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R.E.M. is a multiplatinum selling rock band from Athens, Georgia led by lead singer and political activist Michael Stipe. Over their 25+ year career, the band have released 14 studio albums and are generally considered to be one of the most successful indie rock bands in history. While the band achieved its greatest success during their heyday in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the band have to continued to write and record new material. The band released their latest album, Accelerate, in 2008.
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Fast Facts
- Years active: 1980 - present
- Origin: Athens. Georgia
- Helped originate Alt-rock and sub-genres "College Rock" and "Jungle Pop"
- 1st TV appearance: Late Night with David Letterman (1983)
- $80M deal with Warner Bros. Records in 1997 was a record
- 2007: Inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- L.A. Times: One of the "most liberal and politically correct rock groups."
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Studio Albums
- 1983: Murmur
- 1984: Reckoning
- 1985: Fables of the Reconstruction
- 1986: Lifes Rich Pageant'
- 1987: 'Document
- 1988: Green
- 1991: Out of Time
- 1992: Automatic for the People
- 1994: Monster
- 1996: New Adventures
- 1998: Up
- 2001: Reveal
- 2004: Around the Sun
- 2008: Accelerate
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R.E.M. - When the Light is Mine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 Video Collection - $24.98
TRACKLISTING: 1. Wolves, Lower (Previously Unreleased) 2. Radio Free Europe (Edit - First time On DVD) 3. Talk About The Passion 4. Radio Free Europe (The Tube, 11.18.83, UK TV Show - Previously Unreleased)<b...
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In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 - $18.98
Greatest hits release features 18 tracks. German exclusive pressed onto 180 gram double vinyl, in a gatefold sleeve. Warner Bros. 2003.
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Reveal: The Story of R.E.M. - $22.95
R.E.M. has produced some of the most consistently fascinating, successful, and honest music of the past 20-plus years, combining lyrical and musical experimentation in ways that are accessible to the mainstream rock audience. Drawing upon f...
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Reckoning - $29.98
Reckoning "confirms R.E.M. as one of the most beautifully exciting groups on the planet." wrote NME in 1984. R.E.M.'s second full-length album also prompted The Washington Post to proclaim that "there isn't an American band worth following ...
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