Where does Peter Buck Sleep?

REM's guitarist Peter Buck was in Albuquerque recently and stayed at the Hotel Monte Vista. He found a room close to his heart...

He's standing outside the door of the Michael Stipe room at the hotel!

The picture on the door looks to be from the Automatic for the People period.

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Font me! R.E.M. release a font selection

Font me! R.E.M. have released not a new single.. but a font selection

They do cost more than an itunes single though...

In the past, R.E.M. have had countless unique logos and typography. From Ed Rogers’ handwriting on Out Of Time to the many hand-drawn song titles of Reckoning, typography has been an important part of R.E.M.’s artwork. Until recently, individual letterforms were made as needed, but for the last five years, Michael Stipe and Chris Bilheimer have been creating entire alphabets and turning them into fonts to use for the band’s artwork.

Joining forces with the type foundry TypeTrust and its Athens-based co-owner Neil Summerour, we have turned these fonts into digital files available for download. We are proud to offer these three typefaces for sale:

ACCELERATE: This font was created for the album Accelerate and used on many projects such singles, tour advertising, merchsndise, and the supernatural superserious.com website.

TOURFONT: Tourfont was created in 2003 for In Time: The Best of R.E.M. packaging and the 2003 tour.

ORANGE: Based on a stencil made of orange plastic, this typeface was made for the album Around The Sun and used frequently on tour merchandise.

Thanks to Neil, these fonts are available in the TrueType and OpenType PS format and compatible with Mac and PC. Please visit the TypeTrust site to check them out.

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How many Number #1s has R.E.M had?

R.E.M.'s Billboard 100 chart placings. These are the one's that made it onto the Billboard 100. Let's face it, no one cares if you make the Rock 100 or the Country 100, the real top of the pops is where the real recognition is!

How many American Number #1s has R.E.M had?

None!

2008   Supernatural Superserious                 85       

2000   The Great Beyond                               57       

1998    Daysleeper                                            57      

1997    Electrolite                                              96       

1996    Bittersweet Me                                    46       

1995    Strange Currencies                              47       

1993    Everybody Hurts                                 29       

1992    Drive                                                      28       

1991    Losing My Religion                              4         

1991    Shiny Happy People                            10       

1989    Pop Song 89                                         86       

1989    Stand                                                    6         

1987    The One I Love                                   9

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Reckoning to be reissued by R.E.M.

R.E.M. will release a deluxe version of their second album Reckoning to celebrate (cash in on) the 25th anniversary of it's release.




Reckoning peaked on the charts at #27, nine spots higher than Murmur (Rolling Stone’s 1983 "Album of the Year") and was eventually certified gold. 


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Every R.E.M. album reviewed

Here's one dude's reviews of every R.E.M. album... some good thoughts in there...\

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