Genre: Rock
Album: And I Feel Fine.....The Best Of The IRS Years 82-87 Collector's Edition
Original Release : 9/12/2006
Our Rating:
Album: And I Feel Fine.....The Best Of The IRS Years 82-87
Eponymous
1988
Toshiba EMI
Reckoning
1989
Mobile Fidelity
Murmur
1984
R.E.M. mark the point when post-punk turned into alternative rock. When their first single, "Radio Free Europe," was released in 1981, it sparked a back-to-the-garage movement in the American underground. While there were a number of hardcore and punk bands in the U.S. during the early '80s, R.E.M. brought guitar pop back into the underground lexicon. Combining ringing guitar hooks with mumbled, cryptic lyrics and a D.I.Y. aesthetic borrowed from post-punk, the band simultaneously sounded traditional and modern. Though there were no overt innovations in their music, R.E.M. Read More
Minutemen
What Makes a Man Start Fires?
Can't read the letters? Click here to refresh
