The last 3 tracks of REM's 1988 album Eponymous were our going out songs at college.
We'd decide we were going out on Friday or Saturday and we'd be farting around, playing games, drinking beer, skinning up, watching telly, and sort of getting ready... Then we'd hear the first chords of "The One I Love", and that was the start of the countdown.
If you've seen the episode of Friends where they have to go to some sort of posh do with Ross and he's really stressed about nobody getting ready, then at the last minute everyone and everything snaps into place - it was like that. There would be no perceptible change in behaviour, but it would go from 3 guys lounging around in stuff they'd not be seen dead in in the pub, to 3 guys ready for a night out with no effort.
"The One I Love" is followed by "Finest Worksong" and the "The End Of The World As We Know It" - As Stipe called "Leonard Bernstein" we'd all be ready, and out the door...
I could almost taste the ale and curry as I played those 3 tracks on Spotify earlier this evening.
(thats not us, by the way... just a random image of an 80s night out - sorry)
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