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 | From Chad Bowar, your About Music Editor After 30 years and 15 albums, R.E.M. announced they are breaking up. The band were pioneers in alternative music, then eventually broke through to mainstream success. Our music guides take a look back at R.E.M. and their music. | |
R.E.M. Announce Their Breakup
In a post on their website, the band members wrote, "To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening."
| Best R.E.M. Songs
Since the release of their first EP in 1982, the band have been one of rock's most critically acclaimed bands, blending enigmatic lyrics and adventurous guitar-driven music that has encompassed everything from pop to country. By the late '80s, they also become commercial successes, eventually figuring out how to make left-of-center tunes for the masses.
| Top 10 R.E.M. Songs Of The '80s
It's a risky enterprise to try and count down the top 10 R.E.M. songs of the '80s. It's a bit of a can't-win situation, as choosing too many of the "hits" would expose me as an R.E.M. neophyte but straying too far into the relative unknown of the band's many quality album tracks brings a threat of disorientation.
| R.E.M. Profile
While students at the University of Georgia, Michael Stipe and Peter Buck found they shared an affinity for punk rock and the indie D.I.Y. aesthetic. After meeting up with the like-minded Mike Mills and Bill Berry, the quartet began to rehearse and perform punk and garage band covers in and around Athens.
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