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I miss the comfort in being sad

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Also fun fact:

They recorded the majority of this album while on tour with Radiohead opening for them.
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How I do R.E.M.: (not that anyone asked)

Green R.E.M. 1988 1 100
Automatic For The People R.E.M. 1992 1 96.2
Accelerate R.E.M. 2008 3 95.4
Eponymous R.E.M. 1988 3 92.5
Monster R.E.M. 1994 4 91.6
Murmur R.E.M. 1983 3 90.8
Out Of Time R.E.M. 1991 5 90
Collapse Into Now R.E.M. 2011 4 89.5
New Adventures In Hi-Fi R.E.M. 1996 3 87.5
Up R.E.M. 1998 3 87.5
Around The Sun R.E.M. 2004 6 87.3
Fables Of The Reconstruction R.E.M. 1985 1 86.8
Document R.E.M. 1987 3 86.8
Chronic Town R.E.M. 1982 3 85
Reckoning R.E.M. 1984 5 84
Lifes Rich Pageant R.E.M. 1986 7 83.3
Reveal R.E.M. 2001 12 79
Dead Letter Office R.E.M. 1987 23 70
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sethmadsen wrote:
rkm wrote:
Thanks Seth. I didn't know that one existed. It might be more than enough for me.

I was going to ask you at what point you felt R.E.M. began to suck (as a parallel to U2), but it would seem they never sucked for you. I haven't listened past New Adventures In Hi-Fi.


Actually yes. I don't feel like R.E.M. ever reached a status where I lost respect for them. The did the right thing and threw in the towel. Were some of their efforts not as amazing, sure. Were there still amazing tracks and still overall the album was above average and often better than other artists best efforts, absolutely.

I will say Reveal and Around the Sun are pretty weak, but still not terrible.

Here's a great song per album after this album (imo):
A sequel to Houston and full of that R.E.M. sincerity I love:

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One of my favorite sayings and it's nice to hear R.E.M. do this style better this time imo:

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The lyrics on this are just pure gold politically and the music ain't too shabby either, even if slow burner:

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I like this twang they can do, yet can still have that beautiful mockery, combined with the influence of UP

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I love how this builds up to the guitar with the strings in the beginning and then it just explodes. The beat is pretty sick too. The swagger of the vocals is pretty solid.

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Very good selections Applause
Aftermath is also a great track from Around the Sun. Some of Stipes' best lyrics IMHO.
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