![]() ![]() “I think in the aftermath of his death, Kurt seemed like a Jesus figure to so many people that I went to the obvious biblical reference there,” Stipe explained in 2008, as part of an extraordinary weekslong fan Q&A about his songwriting process hosted by Matthew Perpetua’s MP3 haven Fluxblog. Fisher” as in a fisherman, as in the fisherman. Fisher moved to a less peculiar ground / He gathered up his loved ones and he brought them all around / To say goodbye, nice try.” frontman Michael Stipe moans over aggressively smeary electric guitar-quite uncommon for the band at the time, hence the brashness-that renders his words nearly inaudible. ![]() “I only wish I could hear you whisper down,” R.E.M. The tragedy of R.E.M.’s brash and wounded 1994 album Monster, which (tragically) celebrates its 25th anniversary on Friday, can be summed up by “Let Me In,” a desperate plea to Kurt Cobain, who died by suicide in April of that year and was therefore no longer around to hear it.
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