Jason Isbell inducts R.E.M. into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame 2024

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[@andrewstone5700]

All over the world is right! 🇬🇧 I fell in love with a girl in science class, because we both saw & loved Orange Crush, which had played on The Chart Show, the previous Saturday morning.

[@kellyschneider2545]

Great speech!

[@firemedic6509]

I first played an REM record as a 20 year old college radio DJ in 1983.

[@sleepcity]

Worlds colliding. Absolutely love this connection between brilliant songwriters.

[@AndrewDunnesq]

Hell Yeah

[@ceciliamackie]

OMG that’s fantastic! Shall we connect?

[@rdelgado34]

On the radio in the 80’s? Maybe he meant college radio

[@mental63]

Not if you lived in the Chicago area. WXRT (a commercial FM album-rock station) played REM from day one. And the station is still playing ‘em.

[@maryb3855]

Maybe earlier stuff was on college radio, but by 1987, songs from Document were on commercial radio.

[@mc76]

@@mental63 How 'XRT has managed to avoid corporate programming is one of the great mysteries of life. What an institution that station is.

[@michaelsimmons5505]

WLIR/WDRE on Long Island played them all the time. Fall On Me, Radio Free Europe, Superrman, Driver 8 were staples.

[@laurelpeffer3854]

yes - on the radio - in the 80's