<!-- I have loved BOC since first hearing the song "********", and that bassline is STILL such a heavy groove that the song is way up there in road-trip rotation. "Don't fear the reaper" has such poetry to it, and the way that the guitar solo comes in with such frantic anguish....It's like what I imagine a heroin rush would sound like if it were turned into musical notes. <br>BOC wins this one hands down. <br> <OBJECT orig_size="425x355" width="350" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="1380364984.73" height="292"><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"><param name="enableJSURL" value="false"><param name="enableHREF" value="false"><param name="saveEmbedTags" value="true"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/4e-jF54ziMY&rel=1&autoplay=0"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/4e-jF54ziMY&rel=1&autoplay=0" allowNetworking="internal" wmode="transparent" allowScriptAccess="never" enableHREF="false" height="292" width="350" enableJSURL="false" autostart="false" orig_size="425x355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></OBJECT> <br> <OBJECT orig_size="425x355" width="350" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="1380364984.74" height="292"><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"><param name="enableJSURL" value="false"><param name="enableHREF" value="false"><param name="saveEmbedTags" value="true"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/3Vvqo0x8yok&rel=1&autoplay=0"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/3Vvqo0x8yok&rel=1&autoplay=0" allowNetworking="internal" wmode="transparent" allowScriptAccess="never" enableHREF="false" height="292" width="350" enableJSURL="false" autostart="false" orig_size="425x355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></OBJECT> <br> <br> <br>REM by contrast had only a couple songs that I really liked. <br>"Orange Crush" <br>"It's the *** of the world as we know it" (and I feel fine) <br>Both good songs, to be sure. But when they started cranking out pretentious crap like "shiny-happy people" and becoming overly political......some of us became rather turned off by them.....I used to fantasize about walking up on stage in the middle of "shiny-happy people" to punch Michael Stipe right in the mouth, just so that the angry, gun-toting, meat-eating people were represented as well. <br>(I was not nearly as laid back in my 20s as I am now, and that was when I was smoking weed to BE mellow) -->I have loved BOC since first hearing the song "********", and that bassline is STILL such a heavy groove that the song is way up there in road-trip rotation. "Don't fear the reaper" has such poetry to it, and the way that the guitar solo comes in with such frantic anguish....It's like what I imagine a heroin rush would sound like if it were turned into musical notes.
BOC wins this one hands down.
REM by contrast had only a couple songs that I really liked.
"Orange Crush"
"It's the *** of the world as we know it" (and I feel fine)
Both good songs, to be sure. But when they started cranking out pretentious crap like "shiny-happy people" and becoming overly political......some of us became rather turned off by them.....I used to fantasize about walking up on stage in the middle of "shiny-happy people" to punch Michael Stipe right in the mouth, just so that the angry, gun-toting, meat-eating people were represented as well.
(I was not nearly as laid back in my 20s as I am now, and that was when I was smoking weed to BE mellow)