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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk you through R.E.M.'s history, albums, music, and influence.
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Episode 20: Finale from 2017-10-25T05:00
It's the end of the show as we know it (and we feel fine). This has been a great deal of fun, revisiting one of our favorite bands and thinking long and hard about what makes them special. We found...
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Episode 19: Collapse Into Now from 2017-10-11T13:00
R.E.M. goes out on a high note with Collapse Into Now, an album that takes a bit of a tour through the band's various styles over the years. It's impossible to say that the upward trend in the qual...
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Episode 18: Accelerate from 2017-09-27T10:30
R.E.M. pulls out of its nosedive with an album whose title also serves as its mission statement. It was lauded as a return to form for the band, compared to Lifes Rich Pageant, and talked up as the...
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Episode 17: Around the Sun from 2017-09-13T12:00
Well, this is it. The nadir. If you're thinking R.E.M. couldn't release an album as bad as Around the Sun's reputation would indicate, then we're sorry to tell you that they can. Up might have had ...
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Episode 16: Reveal from 2017-08-30T11:00
R.E.M. set out to make an idyllic album about summer, but instead made a product that showed the world just how comfortable they'd gotten. The highs are still high, but the search for what R.E.M.'s...
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Episode 15: Up from 2017-08-16T16:00
After the Bill Berry left the band, R.E.M. had to make the biggest adjustment of their 18 year career. Previous reinventions happened on their own time, and at their own discretion. The shifts into...
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Episode 14: Unplugged from 2017-08-02T20:00
Our second letters episode also looks at two MTV Unplugged performances, separated by a decade.
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Episode 13: New Adventures in Hi Fi from 2017-07-19T10:00
One last hurrah for the boys as we knew them. Hot off the Monster tour with some recordings in hand, R.E.M. was ready to make their best album in years. New Adventures in Hi-Fi meanders in all the ...
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Episode 12: Monster from 2017-07-05T10:00
Bigger, dumber, more inconsistent. Hot off the heels of their biggest success ever, R.E.M. was ready to tour again. And concurrently, Bill Berry gave the band an ultimatum: no more soft acoustic ja...
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Episode 11: Automatic for the People from 2017-06-21T10:00
Two cars in every garage, and a copy of "Automatic for the People" on every media shelf. The R.E.M. rocket is about to reach its apex, as our boys from Athens are riding high after "Out of Time" an...
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Episode 10: Out of Time from 2017-06-07T12:00
It took seven albums and 11 years, but R.E.M. finally got their breakthrough in 1991 with Out of Time. The overall album heads in the same direction as Green, but goes even further into mandolin we...
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Episode 9: Green from 2017-05-24T11:00
Warner Bros. signed R.E.M. at the height of their popularity as an alternative rock band. Imagine their surprise when the R.E.M. they got sounded nothing like the R.E.M. that released Document just...
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Episode 8: Document from 2017-05-10T10:00
Their first platinum record. Their first top ten single. Their first kinda bad album? It was 1987 and R.E.M. was staring down their last album with IRS. Continuing the trend from Lifes Rich Pageant...
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Episode 7: Dead Letter Office from 2017-04-26T10:00
We've already talked about most of the B-sides, so instead we turn to the mail bag to read your R.E.M. thoughts.
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Episode 6: Lifes Rich Pageant from 2017-04-12T10:00
The top half is R.E.M. at the top of their game, and the bottom half is, appropriately, some bullshit. After the misery of recording Fables of the Reconstruction, R.E.M. wanted a win. So they heade...
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Episode 5: Fables of the Reconstruction from 2017-03-23T18:00
The band didn't like it. The critics didn't like it. But we do. R.E.M.'s story so far has been one of effortless creativity. They worked very hard to make good things happen, but they also had the ...
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Episode 4: Reckoning from 2017-03-15T10:00
The members of R.E.M. were anxious about creating a followup to Murmur, so instead they created a masterpiece. Reckoning is all over the map when it comes to style and production, but it provides e...
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Episode 3: Murmur from 2017-03-01T10:00
Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross begin their journey through R.E.M.'s full-length discography in earnest, by discussing the deeply earnest album Murmur. Quiet, dark, and weird, it was unlike anything...
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Episode 2: Chronic Town from 2017-02-15T10:00
Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross discuss the music and production history of R.E.M.'s debut EP, "Chronic Town". It's an opening salvo that contains bits and pieces of everything the band would eventu...
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Episode 1: Do Not Open from 2017-02-01T10:00
Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross discuss the biographies of R.E.M.'s members, and the earliest years of the formation of the band. The links below are a comprehensive listening list, and we encourage...
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