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:: 12.18.2004 ::
:: Bingo Handjob Nation Q&A ::
Q&A - Michael Stipe
from Spin.com
By Caryn Ganz
For the past 24 years, Michael Stipe, 44, has been the lead singer of a little rock band called R.E.M. On Around the Sun, the group’s 13th album and the follow-up to last year’s best-of collection, his stirring, iconic voice skates across lulling meditations on love, loss, and high-speed trains. Stipe and Spin rode the rails together from Philadelphia to New York, discussing everything from drummer Bill Berry’s early departure to cranky rock critics to knowing when it’s time to call it a day.
With so much excitement about reunions this year, do you ever think that R.E.M. should have broken up and gotten back together?
I might have enjoyed the interest and excitement that people would have, rather than what I’m faced with now, which is: “Okay, another R.E.M. record. Here we go.” On some level, I feel like we’re somewhat of a guilty pleasure for certain people, that they’ll listen to us from afar, but wouldn’t admit it publicly. That’s okay. We made it through 13 albums and didn’t suck. Amid that, there have been some moments of greatness, I think, as well as things that do touch people, and maybe that’s enough for me. It is.
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