The greatest of bands can be as opaque as they wish – you'll still somehow understand exactly what they mean Reading on mobile? Watch hereIt took me a while to get up to speed with REM. I had, in the way of dogmatic and foolish adolescence, dismissed them as "hippies". After all, they had long hair. They wore faintly foppish shirts. They appeared to be "deep". My mind was changed by actually hearing them, at which point I realised the preconceptions I'd built up based on seeing adverts in the ...
Guardian Music — The greatest of bands can be as opaque as they wish – you'll still somehow understand exactly what they mean Reading on mobile? Watch hereIt took me a while to get up t... more info