Top 10:
Sweetness follows: live your life filled with joy and thunder
The ascent of man: my book is called the Ascent of Man, i marked your chapter with a catamaran, the accents off, but i am what I am
Final Straw: love, love will be my strongest weapon
Maps and legends: he's not to be reached, he's to be reached. he's not to be reached. maybe he's caught in the legend, maybe hes caught in the myth. maybe these maps and legends, have been misunderstood
All the Right Friends: you've been hanging with the wrong crowd, you've got all the right friends
Walk unafraid: I will walk unafraid, i'll be clumsy instead. hold my love me or leave me high.
I realize this is not a typical list by any means...its way more heavily weighted towards their more recent stuff than most people's lists. I just feel its under-rated and that as Stipe matured is words became more poetic and beautiful.
The other 30:
Accelerate
Sweetness follows: live your life filled with joy and thunder
The ascent of man: my book is called the Ascent of Man, i marked your chapter with a catamaran, the accents off, but i am what I am
Final Straw: love, love will be my strongest weapon
Maps and legends: he's not to be reached, he's to be reached. he's not to be reached. maybe he's caught in the legend, maybe hes caught in the myth. maybe these maps and legends, have been misunderstood
All the Right Friends: you've been hanging with the wrong crowd, you've got all the right friends
At My Most Beautiful: you always say your name, like i wouldnt know its you. at your most beautiful
I’ve been high: What i want, what i really want is, just to live my life on high. and i know, i know you want the same, i can see it in your eyes.
Me in honey: if you got to do what you're doing, do it with me.
She Just wants to be
I realize this is not a typical list by any means...its way more heavily weighted towards their more recent stuff than most people's lists. I just feel its under-rated and that as Stipe matured is words became more poetic and beautiful.
The other 30:
Accelerate
Catapult
Country feedback
Driver 8
Electron blue
Find the river
Harborcoat: a handshake is worthy, if it's all that you've got
Horse to water
I believe
I don’t sleep, I dream: I'll settle for a cup of coffee, but you know what I really need
I wanted to be wrong: mythology's seductive and it turned a trick on me, that i have just begun to understand
I’ll take the rain
Ignoreland
Imitation of life: like a friday fashion show teenager, cruising in the corner, trying to look like you don't try
Kohoutek
Moral kiosk: its so much more attractive, inside the moral kiosk
Mr. Richards
Near Wild Heaven: near wild heaven, not near enough
New Test Leper: I can't say that I love Jesus, that would be a hollow claim. But he did make some observations, and i'm quoting them today. Just lest not ye be judged, what a beautiful refrain.
Nightswimming
Pretty Persuasion
Romance
Second guessing
Sitting still: I'm the sign and you can read; i'm the sign and you're not deaf
Strange currencies: I dont know why you're mean to me, when you call on the telephone. and i dont know what you mean to me
Supernatural superserious
The lifting: you have watched on repeat, the story of your life across the ceiling
The outsiders
Welcome to the Occupation
What’s the frequency, Kenneth?: you said that irony was the shackles of youth
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