My first friend in Middle School, John, recently posted R.E.M.’s EP, Chronic Town, in his Facebook retrospective. Which, instead of…
R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now – 2011 Everything on Collapse Into Now sounds like something else. By that I mean…
How do the darlings of Alternative fare when all their albums are ranked? Which should you buy? What is their…
R.E.M. – Accelerate – 2008 Well, this is different. Did someone have a sitdown with Mikey and shake him and…
R.E.M. – Around the Sun – 2004 Peter Buck said that for him Around the Sun “… just wasn’t really…
How do you answer the world when your first album as a trio is roundly, soundly and decidedly shunned by…
R.E.M. – Up – 1998 For years I’ve always felt that Michael Stipe wanted REM to be the American Radiohead.…
R.E.M. – New Adventures in Hi Fi – 1996 When New Adventures came out my brother asked me what I…
R.E.M. – Monster – 1994 (My apologies for the scattershot writing below, I am listening to the record while writing…
R.E.M. – Automatic for the People – 1992 After all that over production the year before, all of which led…