“Wasn’t really listenable”: the one album REM regret
Their lowest point.
REM
The band Jim Carrey refused to work with: “I tried to figure out what the hell I am”
Carrey flat-out refused to be in this band’s music video.
The lyricist Thom Yorke considers a genius: “Lyrics are like a car ride”
One of his biggest inspirations.
The frontman Noel Gallagher called unnecessary: “I don’t own any of their records”
Not his favourite brand of alternative.
The best song on ‘Accelerate’, according to Michael Stipe
“The incredibly stupid aspects of growing up…”
“None of us would be alive”: Michael Stipe on the record that would have killed REM
“I really believe that.”
Watch REM play surprise reunion in their hometown Athens, Georgia
The four members joined forces to sing ‘Pretty Persuasion’
