Name	Artist	Time	Price
1.	Radio Free Europe	R.E.M.	4:05	$0.99
2.	Pilgrimage	R.E.M.	4:30	$0.99
3.	Laughing	R.E.M.	3:58	$0.99
4.	Talk About the Passion	R.E.M.	3:24	$1.29
5.	Moral Kiosk	R.E.M.	3:32	$0.99
6.	Perfect Circle	R.E.M.	3:30	$0.99
7.	Catapult	R.E.M.	3:55	$0.99
8.	Sitting Still	R.E.M.	3:18	$0.99
9.	9-9	R.E.M.	3:05	$0.99
10.	Shaking Through	R.E.M.	4:30	$0.99
11.	We Walk	R.E.M.	3:01	$0.99
12.	West of the Fields	R.E.M.	3:17	$0.99

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Our Review

A sense of mystery pervades R.E.M.'s Murmur like low-hanging clouds on a moody Southern morning. The band had made an initial splash with an impressive debut EP. With their first album in 1983, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry brought the soaring melodies of folk-rock into the post-punk age while adding their own subtly insinuating lyric vision. Murmur's songs range from propulsive rockers like "Radio Free Europe" and "West of the Fields" to slow-burning reveries like "Pilgrimage" and "Perfect Circle" without breaking the album's overall spell. An undercurrent of sly humor creeps into "We Walk" and "Laughing." Stipe's deep-toned vocals give him the spooky gravitas of a backwoods preacher as he revels in oblique imagery. Fleshing out the tunes with evocative nuance are Buck's jangly guitar leads, Mills' liquid bass lines, and Berry's empathetic drumming. Produced seamlessly by Don Dixon and Mitch Easter, Murmur still speaks with an unforgettably haunting voice.

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Customer Reviews

Not everyone can carry the weight of the world... (5 stars)
From the kudzu vine encrusted cover one gets an image of the ethereal musical voyage upon which they're about to embark. I first made mine in 1984, after the cover of Reckoning inspired me to make a blind purchase of a band with a cool name, but of which I had never heard. It was a very good decision. "Pilgrimage" and "Perfect Circle" still bring back images of a Honda Civic (before they were cool) speeding from Houston t

Nothing Else Like it in My Collection... or Yours (5 stars)
Murmur is not so much an album as an aesthetic. It doesn't give the listener words to mull over, but impressions to contemplate. It's pop, it's art... it's pop art. The songs have hooks and where you think there should be a catchy lyric there is a memorable vowell. Somehow the whole album works as a rendering of energized melancholy, as if Nick Drake played with the Monkees and had his album produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry. You can

Murmur is one of the most complete albums, ever! (5 stars)
How many albums can anyone claim to be great from start to finish? Well, REM's Murmur is one such album. I had the pleasure of seeing REM (2nd row) live at the rock stage on Milwaukee's Summerfest grounds, in 1983, and have been a fan ever since. While they have created many great songs and albums, I believe that Murmur exemplifies the definition of a complete album. Murmur's melody and energy typifies the origins of REM. Any original,

Biography

Formed: 1980 in Athens, GA
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

R.E.M. marked the point when post-punk turned into alternative rock. When their first single, "Radio Free Europe," was released in 1981, it sparked a back-to-the-garage movement in the American underground. While there were a number of hardcore and punk bands in the U.S. during the early '80s, R.E.M. brought guitar pop back into the underground lexicon. Combining ringing guitar hooks with mumbled, cryptic lyrics and a D.I.Y. aesthetic borrowed from post-punk, the band simultaneously sounded traditional...

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Top Songs By R.E.M.
	Name	Album	Time	Price
1.	Losing My Religion	In Time - The Best of R.E.M..	4:27	$1.29
2.	Everybody Hurts	In Time - The Best of R.E.M..	5:17	$1.29
3.	Man on the Moon	In Time - The Best of R.E.M..	5:13	$1.29
4.	Orange Crush	In Time - The Best of R.E.M..	3:51	$1.29
5.	It's the End of the World As We Know..	Document	4:06	$1.29
6.	Stand	In Time - The Best of R.E.M..	3:10	$1.29
7.	Shiny Happy People	Out of Time	3:43	$1.29
8.	What's the Frequency, Kenneth?	In Time - The Best of R.E.M..	4:00	$1.29
9.	Radio Free Europe	Murmur	4:05	$0.99
10.	Nightswimming	In Time - The Best of R.E.M..	4:10	$1.29

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