>57 years old >wears a septum piercing

he had the best 3-album streak in rock n roll history he can do what he wants

>Is god

>>74589352
lmao

>>74589352
get a load of this guy

>>74589352
REM sucks dude

>>74589411
>>74589451
>>74589480
Chronic Town -> Murmur -> Reckoning

>>74589352
hell be fine

>>74589352
So did many artists before him, but they never went this low desu.

>>74589514
CT is an EP

>>74589556
it's an album too

>>74589556
An EP is a type of album

>>74589352
Hmmm no. Not even the best 3-album streak from 80s.

>>74589625
But Murmur is the best album of the decade.

>>74589625
yeah huh

>>74589640
what the fuck

>>74589897
Now that I have your attention, find a flaw with Murmur.

>>74589897
It's a masterpiece
>>74589918
there is none

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>>74589314
Name our band, /mu/.

hes gay so its fine

>>74589314
Trying a little too hard to be down with the kids, eh, Mike?

>>74589352
I thought the OP was Fred Durst at first, which is why I agreed with this post.

>>74589514
>he doesn't rate Fables

>>74589995
it's a significant drop off from Reckoning
Chronic Town, Murmur, and Reckoning are 3 of the best albums ever imo...but Fables is just a good album. Nowhere near something like that. Automatic for the People is the one that comes close to their first 3 albums. Fables, Pageant, Document, Green, Out of Time are all good albums though. Just kind of far off from being GOAT albums.

>>74590064
Automatic for the People is pretty bad and Pageant is their 3rd best LP.

>>74590101
I love Pageant. I Believe and Fall On Me 2 of my favorite R.E.M. songs. But Pageant has tracks like What If We Give It away and Cuyahoga that are ok, but definitely not Chronic/Murmur/Reckoning level imo, whereas those 3 albums are perfect all the way through.

I think Automatic for the People is pretty good.

>losing my religion

More like Losing My Hair, amiriteguise?

>>74590137
Fall on Me gets old fast, the demo with the acid rain lyrics would have been a lot better to take to studio. As an album though it's their best sequenced and the only song I don't really think worth keeping is Swan Song H.
AftP has some beyond-reproach stuff like Man on the Moon and Drive but a lot of it is half-assed.

>>74590190
For the record half-assed stuff includes but is not limited to Sweetness Follows, Monty Got a Raw Deal, Ignoreland, and Everybody Hurts.

>>74590190
I think Automatic for the People actually has the more polish than their earlier stuff. It's a double-edged sword though. Part of the appeal of the earliest stuff is the amateurishness, especially Stipe's vocals. I definitely would not call Automatic half-assed at all.

>>74590243
I can kind of see what you mean with Ignoreland, since it comes off as somewhat 'thrown together'. I still prefer it to cuyahoga/what if we give it away

>>74589514
REM suck little faggot

>>74590291
When I hear Monty Got a Raw Deal it just sounds like they weren't sure if it would work better as an arena rock song or a sober folk ballad so they just tried to do both but it just sounds lazy and weak but that could just be me. It's still much better as an album than anything without Berry

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>>74589988

Sidewinder is one of the best songs on AFTP

Shit how is he that young

>>74590424
It is very good. My favorites are Try Not to Breathe and Find the River

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>>74589314

Top 3 R.E.M. songs go
>Laughing
>Wolves, Lower
>Driver 8

>>74590685
it's too impossible to pick 3...

>>74590706
Those are just the 3 I've been on the most recently.

>>74590725
Laughing and Wolves, Lower have always been two of my favorites. They're the songs every 'jangle' band wants to write.

>>74590685
>Shaking Through
>Superman
>Carnival of Sorts

Let the man be gay in peace