Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Awesome! 👏👏👏
A couple of months ago I picked up the "And I Feel Fine: The Best of R.E.M." album which covers their IRS Records days, before they signed on with Time Warner and got boring and mainstream. One of my favorite bands in high school.
Driver 8! Probably my favorite.
That's the only REM song I know. Might have to listen to them. I don't know why but didn't get into them. I loved The Romantics and years ago found an album in good condition. Still listen to them when I want to go back to 81-85, my high school years. By 85 I was either into old classic rock, little bit of 80s country and a little bit of pop.
I believe that Michael Stype is gay, but that never influenced his lyrics at all. He kept that out of his songwriting, fortunately. R.E.M. did some rather exceptional neo-Country songs that are great. I had many of their albums on audio cassette, but never replaced them with CDs. This "best of" album is the only CD of theirs I own, and it has all my favorites, plus some I hadn't heard of before.
I'm going to check them out. Thanks for posting, I had forgotten about REM. Recently I've been listening to 80s rock music full albums. I've always thought the better or deeper songs were not released on radio. Over the last two years I've been listening to GNR & Queen a lot. I've listened to country music for the past thirty years and at this time in my life I need rock music to escape life sometimes. I'm all over the place with music and my mood chooses what I'm listening to. If I'm sad it's Led Zeppelin. If an artist is Gay I'll listen to the music if I like it. When they start pushing their agenda I'm out. Freddie Mercury and George Michael were gay and very talented, probably a lot more I'm forgetting. Michael Jackson, not sure about other than just weird or controlled. I rarely listen to him but loved it back then.
Fun times!