Album of the day (#442): Murmur by R.E.M.

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Today's album of the day

Murmur by R.E.M. (View album)

Year: 1983.
Overall rank: 165.
Average rating: 81/100 (from 213 votes).



Tracks:
1. Radio Free Europe
2. Pilgrimage
3. Laughing
4. Talk About The Passion
5. Moral Kiosk
6. Perfect Circle
7. Catapult
8. Sitting Still
9. 9-9
10. Shaking Through
11. We Walk
12. West Of The Fields

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety.
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Masterpiece.
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Love it! I saw them perform on David Letterman...and ran out to buy the album the very next day.
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An important album, the band, which became its thanks to the so-called "great hope" and later "a large brandy." You/I have to dig it out again and listen for a long time.
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Exceptional! For me this was the start of the American alt-rock scene of the next 10/15 years, REM were the first great American 'indie' band. I'll never get sick of this album, I love it!

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Nice but great... I'm not an R.E.M admirer anyways, always preferred The Smiths.
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REM's best, probably. Anyway, great record. I still listen to it often, "Pilgrimage" is probably the band's masterpiece.
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I love this album so much. It's got Peter Buck's jangley guitar sound and mumbled almost indecipherable lyrics of Michael Stipe and Mike Mills melodic bass playing (Why the hell am I only one that thinks he's a great bass player?) that would become R.E.M.'s trademark for years to come. But Murmur also has a a sort of eerie and mysterious quality to it that keeps the listener coming back again and again. You can't really unpack it the first, or even second time you listen to it. It's quite a special album. It's a thing of beauty, made by one of the greatest American rock bands of all time, and it was only their first LP! Applause
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"Perfect Circle" is indeed perfect. A good flow and very consistent, kickass debut.
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Best track: Radio Free Europe
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