I fucking adore this album, there's nothing else like it and nothing else in their discography comes close.

Reckoning and Fables aren't THAT different.

>>126702093
They are different in that they are not nearly as good produced and dreamy and half of them being filler

>>126702049 (OP)
It's alright

>>126702113
Well, you’re just wrong.

>>126702178
I 100% like those albums more than you

>>126702049 (OP)
It's just decent jangle pop. Don't get why is so overrated?

>>126702346
It's simply not for you
You get it or you don't

>>126702049 (OP)
>there's nothing else like it
Not exactly, but there are a few contenders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOScXLhn7gA

>>126702049 (OP)
It's their best album but you can't go wrong with any 80s R.E.M. album.

>>126702049 (OP)
Nightswimming mogs every single song on it.

>>126702697
If you're a soulless subhuman NPC golem, yeah, can't argue with that

>>126702710
I’m not one of those and it still mogs every single song on Murmur, so whether you’re a soulless subhuman NPC golem is irrelevant.

>>126702740
You literally are one of those though for thinking that though

>>126702767
Swing and a miss.

>>126703089
Well duh, another reason for why you're one is not having any self awareness

>>126703145
All this for not just accepting whatever opinions Big Music tells me to have like you?

For me, it's pilgrimage

>>126702595
Also some of the LA paisley groups like Three O'Clock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umPnSva3q0s

But most of these are brisk and post-punk like Radio Free Europe. I don't know who else was doing the pastoral songs from Murmur like >>126704702

>>126704649
ok now there's no way you are not being ironic with this post

>>126702346
Shut up, bitch

>>126702049 (OP)
It's one of the best albums ever, OP.
You're right.

>>126705116
REM fans, ladies and gentlemen.

>>126705212
Gain taste

>>126702049 (OP)
Why is it so much better than anything else they did, tho?
Every song on Murmur is beyond excellent but nothing quite comes close to Murmur and if anything it just kept getting worse.

>>126705273
Wrong

>>126705273
Some bands shoot their load the first time out

>>126705380
>shoot their load the first time out
>band has 9 more amazing albums after this
This board is so fucking retarded

>>126704976
You think OP would be sperging out this hard if Murmur wasn’t the critical darling it is? Not likely.

>>126705775
I'm OP and I never saw a critic recommending it or talking about it because I don't follow critics or music magazines, I listened to it out of my own interest for the band, and I'm "sperging out" simply bc I feel very passionate about music, something a lowly animal like you can't even begin to conceive, you need to stop projecting

>>126705925
>Highest rated REM album RYM
>Second Highest Rated on AOTY
>Deluxe edition gets a 10 on p4k
>165 out of Rolling Stones top 500 albums ever
>Hurr durr I've never seen a critic like this album

>>126705273
it's the only one where every song is good

>>126705939
You did a lot of checking around about this album, huh?

>>126705939
do you have any idea how pathetic and retarded you sound?
Yes, I don't care what critics say about it, I didn't listen to it because it was highly rated, I thought automatic for the people was the one "critics" loved, I don't use those websites

laughing is pretty good

>>126706085
it makes me cry

>>126706281
then why isnt it called crying?

>>126702049 (OP)
Reckoning is the same thing but better though

>>126704702
it's gained momentum

I fucking love REM so much bros

Murmur 9/10
Reckoning 7/10
Fables 5/10
Pageant 8/10
Document 7/10
Green 7/10
Out of Time 8/10
Automatic 9/10

>>126707396
>Fables 5/10
u wot m8

>>126707405
i just find it a bit flat and boring, especially the second half. cosy listen when i'm in the mood. some 10/10 tracks too

>>126706482
Not as consistent

Life's Rich Pageant is R.E.M's best album, and it's also the best alternative rock album ever made. Murmur is really good though. My favorites are Laughing and Sitting Still, but specifically this version of Sitting Still, where michael gives a vocal take that makes you feel like he's going to die on the spot if he isn't able to get this song out. what a great band damn


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2ocaJ36ajk

Orange Crush is my favorite REM song

>>126707575
excellent choice. for me, it's Texarkana

>>126705116
fuck off faggot bitch

>>126702049 (OP)
ween stomps this band

>>126707575
I prefer Crush with Eyeliner

>>126708380
nice

>2025
>R.E.M. continues to evade mass resurgence in popularity with zoom zooms
peak comfy band, i hope they stay unruined forever.

>>126702049 (OP)
>>126702595
>>126705273
It’s hardly any different to Chronic Town, both in sound and quality

>>126702049 (OP)
i think i prefer reckoning, but i agree after that rem is pretty hit or miss for me.

>>126707396
nothing post green is more than a 5

>>126707575
>>126708380
>my favorite REM song is extremely overplayed REM song that a lot of people that know nothing about REM or music in general would also say is their favorite REM song

what drove you to post this? seriously, why do dumb people think they are entitled to speak on matters they know nothing of?

>>126710327
>no stop liking things!

>>126710327
For me, it's Losing My Religion

>>126710335
I don't believe you really like anything

>>126702049 (OP)
I think Murmur is both too long and too self-similar. Radio Free really sets you up nicely, but as you reach the 20 minute mark it becomes very tedious. The affect changes not at all throughout. If the album were around 30 minutes, I think it would have been something special.

>>126710375
>sitting all the way though an album that is not a concept album

peak retard behavior

>>126710400
Yeah fine, but if it were 30 mins long I would have been a much more satisfied retard.

>>126710407
you do understand albums are how long you want them to be right? listen to some of the songs then the rest later, no one told you to listen to all of them in a row

>>126710336
good song

>>126710439
You really are a genius. Come to think of it, concept albums are also as long as I want them to be, usually zero songs.

>>126710336
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U49R91-Xywc

>>126704888
>I don't know who else was doing the pastoral songs
How about an album that is almost called Murmur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZBkCxvX9og

>>126707396
>Fables having that score
Nigga WHAT?

>>126711206
I thought of them but they're too zany and choppily postmodern to match REM's vibe.