 | Automatic for the People by R.E.M.
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $0.01 R.E.M.'s most cohesive and melancholy album. Their best song, 'Find the River', closes out an emotional journey through sadness, confusion and loss.
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 | Murmur by R.E.M.
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.00 Their full length debut and a timeless classic. The memorable 'Pilgrimage', 'Perfect Circle' and 'Talk About the Passion' are the best of an outstanding group of songs.
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 | Lifes Rich Pageant by R.E.M.
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.83 Their first, tentative leanings toward a more commercial sound. 'Begin the Begin', 'Fall on Me' and 'The Flowers of Guatemala'are the standouts.
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 | Reveal by R.E.M.
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $0.01 Moments of true beauty ('I've Been High', 'The Lifting') lift this album above it's more mundane moments ('Beachball'). 'Imitation of Life' was a great single.
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 | Document by R.E.M.
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.75 A commercial breakthrough...without compromise. 'The One I Love' still ranks with their best, along with 'Disturbance at the Heron House'.
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 | New Adventures in Hi-Fi by R.E.M.
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $0.01 A bit scattershot, but great songs ('Bittersweet Me', 'Departure', 'Electrolite') abound. One real clunker, 'How the West was Won and Where it Got Us'.
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 | Fables of the Reconstruction by R.E.M.
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.74 Dark, gloomy, and highly listenable. Highlights are 'Feeling Gravity's Pull', 'Maps and Legends' and the great 'Driver 8'.
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 | Accelerate by R.E.M.
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $2.05 A needed return to rock'n'roll. Good songs hampered by poor production. Potential standout: 'Until the Day is Done'.
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 | Monster by R.E.M.
Buy used from: $0.01 Louder guitars do not necessarily equal rockin' out. 'What's the Frequency, Kenneth?', 'Star 69' and the guitar wall-of-sound 'Let Me In' save this from the likes of 'Circus Envy'.
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 | Out of Time by R.E.M.
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $0.01 'Losing My Religion' is here, along with the wonderful 'Near Wild Heaven'. Unfortunately, so is one of their most inane songs, 'Shiny Happy People'. 'Country Feedback' is better heard live.
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 | Green by R.E.M.
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.58 Their most dated set of songs, with the exceptions of 'Hairshirt', 'The Wrong Child' and 'Turn You Inside-Out'. The rest has not aged well.
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 | Reckoning by R.E.M.
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.00 Their second full length album showed some growing pains. A bit thin, but 'so. Central Rain' is classic R.E.M.
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 | Dead Letter Office by R.E.M.
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.00 This is a compilation, but it contains their very first release, the EP 'Chronic Town'. A must for completists.
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 | Up by R.E.M.
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $0.54 The first truly weak R.E.M. release. The airport concourse atmosphere of this one wears thin quickly. One standout: 'At My Most Beautiful'.
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 | Around the Sun by R.E.M.
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $0.01 R.E.M.-lite...if at all. One good song, 'I Wanted to be Wrong'. The rest barely exist. A truly disposable work.
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