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Your top 5 REM albums??

donravendonraven Posts: 144
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
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  • Todd76Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    1) Green
    2) Automatic For The People
    3) Lifes Rich Pageant
    4) Up
    5) New Adventures In Hi-Fi / Murmur
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  • parel jamparel jam Posts: 7,223
    1. Automatic for the People
    2. Monster
    3. Adventures...
    4. Green
    5. Out of Time.
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  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    Easy,their first FIVE albums. R.E.M. fans know which ones.
  • AnonAnon 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!
  • bladworth116bladworth116 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.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Automatic for the People
    Document
    Green
    Out of Time
    Murmur
  • sadprofessorsadprofessor 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.
  • direwolf74direwolf74 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
  • zircona1zircona1 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

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  • jammerfalljammerfall Posts: 908
    Lifes Rich Pageant
    Reckoning
    Green
    New Adventures in Hi-Fi
    Reveal
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  • whulmefwhulmef 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
  • donravendonraven Posts: 144
    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
  • mrwalkerbmrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    1-new adventures
    2-Automatic
    3-Up
    4-Murmur
    5-Green
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    Chris Cornell

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  • BrainofdzBrainofdz 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.
  • kdpjamkdpjam 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~
  • amentvedderamentvedder Posts: 3,610
    New Adventures In Hi Fi
    Monster
    Green
    Document
    Reveal

    Eponymous my fave best of
  • ZosoZoso 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 :)

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  • keyser_sozekeyser_soze London, England Posts: 205
    in no particular order:

    up
    automatic for the people
    document
    monster
    new adventures in hi-fi
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  • AndySlashAndySlash Posts: 3,262
    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 numbcomfortably 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
  • aspoonfulweighsatonaspoonfulweighsaton Posts: 2,055
    New Adventures in Hi-Fi
    Automatic for the People
    Reckoning
    Green
    MOnster
  • smarcheesmarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    I just started getting into Murmer lately, and wow, I can't stop spinning, what a masterpiece. This is definitly my favourite "pre-famous" REM album from the 1980s. So may good tracks. Catapult, Shaking Through, Perfect Cirlce, Laughing.....
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  • itsevobabyitsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    1. new adventures
    2. automatic
    3. around the sun
    4. out of time
    5. green

    honourable mention, just cos it's not listed doesn't mean it's not cool
    up :cool:

    this was alot more difficult than i expected? :o
    Look Alive,
    See These Bones
  • audiodaveaudiodave Posts: 1,623
    Wow. It's good to see Up getting so much love. I always thought everyone hated that album, but I love it.

    Let's see, my top 5 REM albums would probably have to be...right now...

    Up
    New Adventures In Hi-Fi
    Monster
    Around The Sun
    Automatic For The People

    I have yet to get into their earlist work, but I will at some point. The move I discover from REM, the more I love.
    ~AKA Dave-of-the-dead~

    I don't wanna think, I wanna feel

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  • JulienJulien Posts: 2,457
    new adventures in hifi
    monster
    automatic for the people
    up
    green
    2006: Antwerp, Paris
    2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
    2009: Rotterdam, London
    2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
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  • ||Release_Me||||Release_Me|| Posts: 1,871
    1. New Adventures in HI-FI
    2. Around The Sun
    3. Monster
    4. Document
    5. Automatic For The People

    for the record, number 1 and 2 are very close! Its hard to decide which one i like the most!
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  • PJSEMPREPJSEMPRE Posts: 687
    Automatic for the people
    New Adventures in Hi-Fi
    Document
    Green
    Monster
    Let's say knowledge is a tree, yeah.
    It's growing up just like me.
  • Pearls&StonesPearls&Stones Posts: 585
    I say....



    1. If you are limiting yourself to five, start with "...And I Feel Fine (The Best of 1982-1987)" On this cd, you get 21 awesome songs from that era, from hits like "The One I Love" to great songs the fans have always loved like "Feeling Gravity's Pull" and "Pretty Persuasion." Though it is a greatest hits record, it plays like a phenominal, cohesive album. I listen to it all the time.

    2. "Automatic for the People" --the band's best album

    3. "Reveal" ---an underappreciated cd

    4. "Out of Time"

    5. "New Adventures in Hi Fi"
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  • lockedlocked Boston Posts: 4,039
    G-Man23 wrote:
    Let me clarify......

    murmur
    reckoning
    fables
    lifes'
    &
    document

    Record for record,one of the greatest runs EVER! These recordings are VERY influential!


    word..
    my college days soundtrack..
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
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  • lockedlocked Boston Posts: 4,039
    1986 was their best tour performance....

    Stipe voice was at its finest..

    They need to make a vault release and satisfy us "old school" fans..
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
    EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
    10/25/13 Hartford
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