If REM made a full fledged country record it would upstage everything out there. Stipe would have to write more direct, pedestrian lyrics in order for it to really work, and Im certain this could be pulled off. Mills would really shine for sure. This would be a good late career move.
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If REM made a country record
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Ehh, I don't know... I love REM! I love their down-home acoustic feel. I wouldn't think it would translate over well to country. Don't get me wrong, there's not such a wide chasm between pop and country at all, but I think this would really kill off a lot of long-time fans. It may not directly relate, but can you say Chris Gaines?
I could see maybe a single that works as a crossover a la kid rock/sheryl crow...
I think it would be an enormous risk for Stipe and the band. REM is distinctly Alternative and while the gap between Pop/AC and Country is very narrow, the gap between Alt and Country (including lifestyle and general society) is pretty substantial. Remember when Dolly did Collective Soul's Shine? It was just weird!
Them are my 2.4 cents, give or take.
I could see maybe a single that works as a crossover a la kid rock/sheryl crow...
I think it would be an enormous risk for Stipe and the band. REM is distinctly Alternative and while the gap between Pop/AC and Country is very narrow, the gap between Alt and Country (including lifestyle and general society) is pretty substantial. Remember when Dolly did Collective Soul's Shine? It was just weird!
Them are my 2.4 cents, give or take.
Timmy said:
...and who would have thought we'd see Bon Jovi as country? But it works, nonetheless. A concern with Michael Stipe might be how he'd be embraced by the country audience, recalling what happened with k.d. lang.
One has to wonder how artists such as Stevie Nicks, Indigo Girls, Mellencamp, 10,000 Maniacs, Don Henley, Dan Fogelberg, Melissa Etheridge, Bruce Hornsby, Bob Seger, Quarterflash, and others in this vein would have fared in the country market had the migration of pop music that we see today taken place 20 or 30 years ago. A song like Stevie Nick's "After The Glitter Fades" is about as country as anything out there today.
Timmy said:
What did you think of the Loretta Lynn "Van Lear Rose" collaboration with Jack White a few years ago? It seemed to be a darling of critics and won some awards, but I don't remember ever hearing one song on mainstream country radio.
The Van Lear Rose album was awesome!
I liked Bon Jovi's move into country and think they should stick with it.
I liked Bon Jovi's move into country and think they should stick with it.
They have...
---King of the Road
REM's Roger Miller cover, from Dead Letter office album. ""it was the end of a long alcohol soaked day.."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6daSPiRDzo
--Don't Go Back To Rockville
Fairly country or country-rock
--Voice of Harold
---King of the Road
REM's Roger Miller cover, from Dead Letter office album. ""it was the end of a long alcohol soaked day.."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6daSPiRDzo
--Don't Go Back To Rockville
Fairly country or country-rock
--Voice of Harold
The only reason Bon Jovi is heard on country radio at all is because he was paired with Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles (on a song that he was originally supposed to do with Keith Urban). None of the singles from his so-called "country" album stuck. Don't get me wrong...I like some Bon Jovi. I like some of REM's stuff, too...but neither can pass for country.
Bon Jovi works as country? I think that's a streech.
Gatekeeper007 said:
To a lesser degree, so is Keith Urban.
Otto Maddock said:
I think REM should give it a shot,Exile crossed and some others did.I will love to see Stevie Nicks record a country cd,she's my idol,and yes I agree Stevie Nick's "After The Glitter Fades" hit the nail.I was at the Keith Urban concert a couple weeks ago,I though I was at a rock concert,but his show was good.
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"Leather and Lace" wasn't country?
On a realted subject, Christine McVie's "Got a Hold on Me" was as country as anything else in the era that song was recorded. "Love Will Show Us How" could have passed for country, especially today.
vchimpanzee said:
No ,but it crossed on some stations,I remember 1050 WHN played it.
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