Gosh...REM 'called it a day' today. First band I ever listened to. These guys were beauties. One of my first memories of pop music is listening to Power 92 in Edmonton, sometime in early 1994, and the DJ's Rob & Audie, were saying that REM's new album Monster, would 'sell like hot cakes'. Boy did it ever, going 6 x Platinum in Canada (600,000 units sold), and 4 x Platinum in the US (4,000,000 units). Everyone had that 'orange' album. The previous record, Automatic for the People, was introduced to me by Jordan, via Luc. Second CD I ever bought, and still a 'desert island' record for me.
Only band I've ever seen do a 'never-heard-before' song at an awards show, which they did in 1995 by performing 'Wake Up Bomb' at the MVA's. Gutsy.
$14.99 for 'Up' in 1998 at Future Shop, which I first listened to on our PowerPC at Petts Road in Richmond.
Anyhow, this wasn't meant to be a personal-Wikipedia about REM, I'm just really surprised they packed it in.
Oh yeah, their last song on their last record is called "Blue".
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