First REM "hit"?
Robert King
Specifically, was "Superman", or anything on Life's Rich
Pageant on the top forty pop charts at all? If not, than
what was first in the top 100, top 40, etc. POP charts (not
college)?
Your response to this will help solve a long standing dispute
between me and my roommate.
Thanks in advance.
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BenSpazz
I think this was with "The One I Love." That was the real pop
breakthrough.
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Rhee
was because no one really bothered to listen to its lyrics and thought
it was a love song.
Cheers
Pollyanna
Yossarian5
King) writes:
<<Hello. I need to know when REM first hit the "pop" charts.>>
In Anthony DeCurtis' introduction to _R. E. M.: The Rolling Stone Files_,
he mentions that _Murmur_ did, for a brief period, make it into the Top
40, but he doesn't note which single first made it onto the charts. He
also says that "The One I Love" was their first Top 10 single.
Hope this helps some.
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S Gallion
>Pageant on the top forty pop charts at all? If not, than
>what was first in the top 100, top 40, etc. POP charts (not
>college)?
Actually, "The One I Love" was their first Top 40, Billboard chart
hit. Superman never came close (neither did Fall On Me, the bigger hit
from Pageant).
The songs to get good Top 40 airplay have been as follows:
The One I Love
Stand
Losing My Religion
Shiny Happy People
Man on the Moon
Everybody Hurts
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
Bang and Blame
Strange Currencies
The ones from Monster were basically bought and paid for by Warner
Bros., since none of them exactly lit the world on fire like Losing My
Religion or Shiny Happy People, which (along with EH and Stand) made
R.E.M. a household name.
BTW, anyone know how the following singles did on the charts: Pop
Song 89, Orange Crush, Drive, and Radio Song?
~Steve
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Duy Chinh Nguyen
S Gallion <sgal...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> BTW, anyone know how the following singles did on the charts: Pop
>Song 89, Orange Crush, Drive, and Radio Song?
Does anyone have a list (or know where to find one) of how high all the
albums and singles got on the Billboard charts?
pete
Charles Krauss
I think you're right about this, but I remember that "Fall On Me" also
received a pretty good amount of radio play when LRP came out.
Charles
Drew Matich
when they came out?
DM
So Awake
<Does anyone have a list (or know where to find one)
<of how high all the albums and singles got on the
<Billboard charts?
Ya, there's a list in the back of Remnants that covers
through Automatic. Here's a run-down:
CT- didn't chart; Murmur-#36; Reckoning-#27; Fables-
#28; LRP-#21; DLO-#52; Doc-#10; Epon-#44; Green-
#12; OOT-#1; Auto-#2
In the Hot 100 singles:
Radio Free Europe-#78
So. Central Rain-#85
Fall on Me-#94
1 I Love-#9
ITEOTW-#69
Stand-#6
Pop Song-#86
LMR-#4
Shiny Hapless P-#10
Drive-#28
Man on Moon-#30
They did much better in the "Album Rock" category where
Superman, which someone mentioned, was #17.
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Rusty W. Spell
: albums and singles got on the Billboard charts?
I'm pretty sure they have books. Look around in bookstores... I
know they have them for *some* charts, if not Billboard.
Rusty W. Spell
http://ocean.st.usm.edu/~rwspell/
Jimbo
>Didn't "Can't Get There From Here" and "Driver 8" generate some heat
>when they came out?
Nah, not really. They got a fair amount of airplay on college radio, but
very little anywhere else.
Jim "the wire turned to lizard skin" McVey
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Michael dAviES
All the albums were top 40 except ct, eponymous, and dlo.
So. Central Rain is described as a "minor hit" in the Rolling Stone
Encyclopedia of Rock.
The RS Encyclopedia also is notable for a band photo of REM in which
Stipey appears to be throwing up from bad coffee and Berry
looks like a deformed Korean, although I'm sure it's just a trick
of the lighting. Also Mills appears to be missing a front tooth.
Does anyone else have this book? I got mine from the library.
Michael davies
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MiChAel DAvies
>I think you're right about this, but I remember that "Fall On Me" also
>received a pretty good amount of radio play when LRP came out.
>Charles
I thought "Begin the Begin" and "I Believe" were bigger hits. They're
better songs, in my estimation. Is FOM on Eponymous?
Michael davies
mis...@epix.net
Robert Andrews
Nguyen) wrote:
>Does anyone have a list (or know where to find one) of how high all the
>albums and singles got on the Billboard charts?
>
>pete
I think you'll find those in the book(s) Talk About The Passion and/or
Documental.
ASnyone know what the highest UK single placing was? I remember Shiny
Happy People getting to 4.
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Anthony M. Verna III
Well, if any song on Murmur didn't get airplay, would they have appeared
on Letterman back then?
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Brett Pasternack
The first REM single to reach the Billboard Hot 100 was "Radio Free Europe"
(the IRS version, not the original Hib-Tone recording), which cracked the
chart on July 23, 1983, and reached number 78.
The first major hit was "The One I Love", which entered the chart on
September 19, 1987, and eventually reached number 9.
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