Round 1 (late 1980's to present) - #6 REM vs #11 Weezer
Round 1 (late 1980's to present) - #6 REM vs #11 Weezer 39 votes
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#6 REMBoth suck. I flipped a coin.
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#11 WeezerMichael Stipe is the douchiest douche who ever douched.
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#11 WeezerI'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
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#11 Weezer
OG TBS'erYellowSnow 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".
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#6 REMREM 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. -
#11 Weezer
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.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. -
#11 Weezer
REM definitely wins the influential category. There's no question.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. -
#6 REM
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.YellowSnow said:
I feel bad for Big Star which basically did the jangly guitar thing 10 years earlier than REM and got no credit.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.
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. -
#6 REMI hate both bands, but give REM credit for the fact that Stand is the theme song to Get a Life.
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#6 REMAlso 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. -
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#11 Weezer
Great song. Don't care what anyone says.dnc said: -
#11 WeezerSpeaking of 80s indie @Dennis_DeYoung what's your hawt take on The Replacements?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f8J9WssSj7Q -
#11 Weezer
That's like in the top 5 songs that everyone likes.YellowSnow said:
Great song. Don't care what anyone says.dnc said: -
#11 Weezer
It's not in my top 1000. Still a great song.Pitchfork51 said:
That's like in the top 5 songs that everyone likes.YellowSnow said:
Great song. Don't care what anyone says.dnc said: -
#11 Weezer
No I mean of the songs that everyone likes it's one of those primary onesYellowSnow said:
It's not in my top 1000. Still a great song.Pitchfork51 said:
That's like in the top 5 songs that everyone likes.YellowSnow said:
Great song. Don't care what anyone says.dnc said:
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#6 REMIn 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
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#11 Weezer
There is nothing about this that surprises meDennis_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. -
#6 REM
Would it surprise you to know Coker was the underage friend?Tequilla said:
There is nothing about this that surprises meDennis_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. -
#11 Weezer
weirdly enough, I met Mike Stipe through Natalie Merchant when they were bangingTequilla said:
There is nothing about this that surprises meDennis_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.
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#11 WeezerAZDuck said:
weirdly enough, I met Mike Stipe through Natalie Merchant when they were bangingTequilla said:
There is nothing about this that surprises meDennis_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.
both are nothing special -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXvZ9YRjbo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kI5P5VeewyE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jiq3gl3W38