"Have you ever wanted to quit the band?" Mason asked. But then, at the peak of their popularity, R.E.M. Four years later, "Out of Time" took them to the top of the album chart, behind the mega-hit "Losing My Religion."īy the mid-nineties, the college band had become the supergroup, signing a record-breaking $80 million recording contract.
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They cracked the pop charts in 1987, when "The One I Love" made the top 10. would emerge as the most popular college rock band of the '80s. And the first time I played with Michael and he sang, I thought, 'Well, this guy's a singer, alright.'" And in Georgia at that time it was mostly guys who wanted to play 'Hootchy Cootchy Man' for 20 minutes and then would sing every verse out of key. "And my problem was, I thought, to have a band you have to have a great singer. "That's the site of the record store where Peter and I first met," Stipe said.īuck worked at Wuxtry Records, a secondhand vinyl store. "You know in 1980, there just weren't a lot of people like us in this town," Peter Buck said, explaining how the band members hooked up. "I felt like I had a place," Stipe told Mason. By the time he enrolled at the University of Georgia, he knew he wanted to be a singer.
"Well, I was reacting to a lot of things that felt not very genuine in music and in pop culture at the time," he answered.Īn Air Force brat, Stipe moved to Athens when his father retired here. Mason asked Stipe about the influence of punk rock on his music.
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