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R.E.M.’s ‘Monster’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary

September 22, 2024 Steven Ovadia

A wonderful album with very strong songs, ‘Monster’ suggests R.E.M.'s desire to go from a studio band to a full-blown arena-rocking band was more aspirational than achievable in practice.

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R.E.M.’s ‘Reckoning’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

April 6, 2024 Terry Nelson

‘Reckoning’ marked the beginning of the end of an era during which R.E.M. were still “our band” and we didn’t have to share them with the rest of the universe.

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Photograph On The Dashboard: R.E.M.’s ‘Automatic For The People’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary

October 2, 2022 Erika Wolf
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R.E.M.’s eighth studio affair is a sonic triumph, and an anomaly in a landscape of heavy alt rock, with Michael Stipe demonstrating an almost bottomless empathy for humanity throughout.

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R.E.M.’s ‘New Adventures in Hi-Fi’ Turns 25 | Anniversary Retrospective

September 4, 2021 Stephan Wyatt
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Largely overlooked in the wake of ‘Out of Time,' ‘Automatic for the People' and ‘Monster,' R.E.M.’s terrific tenth LP remains one of their strongest ever.

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R.E.M.’s ‘Out of Time’ Turns 30 | Anniversary Retrospective

March 9, 2021 Justin Chadwick
R.E.M. Out of Time

Embodying the sound of a band no longer fulfilled by mining the tried-and-true of their past records, ‘Out of Time’ is the most varied and adventurous song suite the band ever crafted.

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