Round 1 (late 1980's to present) - #6 REM vs #11 Weezer

YellowSnow

Swaye

#6 REM

Both suck. I flipped a coin.

dnc

#11 Weezer

Swaye said:

Both suck. I flipped a coin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXvZ9YRjbo

GrundleStiltzkin

#11 Weezer

Michael Stipe is the douchiest douche who ever douched.

YellowSnow

#11 Weezer

I'm gonna make a confession here: I think the Weezer Blue Album is a top 5 album of the 90's and Pinkterton is damn good too. I mean for fuck's sake "Across the Sea" was practically written for @AZDuck . "You are eighteen year old girl who live in small city of Japan".

Plus the dude go into fucking Harvard. #academissmacktalk

UW_Doog_Bot

#11 Weezer

YellowSnow said:

I'm gonna make a confession here: I think the Weezer Blue Album is a top 5 album of the 90's and Pinkterton is damn good too. I mean for fuck's sake "Across the Sea" was practically written for @AZDuck . "You are eighteen year old girl who live in small city of Japan".

Plus the dude go into fucking Harvard. #academissmacktalk

OG TBS'er

Dennis_DeYoung

#6 REM

REM is way more culturally important. Weezer had some good songs, but REM has a lot of interesting songs during a time where their direction was not obvious (Weezer is nothing if not obvious).

I don’t love REM, but I have to respect what they did.

YellowSnow

#11 Weezer

Dennis_DeYoung said:

REM is way more culturally important. Weezer had some good songs, but REM has a lot of interesting songs during a time where their direction was not obvious (Weezer is nothing if not obvious).

I don’t love REM, but I have to respect what they did.

I feel bad for Big Star which basically did the jangly guitar thing 10 years earlier than REM and got no credit. If was a biased prick, Big Star and Flamin' Groovies would both have made it in.

UW_Doog_Bot

#11 Weezer

Dennis_DeYoung said:

REM is way more culturally important. Weezer had some good songs, but REM has a lot of interesting songs during a time where their direction was not obvious (Weezer is nothing if not obvious).

I don’t love REM, but I have to respect what they did.

REM definitely wins the influential category. There's no question.

Dennis_DeYoung

#6 REM

YellowSnow said:

Dennis_DeYoung said:

REM is way more culturally important. Weezer had some good songs, but REM has a lot of interesting songs during a time where their direction was not obvious (Weezer is nothing if not obvious).

I don’t love REM, but I have to respect what they did.

I feel bad for Big Star which basically did the jangly guitar thing 10 years earlier than REM and got no credit.

Big Star was good, but REM really took No Wave and essentially started indie rock. They didn’t have pretentions to stardom (at least early on) and went with what was good to them.

If you don’t have the context for them, I can see why people don’t love them, but their first 5 albums were pretty amazing. Once they hit stardom, they didn’t have another really amazing song.

IPukeOregonGrellow

#6 REM

I hate both bands, but give REM credit for the fact that Stand is the theme song to Get a Life.

Dennis_DeYoung

#6 REM

Also Bill Berry is like a human Bert, so there's that, too.

Also, Stipe fucked a friend of mine who was underage at the time, then got weird with him in NYC in the late 90s/early 2000s.

So, I respect that Mike is trolling for underage dudes.

YellowSnow

#11 Weezer

Radio Free Europe was a killer track

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kI5P5VeewyE

YellowSnow

#11 Weezer

dnc said:

Swaye said:

Both suck. I flipped a coin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXvZ9YRjbo

Great song. Don't care what anyone says.

YellowSnow

#11 Weezer

Speaking of 80s indie @Dennis_DeYoung what's your hawt take on The Replacements?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f8J9WssSj7Q

Pitchfork51

#11 Weezer

YellowSnow said:

dnc said:

Swaye said:

Both suck. I flipped a coin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXvZ9YRjbo

Great song. Don't care what anyone says.

That's like in the top 5 songs that everyone likes.

YellowSnow

#11 Weezer

Pitchfork51 said:

YellowSnow said:

dnc said:

Swaye said:

Both suck. I flipped a coin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXvZ9YRjbo

Great song. Don't care what anyone says.

That's like in the top 5 songs that everyone likes.

It's not in my top 1000. Still a great song.

Pitchfork51

#11 Weezer

YellowSnow said:

Pitchfork51 said:

YellowSnow said:

dnc said:

Swaye said:

Both suck. I flipped a coin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXvZ9YRjbo

Great song. Don't care what anyone says.

That's like in the top 5 songs that everyone likes.

It's not in my top 1000. Still a great song.

No I mean of the songs that everyone likes it's one of those primary ones

oregonblitzkrieg

#6 REM

In this contest between who can be the most pretentious art school dropouts, REM wins. Overlooking that irrelevant chit, they had a few good tunes, including this haunting melody, their best imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vqgdSsfqPs

Tequilla

#11 Weezer

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Also Bill Berry is like a human Bert, so there's that, too.

Also, Stipe fucked a friend of mine who was underage at the time, then got weird with him in NYC in the late 90s/early 2000s.

So, I respect that Mike is trolling for underage dudes.

There is nothing about this that surprises me

Swaye

#6 REM

Tequilla said:

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Also Bill Berry is like a human Bert, so there's that, too.

Also, Stipe fucked a friend of mine who was underage at the time, then got weird with him in NYC in the late 90s/early 2000s.

So, I respect that Mike is trolling for underage dudes.

There is nothing about this that surprises me

Would it surprise you to know Coker was the underage friend?