The Vinyl Countdown # 1365

R.E.M., Green (1988)

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…