I absolutely cannot remember the username I had bc I used to make up different ones on every board.
I’m Sloane Spencer. I’m a semi-retired radio personality, voice over actor, and podcast host, currently doing 2 short podcasts talking with music people about their favorite one hit wonders (One Hit History) and favorite carbonated beverages (Bubble Bottles). My old show was Country Fried Rock.
I’ve been a fan since just after Chronic Town thanks to Album 88.
I wanted to be in radio since childhood bc of WKRP and Ross & Wilson. I left a high pressure career I hated (by choice) in 1999, moved to the middle of nowhere, and went into radio.
Happy to see y’all here!
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I was Sweet Fanny Addams, and I guess I still am. Wow. I’ve dreamt of this for years! Amazing! Hi all who remember me and all who don’t!
ETA-I still live in London U.K. I still get that thrill listening to REM but only up til NAIHF (that will certainly start some controversy, but some things about me haven’t changed). I’m so very glad to be here. Any chance of a tour or even a gig from our lads?
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Hello, I’m new here and glad to be here!
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FRANCES!! Love ya honey! Great to see you!
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Hi (again) everyone! This is so cool! Thanks @ethank for doing this
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DriverNate popped up when I went to register which was my username back then so I’m sticking with it. It was not exactly my own idea back then either. I stole it from an R.E.M. site I visited way back when that was part of the R.E.M. Web Ring. If memory serves, the website was called I’ll Believe in Anything When I’m There (or something close to that) which was taken from the poem Stipe recites prior to “I Believe” in Tourfilm. I was completely new to the internet when I joined Murmurs in 1998. I was 36 years old at the time. I believe the first R.E.M. community I joined was rec.music.rem. which believe it or not, is still going on Google Groups. I kept seeing people mention Murmurs and Ethan’s name but for whatever reason, I couldn’t find it but somehow finally did. I also joined an email list back then called Document but was still so new to the internet that I didn’t quite know what I was doing. I believe I got kicked off because my emails were bouncing.
Back in Murmurs days, I took part in a few meetups. One was in Nashville when R.E.M. played the Ryman in 2004. Some of us gathered at the Spaghetti Factory for dinner the night before. The others were in Athens during AthFest but I forget the years. I know at one of them NearWildHeather loaded up on some Feta (?) cheese in a thermos from The Grill. No one has heard from her since so we are not quite sure what happened to her.
After 12 years in the Triangle region of NC, I’m back on the coast. Next weekend I’ll be seeing my first show in two years, Lilly Hiatt w/ the Harmaleighs at the Pour House in Raleigh. A big reason for this is because of the generosity of someone I met through Murmurs long ago, Parakeet. If you have not read his post in this forum, please take the time to do so. I believe he sums up the differences between the days of message boards like Murmurs and social media like Facebook as well as I’ve anyone I’ve ever seen. Props to Ethan for bringing it back.
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I lurked back in the day but never joined the boards. My name’s Will, I was at UGA 1995-1999, and I’m currently sitting in the hospital with my wife while we wait for our son to be born and join our daughter in our happy little family.
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Oh and kudos to E. You’ll always be e-thank to me. Lol
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Hi, Matty , great to see you!
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Hi, nice to be here again. When I joined We Talk, as October, in 2000, I was already a middle-aged woman, so nothing life-changing, for good at least, has happened to me, a part getting older e retired.
Anyway my memory still works and I remember many of the usernames and people behind those, listed on here, so I welcome back all of you, and myself too!
Oh, I’m still Italian, so forget my English… Ciao 
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Hi! My name is Nick. I was on Murmurs when it was around, but I wasn’t very active. 
I discovered R.E.M. through my older brother when I was a kid. He was born in '82 so he was getting really into R.E.M. around Monster/Hi-Fi. He was obsessed and he would play their albums all day long. Michael and band pictures covering his walls.
I recall being probably 10 years old sitting in front of the TV watching Tourfilm and Road Movie over and over. They’ve been my favorite band since I was a kid.
Now I just write software for a living and record music in my spare time. Considering getting an R.E.M. tattoo, but not sure what to get.
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I have the Automatic star 
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I am in RI too!!!
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Hey Matty! Where are you writing now? You were at ESPN, right?
I am not sure if I was ever official a member of Murmurs, but I was certainly aware of it. I first saw R.E.M. open for the Police at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia (August 1983) two weeks before I started college. This very much makes me a stereotypical 1980s college kid R.E.M. fan, though my love for the band has long outlasted my college years. Back when Murmurs started, I had been married a few years and my wife Donna and I had the first of our two sons, who are now 24 and 19 years old.
Currently, I live in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Among other things, I write music reviews and features for the PopMatters website (I’ve reviewed the second Filthy Friends albums and the Minus 5’s amazing Stroke Manor). I am also a tour guide at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, so if any R.E.M./cemetery fans would like to do a meet-up/tour at LHC, I’d be quite prepared for that eventuality.
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That’s a classic! The thing with R.E.M. is they have such strong imagery but very little iconography if that makes sense. I love the early R.E.M. aesthetic – think “Life and How to Live It” single or “Driver 8” single, but it’s hard to boil down into something specific enough for a tattoo.
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Don’t remember who I was back then 
I was visiting the site once in a while mainly for info regarding bootlegs and other memorabilia, so I’ve a missed the camaraderie side…
Very happy the forum is back, as I guess we all are, aren’t we? 
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I’ll never forget your name, Matty, because I typed it on Murmurs like a million times, I guess. 
Great to see you again!
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How could we forget you Etty.
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Hi Etty!!! Good to see you. I know we’ve connected on FB, but life gets in the way and I fell off.
I hope you are doing well.
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