Leum dropped off these lyrics at the April REM Challenge recording session, to see what other folks would do with them. At the first May recording session, we scanned through the lyrics and decided to try to put them to music. Robbie had a couple…

When we assembled at the studio for our first REM Challenge 2023 recording session, Nick offered up a MIDI guitar piece he had been working on. Kevin, being chronically underprepared, did not have any decent sounding guitar VSTs installed on his…

Another last-minute electronic goof, thrown together using a couple of Hainbach plugins and a couple of LABS instruments.

Created in VCV Rack 2.

Created in VCV Rack 2.

Used Hainbach's excellent Landfill Totems VST for these noisy ruminations. Also had some samples from an LP recorded by a local high school band nearly 40 years ago, but I re-rendered this version without those samples, just in case... Kevin…

This one combines a tape loop I made, hardware synths (the volcas again), the RPM-40 drum machine, my guitar effects processor, and a few more samples I found online. Kevin Craig - Synths, tape loop, mixing.

Kenny T. - lyrics, vocals Kevin Craig - guitars, bass, drums

John J. - guitar, drums, songwriting Kenny T. - lyrics, vocals Kevin Craig - bass

Robbie R. - lyrics, songwriting, vocals, guitars Margaret B. - flute John J. - drums Kevin Craig - bass Donald R. - special guest vocals :)