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Because I have been thinking a lot the last couple days about 2020, and because I always welcome more Michael Stipe, here's a throwback to the only single I can remember ever putting on an AOTY list.

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Today, we’re continuing our 6 Degrees game with The List (see Part 1 here). And, again, because we’re doing a bit of a Prince-theme and will be timing the end of this series (Part 8) to land on the (8th) anniversary of him leaving us (April 21), we’ll be picking out some fun Prince-connections in/below each set.

Okay, here we go, carrying on from where we left off last time, i.e., the Medicine Singers’ self-titled album

6 Degrees of Separation: Maja Ratkje to R.E.M.

Maja Ratkje – Voice (list number 221)
>> One of the collaborators on the Medicine Singers album from Part 1 is Ikue Mori, who has also collaborated with Maja Ratkje. Ratkje also appears on a 5+ hour-long Norwegian tribute to Prince compilation with…

Ulver – Shadows Of The Sun (188)
…Ulver. Christian Fennesz (or, “Fennesz”), who appears on this Ulver album, also collaborated a number of times (e.g., here) with…

Jim O’Rourke – I’m Happy, And I’m Singing, And A 1, 2, 3, 4 (226)
…Jim O’Rourke, who, from 1999 to 2005, was in…

Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation (835)
…Sonic Youth, whose Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo were at some point in the Glenn Branca Ensemble, as was Tim Sommer who then formed…

Hugo Largo – Mettle (116)
…Hugo Largo, whose first album was produced by…

R.E.M. – Automatic For The People (290)
…Michael Stipe of R.E.M. <<

Prince 6

Though we don’t have a Prince album in today’s list, here are some fun connections the above artists have to The Purple One:

  • As mentioned above, there’s a 5.5 hour long compilation featuring Norwegian artists (including Maja Ratkje and Ulver) from a wide variety of genres covering Prince! Put out in 2008, this 5-CD box set, called Shockadelica: 50th Anniversary Tribute To The Artist Known As Prince, was released in honour of Prince’s 50th birthday, and was limited to 5000 copies. Available digitally: Songwhip.
    • Maja Ratkje’s contribution, which is the 1st song on the compilation, is a cover of “Solo” from Prince’s Come album.
    • Ulver’s contribution is a cover of “Thieves in the Temple” from Prince’s Graffiti Bridge album.
  • R.E.M. recorded their Out of Time album at Prince’s Paisley Park (Youtube).
  • R.E.M. and Prince were both on Warner Brothers around the same time. In a 2016 interview on Alec Baldwin’s “Here’s The Thing” podcast, Michael Stipe mentioned that, because R.E.M. owned their own masters when at WB but Prince didn’t, Prince “always hated me for that”.
  • From an interview between supermodel Helena Christensen and Michael Stipe:
    • HC: “If you could save one song in the world from being turned into a ringtone, which would song would you choose?”
    • MS: “Probably ‘Purple Rain’ by Prince, because that would sound absolutely horrible as a ring tone.”
  • Prince’s Lovesexy album came out the same year as Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation: 1988.

Tune in on Saturday for Part 3, to see how we get from R.E.M. to Tagaq!

https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/04/11/6-degrees-of-separation-part-2/

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#GutenMorgen, heute, #onthisday, vor 64 Jahren am 04.01.1960 wurde Michael Stipe, Sänger und Songwriter der Band R.E.M. geboren.

#REM und ihr Sänger stand und steht für soziales und progressives Engagement.
Bei den MTV Music Awards 1991 trug #MichaelStipe sieben T-Shirts. Jedes mit einer (leider) noch immer aktuellen Message:

RAINFOREST
LOVE KNOWS NO COLOR
WEAR A CONDOM
CHOICE
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY NOW
THE RIGHT TO VOTE
HANDGUN CONTROL

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#HappyBirthday Michael Stipe.

faroutmagazine.co.uk/rem-shiny

youtube.com/watch?v=YYOKMUTTDd

Was SUPER into REM in 1991 & this was one of my fav cassettes & for some reason thought about this song a couple days ago for a #sarscov2 mix tape of 90’s hits… because “shiny happy people holding hands” is the very vibe of the moment

To know what the song actually meant & to know I wasn’t far off.. well that’s… cool?

Glad to see #MichaelStipe #REM still around & that some of my fav childhood musicians might make it…
#wearADamnRespirator #covidIsNotOver #MerryChristmas