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Murmur

R.E.M.

Group Rating: 2.5
Global Rating: 3.41
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jason-cobb

An album that sounds like it was recorded in 1986, and not 1983. These minor timeframes make a difference when they are your formative years. It sounds like a proper album - a body of work with each song relying on each other. Songs such as Radio Free Europe come across as being a bit jointed on a Greatest Hits. I enjoyed sitting down and listening to this, start to finish the way it should be. Blimey, there's a bit of funk in that bass. A half decent debut.

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boombox-generation

Pleasant enough. I quite like Stipe's voice, but I have no idea what he was on about. "Cryptic lyrics, jangly guitar and melodic basslines" isn't really my thing. It would have worked better shifting up a gear or two in places.

2
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