Every REM up to monster has a case to be made for it as the band's peak imo, though green and out of time are a bit more on the hits-plus-jank side
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Album Rating: 4.0
Reckoning is the one I could never really get into from their early days
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Album Rating: 3.5
'Every REM up to monster has a case to be made for it as the band's peak imo, though green and out of time are a bit more on the hits-plus-jank side'
For me I can't see it, 'Murmur' has 'Radio Free', 'Pilgrimage', 'Laughing', 'Perfect Circle', 'Talk About the Passion' and 'Sitting Still'...think that just monsters (no pun intended) the competition in the early days.
I'd say 'Document' is being under appreciated in this thread maybe - that seems the closest to being another classic with 'One I Love', 'End of the World', 'Worksong', 'Occupation' (one of their best), 'Disturbance' and the underrated (maybe?) 'King of Birds'
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Album Rating: 4.5
I love that this album sounds like REM going 4AD
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Album Rating: 5.0
document is solid but it ranks pretty low for me. theres even records post berry id take over it. the opening four and last two songs are great but theyre all i really come back to
automatic and pageant are the 5s for me but this is super close to one. reckoning and murmur are just a hair short of that tier for me but i still love tf out of them and they show how insanely creative this band was even with the fewest ingredients
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Murmer
Pageant
Document
Reckoning
Automatic
This
Monster
Out of time
Green
POWER GAP
Aound the Sun
Still gotta check new adventures in hifi and imma let fate decide with those other post-berry albums
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Album Rating: 3.5
'the opening four and last two songs are great but theyre all i really come back to'
that is pretty darn contrarian to remove 'The One I Love and 'End of the World' from the 'best stuff' on 'Document'
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Album Rating: 5.0
aight if we rankin:
5/5 tier:
automatic
pageant
4.5 tier:
fables
reckoning
murmur
hi fi
out of time
4 tier:
chronic town
up
monster
accelerate
3.5 tier:
reveal
document
collapse into now
green
just jammed around the sun for the first time and it sucked ass lmao
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Album Rating: 5.0
and i mean i j dropped a list where up placed before document so im ok with having rem takes that deviate from the norm lol i think those songs are ok but im pretty tired of them at this point
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Album Rating: 3.5
1. Automatic [5]
2. Murmur [4.5]
3. Document [4]
4. LRP [3.5] (could be a 4, really tried over the years to like this that bit more but not yet)
5. Reckoning [3.5]
6. Fables [3.5]
7. Adventures [3.5]
8. Green [3.5] (need to listen to it more)
9. Out of Time [3] (should be a 3.5 only small problem half of this album is severely whack)
10. Monster [3] (need to listen to it more)
11. Up [3]
12. Reveal [2.5]
13. Collapse [2.5]
14. Accelerate [2.5]
15. Around [2] (the second half of this album is unbelievably awful, almost comically so)
NOTE: 3.5 equates to 'excellent' for me though
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Album Rating: 5.0
Automatic
This
Murmur
Reckoning
Green
Pageant
Hi fi
Document
Out of Time
Accelerate
Monster
Up
Haven’t yet listened to the other three they seem boring
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Re: the big singles on Document, I do find that end of the world sounds a little thin and basic after a decade of listens, not bad by any means but I'd definitely put it in the lower half of a track ranking
The one I love on the other hand hot DAMN what a rocker, "a simple prop to occupy my time" is such an unbelievably savage burn
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Album Rating: 5.0
i actually like the one i love less out of the two lol it feels like rem by the numbers to me and stipes one note chorus is kinda boring imo. there j isnt anything that really perks my ear but it happens at least they have like 100 other songs that do lmao
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I mean it's rem by numbers in that they basically did the same song again on the next album and called it Orange Crush lmfao
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Album Rating: 5.0
and thats why orange crush is one of my least fav rem songs lol that one i cant dig
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Album Rating: 3.5
End of the World feels close to a novelty song in their discog
But also it would be one of the best novelty songs ever in indiedom
Been listening to the band so long some songs I got bored of I’ve gone full circle back around to I guess
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Album Rating: 3.5
My Top 10 songs would be something like:
1. Find the River
2. Fall on Me
3. Welcome to the Occupation
4. Perfect Circle
5. The Great Beyond
6. Sweetness Follows
7. Life and How to Live It
8. Electrolite
9. Drive
10. Driver 8
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Good choices doof.
The Great Beyond is a bloody belter.
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Album Rating: 4.0
In terms of the big Document singles I've never really liked It's the End of the World much tbh.
The One I Love on the other hand is a top 5 R.E.M. track, great song.
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Album Rating: 3.5
The big exclusions of 'Losing My Religion', 'Radio Free Europe', 'Nightswimming' and 'The One I Love' would make a top 20
'Everybody Hurts' and 'End of the World' a top 30
I think 'Nightswimming' and 'Everybody Hurts' are the ones that have dropped the most for me over time, 'Nightswimming' in particular used to be top three back in the day for me - says a lot about 'Automatic' that other songs have taken their place.
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