R.E.M. - Document
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Artist: R.E.M.Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1998-01-27
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Finest Worskong
- Welcome to the Occupation
- Exhuming McCarthy
- Disturbance at the Heron House
- Strange
- It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I feel fine)
- The One I Love
- Fireplace
- Lightnin' Hopkins
- King of Birds
- Oddfellows Local 151
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Free Music Review: REM - Gain Mainstream Success
Hit: 5 Stars
It took me a while to warm up to REM. They were the darlings of the alternative music press after the release of their first album "Murmur" in the early 80's and steadily grew a more mainstream following with each sequential release. I kept reading about them and thinking about giving them a try, but it was not until this their 4th studio album that the band hooked me. "Document" is an album that divides fans of the band. This was the first album that saw REM gain any significant mainstream attention producing two big hits in the dark often misinterpreted "The One I Love" and the frantic "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)". Older fans screamed "sellout" and indeed this would be the bands last album on an independent label. For me I think it is a great disc and filled with quirky yet satisfying songs. Full of jangling guitars and politically charge lyrics REM are able to capture a picture of the American 80's. Along with the singles the album is full of great songs: "Finest Worksong", "Welcome To The Occupation", "Exhuming McCarthy", "Lightnin Hopkins", "King Of Birds", and the aptly titled "Oddfellows Local 151".
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Singer Michael Stipe finally confesses that even he doesn't know what he's trying to say--among the lines flying by are "tryin' to tell you something we don't know" and "there's something going on that's not quite right." But R.E.M.'s roar is at its sharpest, as Peter Buck's guitars twist up surf riffs and the Bill Berry-Mike Mills rhythm section captures the force of forebears Big Star and the Byrds. After half a decade of college-rock heroism, R.E.M. achieved its first hit album thanks to the rambling "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" and the gentle (but subtly barbed) "The One I Love." --Steve KnopperR.E.M. Photos
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