B-52's vs. R.E.M.

[Marky Dread]

Where's the fuckin' Pylon option

If I had, you'd likely be the only vote, further alienating you from the rest of the board. I was trying to spare your feelings, lamestain.

Pylon are great.

[Marky Dread]

Where's the fuckin' Pylon option

If I had, you'd likely be the only vote, further alienating you from the rest of the board. I was trying to spare your feelings, lamestain.

This board is the real lamestain if it prefers either of these two bands to the true Athens heroes.

Yeah The Fans were cool.

[Marky Dread]

So I adore the B52's first album. But the 2nd and third are patchy and would've made one great solid album. So I've gone with R.E.M. the I.R S. years were solid.

[Dr. Medulla]

Where's the fuckin' Pylon option

If I had, you'd likely be the only vote, further alienating you from the rest of the board. I was trying to spare your feelings, lamestain.

This board is the real lamestain if it prefers either of these two bands to the true Athens heroes.

We got a hipster badass here!

(Pylon, for the record, were dang good but much less influential than either REM or B=52's.)

[revbob]

Where's the fuckin' Pylon option

If I had, you'd likely be the only vote, further alienating you from the rest of the board. I was trying to spare your feelings, lamestain.

This board is the real lamestain if it prefers either of these two bands to the true Athens heroes.

We got a hipster badass here!

(Pylon, for the record, were dang good but much less influential than either REM or B=52's.)

Early years REM fan = hipster by default no?

[Dr. Medulla]

Where's the fuckin' Pylon option

If I had, you'd likely be the only vote, further alienating you from the rest of the board. I was trying to spare your feelings, lamestain.

This board is the real lamestain if it prefers either of these two bands to the true Athens heroes.

We got a hipster badass here!

(Pylon, for the record, were dang good but much less influential than either REM or B=52's.)

Early years REM fan = hipster by default no?

Going for the lesser known band is always the greater hipster move.

[Wolter]

So I adore the B52's first album. But the 2nd and third are patchy and would've made one great solid album. So I've gone with R.E.M. the I.R S. years were solid.

Yeah. That’s how I had to do it. If you’re going three albums without filler...it’s gotta be REM.

[JoseUnidos]

REM



Pylon
Guadalcanal Diary
B-52s

Fun fact: I once petted a dog that was in an REM video.

[revbob]

If I had, you'd likely be the only vote, further alienating you from the rest of the board. I was trying to spare your feelings, lamestain.

This board is the real lamestain if it prefers either of these two bands to the true Athens heroes.

We got a hipster badass here!

(Pylon, for the record, were dang good but much less influential than either REM or B=52's.)

Early years REM fan = hipster by default no?

Going for the lesser known band is always the greater hipster move.

Maybe but "I liked them when" or "before..." or "their old stuff before..." those are all pretty hipster.

[gkbill]

Where's the fuckin' Pylon option

If I had, you'd likely be the only vote, further alienating you from the rest of the board. I was trying to spare your feelings, lamestain.

This board is the real lamestain if it prefers either of these two bands to the true Athens heroes.

We got a hipster badass here!

(Pylon, for the record, were dang good but much less influential than either REM or B=52's.)

Hello,

Your next poll should be "You can only listen to one band. Choose either a good band or an influential band." Okay, maybe include a third option - a good and influential band.

[Dr. Medulla]

This board is the real lamestain if it prefers either of these two bands to the true Athens heroes.

We got a hipster badass here!

(Pylon, for the record, were dang good but much less influential than either REM or B=52's.)

Early years REM fan = hipster by default no?

Going for the lesser known band is always the greater hipster move.

Maybe but "I liked them when" or "before..." or "their old stuff before..." those are all pretty hipster.

Right, but that's only when comparing different periods of a band. When comparing two bands, more obscure is more hipster. Or as we say, more Korpster.

[Dr. Medulla]

Where's the fuckin' Pylon option

If I had, you'd likely be the only vote, further alienating you from the rest of the board. I was trying to spare your feelings, lamestain.

This board is the real lamestain if it prefers either of these two bands to the true Athens heroes.

We got a hipster badass here!

(Pylon, for the record, were dang good but much less influential than either REM or B=52's.)

Hello,

Your next poll should be "You can only listen to one band. Choose either a good band or an influential band." Okay, maybe include a third option - a good and influential band.

I will defer to someone else and patiently wait for this poll to collapse into bitterness.

[WestwayKid]

Where's the fuckin' Pylon option

If I had, you'd likely be the only vote, further alienating you from the rest of the board. I was trying to spare your feelings, lamestain.

This board is the real lamestain if it prefers either of these two bands to the true Athens heroes.

There should also have been an option for Guadalcanal Diary.

Man, there’s a band I hadn’t thought of in a while.

Cory, I love ya, man. But Pylon is...fine.

GD had some real solid albums.

[Flex]

This poll has rekindled my passion for the b-52s

Given some of the responses here, dare I call them underrated?

[Kimmelweck]

I’ve always liked R.E.M though, everything up to and including Green anyway. Saw them on the Green tour in 1989. I bought the next 3 albums after that (Out of Time, Automatic for the People, and Monster) but I didn’t like those albums nearly as much as the IRS stuff (or Green), and then I kind of tuned them out. I know nothing of their final 6 albums. Of the first 3 albums, I’m probably in the Fables camp too, but these days I'm more likely to just listen to Eponymous before listening to one of the first 3 albums start to finish.

Their final 6 albums are tricky. New Adventures in Hi-Fi is really good. Up, Reveal, and Around the Sun were not very good. Accelerate and Collapse into Now were a welcome return (and worth checking out), but could never recapture what they once were or completely erase the bad taste of the previous trio of duds.

Hey WWK, sorry I missed this earlier. Thanks for the assessment of their later stuff. I’ll give some of it a listen on youtube.