Volume 28, Track 2
“Half a World Away” by R.E.M. (1991) Out of Time is the album that propelled R.E.M. into another stratosphere—mostly due to “Losing My Religion,” the seminal from-out-of-nowhere, ubiquitous hit single of the first half of the ’90s. The other reason that Out of Time hit such a mainstream nerve was that it was quite a [...]
Volume 28, Track 1
“Gardening at Night” by R.E.M. (1982) With all due respect to “Wolves, Lower,” the opening track on R.E.M.’s first EP Chronic Town and by proxy the very first song in R.E.M.’s catalog, “Gardening at Night” should have been the first song on the EP, the first song in their catalog. I love “Wolves, Lower”; I [...]
Volume 28 Introduction
R.E.M. is the first band that I fell completely in love with. It is no fluke that the very first song post of this site was a song of theirs. My oldest brother had the Eponymous CD, a best-of compilation from their I.R.S. label years, and I was hooked on R.E.M. from that point until [...]
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