How do the darlings of Alternative fare when all their albums are ranked? Which should you buy? What is their average output? How much time do I really have on my hands?
Murmur: A+ (100)
Reckoning: A+ (100)
Lifes Rich Pageant: A+ (100)
Automatic for the People: A+ (100)
Accelerate: A (96)
Document: A- (92)
Chronic Town: A (95)
New Adventures in Hi Fi: B+ (89)
Out of Time: B- (82)
Monster: C- (73)
Fables of the Reconstruction: C- (71)
Green: D (66)
Reveal: D- (63)
Up: D- (61)
Around the Sun: D- (61)
REM Average Grade: 79 C+. Not too shabby considering how pisspoor those post Bill Berry records are. Let’s remove those from the equation and see what happens: 88. B+. Had they just stopped…..
