Your top 5 REM albums??

donraven
donraven Posts: 146
edited October 2007 in Other Music
What are your top 5 REM albums in order?

I have not listened to them all yet, just want to get an idea which ones i should listen to. Ive listened to most of their older albums, and not many of the more recent ones (past 12 years). Haven't listened to Murmur yet either.

So far:

1. Life's Rich Pageant
2 Document
3. Automatic for the People
4. Reckoning
5. Monster
Boston, MA - Sept 28, 2004
Halifax, NS - Sept 22, 2005
Toronto, ON - August 21, 2009
Toronto, ON - Sept 11, 2011
Toronto, ON - Sept 12, 2011
London, ON - July 16, 2013
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  • Todd76
    Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    1) Green
    2) Automatic For The People
    3) Lifes Rich Pageant
    4) Up
    5) New Adventures In Hi-Fi / Murmur
    In my world everyone is a pony,
    and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
  • parel jam
    parel jam Posts: 7,223
    1. Automatic for the People
    2. Monster
    3. Adventures...
    4. Green
    5. Out of Time.
    ♪♫♪♫♫

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_-WGNRyRzU

    ♪♫♪♫♫
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    Easy,their first FIVE albums. R.E.M. fans know which ones.
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    G-Man23 wrote:
    Easy,their first FIVE albums. R.E.M. fans know which ones.

    Let me clarify......

    murmur
    reckoning
    fables
    lifes'
    &
    document

    Record for record,one of the greatest runs EVER! These recordings are VERY influential!
  • bladworth116
    bladworth116 Posts: 344
    1. New Adventures in Hi Fi
    2. Automatic for the People
    3. Fables of the Reconstruction
    4. Document
    5. Murmur
    6. Green
    7. Around the Sun
    8. Up
    9. Reveal
    10. Monster
    11. Out of Time
    12. Life's Rich Pagaent
    13. Reckoning

    I don't know where to put Dead Letter Office/Chronic Town as it is kind of a b-side release & Eponymous + In time are greatest hits so they really don't count. The boys are writing and are back in the studio again this year. Woo-hoo!!! That's the greatest thing about R.E.M., there are albums for all occassions, whatever mood you're in.
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Automatic for the People
    Document
    Green
    Out of Time
    Murmur
  • sadprofessor
    sadprofessor Posts: 1,034
    1. New Adventures in Hifi
    2. Automatic for the People
    3. Up
    4. Document
    5. Life's Rich Pageant
    The Man has a branch office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is a white albatross, each local rep has a cover known as the Ego, and their mission in this world is Bad Shit.
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    1. Automatic for the People
    2. Life's Rich Pageant
    3. Document
    4. New Adventures in Hi-Fi
    5. Green
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • zircona1
    zircona1 Posts: 293
    Automatic For the People
    Monster
    New Adventures in Hi-Fi
    Document
    Murmur
    "As long as the music's loud enough, we won't hear the world falling apart."—Jubilee

    "I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions." - George Carlin
  • jammerfall
    jammerfall Posts: 908
    Lifes Rich Pageant
    Reckoning
    Green
    New Adventures in Hi-Fi
    Reveal
    "Hello Oregonians. Hello Washingtonians. Hello Portland..where the fuck are we? We're in Ridgefield!"
  • whulmef
    whulmef Posts: 176
    I have always found myself listening to certain R.E.M. albums at certain times of the year or situations.
    Automatic for the People : late afternoon in November
    Up: at the end of a long car ride at night
    Out of time: spring during the day
    Reveal: summer
    Murmur: anytime anywhere
    New Adventures in Hi Fi: late fall
    Life's Rich Pagent: about to go workout/afternoon
    Around the sun: driving early in the morning

    my fav are
    1. automatic
    2. hi fi
    3. murmur
    4. Up
    5. Dead Letter Office michael stipe sounding the most southern; i can see them doing these songs young and sometimes drunk/hung over
  • donraven
    donraven Posts: 146
    cool thanks guys, i think ill have to check out new adventures in hi-fi and murmur next
    Boston, MA - Sept 28, 2004
    Halifax, NS - Sept 22, 2005
    Toronto, ON - August 21, 2009
    Toronto, ON - Sept 11, 2011
    Toronto, ON - Sept 12, 2011
    London, ON - July 16, 2013
    Boston, MA - Aug 7, 2016
  • mrwalkerb
    mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    1-new adventures
    2-Automatic
    3-Up
    4-Murmur
    5-Green
    "I'm not suicidal, except when I drink. That's why we don't all drink at the same time, there'd be no-one alive to drive home..."
    Chris Cornell

    http://www.myspace.com/mrwalkerb
  • Brainofdz
    Brainofdz Posts: 1,617
    Document
    Automatic
    Murmer
    Green
    Fables
    "Stunned by my own reflection, It's looking back, sees me too clearly and I swore I'd never go there again, Not unlike a friend that politely drags you down,down,down"

    When you see me on the street, yell out "FAVO!!!"

    I've been to alot of Pearl Jam shows;So fucking what.
  • kdpjam
    kdpjam Posts: 2,303
    i don't know if i can list five, i love them all. seriously. and what a great band live. where has r.e.m. been? they are due to come out with something...
    lay down all thoughts; surrender to the void
    ~it is shining it is shining~
  • amentvedder
    amentvedder Posts: 3,610
    New Adventures In Hi Fi
    Monster
    Green
    Document
    Reveal

    Eponymous my fave best of
  • Zoso
    Zoso Posts: 6,425
    New Adventures in Hi-Fi
    Mumour
    Reveal
    Document
    Green
    I'm just flying around the other side of the world to say I love you

    Sha la la la i'm in love with a jersey girl

    I love you forever and forever :)

    Adel 03 Melb 1 03 LA 2 06 Santa Barbara 06 Gorge 1 06 Gorge 2 06 Adel 1 06 Adel 2 06 Camden 1 08 Camden 2 08 Washington DC 08 Hartford 08
  • keyser_soze
    keyser_soze London, England Posts: 205
    in no particular order:

    up
    automatic for the people
    document
    monster
    new adventures in hi-fi
    www.facebook.com/PandoraApparel
  • AndySlash
    AndySlash Posts: 3,287
    Automatic For the People (this is probably a top 3 record by any band for me... definitely a desert island disc)
    Up
    Out of Time
    Document
    New Adventures (Leave is my all-time favorite REM song)
  • comfortably numb
    comfortably numb Posts: 188
    in this order i guess

    Reckoning
    Murmur
    Fables of the Reconstruction (underrated)
    Reveal (underrated)
    New Adventures in Hi-Fi
    saw things so much clearer

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