CD-Charts Position 1
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Accelerate

by: R.E.M.

Release Date April 01, 2008
Though Reveal had some lovely moments, this is the first
example of REM sounding like a "complete" band since Bill Berrys retirement. Power and passion!!! Awesome!!!

CD-Charts Position 2
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In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003

by: R.E.M.

Release Date October 28, 2003
My husband has learned Everybody Hurts on the piano and will be singing it to me soon, Love the song and artist REM!

CD-Charts Position 3
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Murmur

by: R.E.M.

Release Date October 25, 1990
REM is constantly one of the best Rock n Roll bands ever. Spanning over three decades (more to come) and releasing so many CDs that I have an entire row of my CD rack dedicated to them, this is one of my favorites. You can really see how they became superstars after listening to this one. There's nothing else I can say but BUY THIS CD AND LISTEN TO IT UNTIL YOU WEAR THROUGH IT AND NEED TO BUY ANOTHER ONE.

CD-Charts Position 4
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Automatic for the People

by: R.E.M.

Release Date October 06, 1992
The fact that U2's Bono called this 'the greatest country record never made' says enough. This album is incredible.

Every song on the album is a stand-out. The hits such as "Drive", "Everybody Hurts", and "Man on the Moon" speak for themselves.

The brilliant "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite", may seem a bit out of place. Peter Buck says the following in the sleevenotes to The Best of REM: "We included this song on Automatic in order to break the prevailing mood of the album. Given that lyrically the record dealt with mortality, the passage of time, suicide and family, we felt that a light spot was needed. In retrospect, the consensus among the band is that this might be a little too lightweight."

Although not a major ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 5
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Out of Time

by: R.E.M.

Release Date March 12, 1991
Here it is 17 years later, and I'm still listening to this CD. Every song on here is awesome. A timeless classic.

CD-Charts Position 6
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Document

by: R.E.M.

Release Date January 27, 1998
"Document" was R.E.M.'s first breakout album that took them out of the obscurity of indie rock. Although R.E.M.'s guitars and Stipe's voice are louder, they added some cool guitar effects and some saxophones too.

Although this album eliminated R.E.M.'s softy band status temporarily, this album added a stadium sound that increased R.E.M.'s accessibility. After all, listeners had a hard time hearing the words in R.E.M.'s first albums. In fact, with the opening track, "Finest Worksong," Stipe shows off his stadium voice, bellowing "The time to rise has been engaged/You'd better best to rearrange." As guitars blast in the background, Stipe calls people to take their instinct by the reins.

R.E.M. also prove that they can still sing great soft songs, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 7
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Lifes Rich Pageant

by: R.E.M.

Release Date January 27, 1998
This is a very good album. Some people think it's the group's best, and indeed it's up there - for my part, I prefer the damn sellout (Yeah, Exhuming McCarthey's a commercial song, all right) Document. However, this is probably their second-best album. It pounds even the most acclaimed of the group's '90s work into the ground, too. I mean, Out of Time? A glorified single release for Losing My Religion? Get outta town! And Automatic for the People? A bunch of really good singles and absolutely wretched album tracks? It doesn't have a chance! And as for Around the Sun...

Come on, do you need anyone here to tell you that this is better than Around the Sun?

Anyway, let's get down to business here. The fog that was Fables of the Reconstruction had lifted, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 8
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Reckoning

by: R.E.M.

Release Date October 25, 1990
This album was another great release in the same style as Murmur. R.E.M. at this point had established themselves in the music circuit with their jangly Rickenbacher guitars along with singer Michael Stipes' sweet, yet slightly muffled vocals. Not to forget the other members who make R.E.M.-Billy Berry with his hard hitting sturdy drumming amd the melodic bass of Mike Mills.

This release is a bit tighter and stronger than their first as heard on "Harbercoat" and "7 Chinese Bros.", because of it's overall meatier rhythm. Then it has "So. Central Rain", a mournful moody ballad about a love lost. which we all have experienced. The song "Pretty Persuasion" delivers in a big, hard hitting way as a perfect rock song. Overall the band still doesn't disappoint, with each song on ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 9
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Green

by: R.E.M.

Release Date October 25, 1990
R.E.M.-Green ***1/2

First off, Green is not that bad of an album. Though it isn't that great of an album either, especially for a group like R.E.M. Now I am not going to get into the whole sellout thing. Whether R.E.M. sold out with the release of Green is neither here nor there. Good tunes is good tunes, and if a album has good tunes does it really matter if they sold or not? No. The issue is that R.E.M. doesn't do mainstream very well. At least in the 1980's they didn't because they didn't really know how to yet.

'Pop Song 89' is a clever and intelligent piece of satire from Mr. Stipe. Peter Buck also plays a really cool guitar riff throughout. 'Get Up' is catchy and really does sound like a typical 1989 pop song... irony kills. 'Stand' is annoying and not worthy of an ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 10
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Eponymous

by: R.E.M.

Release Date January 27, 1998
R.E.M.'s music is among the most influential of all-time. Their hits like 'Orange Crush' and 'Losing My Religion' still get played on FM radio stations everyday.

But, unfortunately, their early years are overlooked for their more famous Warner Bros. recordings. And that's a real shame, because R.E.M.'s best music came from their years on the IRS label, which is now owned by Capitol.

This set, 'Eponymous' is the set to own if you are just starting your R.E.M. collection. It's got all of the major early IRS recordings from 1983-1988. I can't get enough of songs like 'Radio Free Europe,' 'The One I Love' and 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It,' all of which appear on this set.

And, Capitol gets tons of credit for remastering all of these classics. In translation, ... Read More: