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RepoMan
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- #11
- Posted: 07/11/2014 14:11
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Of THE BIG THREE (The Cure, REM, The Smiths) of 80s College Rock, R.E.M.’s catalog has aged the worse, but I still love them immensely. Here’s my ranking of their 80s catalog…
Essential
1. Murmur
Solid Additions
2. Reckoning
3. Fables of Reconstruction
4. Dead Letter Office/Chronic Town
5. Document
For Drakoniums Only (  )
6. Life’s Rich Pageant
7. Green
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Patman360
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Location: Cork, Ireland
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- #12
- Posted: 07/11/2014 14:46
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| RepoMan wrote: | | Of THE BIG THREE (The Cure, REM, The Smiths) of 80s College Rock, R.E.M.’s catalog has aged the worse, but I still love them immensely. |
I'd probably put most of R.E.M.'s 80's stuff ahead of most of The Cure's 80's stuff, easily (Except the 'Boys Don't Cry' compilation...), and I really like The Cure still, maybe I'm just weird though.
My Ranking:
1. Green
2. Murmur (These 2 are pretty much equal though, just one place between them in my decade chart)
3. Document
4. Lifes Rich Pageant
5. Reckoning
6. Fables Of The Reconstruction
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sp4cetiger
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- #13
- Posted: 07/11/2014 15:06
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My general feeling about R.E.M. is the closer they are to their post-punk roots, the more I tend to like them. I can understand why they didn't want to be a one-trick pony later in their career, but their first trick was the only one that really interested me.
I still like this one, though, and it makes for good beach listening (guess where I am). "Fall on Me" is a classic.
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mickilennial
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Location: Detroit
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- #14
- Posted: 07/11/2014 21:40
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| Patman360 wrote: | I'd probably put most of R.E.M.'s 80's stuff ahead of most of The Cure's 80's stuff, easily (Except the 'Boys Don't Cry' compilation...), and I really like The Cure still, maybe I'm just weird though.
My Ranking:
1. Green
2. Murmur (These 2 are pretty much equal though, just one place between them in my decade chart)
3. Document
4. Lifes Rich Pageant
5. Reckoning
6. Fables Of The Reconstruction |
Automatic for the People
Document
Lifes Rich Pageant
Fables of the Reconstruction
Collapse Into Now
Out of Time
Green
Monster
Reckoning
Murmur
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Up
Reveal
Around the Sun
Accelerate
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Goodsir
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- Posted: 07/11/2014 21:58
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Probably the best of both worlds between their early phase and their later phase. Great album, but I still prefer most of their other 80s output over it.
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Secondsoul
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Location: Ireland
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- #16
- Posted: 07/11/2014 22:11
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Not one of my favourites from the band though it does have the brilliant Fall on Me on it. Fables is better as Wendell Gee is just as beautiful as Fall on Me and it also has Can't Get There From Here as well. Though, for me, the best album they recorded in the eighties was Murmur which is top quality the whole way through. There are just too many lows on LRP such as Underneath the Bunker which is just pointless filler!
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