{"id":26245,"date":"2023-09-21T13:47:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T17:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=26245"},"modified":"2023-09-21T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T17:47:31","slug":"throwback-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2023\/09\/throwback-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday &#8211; The Day R.E.M. Called It Quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was this day in 2011 that R.E.M. announced they were calling it quits after more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on their website, the band members write,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it wasn&#8217;t because of fighting in the band or disagreements, or even ego.\u00a0 According to\u00a0frontman Michael Stipe, the group amicably discussed the possibility of splitting up while on their successful 2008 tour. &#8220;During that we were kind of going, well, where could we go from here?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t want to become one of those tired rock bands just going through the motions and not really loving the job just to make a few bucks.<\/p>\n<p>They kinda hinted at what was to come with their 2011 album Collapse Into Now. Out of 15 albums, it&#8217;s the only one to feature the band on the cover \u2013 and Stipe is waving goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z0GFRcFm-aY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was this day in 2011 that R.E.M. announced they were calling it quits after more than 30 years. In a post on their website, the band members write, &#8220;To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":26099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5283,5840],"class_list":["post-26245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-music-history","tag-r-e-m"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 08:11:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2023\/09\/throwback-thursday\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26248,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26245\/revisions\/26248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}