Green

can't stand this guy's voice sometimes... world leader pretend orange crush

Easy to forget. Bland. Sometimes boring.

heres the thing: i'd love this album based on the instrumentation. if they were just instrumentals i'd give this four stars. however the lead singer has the most interminably incredibly annoying voice i have ever had the displeasure to listen to and it ruins the entire experience because it's like he's taking a cheese grater to my eardrums.

Sicher musikgeschichtlich wertvoll, aber ich mag einfach die Stimme des Sängers nicht.

fine

Meh

Abseits der üblichen Hits zu eintönig - insbesondere der Gesang.

First things first, Orange Crush rocks. Everything else by REM often strikes me as meh. I can’t tell if the lead singer is crying for help or actually trying to sing. I want to like REM, but every time I listen to them I just feel unsatisfied. Not quite sure what it is. I’ll leave their cd out of my car on the next road trip and not really worry about it

A bit boring. Nothing really stands out to me. I looked back at the tracklist and Stand is the only song I remember. Maybe one of those that doesn’t hit without context.

easy listening, far too boring for my taste. i think its super inoffensive, generic rock music, nothing wrong with it, its just really bland.

This album mostly put me to sleep, or at least by the end of it I was feeling that way. Turn You Inside-Out, Hairshirt, I Remember California, Untitled was a 1,2,3,4 punch at the end of the album of slow, repeating, talk-singing songs that didn't go somewhere I was interested in. I like Stand because of Parks & Recreation, so that's a positive association. Orange Crush is a familiar song, probably heard plenty of times growing up without knowing what it was.

Neither love nor hate

De los discos de R.E.M. es el que menos me gustó. Muy monótono y nada memorable.

this.. doesn't sound like REM as much. Which means I like it a bit more. Hearing this after talking heads.. makes me realise they were definitely an influence. Stipe's chatty rambly sing style seems like an attempt to copy Byrne, especially on track 1. 'Should we talk about the government' is almost a joke of a lyric, but maybe it's meant to be, it's so blunt. Yeah, this proto- REM, pre mega mega nightswimming fame (I assume), is a lot more interesting and weird. Were they ever inspired by They might be giants? It feels rockier, simpler overall. Then we hit a bit of a dreary spot on world leader pretend, and you get some hints of what was to come. Then, the wrong child gets pretty limp. Not a fan of orange crush. whiney. And now everything seems a bit whiney at the back end of the album. It's quite difficult to listen to old albums trying to express earnest or political opinions, it all comes off as a bit naff. Inside out picks up a bit, bit of rock edge back again. Meh. few songs at the start I like, but as it wears on its not a great album for me. It all seems like a big whinge. Untitled was kind of interesting a way to end. it'll be a 2.5 I think.

R.E.M. are really hit or miss for me, some of their albums sound great but other highly revered albums of theirs really just fall flat for me. Green is somewhere in the middle. Some of their best and most recognizable songs like “Orange Crush” and “Stand” are on the album, but there’s also garbage like “The Wrong Child”. There are a few artists who I’d prefer to listen to greatest hits albums; most of them are groups like The Supremes who released tons of amazing singles but not a lot of great albums. R.E.M. released lots of albums which are critically acclaimed, but to me their quality and consistency is all over the place and I prefer just to listen to their hits.

Orange Crush is a song I have enjoyed prior to listening to the full album and is really the only track I can see myself listening to on a semi-regular basis. I also enjoyed World Leader Pretend. Overall I'm not very passionate or excited about this album. The first half felt especially slow to peak my interest. Out of all the tracks, the aforementioned two are the only memorable or impressive tracks to me. The rest of the tracks are only okay. I don't think this is a bad album necessarily; I just really don't think it's all that interesting.

first song i was like ok it'll be some alt rock thing thats alright but not great. and then it was terrible.

Make it stop. 2.09 per track.

I'm surprised by the similarities with these guys and the tragically hip. Hip better though obviously

Ok album

meh

I’ve really never been a fan of REM. This album didn’t do anything to change my mind. There’s an occasional song that’s good. Or a musical riff that’s interesting. And then it just changes to elevator music to me. 2.5/5

2 catchy songs, Stand and Orange Crush which I already knew. I like REM generally speaking but this album draws a little

2/5. College alt rock, political and tongue in cheek. There are some good songs on here but it does have a priority to get a message across over songwriting. It's a vibe for sure but doesn't really stick with me throughout. REM albums do take a few listens but as a first time around, not super feeling it save a few good songs. Best Song: Get Up, Orange Crush, Turn You Inside-Out

Not enough variety in the instrumental for my taste. Though Michael Stipe has an incredibly unique voice.

A rough listen, did not enjoy.

Got progressively more annoying.

Wishing I could force feed that mandolin to Peter Buck.

I can appreciate the pop superstardom aspect of it, but if I am being honest, I turn it off whenever it comes on and couldn't get thru much of this relatively short 41 minute album.

R.E.M. is overrated as shit, please stop recommending them to me. Only good thing on this album is Orange Crush

Nothing about this album stood out until “Hairshirt” and that only stood out because I thought I was listening to a Hootie song. I never wanted to skip anything - so it gets a rounded up two

Two good songs the rest are a little too slow and Stipe sounds a little whiny

Meh

I do like R.E.M, but everything sounds more or less the same after the first couple of songs

Hmm, this is a band just starting to get into their stride...but the brilliance of Out of Time and Automatic for the People is a way off yet. Favourite track: Orange Crush

Like the first track. All a bit downhill from there

- I still don’t like them - singer is kinda like a folk Spanish love songs but also a pretentious asshole - everything feels like a parody

Orange Crush is great and the rest isn't. Probably a high 2 but not a 3.

Okay

The sheers audacity to ironically name one of the songs Pop Song 89 and then have the rest of the album be completely middle of the road pop deserves praise. But other than that, I didn't find much here worth coming back to, very inoffensive. 2/5. The Fleet Foxes of the 80s.

Very average, 2.5

This has a clear sound and I enjoy parts but I wasn’t a fan of it song to song. So much of it sounded the same and I kept losing focus. Maybe I’m just not into R.E.M. but that’s part of the fun of doing this project. Orange Crush was definitely in a Guitar Hero or something and that brought me back, and Stand is featured in one of the funniest moments in Parks and Rec, so there’s definitely ways this album has endured haha

"Orange Crush" is clearly one of the best REM songs, but the rest of this album can do one.

Man I wish I got REM. Lots of people rave about this band but I just don't get it. There's nothing wrong with this album but somethings not clicking with me. Maybe one day I'll know :/ Fav songs - Get Up - Hairshirt

I thought I liked REM until I listened to this

Not a huge REM fan

Guess I’m not an REM fan, I couldn’t even make it through the whole tho t

Ok, rem sound is just meh

I'm still an Out of Time man (not yet listened to Automatic for the People from a few weeks ago). I think it is decent enough but so forgettable. None of the arrangements stood out in the same way Man on the Moon does, for example. I am a little disappointed.

I'm a bit puzzled what to write about this. I *want* to like R.E.M. I didn't really like them at the time but Pavement were influenced by them and... I like mandolins and they seem to have some good tunes. I really like "stand" on this album. But I find Michael Stipe's voice a bit annoying and all the songs are a bit maudlin. I don't know. I just can't gel with them and I don't know why.

There are REM albums I would much rather listen to than this. Uninspiring.

I really only liked stand. Not my cup of tea. Vocals are nasally and whiny. Maybe, it'll grow on me at some point.

High-School-Rock?

I mean, I get how influential this was, and props for its “different” sound back in the dreadful 80’s but, like, do people who claims this is the best they’ve ever heard stop listening to music in 88? Is this another “you had to be there” kind of record on the list? Well sorry, I had just turned 2 when this came out and I just don’t get the hype.

Njäe

Ehhh not an rem fan

Sounded kinda whiny

Omg STAND hahaha i didnt know anything about REM but i recognize this song for sure. Theres like some fun stuff and some interesting stuff but i think the lead singer's voice is a little annoying actually.

Compared to Automatic for the People, the highs aren't as high, but the lows aren't as low. Orange Crush is the best song if you make it that far. Props for the environmentalist message too. 🌱🌱

I like REM but this album doesn’t do it for me today. I’m getting old. I did enjoy hairshirt

REM was so much better when you couldn't understand the words.

I know this is supposed to be a classic but I can't get into that much. Too much dissonance. It sounds like music Jay would really like 3 stars

Not it I guess. Inte ett strikt Nej som dom senaste men blev inte hooked direkt.2

I'm not a fan of REM, bar one or two of their more catchy hits, I found this album to be completely 'on brand' for them i.e. a couple of toe-tapping hits and the remainder a load of fairly indistinguishable, up-your-own-arse, tosh.

I wish I could like REM more but I cannot get past Michael Stipe's voice. It grates. It's uni-tonal. It's atonal. "Stand" is a fun song. "Orange Crush" has moments. But almost everything else seems like whiny college navel-gazing.

Not bad but his voice I is quite irritating.

I don’t get it….

Orange crush is a banger, the rest was dull, dull dull

Dreary Barlow. Did not enjoy.

Struggled to finish.

orange crush

Swing and a miss, REM.

Fuck rem

Ça vieillit très mal, difficile de se projeter à l’époque

Dull. I Remember California is the only notable track

does not invoke interest at all but not as bad as the beatles

nasally voice, not a fan.

It's not bad by any means but I'm starting to think you're not supposed to listen to these many REM songs back to back. Orange crush is a banger for sure but most songs sound like all the band members played their parts in separate rooms then put them together in post. Meh 4/10

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: I did, not as much as any of their other work though Favourite song: Track 4 - Stand Songs liked/Total songs - 3/11

Ya know R.E.M. feel heavily carried by their one massive hit per album. Orange Crush might be their worst massive hit and the rest of the album does nothing for me either

I've enjoyed a few REM albums from here, so I was disappointed to be disappointed in this. Felt like they had ran out of ideas a bit, which is strange as some of their later album were then pretty good again.

A lot of this is not pleasant to my ears. Sometimes I find R.E.M. to be a bit monotonous with Stipe’s unwavering voice and pretty unimpressive instrumentals. Orange Crush stands out.

Just ok

Didn't jump out and grab me

Fine, but i was a bit disappointed not to like it more.

was ok, tolerable

It's a solid album but, having listened to two REM albums as a part of this 1001 Albums malarky, I'd say they are very easy listening, somehwat unremarkable. Michael Stype's voice is certainly unique and I enjoy it, but the overall dynamic is somewhat limited. I prefer what I've heard form their mid-90s material (Automatic for the People(?).. whatever that mega popular album was with Night Swimming on it.

Liked it, but probably won’t put it on again

For some reason it reminded me of the Barenaked Ladies? Most of the songs sounded too similar for my tastes.

Good proto-90's album.

echt nicht so ein fan von der stimme…

I didn't really like this.

It sure is a rock album. Nothing stand out or notable

A very poppy album for R.E.M. with hits like Stand and Pop Song 89. I've definitely heard a lot of the songs on this album before, but none have stuck. Personally, I prefer their earlier less poppy work, but if a pop rock album was what they were going for they nailed it.

The type of album that is fine to listen to while it's on, but you forget almost everything you heard the moment it finishes.

was hoping i’d like this album bc i like 2 REM songs that my dad would play growing up, but unfortunately did not like this album

A strong 2. Considered a 3, but the few good moments don't outweigh the soporific quality of most of the album.

Stand is the best song. Rest was bland.

I think I just don't care much for REM. It's a slog, with the occasional good song. 2.49/5

R.E.M. feels like it should be in my list of favorite bands, but I found most of these songs pretty boring. Some stand outs managed to pull me thru, but the majority of the songs felt like 20 seconds of good ideas stretched out to 2 minutes.

Very generic. Couldn’t finish it. Unsure why it is on the list.

R.E.M. has a lot of good albums 🔥. This is NOT one of them 🙅🙅🙅

meh. Didn't really it that much.

Gikk meg litt hus forbi

Pop music for people who don’t mind a guy wailing discordantly over top of simple boring drums and just the high frequencies coming from a couple electric guitars.

Didn’t really click with me this time around..knew a few songs already though and they’re pretty good. I’ll revisit one day

I like REM but this album just doesn't have any hits.

Weird in an interesting way, but I couldn't get into the singers voice/ range

Langweilig, Stimme gefällt nicht

C'est un rock sympa mais je me souvient de rien

REM is not my favorite, but Orange Crush is a solid song.

Nope, I don't like

Not really bad but also quite forgettable

it wasn’t the best album by rem and i never have listened to this album before i’ve only listened to the others, it was okay there were only a few songs i would listen to again though :)

It was okay, I don’t think I like most R.E.M. I like a select few songs and sections of songs. This album has a few good ones for me, but not enough to rate this super well as a whole. Probably wouldn’t listen to this album again, maybe just a select few songs.

You Are The Everything // Stand // Orange Crush //

Some solid classics, but also a lot of twee junk

I get why it’s here but it’s just sort of boring and I find the vocals flat. Given how huge they were, I probably would’ve killed myself by 1994

So to begging with, the first track: pop song 89, look way too much like hello i love by the Doors. there is good songs but nothing really impress me, like not at the same level as other alt band of the times, but its a very impression like its not a bad album

I always feel like I should listen to and be more familiar with R.E.M. than I am, which is currently very very little, but whenever I do I just kind of feel "meh" about them. This is my second album of theirs that has come up on this list, and I assume not the last, and I still just kind of feel that way about it. Not bad by any means but just kind of "meh" for sure.

REM heb ik nooit echt kunnen waarderen, afgezien van de hitjes. Ook deze plaat was gewoon eigenlijk maar saai.

Easily the worst REM album on this list, very one dimensional. And it also introduced me to a hairshirt🤮best track is stand, which is also a single

Gick tillbaka och kollade på min recension av det förra R.E.M.-albumet jag hade här, och insåg att jag inte minns något alls av det. Det är kanske rätt talande för vilket otroligt tråkigt band detta är. De flesta låtar är jangle-poppiga, gladlynta, och helt substanslösa. Som att bandet hittat en ok melodi, ett ok riff, sedan nöjt sig med det och kör det genom hela låten, som bara blir platt. Det finns en tonartshöjning i slutet av 'Stand' men den är bara parodisk. Papparock på det dåliga sättet. Några låtar höjer sig lite över mängden - 'You Are The Everything', 'The Wrong Child', 'I Remember California'. Bästa låt: I Remember California.

Achje. Kein Totalausfall, aber langweilig wie immer. Die Musik von REM ist schlecht gealtert und ich frage mich, was wir damals alle daran gefunden haben.

2 radio hits; Stand Orange Crush Other decent song is .Hairshirt Mandolin is a nice added instrument.

Orange crush and I remember California are the only ones that stuck out to me. Other than that it all was pretty brutal to get through….kinda torn between a 2 and a three. Gonna flip a coin rq.

False advertising. Wasn't very green.

Miðlungs R.E.M. plata. Ekkert rosa eftirminnileg.

"I remember California" is the only track I liked, otherwise rem? More like fuck'em

Did Michael Stipe listen to The Smiths and think to himself "Yes, I fancy being Morrissey for my next album"? Stand is the only standout track.

Still not a fan of R.E.M.

Not my thing

I just don't like them?

A couple songs are good but I thought it was pretty generic, slow paced and boring. 2.5/5

:00

so cringe now, the apogee of earnest “alternative” and the cheerful, smug harbinger of so much darkness to come

I definitely took something away from this album…and it’s that I now know that I hate R.E.M. even more than I thought I did.

Give me something worth listening to for the love of god

You Are The Everything pissed me off

First three songs were horrible this shit is why I don’t like music. Stand was slightly okay a bit better than the other ones but still lad absolutely terrible. Like terrible slow Led Zeppelin Tangerine wannabe and just couldn’t figure out how to make anything good.

Don’t like this album, don’t like the sound. Not for me at all

Realtidsrecension. Omdöme 4 låtar in i albumet: Jag är ledsen, men R.E.M. är allt för ofta pisstråkiga. Detta är inget undantag. Det blir 40 minuter att genomlida, sen får det vara nog. Omdöme 8 låtar in i albumet: World leader pretend och Orange crush var ju lite bättre än den usla inledningen. Men bra? Nej, här handlar det mest om dålig konkurrens. Håll ut! Bara tre låtar kvar. Omdöme efter alla 11 låtar Inte blev det mycket bättre. Inledningen är fruktansvärd. Resten trist. Nu lyssnar vi på något roligare. Kanske lite gladjazz?

I don't really know how to explain it but I just don't really like listening to R.E.M... I just find it kinda boring? Like, when a song ends, I just forget I heard it. I think it's cause I feel like the songs just don't "go anywhere". Hard to get through this one.

medio rari para la actualidad, tiene todos los instrumentos dañados con una sublime remasterización, revolucionarios descubriendo las repeticiones y destiempos, gran música para aficionados.

sounds old

oops

BORING and corny. Every song sounds the same.

Absolutely awful

No es mi estilo, no me ha gustado simple y llanamente.

No me gustó tanto

Yuck

Meh!!

should've been Yellow by R.E.M.

chato p caralho, sem sal, sem nada na real

Ik heb nu wel genoeg matige rockbands geluisterd. Geen leuk album, geen zin om het vaker te gaan luisteren. Ik kan er helemaal niks mee. Geen een nummer vond ik wel aardig.

Ik had hier wel wat van verwacht. Ik ken natuurlijk de hits die wel aardig zijn maar ik had nooit een heel album geluisterd. Man wat viel dat tegen. Heb het ook niet direct helmaal afgeluisterd omdat ik het erg irritant vond. Het is een algemeen gerespecteerd album en blijkbaar één van de favorieten van Curt Cobain. Heb het daarna nog vijf keer geprobeerd om er achter te komen wat ik nu dan mis. Het is twee keer gelukt om het album helemaal te luisteren. De andere pogingen standen in irritatie. Het klinkt een beetje als Phill Collis in een the smiths coverband. Er is veel gezeik en gezanik en dan alles om een monotoon melodie. Ik haat niet alle nummers van REM maar dit album niet voor mij.

I don't like anything about this.

This album made me hate R.E.M. on a level that I did not think was possible. I cannot see myself listening to any of their songs for a very long time because his voice is so fucking annoying and I did not realize that until listening to this album. I only appreciated two songs and the better one was I rememberCalifornia

NPC music

no thank you

Hittade den här på CD i Ross Gellers bokhylla. Visst hade R.E.M. några bangers på 90-talet ändå?? Gick och väntade på att nån av dom skulle komma och baila ut dom här men näää. Fruktansvärt från start till mål verkligen. Hatar både rösten och texterna, usch.

Riktigt riktigt dåligt. Verkligen uselt.

nääää…. blä!! hatar texten, hatar sången

I'm choosing to believe the reason that we've already had 3 R.E.M. albums is not that the generator hates me, but wants my suffering to be early in this process. If only we were getting through Morrissey as quickly. "Stand" is one of my least favorite songs of all time, I cannot listen to it at all. Nothing will change my mind about this one.

vraiment pa ma cam bcp trop cheriefm

wow i really don’t like this

not bad but dont love it either i actually dont like it at all, the songs are all like so tedious idk how to say it i do like some of R.E.M. their music (only a few hits) but this album sucked.

insignificant and bland. guess I just don’t Get It. Stipe’s voice makes me eeeeehghgggggh

Frankly, the album's highly boring, monotonous, and I have no idea why it is on the 1001 list. What is ut in the music or the vocals that, accoeding to the list authors, makes it one of the best in the history of music? It is indeed not. I can hardly remember a song immediately after listening to this. I believe this is the first album among the 32 that I have listened up until now which does not have a single song I could add to my playlists. Such entries honestly make me dissappointed about choosing to listen to the list. Well, we will see how that goes further.

Bout to put me into REM sleep it’s so boring

big nothing

This was bad! But I do like Orange Crush. There was a lyric in the very lame song You Are Everything that is, “you’re drifting off to sleep with your teeth in your mouth,” which made me think of my Dad’s dentures and how he’s drifting off to sleep with his teeth on the bathroom counter

R.E.M are Beige: The Band and this is aggressively bland. This feels like what happens when you let one of those guitar wankers who plays Wonderwall and Stairway on loop actually make their own music. It's like we took the lyrics of the 70s, but none of the musical interest that made it properly hit. The biggest song on this album is also the best one, but I was even ready for Orange Crush to end half-way through. It's only 4 minutes long!

I might've enjoyed this album more if I was at any other stage of my life. Instead I just felt kinda annoyed at the lack of energy and how down-in-the-dumps it was. I actually think there are some interesting melodies on this album, but having to listen to Michael Stipe tell me how much life sucks got old halfway through the album.

Tbh this wasn't it for me

vou dar uma estrela para todos os álbuns que eu não ouvi

1st track- pretty good, 7/10 2nd track- kinda ass so far wtf, 2/10 3rd track- the voice cracks pmo, very forgettable 2/10 4th track - i liked the key shifts, he is sooo whiny omg 4/10 5th track - its ok i guess. i really hate 80's production 3/10 6th track - i really like the piano, and i fucking hate his voice sooo much omg why is he complaining about kids laughing at him in his annoying voice 3/10 7th track - the whining works? 6/10 i wouldnt go back to it but its not bad. 8th track - this would have been really good without it being 80's, give this to weezer itd be absolutely peak 5/10 9th track- this is sooo ass omg 1/10 way to slow his vibrato pmo 10th track- not bad, 5/10 11th track- THIS IS ASS lol the layering is off. did not feel like a end to an album 1/10 i did not like this, it is not conherent, lyrics dont have much behind them, and overall just isnt my taste, id say like a 3/10, there is worse but things can be a whole lot better.

1. pop -1 2. get - 1 3. everything - 1.5 4. Stand -1 5. World - 1.5 6. Child- 1.5 7. Orange - 1.5 8. Inside -0 9. Shirt- 1 10. California - 1.5 11. Untitled -1

I've never listened to this album (30). Bald guy music. Boring.

Couldn't really get into the album. It's just not for me.

I never really liked them much.

Het hele album klinkt hetzelfde, en als je dat geluid niet kan waarderen kom je niet heel erg ver. De zanger van R.E.M. heeft een hele zeurderige stem die tijdens een heel album beluisteren wel echt gaat vervelen en irriteren.

These guys are so hot and cold. This album is cold as anything.

90s sitcom theme song music

1.5 favs: - world leader pretender

Yeah not for me I'm afraid.

I can't

It's not a coincidence that I avoid REM (whereas WAR was a total surprise out of nowhere). One of them was alright to begin with but just turned into the usual REM dirge. It might be Stipe's earnest droning voice. It might be the instrumentation (but no - the band are perfectly good. It's definitely Stipe. He's whining.

how in the world is this on the list? its like bad and boring dave matthew’s band

Never really liked R.E.M. They've always come across to me as a band that loves smelling their own farts, and they expect you to enjoy it as well. The only redeemable song on the album is "Stand" but even that one gets old fast.

Gear: ZMF Bokeh Artwork: 🍃🟩⁉️ Production (Remastered 2013): 🙄🤔🤷 Music: 😶‍🌫️😡🙏😞☮️ Rating: 🥬(🥬)/5

Favourite Tracks: -Pop Song 89 -Stand

This shit sucks

I’m not sure why this simple music is considered smart? Is it because it’s so impossibly white? Stipe’s childish lyrics and atonal vocals, joined by average rock-folk instrumentals, and you somehow get a legion of pampered white collegiate devotes swooning to their groove. Ugh. What the loving fuck? Hard to find a more overrated group.

1/10 I only truly resonated with one song off this album, I also found that I didn’t fancy the lyricism throughout my listening. Unfortunately this was not to my taste at all.

Shite

This was brutally hard to listen to. I thought I liked R.E.M. (granted I only know their most popular songs), but I think I might be wrong on that account. I skipped the latter half of nearly every song because I couldn't stand for it to go on. The lead singer's voice grated on my last nerve. 0/5, if I could

Awful

this album is just as disappointing now as it was when i first heard Orange Crush and asked my dad to let me listen to the entire album. it might be the most boring R.E.M. album

This might be the most boring album I've ever heard. Not bad, but so boring.

I have never liked R.E.M. and never will. I do not like college rock.

Crap

It's shit

can't even get past the first song, horrible, worst album of all time

Sucks

painfully generic. very plain rock

Not my taste in music was okay

I didn't think this would be as shit as it actually is. Really not for me at all

ass

Not again. I regret every day not giving the other REM album a 1. I think about it. If it wasn’t for man on the moon, that puppy was dead. Now. This one is earlier and may have some vitality that wasn’t wrung out by corporate rock radio. Not holding out hope. Well maybe a little. Is that… life??? Is that an alive Michael Stipe not buried in an inky, glimmering shit pile? This song is nice. It’s not great, but it’s something and that really is something compared to the 1992 one. Get up is whatever. It kind of floats by. This is too ballad-y. Gets a little medieval. The theme song to the greatest anti-sitcom ever produced. Simple and decent but it’s forever associated with Get a Life. Which is the best. Man the pseudo country stuff sucks for this. But the vocal melody is excellent in places and the piano is nice. Nah man. Don’t say happy game to play. This sucks. Kingdom Come Deliverance background music with one of the players of the game singing. No man. Stop. This is fucking embarrassing. Uwu I’m just a wittle boy, I have no fwiends. This is the worst. Lowlight alert. I hate that I like the vocal thing at the end, but otherwise this was an immolated garbage barge. Product placement time. I always liked this song when I was younger. It’s fine. This sounds like Bon Jovi and u2 doing a medley track. How does that sound to you? Imagine it. I think it sounds like a benefit concert for Wall Street bankers who had to pay taxes this year. Hard pass. Guys. Come on here. STOP. What was this song????? I wish I could forget California. Although I really like the sombre riff here. This is pre-Nirvana. Very good riff but insufferable whining vocally. Ok. This song sucks. This bad boy is coming into the station. A once proud locomotive has lost all steam, spray painted with tags from disappointed locals from the towns it trudged through. Where I could’ve seen myself giving this album a higher score earlier. It just ensured that I hated it. It tried to get me to hate it. It succeeded. Minimal highlights. Overrated junk. 1-1.5 HIGHLIGHTS: Stand, I Remember California

Ikke min stil overhoved

Det er ikke fordi jeg er en dedikeret REM hater men jeg har allerede glemt alle de her numre og jeg har lige hørt albummet

thumbs down

REM - abit hit and miss for me, only really like there popular stuff like the basic bitch i am

I really expected to like this album a lot more than I did. I feel like it's not really pop or rock, so it sits in this almost uncanny valley between the two genres. Every song has a moment or two that I enjoyed, but the songs themselves feel jarring and musically uncomfortable in my opinion. Not a very pleasant listen

Que picolé de xuxu. Som sem graça, monotônico, monotemático, monovoz, mononota. Super sem graça e chato. REM pra mim é one hit wonder...não tem como caracterizar esses caras dentro do rock...

mid first track mid second track bad third track mid fourth track mid fifth track bad 6th track good 7th trqck mid 8th track bad 9th track mid 10th track mid 11th track

coñazo inhumano

Was looking forward to this album when I saw a couple of REMs hits on it. Aprr of those hits, nothing else was worth the listen

Kut band

As someone who has even liked REM in the past!: tbh I don't know why it made the list. Lousy poetry, not sold on the politics (in fairness, politics are fucking hard to write about cleverly and convincingly), musically meh, and the interplay between lyrics/vocals and music meh.

Bland and annoying vocals. Imo, there’s so much better alt rock out there. I don’t get the hype

Nothing offensive about this. R.E.M. has always been a "greatest hits" band for me generally speaking. Maybe it was groundbreaking or very innovative in indie rock for it's time and michale stipe is a very iconic voice in both lyrics and general tone but nothing outside of Orange Crush really hits for me.

I am a R.E.M. hater - sue me

nautin tästä harmillisen vähän. hyvin laajalti arvostettua bändi kyseessä ja silti toista ykköstä viedään, vaikkakin automatic for the popula albumissa oli todella hyvää settiä. kaikisssa albumeissa samanlaiset wibat mutta biisit ovat tässä vaan tylsempiä, mitäänsanomattomia.. mahdolllisesti kymmenen vuotta sitten tämä olisi voinut pinttyä aivosoluihin joka veisi musiikkimakuani tulevaisuuten...nostalgiaefekti pakko olla läsnä... muuten tämä on täyttä kuravettä.. jota se on.. world leader pretend

I liked maybe one or two songs but I was quite bored listening to this..

Blegh

Hate it. 0/10. Every song reminds me of the 2 rem songs I do like in a very repetitive and not at all satisfying manner.

REM SUCKS!!!!! If I could only give zero stars

I don’t know who bothered to remaster this piece of hot garbage, but clearly they wasted their time. The album was whiney and pretty annoying to listen to. I make fun of music like this all the time.

Nothing stands out very much with this album, and while I can appreciate it probably was potentially inspirational to the future of alt-rock music, it seems so bland and non-provoking that I would not listen to it again, and will likely not think of it again. 1/5 or 21/100.

flop

Honestly, i’m such a big fan of every REM album but this one. I felt i kinda had to push my way through it. I honestly don’t know if i could even choose a favorite from this album. was not the vibe. Any other album i would have absolutely loved.

Not my cup of tea

Not for me

R.E.M. is bland and boring. The lyrics are shallow. Trash. 1/5.

Nope

Not the biggest REM fan, and this album didn't really change that

Again one of the albums which should‘ve made place for more unique ones that lack this list so hurtfully. Instead we got a relevance through sales listing / big name

R.E.M was never my thing outside of the most popular songs (Orange Crush included which is on this album and it’s a great song). I don’t particularly care for the sound or vocals much, so this is miss in my personal opinion.

Overrated

Nope