Robert Breen

[Robert Breen @robertbreen]

@REMonthisDay1 Peter made a LOT of lifelong fans by saying exactly what was on his mind.

[Robert Breen @robertbreen]

@meyersmedia @CraigR3521 @GenTXer2 @thetheRedundant I don’t know, sometimes you can hear an artist second guessing themselves and beyond a certain point that’s all I hear in Paul’s work. Not in Tommy’s though. In that era labels terrorized and traumatized all these bands. REM is a unicorn.

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@meyersmedia @CraigR3521 @GenTXer2 @thetheRedundant I would say all the evidence is in Trouble Boys. I want to say firing Bob too but there’s more to it than that. I dearly love them. They couldn’t do it. REM managed to do what they wanted to do, made appropriate minor concessions to the mainstream and reshaped it to themselves.

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@m_millsey ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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@CraigR3521 @GenTXer2 @thetheRedundant Replacements compromised more than REM. I say that as a fan who was with both bands all the way. It just didn’t work for the Mats.

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@SalmingandMe Have great memories of the Toronto game. Red Kelly was never out of position. Henri Richard was feisty - they pushed each other around a little bit. Palmateer was Palmateer. It was an old timers’ game but it was a good game. I felt lucky to get to see those guys play.

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@IanKennedyCK It’s like Sarah Nurse talking about the PHF! lol

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@burtoncummings Nobody sounds like you. Fine taste in jerseys there.

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@whatismusicpod @TomTurlough I really liked that they were going against the grain. I remember feeling similar musical urges for the same reasons myself. Context doesn’t matter in retrospect, the songs have to stand on their own, but much of R.E.M.‘s legacy is context. For many of us they were a lighthouse.

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@whatismusicpod @TomTurlough At the time of release those happy R.E.M. tunes were almost like alternative protest songs. They probably haven’t aged terribly well, but at the time it was pretty bold for a band with their demographic to do anything happy. Done w/ the same experimental spirit as Chronic Town.

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@oldhockeycards For a second I could taste the WHA opeechee gum.

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@scottcwheeler Been to lots of tryouts in the past couple weeks - in this situation when that forward skates back hard, which they do in tryouts with no structure, inevitably the puck goes where they just were and now they can’t get it out.

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@RobbJMacKay @bledgley @mrpottery_ldsb @JoesMILL Not sure I have 3. Raspberry Beret - Hindu Love Gods (Zevon+REM), Werewolves, and his final thought; “enjoy every sandwich.” I’m generally indifferent to him but that represents a significant hunk of memory tissue and should say something about his place in the general conscious.

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@RonSexsmith Yes! On my playlist last week. My favourite Toto record! lol

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@hockeyesque Glyn Johns. What a recording this is. All of the ferocity captured in Technicolor.

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@b0undless Oh my God, he was so great. I forgot how great. It’s a wonderful tribute, but for many of us it’s also our life flashing before our eyes. Maybe more than any other, his was a voice of excitement but also calm. For these five minutes everything is right with the world. Beautiful.

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@paranoiacs Is for me now too :P Egads Charlie on this… tom rimshots? Baby!

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@Sz1909_Szemberg I loved that year they were all off on purpose. 75 or 76 were like that too. In ‘59 or something they were all perfectly between the white lines. Super fun, they need to do this again. Oh right… Fanatics. Won’t be on purpose.

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@GoldenSeals @michaelpclive The week Call the Office was named The Promised Land!