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Music > Albums > REM - And I Feel Fine: The Best Of 1982-87 - The I.R.S Years (2006) Retail CD
added on December 15, 2007, at 04:26 by Sarge!

I am not in possession of this CD yet I have heard all the tracks in question from their various albums and the (very) simliar compliation released in 1991, 'R.E.M. - The Best of the I.R.S. Years'. Without doubt R.E.M. produced, in my view, some of the greatest music of the 1980s. Starting with their excellent 1983 debut 'Murmur' on towards 1987's equally brilliant 'Document', and in between ('Fables of the Reconstruction' in particular stands out for me) probably only The Smiths had an equally consistant run of brilliant 'alternative'/'indie'/'college'/'jangle' ,or simply just rock for that matter, records. This compliation neatly distills these albums on one CD, whereby one can hear the transition from 'Radio Free Europe's simple garage rock to the more intricate and expansive band that R.E.M. became by the end of the 1980s, heard on tracks such as 'Finest Worksong'. Essentially my advice distilled is, basically, BUY, BUY, BUY this record!

front 946 x 933 px

back 1770 x 1375 px

cd 972 x 980 px