Noted for being "forceful where its predecessors had been oblique," featuring fan-favorites like "Fall on Me". Bottom-Tier (Weakest Entries): Around the Sun (2004):
In the world of digital music collecting, few search strings carry as much weight among audiophiles as “R.E.M. Studio Discography 1983–2011 – FLAC.” To the uninitiated, it looks like a jumble of letters and numbers. But to a dedicated fan, it represents the holy grail: every note of R.E.M.’s studio career, from the jangly desperation of Murmur to the reflective swan song Collapse into Now , preserved in lossless, bit-perfect audio. REM - Studio Discography 1983 - 2011 -FLAC- - K...
It started with Murmur . 1983. Elias wasn't even born then. He imagined a younger version of his father, maybe driving a beat-up sedan down a dusty road in Georgia, the AM radio crackling with "Radio Free Europe." That was the magic of the FLAC file he was about to possess; it wouldn't just play the song, it would preserve the haze of the 80s, the jangle of the Rickenbacker, the mumbled, indecipherable poetry of Michael Stipe when he was just a shy kid from Athens. Noted for being "forceful where its predecessors had