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Originally posted by Loryn-Adult.com
I liked REM for about a month in highschool, they got old and annoying real fast. The only song I really liked was "Superman"
Never liked the B52's, everytime I heard the song "Love Shack" and my friends would turn up the radio I thought they were all high/drunk and cut me out of the goodies. They played that song so much I still know all the damn words!! 
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Love Shack was majorly overplayed but it also isn't the kind of B52s that we were talking about. See, when they started out they were more of a zany punk act with songs like Rock Lobster. Love Shack and Roam (same album) were like the waterdowned stuff to sell records. In many ways that is the way some R.E.M. fans feel about the Losing My Religion phase. Brilliant song but there is so many people that think that is pretty much the only thing they did. They have something like 15 albums going back to 1982. Good luck finding a new band today that will last that long. Honestly, the type of people that are really into a band like R.E.M. are used to being a dedicated minority and secretly we kind of like it that way.