 in New York City.
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I know you called. I know you hung up my line, star 69.
wrote itself for me ... I didn’t have to work real hard on it, and I always love those songs because they just come from some more unconscious place.
I wrote that protagonist as a guy who's desperately trying to understand what motivates the younger generation, who has gone to great lengths to try and figure them out. And at the end of the song, it's completely bogus. He got nowhere.More quotes »
Around the web
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You Never Know: Reflections on R.E.M.’s “Green” As It Turns 25
as they always seemed to be able to do, continue to adhere to their own iconoclasm? You never know. You never knew when Michael Stipe might stop by your hot dog stand, and ask if you’d give out some fliers he made encouraging voters not to get “Bushwacked” from Popdose.com Read more »
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Pop Forecast: Star Trek Into Darkness beaming into theatres near you
Michael Stipe knew what he was doing when he assigned a colour to R.E.M.’s unforgettable Green album, slated for reissue. Photograph by: MAURICIO DUENAS , AFP/Getty Images âYou donât need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,â sang Bob Dylan, but from Calgary Herald Read more »
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The 10 Best Bright Eyes Songs
me, Conor Oberst resembles Patti Smith a great deal,” R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe told me in an interview back in 2008. “As a performer, as a magnet. He’s just got that thing that she’s got.” The “thing” Stipe refers to has both captivated legions of followers from stereogum Read more »
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My Back Pages, Vol. 6: R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
for those of us who were growing up in the nineties, there’s little doubt which album comes to mind first when we think of Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry, and that’s this one: the gorgeously mournful Automatic for the People. Released from Absolute Punk Read more »
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What’s Michael Stipe Singing on R.E.M.’s Murmur?
Stood up picture balances to wall Put that, put that, put that paper down That bitch is a fortunate wall I never knew Michael Stipe was such a misogynist. Then again, he’s calling the person in question a “fortunate” wall, so that could be a good thing. -DC from Consequence Of Sound Read more »
