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		<title>Volume 28, Track 14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Stumble&#8221; by R.E.M. (1982) &#8220;Stumble&#8221; is the track that ends the Chronic Town EP and of the five tracks on the EP it is the most indicative of a band&#8217;s first recording, as its inconsistencies are both mildly maddening and weirdly charming. The track starts off with Michael Stipe laughing and what sounds like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume 28, Track 13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Toys in the Attic&#8221; by R.E.M. (1987) Monster took many people by surprise when it was released in 1994, what with its loud guitars and its overall let&#8217;s-be-rock-stars-now sound. And while it was easy to think that R.E.M. had embraced a new sound from out of nowhere (the previous albums Automatic for the People, Out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume 28, Track 12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;New Orleans Instrumental No. 1&#8243; by R.E.M. (1992) When I was in high school I had a t-shirt that had the front cover of Automatic for the People on the front of the shirt and the back cover on the back. I got a lot of mileage out of the shirt; it was a black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume 28, Track 11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Second Guessing&#8221; by R.E.M. (1984) Here are the lyrics to &#8220;Second Guessing,&#8221; the song that opens side two (Right) on Reckoning: &#8220;Why&#8217;re you trying to second guess me? I am tired of second guessing What will be your look this season? Who will be your book this season? (chorus) Here we are, here we are, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume 28, Track 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Exhuming McCarthy&#8221; by R.E.M. (1987) &#8220;You&#8217;re beautiful, more beautiful than me/You&#8217;re honorable, more honorable than me/Loyal to the Bank of America&#8221; are the opening lyrics of &#8220;Exhuming McCarthy.&#8221; The intro of the song involves a typewriter, the solo includes the audio from when Joseph Welch confronted Joseph McCarthy during the Army hearings, and in between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume 28, Track 9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What If We Give It Away?&#8221; by R.E.M. (1986) Back when vinyl and cassettes were the only music formats&#8212;back when there were two sides to an album&#8212;R.E.M. had a habit of naming each side, especially during their I.R.S. years. On Lifes Rich Pageant, the band&#8217;s environmentally conscious breakthrough album, side one was called &#8220;Dinner side&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume 28, Track 8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;White Tornado&#8221; by R.E.M. (1987) The B-side to &#8220;Superman,&#8221; &#8220;White Tornado&#8221; was recorded on the same day that &#8220;Radio Free Europe&#8221; was back in 1981 (and I&#8217;m pretty sure it was the original Hib-Tone version of &#8220;Radio Free Europe&#8221; and not the I.R.S. version, if I&#8217;m not mistaken). &#8220;White Tornado&#8221; clocks in at just under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume 28, Track 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Tongue&#8221; by R.E.M. (1994) &#8220;Anybody can get laid&#8221; The above lyric always taunted me when I listened to this song when I was sixteen years old and was still a virgin. The context of the song didn&#8217;t matter; it felt like Michael Stipe was personally fucking with me. Anybody can get laid&#8212;except for me. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume 28, Track 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Binky the Doormat&#8221; by R.E.M. (1996) New Adventures in Hi-Fi is the album I consider to be R.E.M.&#8217;s swan song, and I imagine that I am not alone in this regard. This is the last album that drummer Bill Berry would appear on and, while I love Stipe, Buck, and Mills, it just never felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume 28, Track 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Shaking Through&#8221; by R.E.M. (1983) If I were in high school or college listening to Murmur for the first time when it was released in 1983, I imagine that I would be blown away by the first side. Then I would flip the album over to side two and be impressed with &#8220;Catapult&#8221; and &#8220;Sitting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume 28, Track 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;King of Birds&#8221; by R.E.M. (1987) The penultimate song on Document, &#8220;King of Birds&#8221; starts with a quasi-Middle Eastern feel, followed by a nice marching beat by Bill Berry. It grows into a mellow number that finds Michael Stipe&#8217;s vocals layered on top of one another during the chorus. When the song reaches its climax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume 28, Track 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Voice of Harold&#8221; by R.E.M. (1987) Dead Letter Office is a collection of B-sides that never saw the day of light on the radio, or on MTV. (The album&#8217;s title is named after the USPS office that holds undeliverable mail.) &#8220;Voice of Harold,&#8221; the B-side of &#8220;So. Central Rain,&#8221; is the most interesting track on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume 28, Track 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Half a World Away&#8221; by R.E.M. (1991) Out of Time is the album that propelled R.E.M. into another stratosphere&#8212;mostly due to &#8220;Losing My Religion,&#8221; the seminal from-out-of-nowhere, ubiquitous hit single of the first half of the &#8217;90s. The other reason that Out of Time hit such a mainstream nerve was that it was quite a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume 28, Track 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Gardening at Night&#8221; by R.E.M. (1982) With all due respect to &#8220;Wolves, Lower,&#8221; the opening track on R.E.M.&#8217;s first EP Chronic Town and by proxy the very first song in R.E.M.&#8217;s catalog, &#8220;Gardening at Night&#8221; should have been the first song on the EP, the first song in their catalog. I love &#8220;Wolves, Lower&#8221;; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume 28 Introduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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