歌手：r.e.m.
2012-12-15、歌谱控、人气:（载入中...）
- 姓名：r.e.m.
- 性别：组合
- 别名：暂无
- 国籍：美国
- 语言：英语;
- 出生地：美国
- 生日：暂无
- 星座：暂无
- 身高：0
- 体重：0
r.e.m.简介：R.E.M.成立于1980年，他们是在美国的Georgia州的Athens城组建的，当时Bill、Mike和Michael都是Georgia州立大学的学生，而Peter则在当地一家名叫Wuxtry唱片店里工作。当Peter在这家唱片店工作时，认识了经常来买唱片的Michael，他在同他的两个姐姐（Lynda和Cindy）. 一起时，还显得很文静，但在他寻找一些难得见到的vinyl B-sides 唱片时，共同的音乐爱好使他们相识交谈并成为了好友，后来他们就搬到Oconee大街上的一个废弃的教堂里住在一起，而在此同时，Mike和Bill也收拾好乐器进入Attens的UGA.大学，但可笑的是，他们最初未相识前似乎是两个截然不同的学生：Bill是一个典型的“坏”孩子──酒鬼兼烟鬼，而Mike是一个诚实的好学生，在一次即兴的放学后的舞会演出里，Mike成了伴奏乐队里的Bass手，而Bill几乎听到Mike的Bass声后离开，但最终还是留下来共同演奏，随后他们二人配合出现在一些小型的现场演出里，一直到他们在1979年1月去Athens之前。
他们四人初次相识是在Bill女朋友的推荐下，他和Mike来到Athens的Oconee大街的老教堂里与Michael和Peter见面。在初次见面里，Michael对Bill的“眉毛”留下了好印象，而对于Mike，Peter和Michael则没有多少印象，不久他们四人走到了一起，并在这个老教堂里排练和创作了一些歌曲，但他们一直没为自己的乐队起一个名字，直到一次夜里四人喝酒后，才开始用粉笔在教堂的地板上胡乱写下几个队名，早晨起来时，他们把名字减少到两个：Negro Eyes和R．E．M．……
当他们居住在教堂里并没有自己的正式乐队名称，在1980年4月5日夜里，他们在教堂里举行了一个party，三支乐队出现在节目单上：Turtle Bay，随后解散了；The Side Effects，这支乐队不久以后就走红了；R.E.M.，当时的乐队名为“Twisted Kites”。
在此后几个月里，R.E.M.参于了许多的地下演出，I.R.S.唱片公司的经理Jay Boberg也来到New Orleans观看R.E.M.的演出，他对这支乐队留下了好的印象，尽管周围观看的人群无动于衷，尽管这支乐队在技术上还有不少问题，但他依然在1982年的六月31日正式与R.E.M.签约，并发行了一张已录制好的EP──Chronic Town，这就是R.E.M.音乐之路的第一步。 ”
在发行了Chronic Town后，R.E.M.便开始在南部为他们的唱片做宣传，他们从每周的周四到周日，不停巡回演出，直到他们的歌声从校园里飘向了出租车上，接着，他们中断了自己的大学生涯，继续巡演，从批萨饼店到三流俱乐部到小型的歌迷会馆，奔波不息。直到了1982年的12月，他们中断巡演三个星期，待在录音室里灌制他们的一张有了很大突破的专辑──Murmur，Murmur在1983年4月正式发行了，Rolling Stone杂志给了这张专辑评价是“无庸置疑的最佳”、“R.E.M.已是Athens最具影响的乐队”，R.E.M.的歌迷在这过去的一年里不断增长着，而且一半以上成了他们的狂热爱好者，但他们的歌影响还没达到商业电台播放的欢迎程度。
R.E.M.随后又开始持续不断的巡演，并一直到他们的专辑──Reckoning开始灌录才停止巡演，这张专辑于1984年的4月发行，他们的歌继续向前走，比起Murmur里的无方向性显得更容易理解、更直观，但是也有一些不同的意见：“It Crawled From The South”的作者MarcusGray就批评了Michael在这张专辑里刻意含混、躲藏的嗓音。
这支乐队的黑暗时期出现在1985年，在发行了他们的第三张专辑──Fables of The Reconstruction后不久，他们似乎在长时间的巡演后带来的身心疲惫和繁重的压力下崩溃了，尽管不是特别严重，但是很明显，正如Michael说的“我们累了”，尽管只是劳累，但似乎看上去Fables是他们的最后一张专辑，但最终，他们彼此共同克服了困难并体现在这张专辑里，虽然这张专辑让他们当时的歌迷感到高兴，并最大限度地回顾了乐队本身，但是直到今天，Bill仍然说他讨厌这张专辑而Michael却把它视为自己最喜欢的专辑之一。不管如何，R.E.M.继续开始他们的巡演，他们的第一首真实、明亮的歌曲出现在了他们1986年专辑──Life’s Rich Pageant里。
“Life Rich Pageant”同样是一张精彩的专辑，而对比R.E.M.以往的专辑而言，它的歌曲以往的灰色调变成了一个个明快的火花，“Fall On Me”似乎是他们发表的作品里最充满希望的歌，乐评们猜测这也许是为了得到以往他们所不屑的电台的认可而创作的，但是这首歌并未被电台选播，R.E.M.并未因此而大喜大悲，Michael说“我们可以很好地创作出一些让电台热烈欢迎的歌曲，但是电台并没打算接纳我们”，但是不管如何，提供了一个R.E.M.在Chronic Town时代后自我发展的一个方向：Michael的声音从背景乐声后浮现出来并清晰地飘扬在歌声中（略带一些他的传统的含糊嗓音）。但歌词仍然是Michael典型的创作手法，其余的三位成员可能是做到了他们的最好发挥，特别是Peter，他的吉他声不在是他们以前的专辑里出现的刺耳的风格，而新的吉他风格我们可以在他们的下一张专辑“Document”完整体会到。
同时，这支乐队也开始更多地关注政治，无论是他们的歌词还是他们的行为上。而这也体现在这张“……Pageant”专辑中，并延续到其后的数张专辑里。如“Swan Swan H”就是描述南北战争的歌曲，“Cuyahoga”则是讲述美国的建国之史，包括了早期美国的印地安人悲惨遭遇，“Fall On Me”是讲述有关酸雨的环境保护问题，R.E.M.在这张专辑带来的吵闹声中继续巡演，并不时抽出时间创作他们的下一张专辑──他们艰难获得成功一张专辑：Document。
R.E.M. mark the point when post-punk turned into alternative rock. When their first single, "Radio Free Europe," was released in 1981, it sparked a back-to-the-garage movement in the American underground. While there were a number of hardcore and punk bands in the U.S. during the early '80s, R.E.M. brought guitar pop back into the underground lexicon. Combining ringing guitar hooks with mumbled, cryptic lyrics and a D.I.Y. aesthetic borrowed from post-punk, the band simultaneously sounded traditional and modern. Though there were no overt innovations in their music, R.E.M. had an identity and sense of purpose that transformed the American underground. Throughout the '80s, they worked relentlessly, releasing records every year and touring constantly, playing both theaters and backwoods dives. Along the way, they inspired countless bands, from the legions of jangle pop groups in the mid-'80s to scores of alternative pop groups in the '90s, who admired their slow climb to stardom. It did take R.E.M. several years to break into the top of the charts, but they had a cult following from the release of their debut EP, Chronic Town, in 1982. Chronic Town established the haunting folk and garage rock that became the band's signature sound, and over the next five years, they continued to expand their music with a series of critically acclaimed albums. By the late '80s, the group's fan base had grown large enough to guarantee strong sales, but the Top Ten success in 1987 of Document and "The One I Love" was unexpected, especially since R.E.M. had only altered their sound slightly. Following Document, R.E.M. slowly became one of the world's most popular bands. After an exhaustive international tour supporting 1988's Green, the band retired from touring for six years and retreated into the studio to produce their most popular records, Out of Time (1991) and Automatic for the People (1992). By the time they returned to performing with the Monster tour in 1995, the band had been acknowledged by critics and musicians as one of the forefathers of the thriving alternative rock movement, and they were rewarded with the most lucrative tour of their career. Toward the late '90s, R.E.M. was an institution, as its influence was felt in new generations of bands.
Though R.E.M. formed in Athens, GA, in 1980, Mike Mills (born December 17, 1958) and Bill Berry (born July 31, 1958) were the only Southerners in the group. Both had attended high school together in Macon, playing in a number of bands during their teens. Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960) was a military brat, moving throughout the country during his childhood. By his teens, he had discovered punk rock through Patti Smith, Television, and Wire, and began playing in cover bands in St. Louis. By 1978, he had begun studying art at the University of Georgia in Athens, where he began frequenting the Wuxtry record store. Peter Buck (born December 6, 1956), a native of California, was a clerk at Wuxtry. Buck had been a fanatical record collector, consuming everything from classic r
