Beginning last year with Murmur, the R.E.M. catalog is once again getting the redux treatment — up next, Reckoning (more on that next week). Listening the reissue I’ve been digging out my IRS-era vinyl including Lifes Rich Pageant. On it, with Mike Mills on lead vocals, the band covers “Superman” by The Clique, a Texas based sixties pop band. Check it. This is also an excuse to run the above newspaper clipping of Buck during his days as a record store clerk, in Athens, at Wuxtry.
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I wonder how Peter Buck might reflect back on that image…
He should be proud. He looks like the quintessential comic book salesman.
1 | Megary June 12th, 2009 at 12:46 pmI remember ‘Superman’ as the first “hit” REM had outside of people in the know, despite all of the amazing music they came out with before and during that time. When I asked a local dj at a party to play some REM back then, he looked at me blankly and said “oh, yeah, REM. they do that Superman song”. Well, I wasn’t going to argue if he was willing play REM, any REM, so I replied “yeah, those guys.”
2 | JFK June 12th, 2009 at 2:31 pmThis post has sent me off on a Gary Zekley tangent, which is a good way to occupy yourself on a June day. Here’s a YouTube video of him singing “Superman” with REM.
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4 | Tax Guy November 22nd, 2009 at 10:45 pm