Round 1 (late 1980's to present) - #6 REM vs #11 Weezer

Round 1 (late 1980's to present) - #6 REM vs #11 Weezer

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I'm gonna make a confession here: I think the Weezer Blue Album is a top 5 album of the 90's and Pinkterton is damn good too. I mean for fuck's sake "Across the Sea" was practically written for @AZDuck . "You are eighteen year old girl who live in small city of Japan".

Plus the dude go into fucking Harvard. #academissmacktalk

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I'm gonna make a confession here: I think the Weezer Blue Album is a top 5 album of the 90's and Pinkterton is damn good too. I mean for fuck's sake "Across the Sea" was practically written for @AZDuck . "You are eighteen year old girl who live in small city of Japan".

Plus the dude go into fucking Harvard. #academissmacktalk

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REM is way more culturally important. Weezer had some good songs, but REM has a lot of interesting songs during a time where their direction was not obvious (Weezer is nothing if not obvious).

I don’t love REM, but I have to respect what they did.
 
REM is way more culturally important. Weezer had some good songs, but REM has a lot of interesting songs during a time where their direction was not obvious (Weezer is nothing if not obvious).

I don’t love REM, but I have to respect what they did.
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I feel bad for Big Star which basically did the jangly guitar thing 10 years earlier than REM and got no credit. If was a biased prick, Big Star and Flamin' Groovies would both have made it in.
 
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REM is way more culturally important. Weezer had some good songs, but REM has a lot of interesting songs during a time where their direction was not obvious (Weezer is nothing if not obvious).

I don’t love REM, but I have to respect what they did.
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REM definitely wins the influential category. There's no question.
 
REM is way more culturally important. Weezer had some good songs, but REM has a lot of interesting songs during a time where their direction was not obvious (Weezer is nothing if not obvious).

I don’t love REM, but I have to respect what they did.
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I feel bad for Big Star which basically did the jangly guitar thing 10 years earlier than REM and got no credit.
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Big Star was good, but REM really took No Wave and essentially started indie rock. They didn’t have pretentions to stardom (at least early on) and went with what was good to them.

If you don’t have the context for them, I can see why people don’t love them, but their first 5 albums were pretty amazing. Once they hit stardom, they didn’t have another really amazing song.
 
Also Bill Berry is like a human Bert, so there's that, too.

Also, Stipe fucked a friend of mine who was underage at the time, then got weird with him in NYC in the late 90s/early 2000s.

So, I respect that Mike is trolling for underage dudes.
 
In this contest between who can be the most pretentious art school dropouts, REM wins. Overlooking that irrelevant chit, they had a few good tunes, including this haunting melody, their best imo:

 
Also Bill Berry is like a human Bert, so there's that, too.

Also, Stipe fucked a friend of mine who was underage at the time, then got weird with him in NYC in the late 90s/early 2000s.

So, I respect that Mike is trolling for underage dudes.
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There is nothing about this that surprises me
 
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