#chronictown

[amazonjax]

One of my #R.E.M. #treasuredpossessions: 1982 issue of #ChronicTown #EP obviously kept in a protective plastic sleeve. #GardeningAtNight is one of the greatest songs ever written in my opinion and also my favourite on #Reckoning. Happy 37th #Birthday CT! #peterbuck #michaelstipe #mikemills #BillBerry #bertisdowns https://www.instagram.com/p/B1pCbd7nZ77/?igshid=1ezcet3ninax9

[e2thg]

Now Spinning… R.E.M. // Chronic Town ep (1982) “…it was round about midnight when things began to… take… place…” 👊🏾🔥🤘🏾 #nowspinning #rem #chronictown #houvinylclub #instavinylcommunity #instavinyl #instacool #instawax #instarecordcollection #myrecordcollection #nowplaying #vinyl #records #myrecords #instacool #myhtx (at Houston, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfxnsXoMNehjHg-TswdbtQNE8CjKSWzgthNVc80/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[wretch7x7]

#OnThisDay August 24, 1982 @REMhq released their debut studio ep #ChronicTown. (at Athens, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CS-BfA2hvxs/?utm_medium=tumblr

[drownmeinbeauty]

THEY’RE PLAYING OUR SONG

What is the soundtrack of impending apocalypse? Through 2020 I listened, in a loop, on headphones, with kooky teenage fervor, to Chronic Town by R.E.M., music unrelated in any obvious way to the year’s cultural, political and epidemiological crises. It sustained me. This EP, with the band’s first five recorded songs, was released in 1982, as they were building a fan base on college radio, one year before the album Murmur made them critics‘ darlings.

Murmur is organically unified; its very pretty songs, rendered in a quiet, shadowed tone, slip into a single 44-minute stream. Chronic Town is disconnected; each song rushes to start and then somewhat abruptly stops. The audio has fuzz around the edges and worn patches within, as if it had been recorded in a small dark room below ground. What holds everything together is the tempo. The music feel slightly, urgently, speeded. These are songs for someone in a hurry to get on with it, who cannot afford to stop and think about things.

My favorite, Stumble, weaves a galloping, country-ish, ornamental guitar with plangent, thumping drums and bass. Singer Michael Stipe’s suggestive and obtuse lyrics, delivered in his famously slurred voice, skim over the jangling noise. The words themselves are irrelevant; it’s the jittery spirit that engages. This song make my heart race a bit, my body rise. It fits the contours of current anxiety and leaves a bright charge in the air. It carries me right to the edge of hope.

[charliehopper]

SOCIAL DISTANCING DAY 75. Yesterday just before a Zoom call with a client segued from chit-chat to “The Reason We’re Here,” the client jokingly asked if I was going to read something. (Last meeting I’d stood and read a “manifesto.”) I pretended to look around and said, “Well, let me see what I have around here to read from....” JOKINGLY and RANDOMLY, @scott_king ad-libbed that maybe I could read some Rolling Stone reviews of early REM albums WITH NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE that the laptop was resting on a little cabinet in which I actually store THE ROLLING STONE RECORD GUIDE which I was able to hold up to the camera as if I had been a plant in the audience of a magic show. (I did not read the reviews: having them handy was enough ...) #zoommeetings #magic #rollingstonerecordguide #coincidence #or #welldefinedreputation #quarantinelife #workathome #rem #murmur #chronictown #reckoning #fablesofthereconstruction #lifesrichpageant #document #popsong89 #eponymous #outoftime #losingmyreligion #fivestars cc: @rem (at Noblesville, Indiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAy0cwygIkK/?igshid=bhyejtribw5t

[kittkattmusic]

Playing with @whoismitski is the dream

[hifidiot]

#REM #chronicTown #1982 #ep #33rpm #Vinyloftheday #Vinyl #vinylcollection #vinyladdict #vinylcommunity #vinylism #vinylclub #instavinyl #vinylcollector #vintageaudiolove #vinylcollection #vinyllovers #vinyljunkies #braun #pcs5 #1962 #dieterRams #vintagehifi #instahifi #hifiporn #hifidelity #hifinest #lafleuraudio #SoFloHiFi #HiFidiot #ListeningRoom — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2PBxrui

[thisismilesahead]

The cover may be a bit worn, but I'm happy to have found an original copy of Chronic Town EP by REM today! #chronictown #rem #chronictownep #originalvinyl #originalpressing #lp #vinyl #nowspinning #turntable #vinyllove #vinyllove #vinyladdict #vinyljunkie #vinylcollection #vinylcollector #vinylporn #record #12inch #recordcollection #recordcollector #recordoftheday #lpoftheday #instavinyl

[njdirk]

First I was like … but then I was like …

[prettyinnoise]

R.E.M. – Chronictown (Picture-Vinyl) (19.08.2022)

R.E.M. – Chronictown (Picture-Vinyl) (19.08.2022)

Five songs that spring to life full of immediacy and action and healthy impatience. Songs that won’t be denied.

[pinkelephantrecords-blog]

REM Chronic Town 1982 #rem #chronictown #irsrecords #records #vinyl (at Pink Elephant Records) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwsFERglMxg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g816cw5g2462

[genderfluidgreer]

Guess who is performing drag tonight?