Re:The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished
by smm11 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:50AM
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Way, way pre-WWW I was at an REM concert when the lyrics were suddenly wrong, "I did not invent this world" snuck in somehow. My friends didn't notice, didn't recall it.
Six years later I'm riding my bike through a bar-heavy area in a large city, and I hear a snippet of that same lyric somewhere, where? I went to every bar there the next six months, until I heard it across the street. Went to the manager, then another one, then another one, until I got the answer. Future 40s, Syd Straw, with Michael Stipe, on Golden Palaminos.
Of course. It was maybe 1991 by now. I told my friends years later, and and nobody had any idea what was talking about.
Six years later I'm riding my bike through a bar-heavy area in a large city, and I hear a snippet of that same lyric somewhere, where? I went to every bar there the next six months, until I heard it across the street. Went to the manager, then another one, then another one, until I got the answer. Future 40s, Syd Straw, with Michael Stipe, on Golden Palaminos.
Of course. It was maybe 1991 by now. I told my friends years later, and and nobody had any idea what was talking about.