R.E.M. 
Aliases: Bingo Hand Job.
The best album credited to R.E.M. is Automatic For The People which is ranked number 45 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 18,934.
R.E.M. is ranked number 15 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 57,567.
R.E.M. official website: http://remhq.com
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R.E.M. best albums
The following albums by R.E.M. are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:
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R.E.M. best tracks
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R.E.M. ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| 05/07/2026 23:44 | seaniedimes_ | 49 | 80/100 | |
| 04/13/2026 12:06 |  NowhereMan | 119 | 80/100 | |
| 10/30/2025 20:47 | kinginsomniac12 | 61 | 100/100 | |
| 06/07/2025 16:13 | Invader666 | 337 | 71/100 | |
| 04/15/2025 12:20 |  doombringer | 203 | 85/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 1% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 84.0/100, a mean average of 83.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.2/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 15.0.
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Another one of the hip BEA bands/critic darling bands that is exactly where they belong, IMO. A strong top-20 band.
I've been a huge R.E.M. fan since I bought my first album of theirs, Murmur, Back in 1983 from the fantastic Rough Trade West in Notting Hill. Loved them then, love them now,
Document is their finest achievement amongst so many phenomenal albums that they have produced over such a long career, One of the true great bands of all time
Having just done a complete review of REM albums ~ my overall judgement is that they are OK - a few excellent songs and a couple of better than average albums in the early 90's. I didn't find their 80's albums all that interesting - but I can appreciate how their music would affect different people in different ways.
Great songs all over the place, above all at the beginning
I really dont get why my cousin likes them....or my two brothers, or my parents...what am I missing
And I'll never understand why they're not in the top 10.
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DeusExMackia 11/18/2020 22:13 | #261057
R.E.M. have utterly enamoured me for nigh on 10 of the 23 years I've been on this planet for. My ever-long love for sounds that delve into the American psyche and expose it has kept me coming back, and in some extra-political, attitude focused way, R.E.M. do it in a way like no one else. You feel a sublime desolation, a triumph that things are the way they are - no matter how bad - with every record. Dividing their discography into individual albums feels wrong, theirs was a never-ending work that captured something beyond the realms of conventional alternative rock. An all time favourite band of mine.
They are a band that i have growen to like more and more over the years. Made a lot of good albums.
Goliath 09/07/2020 17:42 | #257866
The best U.S. band and one of the few capable of producing multiple great albums. Not many acts can boast 9 albums in the BEA top 1000.
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