Talk:And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982–1987

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Title

The cover shows the title as "And I Feel Fine...", i.e. with an ellipsis at the end. Thus should the article not be at either And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 or And I Feel Fine...: The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987? I ask here rather than just going ahead and moving it myself as I don't know which of the two would be preferable. --CapitalLetterBeginning 18:28, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're right. Moving it to "And I Feel Fine..."... --Moochocoogle 00:21, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Charting

I removed "while failing to chart in the U.S." because it's only been out nine days. Fantailfan 13:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I put it back in, with a change in the sentence. Today was the day it would have charted (the new Billboard was updated this morning). As a compilation album of old material by a well-established band (who are unfairly on a commercial slide), its only chance to chart would have been today. BGC 14:01, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks. It really is a shame - it's remastered and rocks. Fantailfan 14:28, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I fully agree. I was kind of hoping that they'd have the same kind of revival with Reveal that U2 had around 2000 with All That You Can't Leave Behind, but R.E.M. seem to have returned to being a cult band like in the mid 80's. It's too bad people can't see what they're missing. BGC 14:31, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest, I haven't liked anything since Berry left except "At My Most Beautiful," and have found their Warner work uneven, even the best ones imho (Automatic and New Adventures). I think in some ways all that money changed them, when I thought at the time that it wouldn't. Parallels with U2 are off the mark, for small but important reasons. U2's group dynamics are more flexible than R.E.M.'s, their music style more popular, and their lead singer better. To put it crudely, U2 writes anthems while R.E.M. writes pop/rock songs. In the end, what will sell better?

The collection is at Amazon.com Sales Rank #17 in Music for the 2 CD version (which is far outselling the 1 CD version). Fantailfan 14:44, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, Soldati found US chart information - he must have access to lower chart levels. Fantailfan 13:00, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Weird, because if you go onto the Billboard site and type in a group's name in the "artist" section, it's supposed to give you their up-to-date chart history the moment the weekly chart is updated every Thursday AM, even if it's #101-200. Oh well, I'm glad both formats made it in. But their stay will be very brief. BGC 13:23, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have a subsciption to Billboard.biz, so I can't see the lower parts of the chart. Fantailfan 14:53, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cover Art

The cover photograph was shot in late 1980 by longtime Athens, GA photographer Terry Allen at the Lamar Dodd School Of Art, The University Of Georgia, Athens, GA. Might be interesting to include this fact. See ^[1] and ^[2] The same photo was used in the 1989 R.E.M. Fan Club Holiday Single and for the DVD When The Light Is Mine: The Best Of The I.R.S. Years 1982–1987. Threecardhighlow (talk) 01:41, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

[1] ttp://www.remtimeline.com/1980.html

[2] ttp://www.terryallenphotography.com/music

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