REM Dont go back to Rockville REACTION - The chorus is sweet like candy! First time hearing
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REM Dont go back to Rockville REACTION - The chorus is sweet like candy! First time hearing
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rockville is both a place and an idea
This song is best classified as jangle pop. REM covered the spectrum from jangle pop to alternative to rock. That's the signature of a great band.
I love REM. I was in college with these guys in Athens, GA. We used to see them playing around town all the time. I've seen them dozens of times. I can't tell you how many times I sat in my dorm singing along with this song. Those high harmonies - thanks Mike Mills.... They were so so good.... They used to sneak into venues in Athens after they got big and played under the most weird band names they could think of. I remember one was Giant Gnats Attack Victor Mature.... LOL And of course they sound a bit country, Harri. They're from Georgia.... Now, go down this rabbit hole. REM has some great songs.
Old R.E.M. is the best. Driver 8, South Central Rain. One of the first great college radio bands.
Nobody does sweet melodies better than REM. And yet they've still got a unique edge to their music.
All over North America in the early 80s, certain teenagers were singing this chorus and substituting the name of their hometown for Rockville. I was one of them. Good times!
You're the best reactor on the tube Harri. No fake historionics, just says it as it is and such a wide range of music. Like to see you react to Neil Young live backed by REM singing Ambulance Blues, an absolute masterpiece.
Thanks for reacting to this, Harri. This track is from their album Reckoning. Along with their first album Murmur. These albums set the stage for alternative rock in the 1980’s
This is almost totally Mike Mills' song. He wrote it for a girlfriend at the time who was leaving Athens and moving to "Rockville". It's probably one of the most straightforward R.E.M songs lyrically. Also, Mike Mills tended to sing the lead vocal on this when the band played it live. There's also a clip, I'm sure where even Peter Buck gets in on the act and belts out backing vocals on the chorus.
My favorite band ever. Thanks so much for giving them their due. Listen to "Wendell Gee" It's even more Country, in a tear-jerker kind of way.
I don't think any of us listening to REM back then thought anything, including this, sounded country. Country in the '80s was Conway Twitty, George Jones, George Strait, Garth Brookes and on a good day, Willie Nelson.
Early REM great band
The bass line is classic country. Right in line with Mike Mills' influences. R.E.M. was refreshing at the time for being original and pulling pieces from many places to make their music. The first line of the second verse "At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend I don't care that you're not here with me." is amazing.
There is a place called Texarkana too, Check that one out. Even more diamonds in that one!
Yes, this is a 'sing at the top of your lungs' chorus.
I had to listen to remember it. All the places I would have heard it (MTV, vh1,, public radio, even some classic rock) I kinda don't listen to any more. I wonder if that's part of getting old.
I enjoyed your reactions to REM's 'Don't Go Back to Rockville'. Funny that you called it country. I was blown away when I first heard REM w Murmur album in '82. Songs seemed familiar but new at the same time. Their 2nd album Reckoning, which includes "Rockville" (Maryland BTW) continues the style new but familiar.
Early REM has a very unique sound and it refuses to be categorized. I just think of it as Alternative Americana.
Wilco has a similar vibe to me. Listen to Murmur end to end and I believe you'll understand. Best wishes from Connecticut.
The "Rockville" in the song is Rockville, Maryland, which is north of Washington, DC, not far off the beltway. The song was purportedly written primarily by bassist Mike Mills and directed at his girlfriend, who was from Rockville.
and what a lame place it is lol
@@avenueb Don't go back.
From what I understand Michael Stipe is a fan of Roger Miller "King of the Road", so country to a point, but more sixties than eighties country. If the song were country the fills in the bridge would be done with a pedal steel guitar, at least, that's would be a sure sign of a country song. Check out The Byrds "Tulsa County" for some sweet pedal steel embellished front porch harmonies.
Try drive from REM
Rockville, Maryland, West of Batltimore, what where one of the band members had a girlfriend , and leaving Athens Georgia. REM was collaborative, they'd help[ ;lyrics and music. This did get play on some Country radio. The song is off their second full album "Reckoning" from 1984. / My brother, who was studying Law in WDC in the mid-90''s, took the train out to Rockville one day and called me. Of course I had to jest with him "Didn't REM warn you! He and I saw the band several times live, between 1985 and their final tour. R.E.M. decided how and when to retire, on their terms,...yet is the early 5 albums, and a few.later, that I return too.
Love this song
Sounds country - rock like The Byrds or early Eagles REM are from Georgia
You have to hear this song played live 😀
This is Country "Satire" . They are from Georgia,after all.
You'd like Driver 8
I don’t hear country. As a southerner I hear a distinct southern sound.
Brings back memories of WXRT in Chicago back in the day. The only station that would play this song, along with Radio Free Europe. Long live XRT
What was that crap at the start !?!? Yes, it has a country feel to it. The last song they did that I loved. They became popular after that, but didn't put out anything I cared about.
Back when REM was a great indie band 1981-1987. That little snippet of music at the beginning was just a throw-away bit they sometimes stuck between songs.
Looking at your watch a third time
Waiting in the station for the bus
Going to a place that's far
So far away and if that's not enough
Going where nobody says hello
They don't talk to no one they don't know
You'll wind up in some factory
That's full of filth and nowhere left to go
Walk home to an empty house
Sit around all by yourself
I know it might sound strange but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
And waste another year
At night I drink myself to sleep
Pretend I don't care if you're not here with me
'Cause it's so much easier to handle
All my problems if I'm too far out to sea
But something better happen soon
Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
And waste another year
It's not as though I really need you
If you were here I'd only bleed you
But everyone in town only wants to bring you down
And that's how it's supposed to be
I know it might sound strange but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
And waste another year
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
And waste another year
Close, but Lyricfind often gets it wrong.
R.E.M. does all sorts of styles. This is a very early song
There's several Rockvilles in America Harri....lol
The true rem gems are songs that aren't hits like Disturbance at the Heron House and Oddfellows Local 151.
You're right about the country sound, they purposely used a country music arrangement as a joke on their producer.
Great song from a great album, maximum jangle 👌
"Sticky sweet lyrics." REM and Coca-Cola are both from Georgia.
Good analysis Harri my man 😉
Rockville Connecticut?
Nice! You live in Connecticut?
Wiki says it's asking a girl friend not to return to Rockville, Maryland. I had the Connecticut thought, too, having lived there in the mid '90s.
I have not heard this and thought that I knew all of REM's songs. Thanks Craig and Harri.
You’re welcome!
It's amazing how long REM were able to maintain their status as an indie band until The One I Love in 1987; The masses in Europe only noticed REM with the MTV long-running hit Losing My Religion in 1991 and still believed in its indie status.
For me, Rockville 1984 is pure POP, not so European mainstream back then, as New Wave and Electric Pop dominated the charts. then this rock-pop music style also started in Europe with U2, Simple Minds, Big Country, The Cure... .
It took me 10 years to get it. Don’t go back to ROCK-ville. It’s a country song
This sounds like a kind of washed out pastiche of 'Born to run'.