Album Rating: 5.0

Laughing is alongside Radio Free Europe, and Moral Kiosk for my top 3 songs off of this.

Album Rating: 5.0

Here we go: Bare in mind every song for me is 4.6-5



Pilgrimage

Radio Free Europe

West of the Fields

Talk About the Passion

Laughing

Sitting Still

Perfect Circle

Catapult

Moral Kiosk

9-9

We Walk

Shaking Through

Album Rating: 5.0

Hard to pick, since I love almost every song on this, but my top 3 would Radio Free Europe, Pilgrimage and Sitting Still.



Edit: Nice ranking @zak!

Album Rating: 5.0

Taking into account this is a debut, it takes a step into a previously unheard of ‘alternative rock’ sound while the band play as real cohesive unit, with some of the best backing vocals of all time layered over some of the best guitar jangle ever heard it’s an unparalleled 5.

Album Rating: 4.0

catapult is by far my least fave

Album Rating: 5.0

The ‘did we miss anything’ bit is an album highlight for me.

I much prefer the Hib-Tone version of Radio Free Europe. I love this album a lot but I think I’d put Chronic Town, Reckoning, and Lifes Rich Pageant above it

Album Rating: 5.0

I have Life’s Rich Pageant on vinyl like a shleb. Absolutely love all the I.R.S stuff the absolute pinnacle for me though is Automatic for the People.

Album Rating: 4.5

Pilgrimage, Talk About the Passion, and West of the Fields are my top 3

Album Rating: 5.0

Nice one mate. West of The Fields is bloody underrated

Album Rating: 5.0

Yes, considering stamping a 5 on this

Album Rating: 5.0

This is one album where I cannot understand a 1.5-2.5 rating.

Definition of a throwaway listen and insta-rate.

Album Rating: 4.5

I'm not really sure what one's taste would have to be for this to be a 1.5



No small matter that this is unquestionably their masterpiece, given how consistently great they were throughout the 80s

I pretty much unilaterally don’t like anything after Document, save a few songs here and there, and even Document is kinda eh to me. Chronic Town is pinnacle for me, but LRP just adds the tiniest dash of something that breathed new life into their music, that they then went totally overboard with for Document and onwards

Album Rating: 4.5

Man. Document just has so much top shelf stuff. Disturbance at the Heron House is like a top 10 REM deep cut for me

There’s just too much 90s rem in the mix for me, tho it has been a while so I may revisit soon

Album Rating: 5.0

Document is a bit too 80s polish but it does have some classics on it.

Album Rating: 5.0

document is super inconsistent imo. my least favorite of the IRS years

Album Rating: 4.5

Honestly I prefer Green to Document. Probably just as consistent but I like the weaker tracks on Green more than Document’s weaker songs, helps that I have a soft spot for Stand

Album Rating: 4.0

green is better as document yeah