Pop Songs 07

From Matthew Perpetua, writer of the spiffy FLUXBLOG, comes a new project with a cool concept — Pop Songs 07 — writing “a post about every song on every R.E.M. album, plus most of their major non-album tracks.”

It’s not all about R.E.M. love, either, with what look to be critical, as well as realistic and appreciative looks at songs by one of my own personal favorite bands.

There’s even room for some lyricism of Perpetua’s own. Check out this evocative opening paragraph from the post on “Disturbance At The Heron House”:

Back when I was in high school I had a very vivid dream in which I saw Michael Stipe sing “Disturbance At The Heron House” with Nirvana on MTV Unplugged. Clearly I was just conflating their respective performances for the program, but thirteen years later I still can vaguely recall a beatific Kurt Cobain playing guitar and humming along with Michael Stipe every time I hear the song. It’s too bad that it didn’t happen; you just know it would’ve been wonderful.

Sure would.