REMorse

(Mock up via the Plan B forum via me I did it)

R.E.M. are one of those bands who you hear on the radio and when you hear them it's their big songs you hear, the ones that yr. parents like, like 'Bad Day' and 'Losing My Religion' or maybe 'Man On The Moon' and hence by the millionth play in yr. friend's dad's car on the way to a football match are pretty boring. Then you realise that two of their songs, like 'Nightswimming' and 'Orange Crush', are two of yr. very favourite songs ever.


To start with the last song, 'Orange Crush', you have to pick away the scab again. So you have the fresh wound. Off comes the Editors cover - Editors, a band whose soul-sucking corporate aim it seems is to sound as tortured as Athlete fans can stand. Whilst otherwise sounding like Interpol. In a totally demoralising and understandably inconvincing manner. They are so bad at sounding sorry for themselves that you start to feel hate for them, and then the whole paragraph as been taken over. We mustn't do that.

'Orange' refers to 'Agent Orange', and there's a whole underlying reference there if you care to look it up. REM have with it one of the best anti-war songs ever, up there with 'Unmarked Grave' by David Thomas Broughton or something.


Then 'Nightswimming':


Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
I'm not sure all these people understand
It's not like years ago,
The fear of getting caught,
Of recklessness and water
They cannot see me naked
These things, they go away,
Replaced by everyday

and it is fantastic. Sorry dear.