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

YellowSnow
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Round 1 (late 1980's to present) - #6 REM vs #11 Weezer 39 votes

#6 REM
38%
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#11 Weezer
61%
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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club
    #6 REM
    Both suck. I flipped a coin.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    #11 Weezer
    Swaye said:

    Both suck. I flipped a coin.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXvZ9YRjbo
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  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,587 Founders Club
    #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




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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,745 Founders Club
    edited April 2018
    #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.
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  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,587 Founders Club
    #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.
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  • Dennis_DeYoung
    Dennis_DeYoung Member Posts: 14,754
    #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.
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  • IPukeOregonGrellow
    IPukeOregonGrellow Member Posts: 2,183
    #6 REM
    I hate both bands, but give REM credit for the fact that Stand is the theme song to Get a Life.
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