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patrionlector
This album is very bleak and mystical close to their other approaches, either in lyricism or atmosphere, which make this album really special (i'd say i feel the same with the first Smiths record, it hits different than the others); my favorite by them. Really well rounded compositions with insane replay value.
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liliumangels
Один из главных альбомов музыки вообще. Крутить его на повторе в одиночестве есть высшее благо.
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franconia_2022
amazing album, i hated it the first listen but eventually it stuck to me. 12 of the most pure, concise, and catchy songs a single band can write, and for a damn debut album it's nearly unprecedented.
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nfopuhfxir
I find it interesting how this album has a reputation for having difficult to understand vocals, and modern day trap rap based mainly in georgia is often derided for being hard to understand as well(to further this comparison, R.E.M. has it's the end of the world as we know it, which is almost a hip-hop song). I guess "mumbling" is just part of southern musical dna.
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funeralsummer
I’m southern too, as I get older I realize I was mostly correctly hearing the lyrics but doubting myself because of the weird adjective noun pairs
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Musical_Weasel
With most debut albums, one can assume that the band will go either way. Murmur showcases a band ready to take the world by storm while also solidifying alternative rock.
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MisterJunior
The best R.E.M. record still after all these years, IMO (unless one of the few I've not really delved into happens to be better, though I find that unlikely). I respect them and like a good deal of their music but this is one of just a handful of their albums that I've really embraced wholeheartedly over the years. Really just consistently great from start to finish and one that never gets old.
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MisterJunior
I've been listening to them more lately both on last.fm and on my records, and I think I'm starting to appreciate the group more as a whole than at any point in my past. When (and where) I was growing up R.E.M. was one of THE bands for kids getting into music and were one of a few of the bands, along with, say, the Pixies, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, etc., that like your older brother or the older guys at school and/or the record store told you to get into as part of learning where Nirvana et al came from, and I listened to and respected them, but they were never really a band I was majorly into, with the exception of this one, Monster and Lifes Rich Pageant (plus some singles), but more and more I'm realizing they were really, really consistently excellent, and there's something about Stipe's voice and his murky, literate/literary lyrics and the way it combines with, especially, Buck's ringing, jangling guitar playing that really works. Amazing band.
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RussellChap
Such a magical album. Fresh & visionary. Timeless & out of time. A springboard to new sounds & ideas refreshing the rock underground. The only REM record I need
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bernlin2000
Really is the end of an era though, I have yet to see a band that had as much influence as R.E.M. emerge. Perhaps Kayne West or Lady Gaga? They draw from the past though, I think we're still waiting on something bracingly new (although maybe it's already out there and most of us are just totally unaware, like most people are still unaware of how R.E.M's first 3-4 albums started an entire genre that reverberated well into the past decade)
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bernlin2000
Really Really good, probably the best debut album from any band, ever, and they've never quit (until this year).
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