R.E.M., Green (1988)
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It’s become the thing to say - or maybe it was always the thing to say - that the first four or five R.E.M. albums are faultless or close to it and everything else is either bits’n’piece-y or redundant/flat out awful. Not true of course - I’d argue the band’s first decade is pretty great and certainly Green stands up; it’s not the st…
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