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Dream_Huntress Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
#1: Sep 21st 2011 at 5:29:05 PM

Or soon will be. Band members announce they're breaking up the group:

The alternative rock group that shook up the music world with its experimental, edgy sound and then earned multiplatinum success and a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced on its website Wednesday that it has "decided to call it a day as a band."

"A wise man once said — 'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.' We built something extraordinary together. We did this thing. And now we're going to walk away from it," frontman Michael Stipe said in a statement on the website.

"I hope our fans realize this wasn't an easy decision; but all things must end, and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way."

Full article over here.

Edit: Info on the official site.

edited 21st Sep '11 5:30:43 PM by Dream_Huntress

I can't have you close, so I become a ghost and I watch you, I watch you.
Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
I Am The Walrus
#2: Sep 21st 2011 at 9:37:56 PM

They're doing the Mitch Cohen thing.

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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
Just awesome like that
#3: Sep 21st 2011 at 10:29:29 PM

Mitch Cohen?

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MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#4: Sep 22nd 2011 at 9:33:22 AM

[up]I get the reference but still don't really know what that means in context either.

inane242 Anwalt der Verdammten from A B-Movie Bildungsroman Since: Nov, 2010
Anwalt der Verdammten
#5: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:01:46 PM

Aww.

REM is the first band I really liked.

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RenaTheArchmage Actually, it's Euphinatrix. from the Factory Since: Oct, 2009
Actually, it's Euphinatrix.
#6: Sep 22nd 2011 at 6:22:00 PM

THAT'S NOT TRUE.

Someone tell me it's all a ploy. It's just a ruse to get more sales...

...right?

I am become Death, Destroyer of Miniputts.
lolacat Dead? You thought wrong from Vancouver Island Since: Mar, 2011
Dead? You thought wrong
#7: Sep 22nd 2011 at 7:17:10 PM

I love that movie!

Seeing all these piss ant tropers trying to talk tough makes me laugh. If Matrix were here, he'd laugh too.
cutewithoutthe Góðberit Norðling Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Star-crossed
Góðberit Norðling
#8: Sep 23rd 2011 at 4:23:01 AM

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ehh, who am I kidding? s'okay, they've had a good run. Wishing them the best!

tonagamu Since: Jun, 2010
#9: Sep 23rd 2011 at 10:58:51 AM

I find it interesting how this is one of the few recently-broken-up bands that did so on good terms instead of bad.

Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
I Am The Walrus
#10: Sep 24th 2011 at 11:40:45 PM

Mitch Cohen did an album called "Calling It Quits". He's digging his own grave on the cover.

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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
Just awesome like that
#11: Sep 25th 2011 at 12:57:50 AM

Aside from the band calling it quits, I still don't get what that has to do with anything.

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Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
I Am The Walrus
#12: Sep 25th 2011 at 6:31:06 PM

They're calling it quits and they will began a life of solitude. Until they get back together for the first time again.

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lolacat Dead? You thought wrong from Vancouver Island Since: Mar, 2011
Dead? You thought wrong
#13: Sep 25th 2011 at 8:41:57 PM

Mitch is also a very depressed guy who talks and makes odd facial expressions.

Seeing all these piss ant tropers trying to talk tough makes me laugh. If Matrix were here, he'd laugh too.
sproing Since: Jan, 2013
#14: Feb 13th 2013 at 6:52:08 PM

i think i must have seen a test screening of A Mighty Wind because I clearly recall that Mitch Cohen's album was called "Digging my own grave" rather than "calling it quits." My favorite scene from the film! Damn last minute edits, always taking out the edgiest bits.

MidnightRambler Ich bin nicht schuld! 's ist Gottes Plan! from Germania Inferior Since: Mar, 2011
Ich bin nicht schuld! 's ist Gottes Plan!
#15: Feb 17th 2013 at 9:54:00 AM

It's the end of R.E.M. as we know it, and I feel fine.

*is shot*

Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...
PhysicalStamina (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#16: Feb 21st 2013 at 1:27:12 PM

They haven't already? I didn't know they were still around.

It's one thing to make a spectacle. It's another to make a difference.
MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#17: Feb 21st 2013 at 4:05:50 PM

[up] Well, this is an old, resurrected thread, so really they broke up two years ago.

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