Greatest R.E.M. album?

[Robb]

Poll question: Greatest R.E.M. album?

A subjective, incomplete list.... what's your favorite? :)

[Dr Fate]

1. Mumur is still my fave, but they ALL hold up damn well...

...even lyrically their old stuff is still relevant...a great band from the great city of Athens GA...

[Robb]

2. Myself, I went with Automatic

...just so listenable, as an album.

But dang it, Murmur is just so empirically good....

[Syrinx]

3. I voted for Reckoning

But I like all the old ones, where you couldn't understand a word Michael Stipe sang.

[Itascapark]

4. Loved

New Advantures in Hi-Fi

[Zomby Woof]

5. Sentimental Hygiene

Not really an REM album, but is the one where all but Stipe backed up Warren Zevon on his 1987 comeback effort. I also like the Hindu Love Gods project they did together.

I voted for "Document" in the poll. :-)

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. Voted for Reckoning, but anything before Bill Berry left was great.

Never would have thought the drummer was the mmost crucial member of that band, but apparently so.

[Cooley Hurd]

7. New Adventures in Hi-Fi...

Although I think AFTP is their best studio album, NAIHF was a great "off the cuff" production (recorded during REM's "Monster" tour in '95) and had such excellent tunes like New Test Leper, Undertow, E-Bow the Letter (With Patti Smith), Leave and Electrolyte...

[peekaloo]

13. Binky the Doormat!

I love that song and 'Departure'.

NAIHF was under appreciated by most fans, imho.

[AmandaRuth]

8. the first one

radio free europe (I think thats the name)

[catzies]

9. Murmur is what you're thinking of...

:)

(I don't know how to vote. I love them all except for Monster and Automatic.)

Not liking AFTP is blasphemy, but I never really did. :shrug:

[mitchum]

10. "Automatic For The People" is a perfect album...

by REM or anyone

[Cooley Hurd]

21. AFTP was produced by John Paul Jones (Of Led Zeppelin)...

"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight" has that big Zep sound, don't you think?

[SmileyBoy]

11. I liked New Adventures In Hi-Fi.

Had some great songs on it.

[bicentennial_baby]

12. Eponymous

[rucky]

20. Greatest Hits Don't Count

Life's Rich Pageant

[lostnfound]

14. Voted for Life's Rich because no one else had & I still remember clearly

the day that I first listened to it. I bought it, brought it home, locked the door and gave it my full 100% attention, dancing & listening. I loved it from the very first listen.

Let's begin again...

I'm not feeding off you, I will rearrange your scales, if I can, and I can..

They rock. All of their albums are like old friends to me.

[Dulcinea]

15. Lifes Rich Pageant.

Fly to carry each his burden
We are young despite the years
We are concerned, we are hope despite the times
All of a sudden, these days, happy throngs
Take this joy wherever, wherever you go.

[mac56]

18. Second on "Pageant"

Buy the sky and sell the sky
And reach your arms up to the sky
And ask the sky and ask the sky

What is it up in the air for
Is it's there for all of us
It's over, it's over me

[sujan]

16. the one with 'Everybody hurts.....'

[oustemnow]

17. Fables, definitely

they hit their peak under the old REM aesthetic with that one; after that, they started to go for the big-snare-sound, mershy thingie.

The funny thing is, they all hate that album.

[realFedUp]

19. well, howabout The Best of REM....