It's a documented fact that few rock bands--even the "great" ones--ever make more than a handful of great records. And even fewer are able to maintain a level of...
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After IRS folded in the mid-'90s, EMI acquired the R.E.M. catalog, and once the company reached its 100th birthday in 1997, they released a series of limited-edition albums...
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Turning away from the sweet pop of Out of Time, R.E.M. created a haunting, melancholy masterpiece with Automatic for the People. At its core, the album is a collection of...
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Arriving mere months before Document took the group into the Top Ten, the B-sides and rarities collection Dead Letter Office sums up all of the quirks and idiosyncrasies...
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The first full album and still the best, partly because it was so unexpected. Leaps and bounds above Chronic Town. One of the best albums of the...
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Leaving behind the garagey jangle pop of their first recordings, R.E.M. developed a strangely subdued variation of their trademark sound for their full-length debut album,...
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Basically a singles collection from R.E.M.'s first five albums, Eponymous gives the listener a sense of the band's change from folk-rock to rock. The songs are intelligently...
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As far as major-label debuts by underground bands go, Green is fairly uncompromising. While it displays a more powerful guitar sound on "Get Up," "Turn You Inside Out," and...
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For their third album, R.E.M. made a conscious effort to break from the traditions Murmur and Reckoning established, electing to record in England with legendary folk-rock...
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Stipe gets vocal clarity and R.E.M. rocks with a big drum sound courtesy of John Mellencamp producer Don Gehman. Contains the should-have-been-hit "Fall On...
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Fables of the Reconstruction was intentionally murky, and Lifes Rich Pageant was constructed as its polar opposite. Teaming with producer Don Gehman, who previously worked...
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R.E.M. abandoned the enigmatic post-punk experiments of Murmur for their second album, Reckoning, returning to their garage pop origins instead. Opening with the ringing...
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Chronic Town established R.E.M.'s signature sound immediately, expanding the jangling riffs of their debut single, "Radio Free Europe," into a full-fledged modus operandi....
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Engaging and bittersweet, the mega-alternative pop/rock trio of Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, and Mike Mills present here their first glimpse of 1998's release Up with this...
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The single release of "Tongue" contains the LP version of the title track, backed by pleasant but unremarkable live versions (all recorded at Saturday Night Live) of three...
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This two-song single is electrically charged with beautiful melodies and crafty musicianship by Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe. "The Great Beyond" is a dreamy,...
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There is no sure mathematical formula to figure out the precise moment when a band has exceeded its life expectancy. But the result is always the same. Their records sound...
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Give 'em credit for realizing that Up was a dead-end, an avenue paved with forced experimentalism that signified nothing. Dock them points for harboring the desire to wander...
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This import collection highlights the band's formative years on the independent IRS label. Though it lacks the alternate mixes that spurred completists to purchase 1988's...
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R.E.M. began their Warner contract in 1988 as the biggest band to emerge from the college-radio-fueled American underground. Fifteen years later, they released In Time: The...
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R.E.M. began their Warner contract in 1988 as the biggest band to emerge from the college-radio-fueled American underground. Fifteen years later, they released In Time: The...
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Leaving behind the garagey jangle pop of their first recordings, R.E.M. developed a strangely subdued variation of their trademark sound for their full-length debut album,...
more >
R.E.M. abandoned the enigmatic post-punk experiments of Murmur for their second album, Reckoning, returning to their garage pop origins instead. Opening with the ringing...
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