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Obviously, I have thought way too much about the R.E.M. breakup this week. A few friends contacted me to say that I came to mind when they heard the news, which is touching, but I\u2019m not distraught or anything. Since most albums in the past 10-15 years have been hit or miss, I\u2019m not that <\/strong>bothered they won\u2019t be returning to the studio. I\u2019m more disappointed that I have probably seen them live for the last time \u2013 and that show wasn\u2019t as great as I had hoped.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the news has since come out<\/a> that the band came to the decision while working on (another) greatest hits collection, titled \u201cPart Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011\u201d and scheduled for a November 15 release. Unlike the last two greatest hits albums, this will span the band\u2019s whole career instead of splitting the songs between the I.R.S. era and the Warner brothers era. The album will reportedly have some stuff they finished since \u201cCollapse Into Now\u201d came out.<\/p>\n

That makes me wonder if they really did start working on something else, realized they didn\u2019t have what it took to put a whole album together (probably based on an accelerated timeline from the record company) and decided to just end things. The theory of record label politics playing a role in the end has already been floated by murmurs.com founder Ethan Kaplan, who also used to work at Warners and begs the question: was this dissolution more contractual than creative?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think they will re-form or anything, but I wonder if they have something up their sleeve. Peter Buck admitted<\/a> a couple of years ago that \u201c(a)s far back as 1982 we have live 16- and 24-track tapes, and we have a bunch of shows that sound pretty cool.\u201d He admitted there wouldn\u2019t be a treasure trove of live shows coming out, but as they worked on what would accompany the\u00a0Reckoning\u00a0re-issue a couple of years ago, he said he wished the band could share their early history with their fans.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re already sifting through stuff from 1984, \u201985, and there are also filmed elements\u2026 We\u2019ve discussed putting all that stuff up on the web site, \u2019cos we\u2019ve got copies of every performance that was ever filmed, and there\u2019s a lot of \u2019em. I\u2019d love to get all that stuff out there. The live thing is such an important element of who we were, and if you only know us from the records you\u2019re missing out on more than half of what we were about.<\/strong> I\u2019m sure the record company would have a nervous breakdown if they heard me talking like this, but it\u2019s not the earning money thing that concerns me as much as the band entering history in as representative a way as possible. Come on, let\u2019s see the weird Dutch TV performances with us lip-synching in make-up!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But when a band like Weezer (and I am sure others) makes \u00a0CDs and digital downloads of their shows available<\/a> through their own site, I wonder if we might see something like this from R.E.M. in the future. Commissioning the mastering and release of shows through REMHQ.com sounds like a lot less work than doing what a record company tells you to do and would make the die-hard fans happy. I\u2019m sure there are all kinds of legal reasons that might make this dream of mine impossible, but it\u2019s at least worth consideration.<\/p>\n

If they do it, I think they should start with the tape of their first concert in April 1980 which I like to think is hidden somewhere in Peter Buck\u2019s collection of bootlegs. If I\u2019m dreaming, why not dream big, right?<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obviously, I have thought way too much about the R.E.M. breakup this week. A few friends contacted me to say that I came to mind when they heard the news, which is touching, but I\u2019m not distraught or anything. Since…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-the-end-of-the-week-as-we-know-it","category-music","category-rem","wpcat-47-id","wpcat-11-id","wpcat-5-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}