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Saturday, September 30, 2023

Marc Fagel/Jittery White Guy Music: Top 1000+ Songs

Marc Fagel (Jittery White Guy Music):

Top 1000 Songs

Inspired by Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time,” Marc Fagel created his own list in September 2021, which ballooned to a top 1000 list by July 2023. Fagel describes himself as a “music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music.”

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  1. The Beatles “Rain” (1966)
  2. The Beatles “A Day in the Life” (1967)
  3. Big Star “The Ballad of El Goodo” (1972)
  4. Grateful Dead “Ripple” (1970)
  5. R.E.M. “So. Central Rain” (1984)
  6. The Clash “Death Or Glory” (1979)
  7. Velvet Underground “Pale Blue Eyes” (1969)
  8. The Rolling Stones “Tumbling Dice” (1972)
  9. The Beatles “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End” (1969)
  10. The Who “The Kids Are Alright” (1965)

  11. The Kinks “Days” (1968)
  12. The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968)
  13. Brian Eno “St. Elmo’s Fire” (1975)
  14. Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime” (1980)
  15. The Replacements “Bastards of Young” (1985)
  16. Neil Young “Powderfinger” (1979)
  17. Pixies “Debaser” (1989)
  18. The Clash “White Man in Hammersmith Palais” (1978)
  19. Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965)
  20. The Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop” (1976)

  21. Elvis Costello “The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes” (1977)
  22. Beach Boys “God Only Knows” (1966)
  23. David Bowie “Queen Bitch” (1971)
  24. Modern Lovers “Roadrunner” (1972)
  25. The Who “Baba O’Riley” (1971)
  26. Brian Eno “Spider & I” (1977)
  27. Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here” (1975)
  28. The Beatles “It’s All Too Much” (1969)
  29. Velvet Underground “Sweet Jane” (1970)
  30. David Bowie “Life on Mars?” (1971)

  31. The Byrds “Draft Morning” (1968)
  32. The Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows” (1966)
  33. Peter Gabriel “Solsbury Hill” (1977)
  34. Joy Division “Decades” (1980)
  35. Elvis Costello “Beyond Belief” (1982)
  36. Neil Young “After the Gold Rush” (1970)
  37. Wire “Outdoor Miner” (1978)
  38. Miracle Legion “The Backyard” (1984)
  39. Wilco “A Shot in the Arm” (1999)
  40. Neutral Milk Hotel “Holland 1945” (1998)

  41. Sonic Youth “Teenage Riot” (1988)
  42. The New Pornographers “The Bleeding Heart Show” (2005)
  43. David Bowie “Heroes” (1977)
  44. Genesis “The Musical Box” (1971)
  45. The Feelies “Slipping Into Something” (1986)
  46. R.E.M. “Radio Free Europe” (1981)
  47. Pavement “Summer Babe” (1992)
  48. Simon & Garfunkel “The Only Living Boy in New York” (1970)
  49. Grateful Dead “Box of Rain” (1970)
  50. The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966)

  51. New Order “Temptation” (1982)
  52. Big Star “Thirteen” (1972)
  53. Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (1980)
  54. The Kinks “Village Green Preservation Society” (1968)
  55. Yo La Tengo “From a Motel 6” (1993)
  56. The Clash “Safe European Home” (1978)
  57. The Who “I Can See for Miles” (1967)
  58. Talking Heads “This Must Be the Place” (1984)
  59. The Rolling Stones “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” (1969)
  60. Paul McCartney “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” (1971)

  61. Roxy Music “More Than This” (1982)
  62. Elvis Costello “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding” (1978)
  63. Liz Phair “Fuck & Run” (1993)
  64. Mott the Hoople “All the Young Dudes” (1972)
  65. The Jesus & Mary Chain “Just Like Honey” (1985)
  66. Big Star “September Gurls” (1973)
  67. Jerry Garcia “The Wheel” (1971)
  68. Pink Floyd “Fearless” (1971)
  69. INXS “Don’t Change” (1982)
  70. The Band “The Weight” (1968)

  71. Hüsker Dü “Books About UFO’s” (1985)
  72. Genesis “I Know What I Like” (1973)
  73. Badfinger “Baby Blue” (1971)
  74. The Cure “In Between Days” (1985)
  75. The Kinks “This Time Tomorrow” (1970)
  76. Psychedelic Furs “Love My Way” (1983)
  77. The Beatles “Hello Goodbye” (1967)
  78. The Replacements “I Will Dare” (1984)
  79. New Order “Ceremony” (1981)
  80. The Byrds “Eight Miles High” (1966)

  81. Grateful Dead “Dark Star” (live 1969)
  82. Cheap Trick “Surrender” (1978)
  83. Pixies “Where Is My Mind” (1988)
  84. The Shins “New Slang” (2001)
  85. The Feelies “Let’s Go” (1986)
  86. The Clash “Train in Vain” (1979)
  87. Pink Floyd “Echoes” (1971)
  88. R.E.M. “Catapult” (1983)
  89. Pavement “Trigger Cut” (1992)
  90. Bruce Springsteen “Thunder Road” (1975)

  91. Guided by Voices “I Am a Scientist” (1994)
  92. Television “See No Evil” (1977)
  93. David Bowie “Sound and Vision” (1977)
  94. Sleater-Kinney “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone” (1996)
  95. Squeeze “In Quintessence” (1981)
  96. Jimmy Cliff “Sitting in Limbo” (1972)
  97. King Crimson “In the Court of the Crimson King” (1969)
  98. Matthew Sweet “Sick of Myself” (1994)
  99. Throwing Muses “Hate My Way” (1986)
  100. Grateful Dead “Franklin’s Tower” (1975)
  101. Yo La Tengo “Tom Courtenay” (1995)
  102. The Kinks “Sweet Lady Genevieve” (1972)
  103. The Hold Steady “Sequestered in Memphis” (2008)
  104. George Harrison “What Is Life” (1970)
  105. Flaming Lips “Waitin’ for a Superman” (1999)
  106. The Byrds “My Back Pages” (1967)
  107. Sex Pistols “Pretty Vacant” (1977)
  108. Teenage Fanclub “Sparky’s Dream” (1995)
  109. Mountain Goats “This Year” (2005)
  110. Modern English “I Melt with You” (1982)

  111. The Rolling Stones “Rocks Off” (1972)
  112. Pete Townshend “Slit Skirts” (1982)
  113. Soul Asylum “Cartoon” (1988)
  114. Bob Dylan “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” (1966)
  115. The Records “Starry Eyes” (1978)
  116. T-Rex “Metal Guru” (1972)
  117. The Jam “Ghosts” (1982)
  118. Josh Ritter “Getting Ready to Get Down” (2015)
  119. Joy Division “Atmosphere” (1980)
  120. Drive-By Truckers “Let There Be Rock” (2002)

  121. Small Faces “Lazy Sunday” (1968)
  122. Built to Spill “Distopian Dream Girl” (1994)
  123. Big Star “Jesus Christ” (1974)
  124. Neil Young “Birds” (1970)
  125. XTC “Generals & Majors” (1980)
  126. R.E.M. “Disturbance at the Heron House” (1987)
  127. Bruce Springsteen “Badlands” (1978)
  128. The Connells “Stone Cold Yesterday” (1990)
  129. The Clash “Stay Free” (1978)
  130. The Who “Won’t Get Fooled Again” (1971)

  131. My Bloody Valentine “Soon” (1990)
  132. Amy Rigby “Don’t Ever Change” (2003)
  133. The Beatles “She Said She Said” (1966)
  134. Uncle Tupelo “New Madrid” (1993)
  135. The La’s “There She Goes” (1988)
  136. Mission of Burma “Academy Fight Song” (1980)
  137. Echo & the Bunnymen “The Killing Moon” (1984)
  138. The Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” (1978)
  139. The Rolling Stones “Happy” (1972)
  140. The Kinks “Waterloo Sunset” (1966)

  141. Wire “Map Ref. 41oN 93oW” (1979)
  142. Squeeze “Tempted” (1981)
  143. The Waterboys “The Whole of the Moon” (1985)
  144. Violent Femmes “Blister in the Sun” (1983)
  145. Harry Nilsson “Without You” (1971)
  146. Joy Division “Twenty Four Hours” (1980)
  147. Luna “California (All the Way)” (1994)
  148. The Byrds “Wasn’t Born to Follow” (1969)
  149. The Monkees “Pleasant Valley Sunday” (1967)
  150. Yo La Tengo “Barnaby Hardly Working” (1989)

  151. Pavement “Cut Your Hair” (1994)
  152. Buffalo Springfield “Expecting to Fly” (1967)
  153. Sonic Youth “I Got a Catholic Block” (1987)
  154. The Plimsouls “A Million Miles Away” (1983)
  155. Superchunk “Slack Motherfucker” (1990)
  156. Bruce Springsteen “Growin’ Up” (1973)
  157. Brian Eno “Burning Airlines Give You So Much More” (1974)
  158. The Soft Boys “Queen of Eyes” (1980)
  159. Manfred Mann “The Mighty Quinn” (1968)
  160. NRBQ “I Want You Bad” (1978)

  161. The Fall “The Classical” (1982)
  162. The Clash “Rudie Can’t Fail” (1979)
  163. Rogue Wave “Eyes” (2005)
  164. R.E.M. “Man on the Moon” (1992)
  165. Tommy Keene “Places That Are Gone” (1986)
  166. Nick Lowe “So It Goes” (1976)
  167. The Rolling Stones “Moonlight Mile” (1971)
  168. Game Theory “Erica’s Word” (1986)
  169. The Chills “Rolling Moon” (1982)
  170. The Beths “Future Me Hates Me” (2018)

  171. The Trypes “A Plan Revised” (1985)
  172. Elliott Smith “Ballad of Big Nothing” (1997)
  173. Aztec Camera with Mick Jones “Good Morning Britain” (1990)
  174. Led Zeppelin “When the Levee Breaks” (1971)
  175. Love Tractor “Beatle Boots” (1986)
  176. Mott the Hoople “All the Way from Memphis” (1973)
  177. The Jesus & Mary Chain “Taste of Cindy” (1985)
  178. Kristy MacColl “They Don’t Know” (1979)
  179. Spiritualized “Ladies and Gentlemen...” (1997)
  180. The Bats “Treason” (1987)

  181. Velvet Underground “I Found a Reason” (1970)
  182. Traffic “The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys” (1971)
  183. Green Pajamas “She’s Still Bewitching Me” (1999)
  184. Big Star “In the Street” (1972)
  185. Robert Pollard “Pop Zeus” (1999)
  186. Wilco “Jesus Etc.” (2002)
  187. House of Love “Christine” (1988)
  188. Mercury Rev “Opus 40” (1998)
  189. Brinsley Schwarz “Hymn to Me” (1970)
  190. Phish “You Enjoy Myself” (1988)

  191. Flaming Lips “Everyone Wants to Live Forever” (1992)
  192. World Party “Way Down Now” (1990)
  193. Squeeze “Up the Junction” (1979)
  194. Bettie Serveert “Tom Boy” (1992)
  195. The Beatles “I Am the Walrus” (1967)
  196. The Jazz Butcher “Southern Mark Smith” (1983)
  197. Nick Drake “Hazy Jane II” (1970)
  198. The Clean “Point That Thing Somewhere Else” (1981)
  199. Winter Hours “Wait Till the Morning” (1986)
  200. Grateful Dead “China Cat > Rider” (1972)
  201. Robyn Hitchcock “One Long Pair of Eyes” (1989)
  202. Captain Beyond “Sufficiently Breathless” (1973)
  203. Status Quo “Pictures of Matchstick Men” (1968)
  204. The Connells “Scotty’s Lament” (1987)
  205. Derek & the Dominos “Layla” (1970)
  206. Hüsker Dü “Divide and Conquer” (1985)
  207. Rain Parade “This Can’t Be Today” (1983)
  208. Talking Heads “Memories Can’t Wait” (1979)
  209. Paul McCartney “Dear Boy” (1971)
  210. New Order “Your Silent Face” (1983)

  211. The Who “Naked Eye” (1971/1974)
  212. Matthew Sweet “I’ve Been Waiting” (1991)
  213. The Undertones “Get Over You” (1979)
  214. The Smiths “Girlfriend in a Coma” (1987)
  215. The Kinks “Better Things” (1981)
  216. Mary Lou Lord “Some Jingle Jangle Morning” (1998)
  217. Cocteau Twins “Sugar Hiccup” (1983)
  218. Psychedelic Furs “Pretty in Pink” (1981)
  219. Neil Young “Thrasher” (1979)
  220. Public Image Ltd. “Public Image” (1978)

  221. Beach Boys “Sloop John B” (1966)
  222. R.E.M. “Shaking Through” (1983)
  223. The Pretty Things “The Good Mr. Square/She Was Tall, She Was High” (1970)
  224. Lou Reed “Walk on the Wild Side” (1972)
  225. Sleater-Kinney “Little Babies” (1997)
  226. Genesis “Supper’s Ready” (1972)
  227. Sweet “Action” (1976)
  228. Pixies “Gigantic” (1988)
  229. Brian Eno “The Big Ship” (1975)
  230. Joy Division “Interzone” (1979)

  231. Belly “Feed the Tree” (1993)
  232. Robert Fripp & Peter Gabriel “Here Comes the Flood” (1979)
  233. Game Theory “24” (1985)
  234. Yo La Tengo “Deeper Into Movies” (1997)
  235. The Byrds “Ballad of Easy Rider” (1969)
  236. The Replacements “Unsatisfied” (1984)
  237. The New Pornographers “The Laws Have Changed” (2003)
  238. Camper Van Beethoven “Take the Skinheads Bowling” (1985)
  239. Aimee Mann “Save Me” (1999)
  240. Cream “Badge” (1969)

  241. Roxy Music “Over You” (1980)
  242. Pink Floyd “Wot’s...Uh the Deal” (1972)
  243. Blake Babies “Out There” (1990)
  244. Death Cab for Cutie “The Sound of Settling” (2003)
  245. Grateful Dead “Scarlet Begonias” (1974)
  246. The Beatles “Mean Mr. Mustard/Polythene Pam/She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” (1969)
  247. Big Audio Dynamite “The Bottom Line” (1985)
  248. Elliott Smith “Waltz #2” (1998)
  249. Sebadoh “The Freed Pig” (1991)
  250. Pavement “Silence Kid” (1994)

  251. Pulp “Common People” (1995)
  252. Sinéad O’Connor “The Emperor’s New Clothes” (1990)
  253. The Reivers “Things Don’t Change” (1985)
  254. The Rolling Stones “We Love You” (1967)
  255. Minutemen “History Lesson Part II” (1984)
  256. The Feelies “The Obedient Atom” (1984)
  257. The Jam “Down in the Tube Station at Midnight” (1979)
  258. Ben Folds Five “Mess” (1999)
  259. Magnetic Fields “Papa Was a Rodeo” (1999)
  260. Split Enz “I Got You” (1980) <

  261. The Sugarcubes “Birthday” (1987)
  262. The Doors “The End” (1967)
  263. Scruffy the Cat “Happiness to Go” (1986)
  264. The Kinks “God’s Children” (1971)
  265. Beulah “Emma Blowgun’s Last Stand” (1999)
  266. Guerilla Toss “Zum Herz” (2023)
  267. The Call “The Walls Came Down” (1983)
  268. Joe Walsh “Meadows” (1973)
  269. Neutral Milk Hotel “King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 1-3” (1998)
  270. Buzzcocks “Why Can’t I Touch It” (1979)

  271. Cat Stevens “On the Road to Find Out” (1970)
  272. Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark “Enola Gay” (1980)
  273. Big Star “You Get What You Deserve” (1973)
  274. Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the U.K.” (1976)
  275. Wilco “Misunderstood” (1996)
  276. David Bowie “Starman” (1972)
  277. The Connells “Hey Wow” (1989)
  278. XTC “Senses Working Overtime” (1982)
  279. Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane “Keep Me Turning” (1977)
  280. Elvis Costello “Strict Time” (1981)

  281. Yo La Tengo “Blue Line Swinger” (1995)
  282. Rainy Day with Susannah Hoffs “I’ll Keep It with Mine” (1984)
  283. Odds “Someone Who’s Cool” (1996)
  284. Bruce Springsteen “Atlantic City” (1982)
  285. The Kinks “Strangers” (1970)
  286. Matthew Sweet “We’re the Same” (1995)
  287. Blind Faith “Can’t Find My Way Home” (1969)
  288. The Primitives “Crash” (1988)
  289. The Jesus & Mary Chain with Hope Sandoval “Sometimes Always” (1994)
  290. Superchunk “Driveway to Driveway” (1994)

  291. My Morning Jacket “Off the Record” (2004)
  292. Pixies “Planet of Sound” (1991)
  293. The Dream Academy “Life in a Northern Town” (1985)
  294. Galaxie 500 “Fourth of July” (1990)
  295. Billy Bragg “Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards” (1988)
  296. The Pogues “Sally MacLennane” (1985)
  297. Eels “Mr. E’s Beautiful Blues” (2000)
  298. Joni Mitchell “Help Me” (1974)
  299. Hüsker Dü “Terms of Psychic Warfare” (1985)
  300. Brian Eno “Everything Merges with the Night” (1975)
  301. Robyn Hitchcock “Heaven” (1985)
  302. The Who “Drowned” (1973)
  303. Archers of Loaf “Web in Front” (1993)
  304. The Clash “The Card Cheat” (1979)
  305. Volcano Suns “Tree Stomp” (1985)
  306. Rilo Kiley “Portions for Foxes” (2004)
  307. Paul McCartney “Back Seat of My Car” (1971)
  308. Big Dipper “Ron Klaus Wrecked His House” (1988)
  309. Guided by Voices “Mincer Ray” (1994)
  310. R.E.M. “Electrolite” (1996)

  311. Liz Phair “Help Me Mary” (1993)
  312. Roxy Music “Virginia Plain” (1972)
  313. The Sundays “Here’s Where the Story Ends” (1990)
  314. Drive-By Truckers “Puttin’ People on the Moon” (2004)
  315. Queen “Killer Queen” (1974)
  316. Young Fresh Fellows “The Sharing Patrol Theme” (1985)
  317. Velvet Underground “Sister Ray” (1968)
  318. Mazzy Star “Fade into You” (1993)
  319. Phish “Brian and Robert” (1998)
  320. Big Audio Dynamite “Rush” (1991)

  321. The Stone Roses “Made of Stone” (1989)
  322. X “Under the Big Black Sun” (1982)
  323. The Jim Carroll Band “People Who Died” (1980)
  324. Elton John “Rocket Man” (1972)
  325. Hoodoo Gurus “Bittersweet” (1985)
  326. Weezer “El Scorcho” (1996)
  327. Ween “What Deaner Was Talking About” (1994)
  328. Teenage Fanclub “Star Sign” (1991)
  329. The Waitresses “Christmas Wrapping” (1982)
  330. Led Zeppelin “D’yer Mak’er” (1973)

  331. The Feelies “Raised Eyebrows” (1980)
  332. Mountain Goats “Woke Up New” (2006)
  333. The Undertones “More Songs About Chocolate & Girls” (1980)
  334. Epic Soundtracks “Fallen Down” (1992)
  335. Sonic Youth “Stereo Sanctity” (1987)
  336. The Moody Blues “The Voice” (1981)
  337. The Jayhawks “Smile” (2000)
  338. The Faces “Glad & Sorry” (1973)
  339. The Shazam “Chipper Cherry Daylily” (1999)
  340. Badly Drawn Boy “Something to Talk About” (2002)

  341. Guided by Voices “Game of Pricks” (1995)
  342. Pere Ubu “Non-Alignment Pact” (1978)
  343. The High “Box Set Go” (1990)
  344. Luna “I Can’t Wait” (1992)
  345. The Fall “Living Too Late” (1986)
  346. Chris Bell “I Am the Cosmos” (1978)
  347. Too Much Joy “Crush Story” (1991)
  348. Nick Drake “One of These Things First” (1971)
  349. Buzzcocks “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays” (1979)
  350. Sweet “Ballroom Blitz” (1974)

  351. Fountains of Wayne “Radiation Vibe” (1996)
  352. Pink Floyd “Lucifer Sam” (1967)
  353. A Flock of Seagulls “Space Age Love Song” (1982)
  354. Pavement “Frontwards” (1992)
  355. Nirvana “All Apologies” (1993)
  356. James Gang “Funk #49” (1970)
  357. Apples in Stereo “Ruby” (1999)
  358. Wilco “Box Full of Letters” (1995)
  359. Fleetwood Mac “Tusk” (1979)
  360. Adam & the Ants “Stand & Deliver” (1981)

  361. Buffalo Springfield “On the Way Home” (1968)
  362. The Rentals “Friends of P” (1995)
  363. The Mekons “Chivalry” (1985)
  364. Tom Tom Club “Genius of Love” (1981)
  365. The Raveonettes “That Great Love Sound” (2003)
  366. J.K. & Co. “Fly” (1968)
  367. Bob Mould “See a Little Light” (1989)
  368. Grant Hart “Twenty-Five Forty-One” (1989)
  369. Devo “Uncontrollable Urge” (1978)
  370. King Crimson “Elephant Talk” (1981)

  371. The Long Ryders “Looking for Lewis & Clark” (1985)
  372. Michael Penn “No Myth” (1989)
  373. Velvet Underground “Oh Sweet Nuthin’” (1970)
  374. The dB’s “Amplifier” (1982)
  375. Yo La Tengo “I Heard You Looking” (1993)
  376. The Libertines “Up the Bracket” (2002)
  377. Posies “Golden Blunders” (1990)
  378. The Jam “Smithers-Jones” (1980)
  379. Spiritualized “I Think I’m in Love” (1997)
  380. Throwing Muses “Not Too Soon” (1991)

  381. David Bowie “Hang on to Yourself” (1972)
  382. Cocteau Twins “Lorelei” (1984)
  383. Matthew Sweet “Divine Intervention” (1991)
  384. Todd Rundgren “I Saw the Light” (1972)
  385. Veruca Salt “Seether” (1994)
  386. The Pretenders “Cuban Slide” (1981)
  387. Ride “Taste” (1990)
  388. The Doors “Peace Frog” (1970)
  389. My Morning Jacket “I’m Amazed” (2008)
  390. Lou Reed “Dirty Blvd.” (1989)

  391. Talking Heads “Listening Wind” (1980)
  392. Ben Folds Five “Battle of Who Could Care Less” (1997)
  393. The Rolling Stones “2000 Light Years from Home” (1967)
  394. Luna “23 Minutes in Brussels” (1995)
  395. The Jam “To Be Someone” (1978)
  396. Guided by Voices “Don’t Stop Now” (1996)
  397. The Replacements “Achin’ to Be” (1989)
  398. Prince “When You Were Mine” (1980)
  399. Gomez “See the World” (2006)
  400. Donovan “Atlantis” (1968)
  401. Japandroids “The House That Heaven Built” (2012)
  402. Grateful Dead “He’s Gone” (1972)
  403. My Bloody Valentine “When You Sleep” (1991)
  404. Tommy James & the Shondells “Crimson & Clover” (1968)
  405. Amy Rigby “Balls” (2000)
  406. Flamin’ Groovies “You Tore Me Down” (1976)
  407. Joan Jett “Bad Reputation” (1980)
  408. Superchunk “Precision Auto” (1993)
  409. The Monkees “Porpoise Song” (1968)
  410. Neil Young “Revolution Blues” (1974)

  411. Fountains of Wayne “No Better Place” (2003)
  412. The Minders “Build” (1999)
  413. Genesis “Stagnation” (1970)
  414. Sleater-Kinney “One More Hour” (1997)
  415. The Stooges “TV Eye” (1970)
  416. Josh Ritter “Girl in the War” (2006)
  417. Television “Marquee Moon” (1977)
  418. Charlatans UK “The Only One I Know” (1990)
  419. Judee Sill “Crayon Angels” (1971)
  420. Icicle Works “Whisper to a Scream” (1983)

  421. Happy Mondays “Step On” (1990)
  422. Butthole Surfers “Hey” (1983)
  423. The Who “Too Much of Anything” (1971/1974)
  424. Rain Parade “Talking in My Sleep” (1983)
  425. Beulah “If We Can Land a Man on the Moon” (1999)
  426. XTC “Earn Enough for Us” (1986)
  427. Wilco “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” (2002)
  428. Grateful Dead “Eyes of the World” (1973)
  429. Drive-By Truckers “Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife” (2008)
  430. The Rolling Stones “Before They Make Me Run” (1978)

  431. Yo La Tengo “A Shy Dog” (1987)
  432. New Order “Weirdo” (1986)
  433. The Beatles “Dear Prudence” (1968)
  434. Lush “Sweetness & Light” (1990)
  435. Lovers “People in Cars Don’t Face Each Other” (2002)
  436. Buffalo Springfield “Broken Arrow” (1967)
  437. The Soft Boys “I Wanna Destroy You” (1980)
  438. The Connells “’74-’75” (1993)
  439. Rilo Kiley “Spectacular Views” (2002)
  440. R.E.M. “7 Chinese Bros.” (1984)

  441. Ben Folds “Landed” (2005)
  442. The Replacements “Little Mascara” (1985)
  443. The Kinks “Sitting in My Hotel” (1972)
  444. Pavement “Gold Soundz” (1994)
  445. Oranger “Eggtooth” (1998)
  446. Minutemen “Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing” (1984)
  447. Bob Dylan “Queen Jane Approximately” (1965)
  448. My Morning Jacket “Circuital” (2011)
  449. Interpol “Evil” (2004)
  450. The Romantics “What I Like About You” (1980)

  451. Young Marble Giants “Eating Noddemix” (1980)
  452. Warren Zevon “Lawyers Guns & Money” (1978)
  453. Mountain Goats “Half Dead” (2006)
  454. Bram Tchaikovsky “Girl of My Dreams” (1979)
  455. Pink Floyd “When the Tigers Broke Free” (1982)
  456. Bobby Fuller Four “I Fought the Law” (1965)
  457. Let’s Active “Every Word Means No” (1983)
  458. Belly “Gepetto” (1993)
  459. Cosmic Rough Riders “Revolution in the Summertime” (2000)
  460. The Replacements “Can’t Hardly Wait” (1987

  461. Spacemen 3 “Why Couldn’t I See” (1991)
  462. Television “Venus” (1977)
  463. Creeper Lagoon “Empty Ships” (1998)
  464. Ringo Starr “Photograph” (1973)
  465. Drive-By Truckers “Sink Hole” (2003)
  466. The Smiths “How Soon Is Now?” (1984)
  467. The 6ths “San Diego Zoo” (1995)
  468. Madness “Michael Caine” (1984)
  469. The Raspberries “Go All the Way” (1972)
  470. The Flaming Lips “Do You Realize?” (2002)

  471. Sinéad O’Connor “Mandinka” (1987)
  472. The Glands “When I Laugh” (2000)
  473. Genesis “Carpet Crawlers” (1974)
  474. The Jayhawks “Blue” (1995)
  475. Derek & the Dominos “Bell Bottom Blues” (1970)
  476. Belle & Sebastian “Boy with the Arab Strap” (1998)
  477. Led Zeppelin “Carouselambra” (1979)
  478. Luna “IHOP” (1996)
  479. Katrina & the Waves “Spiderman” (1983)
  480. Paul McCartney & Wings “Magneto & Titanium Man” (1975)

  481. Pernice Brothers “Working Girls” (2001)
  482. The Jags “Back of My Hand” (1979)
  483. English Beat “Save It for Later” (1982)
  484. Phoebe Bridgers “That Funny Feeling” (2021)
  485. Neutral Milk Hotel “Song Against Sex” (1996)
  486. Frank Zappa “Joe’s Garage” (1979)
  487. Ben Vaughn Combo “My First Band” (1987)
  488. Pavement “Elevate Me Later” (1994)
  489. Paul Simon “My Little Town” (1975)
  490. Firehose “Herded Into Pools” (1993)

  491. Grateful Dead “Spanish Jam” (live, 1974)
  492. Badfinger “No Matter What” (1970)
  493. The Postal Service “Such Great Heights” (2003)
  494. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band “The Smell of Incense” (1967)
  495. Guided by Voices “Gold Heart Mountain Top” (1994)
  496. The Primitives “Way Behind Me” (1989)
  497. Wilco “When You Wake Up Feeling Old” (1999)
  498. Mercury Rev “Bronx Cheer” (1993)
  499. Built to Spill “Goin’ Against Your Mind” (2006)
  500. The Small Faces “The Autumn Stone” (1969)
  501. Elton Motello “Jet Boy Jet Girl” (1978)
  502. Olivia Tremor Control “Define a Transparent Dream” (1996)
  503. Flash & the Pan “Hey St. Peter” (1979)
  504. The Who “Go to the Mirror” (1969)
  505. The Bats “Smoking Her Wings” (1990)
  506. Uncle Tupelo “Sandusky” (1992)
  507. The Jesus & Mary Chain “Between Planets” (1989)
  508. X “Los Angeles” (1980)
  509. Apples in Stereo “Go” (2000)
  510. Shriekback “Nemesis” (1985)

  511. America “Sister Golden Hair” (1975)
  512. Velvet Underground “Heroin” (1967)
  513. Joe Jackson “One More Time” (1979)
  514. Big Audio Dynamite “Medicine Show” (1985)
  515. Echo & the Bunnymen “The Cutter” (1983)
  516. Julee Cruise “Falling” (1989)
  517. Phish “Bouncing Around the Room” (1990)
  518. Wilco “Impossible Germany” (2007)
  519. Jonathan Richman “That Summer Feeling” (1983)
  520. The Raveonettes “Dead Sound” (2008)

  521. The Shazam “Sunshine Tonight” (2000)
  522. Simple Minds “The American” (1981)
  523. Television “1880 Or So” (1992)
  524. Meat Puppets “Split Myself in Two” (1983)
  525. The Nazz “Open My Eyes” (1968)
  526. The Hold Steady “Chillout Tent” (2006)
  527. AC/DC “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” (1976)
  528. Eels “Novocaine for the Soul” (1996)
  529. The Long Ryders “I Had a Dream” (1984)
  530. The Faces “Ooh La La” (1973)

  531. Dandy Warhols “Not If You Were the Last Junkie” (1997)
  532. The Fall “Cruiser’s Creek” (1985)
  533. The Who “However Much I Booze” (1975)
  534. Love & Rockets “Kundalini Express” (1986)
  535. That Dog “Old LP” (2019)
  536. Flying Burrito Brothers “Tried So Hard” (1971)
  537. Matt Pond PA “So Much Trouble” (2005)
  538. Romeo Void “Never Say Never” (1982)
  539. Dire Straits “Skateaway” (1980)
  540. Pavement “Box Elder” (1989)

  541. Fleetwood Mac “Second Hand News” (1976)
  542. Squeeze “Goodbye Girl” (1979)
  543. The Soft Boys “Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole” (1980)
  544. Klaatu “Sub-Rosa Subway” (1976)
  545. Elvis Costello “Shabby Doll” (1982)
  546. Sugar “A Good Idea” (1992)
  547. Modest Mouse “Float On” (2004)
  548. The Stone Roses “Waterfall” (1989)
  549. The Bangles “James” (1984)
  550. Tom Petty “The Waiting” (1981)

  551. The New Pornographers “All the Old Showstoppers” (2007)
  552. The Action “Strange Roads” (1968)
  553. Lou Reed “Kill Your Sons” (1974)
  554. Supertramp “It’s a Long Road” (1970)
  555. Vampire Weekend “A-Punk” (2008)
  556. Mary Lou Lord “I Figured You Out” (1997)
  557. The Zombies “Hung Up on a Dream” (1968)
  558. Amy Rigby “20 Questions” (1996)
  559. Weezer “Don’t Let Go” (2001)
  560. The Breeders “Divine Hammer” (1993)

  561. Bruce Cockburn “Wondering Where the Lions Are” (1979)
  562. Eleventh Dream Day “After This Time Is Gone” (1993)
  563. Modern Lovers “Pablo Picasso” (1976)
  564. Ben Folds “Not the Same” (2001)
  565. Butthole Surfers “Pepper” (1996)
  566. The Carpenters “Superstar” (1971)
  567. Ultravox “Reap the Wild Wind” (1982)
  568. Steely Dan “Dirty Work” (1972)
  569. Alvvays “Lollipop” (2017)
  570. Neil Young “Cortez the Killer” (1975)

  571. Pere Ubu “Waiting for Mary” (1989)
  572. Young Fresh Fellows “This Little Mystery” (1984)
  573. Moby Grape “Omaha” (1967)
  574. The Lemonheads “It’s a Shame About Ray” (1992)
  575. Pylon “Crazy” (1983)
  576. Sebadoh “Soul & Fire” (1993)
  577. Courtney Barnett “Depreston” (2015)
  578. Peter “Paul & Mary “Too Much of Nothing” (1967)
  579. Peter Gabriel “Lead a Normal Life” (1980)
  580. The Go-Go’s “Our Lips Are Sealed” (1981)

  581. Charly Bliss “Percolator” (2017)
  582. Radio Birdman “I-94” (1981)
  583. Beastie Boys “You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party” (1986)
  584. Status Quo “Mr. Mind Detector” (1969)
  585. Exploding Hearts “Modern Kicks” (2003)
  586. The Kings “Switchin’ to Glide” (1980)
  587. Shriekback “The Shining Path” (1986)
  588. The Connells “Slackjawed” (1993)
  589. Superchunk “My Gap Feels Weird” (2010)
  590. Sweet “Fox on the Run” (1975)

  591. The Trashcan Sinatras “Obscurity Knocks” (1990)
  592. The Glands “Pleaser” (2018)
  593. Harry Nilsson “Think About Your Troubles” (1970)
  594. The Vaccines “If You Wanna” (2011)
  595. Bob Marley “Three Little Birds” (1977)
  596. Uncle Tupelo “Graveyard Shift” (1990)
  597. Wonder Stuff “Unbearable” (1988)
  598. Rilo Kiley “The Frug” (1999)
  599. R.E.M. “Green Grow the Rushes” (1985)
  600. Pixies “Wave of Mutilation” (1989)
  601. Grateful Dead “Shakedown Street” (1978)
  602. Look Blue Go Purple “Cactus Cat” (1986)
  603. Hole “Celebrity Skin” (1998)
  604. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark “Talking Loud and Clear” (1984)
  605. Better Oblivion Community Center “Dylan Thomas” (2019)
  606. Mercury Rev “Holes” (1998)
  607. Aquarian Age “10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box” (1968)
  608. Pernice Brothers “The Weakest Shade of Blue” (2003)
  609. Guided by Voices “Jane of the Waking Universe” (1997)
  610. The Verlaines “Death & the Maiden” (1983)

  611. Alice Cooper “Clones” (1980)
  612. Pink Floyd “Brain Damage/Eclipse” (1973)
  613. Waxahatchee “Silver” (2017)
  614. Barbara Manning & SF Seals “Back Again” (1994)
  615. Wire “Mannequin” (1977)
  616. Lemon Pipers “Green Tambourine” (1967)
  617. Animal Collective “Summertime Clothes” (2009)
  618. The Cure “Just Like Heaven” (1987)
  619. Certain Distant Suns “Bitter” (1995)
  620. Genesis “Behind the Lines/Duchess” (1980)

  621. Beastie Boys “Hey Ladies” (1989)
  622. David Gilmour “There’s No Way Out of Here” (1978)
  623. The Chills “Look for the Good in Others” (1987)
  624. Jason Falkner “Author Unknown” (1999)
  625. The Mamas & the Papas “I Saw Her Again” (1966)
  626. Wilco “I’m the Man Who Loves You” (2002)
  627. The Left Banke “Walk Away Renee” (1966)
  628. Shoes “Your Imagination” (1981)
  629. Paul McCartney & Wings “London Town” (1978)
  630. The Paranoid Style “Dominoes in Drag” (2017)

  631. The Rolling Stones “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” (1971)
  632. Dinosaur Jr. “The Wagon” (1991)
  633. Badfinger “Carry on Till Tomorrow” (1970)
  634. Nick Lowe “I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass” (1978)
  635. Television Personalities “Salvador Dali’s Garden Party
  636. Depeche Mode “Just Can’t Get Enough” (1981)
  637. The Chills “Pink Frost” (1984)
  638. The Monkees “Randy Scouse Git” (1967)
  639. Weezer “Dope Nose” (2002)
  640. Missing Persons “Words” (1982)

  641. Big Audio Dynamite “Beyond the Pale” (1986)
  642. The Reivers “Electra” (1987)
  643. Undertones “I Know a Girl” (1979)
  644. Winter Hours “Hyacinth Girl” (1986)
  645. Peter Gabriel “Wallflower” (1982)
  646. Dandy Warhols “Mis Amigos” (2008)
  647. Simon & Garfunkel “The Boxer” (1970)
  648. Ambulance LTD “Stay Tuned” (2004)
  649. Tenpole Tudor “Swords of a Thousand Men” (1981)
  650. Stephen Malkmus “The Hook” (2001)

  651. Golden Smog “Looking Forward to Seeing You” (1998)
  652. The Fall “Paintwork” (1985)
  653. U2 “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” (1987)
  654. The Smiths “Ask” (1987)
  655. Nimrod “The Bird” (1969)
  656. XTC “Mayor of Simpleton” (1989)
  657. The Clean “Anything Could Happen” (1981)
  658. Cocteau Twins “Sigh’s Smell of Farewell” (1986)
  659. Darling Buds “Burst” (1988)
  660. Firehose “Brave Captain” (1986)

  661. Pink Floyd “Summer ’68” (1970)
  662. Stereolab “Wow and Flutter” (1994)
  663. Taylor Swift “We Are Never Getting Back Together” (2012)
  664. Marshall Crenshaw “Whenever You’re on My Mind” (1983)
  665. The Breeders “Cannonball” (1993)
  666. James Gang “Walk Away” (1971)
  667. Camper Van Beethoven “Eye of Fatima” (1988)
  668. Yo La Tengo “Upside-Down” (1992)
  669. Case Lang Veirs “Atomic Number” (2016)
  670. Jethro Tull “Thick As a Brick Pt. 1” (1972)

  671. Volcano Suns “White Elephant” (1986)
  672. Soundtrack of Our Lives “Believe I’ve Found” (2005)
  673. The Who “Glow Girl” (1967)
  674. Old 97’s “Can’t Get a Line” (2001)
  675. The Orb “Little Fluffy Clouds” (1991)
  676. The Noise Petals “The Happy Song” (1988)
  677. Paul McCartney & Wings “Mrs. Vanderbilt” (1974)
  678. Chris Knox “The Split” (1993)
  679. Yes “I’ve Seen All Good People” (1971)
  680. Grandaddy “Stray Dog & the Chocolate Shake” (2003)

  681. De La Soul “The Magic Number” (1989)
  682. Dukes of Stratosphear “Vanishing Girl” (1987)
  683. Jefferson Airplane “Good Shepherd” (1969)
  684. Regina Spektor “Better” (2006)
  685. Pavement “Date w/ Ikea” (1997)
  686. Wire “Ambitious” (1987)
  687. That Dog “Long Island” (1997)
  688. The Moody Blues “Peak Hour” (1967)
  689. Television “Ain’t That Nothin’” (1978)
  690. LCD Soundsystem “Losing My Edge” (2002)

  691. Bruce Springsteen “Candy’s Room” (1978)
  692. Sonic Youth “Tunic” (1990)
  693. Tom Petty “Here Comes My Girl” (1979)
  694. Jason & the Scorchers “White Lies” (1985)
  695. Dressy Bessy “Lipstick” (2003)
  696. Imperial Teen “Lipstick” (1998)
  697. Sebadoh “Skull” (1994)
  698. Brian Protheroe “Pinball” (1974)
  699. Best Coast “Feeling OK” (2015)
  700. Brian Eno “By This River” (1977)
  701. Amy Rigby “Dancin’ with Joey Ramone” (2005)
  702. The Gerbils “Sunshine Soul” (1998)
  703. Flamin’ Groovies “Shake Some Action” (1976)
  704. Mazzy Star “Halah” (1990)
  705. Jazz Butcher “The Devil Is My Friend” (1985)
  706. Isaac Hayes “Shaft” (1971)
  707. Dave Edmunds “Girls Talk” (1979)
  708. Stump “Charlton Heston” (1988)
  709. The Small Faces “Afterglow” (1968)
  710. Tobin Sprout “Courage the Tack” (2003)

  711. Japandroids “Near to the Wild Heart of Life” (2017)
  712. Beach Boys “You Still Believe in Me” (1966)
  713. The Runaways “Cherry Bomb” (1976)
  714. Wondermints “Proto-Pretty” (1996)
  715. Phil Manzanera/Brian Eno “Big Day” (1975)
  716. Yuck “Georgia” (2011)
  717. The Pretty Things “Trust” (1968)
  718. The Fall “U.S. 80’s-90’s” (1986)
  719. Dandy Warhols “We Used to Be Friends” (2003)
  720. Material Issue “International Pop Overthrow” (1991)

  721. Dylan in the Movies “Girl with the Black Tights” (2014)
  722. Rollerskate Skinny “Bow Hitchhiker” (1993)
  723. Jennifer Trynin “Better Than Nothing” (1994)
  724. Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich “Hold Tight” (1966)
  725. The Things “You Can’t Deliver” (1986)
  726. Teenage Fanclub “I Need Direction” (2000)
  727. Galaxie 500 “Blue Thunder” (1989)
  728. Death Cab for Cutie “Your New Twin Sized Bed” (2008)
  729. Kaleidoscope “Jenny Artichoke” (1968)
  730. The Paranoid Style “Turpitude” (2019)

  731. Stevie Wonder “Higher Ground” (1973)
  732. Eleventh Dream Day “Makin’ Like a Rug” (1993)
  733. The Band “Stage Fright” (1970)
  734. Jimmy Eat World “The Middle” (2001)
  735. Marshall Crenshaw “Cynical Girl” (1982)
  736. Talking Heads “And She Was” (1985)
  737. Dead Milkmen “Bitchin’ Camaro” (1985)
  738. Jesus & Mary Chain “Far Gone & Out” (1992)
  739. Devo “Jocko Homo” (1978)
  740. Nick Lowe “Cruel to Be Kind” (1979)

  741. Sugar “If I Can’t Change Your Mind” (1992)
  742. P. Hux “Bazooka Joe” (1994)
  743. Tom Petty “Free Fallin’” (1989)
  744. Black Flag “Wasted” (1979)
  745. The Beatles “And Your Bird Can Sing” (1966)
  746. King Crimson “Epitaph” (1969)
  747. Rhett Miller “I Need to Know Where I Stand” (2009)
  748. Book of Love “Boy” (1986)
  749. Uncle Tupelo “True to Life” (1991)
  750. Apples in Stereo “Please” (2002)

  751. Nick Cave “The Mercy Seat” (1988)
  752. Love “Alone Again Or” (1967)
  753. The Libertines “Skag & Bone Man” (2003)
  754. The New Pornographers “Brill Bruisers” (2014)
  755. Spacemen 3 “Big City” (1991)
  756. Plasticland (?)
  757. The Minders “Right As Rain” (2001)
  758. Paul Simon “Kodachrome” (1973)
  759. The Pretty Things “In the Square” (1970)
  760. Talking Heads “Crosseyed and Painless” (1980)

  761. Game Theory “Here It Is Tomorrow” (1986)
  762. Vampire Weekend “This Life” (2019)
  763. Golden Smog “To Call My Own” (1998)
  764. Certain Distant Suns “Snowfall
  765. Shoes “Tomorrow Night” (1978)
  766. Unlikely Friends “Fifteen Rounds” (2018)
  767. T. Rex “Twentieth Century Boy” (1973)
  768. Anna Burch “2 Cool 2 Care” (2018)
  769. The Turtles “The Walking Song” (1967)
  770. Metric “Help I’m Alive” (2009)

  771. Grateful Dead “St. Stephen” (1969)
  772. Young Marble Giants “Credit in the Straight World” (1980)
  773. Elf Power “The Naughty Villain” (2000)
  774. Salad Boys “Dream Date” (2015)
  775. The Shins “Mildenhall” (2017)
  776. Love “Alone Again Or” (1967)
  777. Arcade Fire “Creature Comfort” (2017)
  778. Peter Bjorn & John “Young Folks” (2007)
  779. Dream Syndicate “That’s What You Always Say” (1982)
  780. Bishop Allen “Start Again” (2014)

  781. Shoes “Turnaround” (1984)
  782. Tegan & Sara “Hop a Plane” (2007)
  783. Fountains of Wayne “The Girl I Can’t Forget” (2005)
  784. Dreaming Spires “Strange Glue” (2015)
  785. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever “Time in Common” (2018)
  786. Dream Syndicate “80 West” (2017)
  787. Vampire Weekend “Diane Young” (2013)
  788. Bob Dylan “Tangled Up in Blue” (1975)
  789. Crosby, Stills & Nash “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” (1969)
  790. Devo “Gates of Steel” (1980)

  791. Golden Smog “Ill Fated” (1995)
  792. MGMT “Kids” (2008)
  793. Lisa Smokes Pot (?)
  794. Best Coast “Crazy for You” (2010)
  795. Connections “Cindy” (2013)
  796. Gomez “Whippin’ Piccadilly” (1998)
  797. Sleigh Bells “Rill Rill” (2010)
  798. Belle & Sebastian “Sukie in the Graveyard” (2006)
  799. Blink-182 “All the Small Things” (1999)
  800. Guided by Voices “Best of Jill Hives” (2003)
  801. Firehose “Sometimes” (1987)
  802. Tegan & Sara “I Hear Noises” (2002)
  803. David Crosby “Laughing” (1971)
  804. Matt Pond PA “Last Light” (2007)
  805. Girls “Lust for Life” (2009)
  806. R.E.M. “The Flowers of Guatemala” (1986)
  807. Snow Patrol “Ask Me How I Am” (2001)
  808. Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
  809. Kelly Clarkson “Since U Been Gone” (2004)
  810. The Green Pajamas “Deep Blue Afternoon” (1999)

  811. Jason Falkner “My Lucky Day” (1999)
  812. Regina Spektor “The Calculation” (2009)
  813. Death Cab for Cutie “Your Heart Is an Empty Room” (2005)
  814. Dressy Bessy “This May Hurt” (2003)
  815. Essex Green “Don’t Know Why” (2006)
  816. Guided by Voices “Build a Better Iceberg
  817. Stars “Ageless Beauty” (2005)
  818. Wilco “Outtasite” (Outta Mind)” (1996)
  819. Dukes of Stratosphear “Bike Ride to the Moon” (1985)
  820. Bright Eyes “From a Balance Beam” (2002)

  821. The Hold Steady “Chips Ahoy” (2006)
  822. Mates of State “Get Better” (2008)
  823. Bright Eyes “Another Travelin’ Song” (2005)
  824. Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out” (2004)
  825. Kingsbury Manx “And What Fallout” (2005)
  826. Only Ones “Another Girl Another Planet” (1978)
  827. Elf Power “Walking with the Beggar Boys” (2004)
  828. Mazzy Star “Mary of Silence” (1993)
  829. Brian Eno “The True Wheel” (1974)
  830. Television Personalities “I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives” (1981) <>
  831. Sonny Curtis “Love Is All Around” (1970)
  832. Dandy Warhols “Bohemian Like You” (2000)
  833. Kevin Tihista “Family Curse” (2004)
  834. The Minus 5 “I’m Not Bitter” (2003)
  835. Dressy Bessy “Live to Tell All” (2003)
  836. Teenage Fanclub “Radio” (1993)
  837. Traveling Wilburys “Handle with Care” (1988)
  838. Camper Van Beethoven “Sweethearts
  839. The Lemonheads “The Great Big No” (1993)
  840. Beulah “I Love John She Loves Paul” (1997)

  841. Rilo Kiley “Pictures of Success” (2001)
  842. Todd Rundgren “Couldn’t I Just Tell You” (1972)
  843. Funkadelic “You Hit the Nail on the Head” (1972)
  844. Green Day “Warning” (2000)
  845. Spiritualized “Good Dope/Good Fun” (1993)
  846. The Churchills “Sugar Daddy” (2002)
  847. Mountain Goats “Against Pollution” (2004)
  848. Lucinda Williams “Changed the Locks” (1988)
  849. Chris Bell “Speed of Sound” (1992)
  850. The Clean “Flowers” (1982)

  851. Halo Benders “Virginia Reel Around the Fountain” (1998)
  852. Liz Phair “Divorce Song” (1993)
  853. My Bloody Valentine “Drive It All Over Me” (1988)
  854. The Connells “Burial Art” (2021)
  855. Genesis “Cinema Show” (1973)
  856. Neutral Milk Hotel “Everything Is” (1995)
  857. Talking Heads “Psycho Killer” (1977)
  858. Tori Amos “God” (1994)
  859. Ryan Adams “New York New York” (2001)
  860. Suzanne Vega “Marlene on the Wall” (1985)

  861. Guided by Voices “Glad Girls” (2001)
  862. Elliott Smith “Son of Sam” (2000)
  863. Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star” (1979)
  864. The Bongos “The Bulrushes” (1982)
  865. Laura Nyro “Stoned Soul Picnic” (1968)
  866. Oranger “Texas Snow” (2000)
  867. Everclear “Santa Monica” (1995)
  868. Len “Steal My Sunshine” (1999)
  869. Jeff Buckley “Hallelujah” (1994)
  870. The Moody Blues “Story in Your Eyes” (1971)

  871. Buzzcocks “Ever Fallen in Love” (1978)
  872. Tall Dwarfs “Fatal Flaw of the New” (1998)
  873. Eels “Last Stop This Town” (1998)
  874. Folk Implosion “Natural One” (1995)
  875. Ben Folds Five “Brick” (1995)
  876. Magnetic Fields “Busby Berkeley Dreams” (1999)
  877. The Muffs “I Need a Face” (1995)
  878. The Replacements “When It Began” (1990)
  879. Myracle Brah “Love Is” (1998)
  880. Sleeper “Inbetweener” (1995)

  881. Lambchop “Up with People” (2000)
  882. The Turtles “The Last Thing I Remember” (1968)
  883. John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)
  884. The Decemberists “Yankee Bayonet” (2006)
  885. Dire Straits “Wild West End” (1978)
  886. Yo La Tengo “Ohm” (2013)
  887. The Connells “Fun & Games” (1989)
  888. Thunderclap Newman “Something in the Air” (1969)
  889. Chris Knox “Half Man/Half Mole” (1995)
  890. Moby Grape “8:05” (1967)

  891. Bettie Serveert “Ray Ray Rain” (1995)
  892. Beck “Loser” (1993) <
  893. Magnapop “Open the Door” (1996)
  894. Phish “Wolfman’s Brother” (1994)
  895. Tobin Sprout “All Used Up” (1997)
  896. Ride “From Time to Time” (1994)
  897. Loud Family “Sword Swallower” (1993)
  898. Wire “Kidney Bingoes” (1988)
  899. Gin Blossoms “Til I Hear It from You” (1995)
  900. Supergrass “Alright” (1995)
  901. Sonic Youth “Sugar Kane” (1992)
  902. Creedence Clearwater Revival “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” (1970)
  903. Young Fresh Fellows “How Much About Last Night” (1985)
  904. Wet Leg “Chaise Lounge” (2021)
  905. Julian Cope “World Shut Your Mouth” (1987)
  906. Gilbert O’Sullivan “Get Down” (1973)
  907. Blur “Parklife” (1994)
  908. Public Image Ltd. “Rise” (1987)
  909. Nick Drake “Pink Moon” (1972)
  910. Nick Heyward “Kite” (1993)

  911. His Name Is Alive “Baby Fish Mouth” (1993)
  912. XTC “Dear Madam Barnum” (1992)
  913. Peter Gabriel “Biko” (1980)
  914. Rain Parade: Don’t Feel Bad” (1985)
  915. Jason Falkner “Hectified” (1996)
  916. Ramones “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker” (1977)
  917. Wall of Voodoo “Mexican Radio” (1982)
  918. Kingsbury Manx “Piss Diary” (2000)
  919. The Cure “Never Enough” (1990)
  920. John Lennon “Instant Karma” (1970)

  921. Olivia Tremor Control “Green Typewriters Suite” (1996)
  922. The Fastbacks “Under the Old Lightbulb” (1993)
  923. The Breeders “Opened” (1990)
  924. Jefferson Airplane “Lather” (1968)
  925. Gomez “Shot Shot” (2002)
  926. Emerson Lake & Palmer “From the Beginning” (1972)
  927. Ultra Vivid Scene “Special One” (1990)
  928. Lou Reed “Charley’s Girl” (1976)
  929. Generation X “Ready Steady Go” (1978)
  930. John Cale “Big White Cloud” (1970)

  931. Olivia Tremor Control “California Demise 3” (1999)
  932. The Aerovons “World of You” (1969)
  933. Young Fresh Fellows “Miss Lonelyhearts” (1989)
  934. Colin Newman “I’ve Waited Ages” (1980)
  935. Long Ryders “Run Dusty Run” (1984)
  936. Big Dipper “Wrong in the Charts” (1987)
  937. The Beatles “I’ve Got a Feeling” (1971)
  938. Peter Gabriel “Moribund the Burgermeister” (1977)
  939. Los Lobos “Will the Wolf Survive” (1984)
  940. Nik Kershaw “Wouldn’t It Be Good” (1983)

  941. Jackson Brown “Running on Empty” (1977)
  942. Big Audio Dynamite “Other 99” (1988)
  943. Three Colors “One Big Tree” (1985)
  944. Spirit “My Friend” (1981)
  945. Verlaines “Lying in State” (1985)
  946. The Go-Go’s “Head Over Heels” (1984)
  947. Yaz “Walk Away from Love” (1983)
  948. Electric Light Orchestra “Telephone Line” (1976)
  949. Dumptruck “Back Where I Belong” (1985)
  950. Hello “New York Groove” (1975)

  951. Pink Floyd “Green Is the Colour” (1969)
  952. Kirsty MacColl “Patrick” (1984)
  953. Billy Bragg “A New England” (1983)
  954. The End “Dreamworld” (1969)
  955. The Nails “88 Lines About 44 Women” (1982)
  956. The Knack “My Sharona” (1979)
  957. Ian Hunter “All the Good Ones Are Taken” (1983)
  958. X-Ray Spex “Oh Bondage Up Yours” (1978)
  959. Fleetwood Mac “That’s All for Everyone” (1979)
  960. Blondie “Rip Her to Shreds” (1976)

  961. Millennium “Prelude/To Claudia on Thursday” (1968)
  962. Elvis Presley “Suspicious Minds” (1969)
  963. John Lennon “Oh Yoko” (1971)
  964. Shuggie Otis “Strawberry Letter 23” (1971)
  965. New York Dolls “Personality Crisis” (1973)
  966. The Faces “Stay with Me” (1971)
  967. Traffic “Empty Pages” (1970)
  968. 2nd Grade “When You Were My Sharona” (2020)
  969. Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot “Bonnie & Clyde” (1968)
  970. Fleetwood Mac “Hypnotized” (1973)

  971. Young Fresh Fellows “Still There’s Hope” (1989)
  972. Roky Erikson “Starry Eyes” (1975)
  973. Judy Sill “Enchanted Sky Machines” (1971)
  974. Beach Boys “Never Learn Not to Love” (1969)
  975. Jane Siberry “One More Colour” (1985)
  976. The Submarines “Maybe” (2008)
  977. Sagittarius “The Truth Is Not Real” (1968)
  978. Mott the Hoople “Backsliding Fearlessly” (1969)
  979. Led Zeppelin “Misty Mountain Hop” (1971)
  980. Bay City Rollers “Rock ‘N Roll Love Letter” (1976)

  981. The Clean “Oddity” (1983)
  982. The Strawbs “Down by the Sea” (1973)
  983. Squeeze “Pulling Mussels from a Shell” (1980)
  984. Dinosaur Jr. “Raisans” (1987)
  985. Ministry “So What” (1989)
  986. Hinds “Riding Solo” (2020)
  987. Spirit “Animal Zoo” (1970)
  988. Moby Grape “Seeing” (1969)
  989. The Nice “Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack” (1967)
  990. The Feelies “Away” (1988)

  991. Prince “Raspberry Beret” (1985)
  992. Real Estate “Talking Backwards” (2014)
  993. Superchunk “Crossed Wires” (2010)
  994. The Cucumbers “My Boyfriend” (1987)
  995. Drive-By Truckers “Thoughts and Prayers” (2020)
  996. Waxahatchee “Can’t Do Much” (2020)
  997. The Strokes “Hard to Explain” (2001)
  998. Fiona Apple “Under the Table” (2020)
  999. The Jazz Butcher “Mr. Odd” (1990)
  1000. Josh Ritter “New Lover” (2003)
  1001. Buffalo Springfield “Mr. Soul” (1967)
  1002. Helium “Pat’s Trick” (1995)
  1003. Cocteau Twins “Wax & Wane” (1982)
  1004. The Rolling Stones “Bitch” (1971)
  1005. Genesis “Dancing with the Moonlit Knight” (1973)
  1006. Hole “Rock Star” (1994)
  1007. The Cranberries “Dreams” (1992)
  1008. Swell Maps “Read About Seymour” (1981)
  1009. Foo Fighters “Big Me” (1995)
  1010. Against Me! “Transgender Dysphoria Blues” (2014)

  1011. Dinosaur Jr. “Start Choppin’” (1993)
  1012. Look Blue Go Purple “I Don’t Want You Anyway” (1991)
  1013. Transvision Vamp “Baby I Don’t Care” (1989)
  1014. Sonic Youth “Purr” (1992)
  1015. Green Pajamas “Kim the Waitress” (1986)
  1016. Cocteau Twins “Carolyn’s Fingers” (1988)
  1017. Gomez “Options” (2011)
  1018. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band “I Won’t Hurt You” (1966)
  1019. The Strokes “Under Cover of Darkness” (2011)
  1020. Dumptruck “Faithless” (2001)

  1021. Beach Boys “I’m Waiting for the Day” (1966)
  1022. Grateful Dead “The Eleven” (live, 1969)
  1023. Phoenix “1901” (2009)
  1024. Oasis “Whatever” (1994)
  1025. Suicidal Tendencies “Institutionalized” (1983)

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Friday, November 11, 2011

R.E.M.: A Retrospective (1980-2011)

R.E.M.

A Retrospective: 1980-2011

Overview:

Rock group formed in Athens, GA. Active: 1980-2011. Developed huge following with college audiences in the early 1980s as one of the first “alternative rock” groups. R.E.M. is the abbreviation for Rapid Eye Movement, sleep’s dream stage. Buck, Mills, and Berry worked with Warren Zevon on the one-time collaboration Hindu Love Gods in 1990.

Their song “Losing My Religion” is featured in the DMDB book The Top 100 Songs of the Rock Era, 1954-1999. Their album Automatic for the People (1992) is featured in the DMDB book The Top 100 Albums of All Time.

The Players:

  • Michael Stipe (vocals: 1980-2011)
  • Peter Buck (guitar: 1980-2011)
  • Mike Mills (bass: 1980-2011)
  • Bill Berry (drums: 1980-1998)

Links:

Awards:

Top 100 Songs

These are the top songs by R.E.M. as ranked by the DMDB. Songs which hit #1 on various charts are noted. (Click for codes to charts.)

Spotify Podcast:

Check out the Dave’s Music Database podcast “The Best of R.E.M., 1981-1987” based on this list.

DMDB Top 1%:

1. Losing My Religion (1991) #1 AR,MR
2. Everybody Hurts (1992)
3. It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (1987)
4. The One I Love (1987)
5. Radio Free Europe (1981)

DMDB Top 5%:

6. Man on the Moon (1992)
7. What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? (1994) #1 MR
8. Fall on Me (1986)
9. Shiny Happy People (1991)
10. Drive (1992) #1 MR

11. Orange Crush (1988) #1 AR,MR
12. Imitation of Life (2001) #1 AA
13. Stand (1988) #1 MR
14. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry) (1984)
15. The Great Beyond (1999) #1 AA

DMDB Top 10%:

16. Driver 8 (1985)
17. E-Bow the Letter (1996)
18. Bang and Blame (1994) #1 MR,CN
19. Strange Currencies (1994)
20. Nightswimming (1992)

21. Daysleeper (1998) #1 AA
22. Bittersweet Me (1996) #1 AA
23. Don’t Go Back to Rockville (1984)
24. Superman (1986)
25. Finest Worksong (1987)
26. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (1992)
27. Can’t Get There from Here (1985)
28. Supernatural Superserious (2008) #1 AA
29. Pop Song 89 (1988)
30. Pretty Persuasion (1984)

31. Bad Day (2003) #1 AA
32. Crush with Eyeliner (1994)

DMDB Top 20%:

33. Talk About the Passion (1983)
34. Leaving New York (2004) #1 AA
35. Gardening at Night (1982)
36. All I Have to Do Is Dream (1986)
37. Radio Song (w/ KRS-1, 1991)
38. Star 69 (1994)
39. Electrolite (1996)
40. Perfect Circle (1983)

41. All the Way to Reno (You’re Gonna Be a Star) (2001)
42. Moon River (1984)
43. Find the River (1992)
44. Ages of You (1985)
45. Maps and Legends (1985)
46. Begin the Begin (1986)
47. Lotus (1998)
48. At My Most Beautiful (1998)
49. Ignoreland (1992)
50. Texarkana (1991)

51. Near Wild Heaven (1991)

Beyond the DMDB Top 20%:

52. Turn You Inside Out (1988)
53. Catapult (1983)
54. Swan Swan H (1986)
55. King of the Road (1984)
56. Hollow Man (2008)
57. Wendell Gee (1985)
58. Low (1991)
59. Get Up (1988)
60. These Days (1986)

61. First We Take Manhattan (1991)
62. Cuyahoga (1986)
63. The Lion Sleeps Tonight (1992)
64. King of Birds (1987)
65. World Leader Pretend (1988)
66. Country Feedback (1991)
67. I’ll Take the Rain (2001)
68. Pilgrimage (1983)
69. Überlin (2011)
70. Animal (2003)

71. 7 Chinese Bros. (1985)
72. I Believe (1986)
73. Tom’s Diner (live, 1991)
74. There She Goes Again (1983)
75. Aftermath (2004)
76. We All Go Back to Where We Belong (2011)
77. The Wake-Up Bomb (1996)
78. Tongue (1994)
79. Sitting Still (1981)
80. We Walk (1983)

81. Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars) 1982)
82. Welcome to the Occupation (1987)
83. Disturbance at the Heron House (1987)
84. #9 Dream (2007)
85. Try Not to Breathe (1992)
86. Femme Fatale (1986)
87. Electron Blue (2004)
88. You Are the Everything (1988)
89. Toys in the Attic (1986)
90. Pale Blue Eyes (1984)

91. Exhuming McCarthy (1987)
92. Crazy (1985)
93. Laughing (1983)
94. Hyena (1986)
95. Time After Time (Annelise) (1984)
96. Half a World Away (1991)
97. Discover (2011)
98. Mine Smell Like Honey (2011)
99. Photograph (w/ Natalie Merchant, 1993)
100. Love Is All Around (1991)

Studio Albums:

Compilations/Archives:

Under each album snapshot, songs featured on the anthologies are noted. If the song charted, the date of the song’s release or first chart appearance and its chart peaks are noted in parentheses. Click for codes to charts.

Chronic Town (EP)

R.E.M.

Released: August 24, 1982

Peak: --

Sales (in millions): --

Genre: college rock

Rating:

3.788 out of 5.00 (average of 15 ratings)

Tracks:

  1. Wolves, Lower
  2. Gardening at Night (18 CO, 12 DF) EP, FF, PL
  3. Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars) BO
  4. 1,000,000 FF
  5. Stumble

Total Running Time: 20:26

About the Album:
In 1981, R.E.M. released their first single, “Radio Free Europe,” through the indie label Hib-Tone. The next year they were ready for a longer release, but not quite a full album so they released this EP. They planned to release it through an independent record label named Dasht Hopes but the demo caught the attention of I.R.S. Records, who signed them to a record deal.

Murmur

R.E.M.

Released: April 11, 1983

Peak: 36 US, 100 UK, -- CN, -- AU, 9 DF

Sales (in millions): 0.5 US, 0.1 UK, 2.0 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: college rock

Rating:

4.566 out of 5.00 (average of 40 ratings)

Awards: Go to the DMDB page to see this album’s awards.

Tracks:

Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to charts.

  1. Radio Free Europe [4:06] (7/8/81, 78 US, 25 AR, 1 CO, 1 DF) EP, BO, SC, FF, PL
  2. Pilgrimage [4:30] (21 CO) FF
  3. Laughing [3:57]
  4. Talk about the Passion [3:23] (11/83, 36 CO, 9 DF) EP, BO, FF, PL
  5. Moral Kiosk [3:31]
  6. Perfect Circle [3:29] (11/86, B-side of “Superman,” 7 DF) BO, FF
  7. Catapult [3:55] (10/16/84: B-side of “Don’t Go Back to Rockville,” 10 CO, 32 DF)
  8. Sitting Still [3:17] FF, PL
  9. 9-9 [3:03]
  10. Shaking Through [4:30]
  11. We Walk [3:02] (32 DF) FF
  12. West of the Fields (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe, and Neil Bogan) [3:17] (35 DF)

Songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe unless noted otherwise.

Total Running Time: 44:11

Other Tracks from That Era:

  • There She Goes Again (B-side of “Radio Free Europe,” released 7/8/83, 24 DF) DL, SC
  • All the Right Friends (demo recorded during Murmur sessions in 1983, later released on the Vanilla Sky soundtrack in 2001) FF, IT

About the Album:
R.E.M.’s debut album has come to be viewed as a monumental album that combined the jangly pop of the Byrds and Big Star with the indie spirit of the Velvet Underground to set a whole new direction for college rock. Go to the DMDB page for more about this album.

Reckoning

R.E.M.

Released: April 9, 1984

Peak: 27 US, 91 UK, -- CN, -- AU

Sales (in millions): 0.5 US, -- UK, 2.0 world (includes US + UK)

Genre: college rock

Rating:

4.192 out of 5.00 (average of 25 ratings)

Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

Tracks:

  1. Harborcoat
  2. 7 Chinese Brothers FF
  3. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry) (3/84, 85 BB, 43 AR, 3 CO, 5 DF) EP, BO, SC, FF, PL
  4. Pretty Persuasion (9/8/84, 44 AR, 32 CO, 16 DF) BO, FF
  5. Time after Time (Annelise) (31 DF) FF
  6. Second Guessing
  7. Letter Never Sent
  8. Camera
  9. Don’t Go Back to Rockville (6/84, 27 CO, 9 DF) EP, BO, SC, FF, PL
  10. Little America

Total Running Time: 37:57

Other Tracks from That Era:

  • Voice of Harold (B-side of “So. Central Rain,” released 5/15/84) DL
  • Pale Blue Eyes (B-side of “So. Central Rain,” released 5/15/84, 24 DF) DL
  • Walter’s Theme (B-side of “So. Central Rain,” released 5/15/84) DL
  • King of the Road (B-side of “So. Central Rain,” released 5/15/84, 15 DF) DL, SC
  • Catapult (live) (B-side of “Don’t Go Back to Rockville”, released 10/16/84) SC
  • Windout (from Bachelor Party soundtrack, released 1984) DL

AllMusic.com review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
“R.E.M. abandoned the enigmatic post-punk experiments of Murmur for their second album, Reckoning, returning to their garage pop origins instead. Opening with the ringing Harborcoat, Reckoning runs through a set of ten jangle pop songs that are different not only in sound but in style from the debut. Where Murmur was enigmatic in its sound, Reckoning is clear, which doesn’t necessarily mean that the songs themselves are straightforward. Michael Stipe continues to sing powerful melodies without enunciating, but the band has a propulsive kick that makes the music vital and alive. And, if anything, the songwriting is more direct and memorable than before – the interweaving melodies of Pretty Persuasion and the country rocker Don’t Go Back to Rockville are as affecting as the melancholic dirges of Camera and Time After Time, while the ringing minor-key arpeggios of So. Central Rain, the pulsating riffs of 7 Chinese Bros., and the hard-rocking rhythms of Little America make the songs into classics. On the surface, Reckoning may not be as distinctive as Murmur, but the record’s influence on underground American rock in the ‘80s was just as strong.”

Fables of the Reconstruction

R.E.M.

Released: June 10, 1985

Peak: 28 US, 35 UK, 40 CN, -- AU

Sales (in millions): 0.5 US, -- UK, 2.5 world (includes US + UK)

Genre: college rock

Rating:

3.872 out of 5.00 (average of 25 ratings)

Tracks:

  1. Feeling Gravity’s Pull FF
  2. Maps and Legends (8/87, B-side of “The One I Love,” 12 DF)
  3. Driver 8 (9/7/85, 22 AR, 16 CO, 8 DF) EP, BO, FF, PL
  4. Life and How to Live It FF, PL
  5. Old Man Kensey
  6. Can’t Get There from Here (7/6/85, 14 AR, 20 CO, 91 CN, 12 DF) EP, BO, SC, FF
  7. Green Grow the Rushes BO
  8. Kokoutek
  9. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
  10. Good Advices
  11. Wendell Gee (10/85, 38 CO, 91 UK) SC

Total Running Time: 39:46

Other Tracks from That Era:

  • Bandwagon (B-side of “Can’t Get There from Here,” released 6/85) DL, SC
  • Burning Hell (B-side of “Can’t Get There from Here,” released 6/85) DL
  • Crazy (B-side of “Driver 8,” released 9/85) DL, SC
  • Ages of You (B-side of “Wendell Gee,” released 9/85, 39 AR, 31 CO, 13 DF) DL, FF
  • Burning Down (B-side of “Wendell Gee,” released 9/85) DL

AllMusic.com review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
“For their third album, R.E.M. made a conscious effort to break from the traditions Murmur and Reckoning established, electing to record in England with legendary folk-rock producer Joe Boyd. For a variety of reasons, the sessions were difficult, and that tension is apparent throughout Fables of the Reconstruction. A dark, moody rumination on American folk – not only the music, but its myths – Fables is creepy, rustic psychedelic folk, filled with eerie sonic textures.”

“Some light breaks through occasionally, such as the ridiculous collegiate blue-eyed soul of Can’t Get There From Here, but the group’s trademark ringing guitars and cryptic lyrics have grown sinister, giving even sing-alongs like Driver 8 an ominous edge.”

“Fables is more inconsistent than its two predecessors, but the group does demonstrate considerable musical growth, particularly in how perfectly it evokes the strange rural legends of the South. And many of the songs on the record – including Feeling Gravitys Pull, Maps and Legends, Green Grow the Rushes, Auctioneer (Another Engine), and the previously mentioned pair – rank among the group's best.”

Life’s Rich Pageant

R.E.M.

Released: July 28, 1986

Peak: 21 US, 43 UK, 39 CN, -- AU

Sales (in millions): 0.5 US, -- UK, 3.0 world (includes US + UK)

Genre: college rock

Rating:

4.212 out of 5.00 (average of 27 ratings)

Awards: Go to the DMDB page to see this album’s awards.

Tracks:

  1. Begin the Begin (16 CO, 31 DF) FF, PL
  2. These Days (24 DF) FF
  3. Fall on Me (8/9/86, 94 BB, 5 AR, 7 CO, 2 DF) EP, BO, SC, FF, PL
  4. Cuyahoga (32 DF) BO, FF
  5. Hyena (32 DF) FF
  6. Underneath the Bunker
  7. Flowers of Guatemala
  8. I Believe (31 DF) BO, FF
  9. What if We Give It Away? (32 DF)
  10. Just a Touch FF
  11. Swan Swan H (24 DF) FF
  12. Superman (11/1/86, 17 AR, 19 CO, 3 DF) SC, FF

Total Running Time: 37:24

Other Tracks from That Era:

  • Rotary Ten (B-side of “Fall on Me,” released 8/86) DL, SC
  • Toys in the Attic (B-side of “Fall on Me,” released 8/86, 28 DF) DL
  • White Tornado (B-side of “Superman”, recorded 1981, released 11/86) DL, SC
  • Femme Fatale (B-side of “Superman,” released 11/86, 24 DF) DL
  • Theme from Two Steps Onward (demo from Life’s Rich Pageant sessions, 1986) FF
  • Mystery to Me (demo from Life’s Rich Pageant sessions, 1986) FF
  • Bad Day (first recorded as “PSA” as an outtake from Life’s Rich Pageant in 1986, rerecorded and released 9/27/03, 1 AA, 8 UK, 17 CN, 22 AU, 22 DF) FF,IT,PL

About the Album:
This was arguably the end of R.E.M.’s college rock era. Their first four albums consistently went gold and reached the top 40 on the Billboard album chart. After this, they soared to new heights with top-ten, multi-platinum outings. Go to the DMDB page for more about this album.

Dead Letter Office (archives)

R.E.M.

Recorded: 1981 to 1986

Released: April 27, 1987

Peak: 52 US, 60 UK, 59 CN, -- AU

Sales (in millions): --

Genre: college rock

Rating:

3.558 out of 5.00 (average of 21 ratings)

Tracks: (1) Crazy (2) There She Goes Again (3) Burning Down (4) Voice of Harold (5) Burning Hell (6) White Tornado (7) Toys in the Attic (8) Windout (9) Ages of You (10) Pale Blue Eyes (11) Rotary Ten (12) Bandwagon (13) Femme Fatale (14) Walter’s Theme (15) King of the Road

Total Running Time: 43:22

About the Album:
This collection is a welcome addition to the R.E.M. catalog for completist fans by gathering up all the B-sides from R.E.M.’s singles from 1981 to 1986. The CD release also included the 1982 EP Chronic Town.

Document

R.E.M.

Released: September 8, 1987

Peak: 10 US, 28 UK, 13 CN, 9 AU, 4 DF

Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, -- UK, 4.0 world (includes US + UK)

Genre: college rock

Rating:

4.293 out of 5.00 (average of 24 ratings)

Awards: Go to the DMDB page to see this album’s awards.

Tracks:

  1. Finest Worksong (2/6/88, 28 AR, 11 CO, 50 UK, 20 DF) EP, BO, SC, FF, PL
  2. Welcome to the Occupation (39 DF) FF
  3. Exhuming McCarthy (32 DF)
  4. Disturbance at the Heron House (39 DF) FF
  5. Strange (32 DF)
  6. It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (8/87, 69 BB, 16 AR, 1 CO, 39 UK, 1 DF) EP, BO, SC, FF, PL
  7. The One I Love (9/5/87, 9 BB, 10 CB, 14 GR, 13 RR, 2 AR, 1 CO, 16 UK, 11 CN, 84 AU, 3 DF) EP, BO, SC, FF, PL
  8. Fireplace (38 DF)
  9. Lightnin’ Hopkins (39 DF)
  10. King of Birds (7 DF) FF
  11. Oddfellow’s Local 151 (38 DF)

Total Running Time: 39:51

Other Tracks from That Era:

  • Maps and Legends (live) (B-side of “The One I Love,” released 8/24/87) SC
  • Last Date (B-side of “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine),” released 11/16/87) SC
  • Time After Time Etc. (B-side of “Finest Worksong,” live from 9/14/87, includes parts of “So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)” and Peter Gabriel’s “Red Rain,” released 3/88) SC
  • Romance (from the 1987 film Made in Heaven, earliest version recorded in 1983, 38 DF) EP

About the Album:
Go to the DMDB page for more about this album.

Eponymous (compilation)

R.E.M.

Recorded: 1981 to 1987

Released: October 17, 1988

Peak: 44 US, 69 UK, -- CN, 29 AU

Sales (in millions): --

Genre: college rock

Rating:

4.359 out of 5.00 (average of 20 ratings)

Tracks: (1) Radio Free Europe (2) Gardening at Night (3) Talk About the Passion (4) So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry) (5) Don’t Go Back to Rockville (6) Can’t Get There from Here (7) Driver 8 (8) Romance (9) Fall on Me (10) The One I Love (11) Finest Worksong (12) It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Total Running Time: 43:06

About the Album:
The first compilation from R.E.M. signaled the end of their time with I.R.S. Records from 1981 to 1987. They gained a loyal college-rock audience throughout the ‘80s, culminating with the top-ten success of “The One I Love” in 1987 which aided them in getting their first top-ten, platinum album.

The Best of (compilation)

R.E.M.

Recorded: 1981 to 1987

Released: September 30, 1991

Peak: -- US, 7 UK, -- CN, 20 AU

Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.1 UK

Genre: college rock

Rating:

3.831 out of 5.00 (average of 6 ratings)

Tracks: (1) Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars) (2) Radio Free Europe (3) Perfect Circle (4) Talk About the Passion (5) So. Centray Rain (I’m Sorry) (6) Don’t Go Back to Rockville (7) Pretty Persuasion (8) Green Grow the Rushes (9) Can’t Get There from Here (10) Driver 8 (11) Fall on Me (12) I Believe (13) Cuyahoga (14) The One I Love (15) Finest Worksong (16) It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Total Running Time: 59:17

About the Album:
This is essentially an expansion of the 1987 Eponymous collection, although this set omits “Gardening at Night” (which should be here) and “Romance” (an unnecessary throwaway cut). While this compilation does include the classic songs “Perfect Circle” and “Pretty Persuasion” the rest of the set is rounded out by decent album cuts, but not necessarily ones that the casual fan needs. Unfortunately, this collection does not remedy the biggest omission from Eponymous – R.E.M.’s cover of “Superman” from Life’s Rich Pageant.

Singles Collected (compilation)

R.E.M.

Recorded: 1981 to 1987

Released: October 14, 1994

Peak: --

Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.06 UK

Genre: college rock

Rating:

4.350 out of 5.00 (average of 11 ratings)

Tracks: (1) Radio Free Europe (2) There She Goes Again (3) So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry) (4) King of the Road (5) Don’t Go Back to Rockville (6) Catapult (live) (7) Can’t Get There from Here (8) Bandwagon (9) Wendell Gee (10) Crazy (11) Fall on Me (12) Rotary Ten (13) Superman (14) White Tornado (15) The One I Love (16) Maps and Legends (17) It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (18) Last Date (19) Finest Worksong (20) Time After Time Etc. (live 9/14/1987)

Total Running Time: 67:23

About the Album:
While this is a nice collection of R.E.M.’s singles and B-sides during their IRS years, it only includes one B-side from each single, leaving out a wide swath of interesting non-album material. One is better off with the Dead Letter Office collection from 1987 which gathered up 15 B-sides from this era.

And I Feel Fine…The Best of the I.R.S. Years (compilation)

R.E.M.

Recorded: 1981 to 1987

Released: September 12, 2006

Peak: 116 US, 70 UK, -- CN, -- AU

Sales (in millions): --

Genre: college rock

Rating:

3.585 out of 5.00 (average of 8 ratings)

Tracks, Disc 1: (1) Begin the Begin (2) Radio Free Europe (3) Pretty Persuasion (4) Talk About the Passion (5) Don’t Go Back to Rockville (6) Sitting Still (7) Gardening at Night (8) 7 Chinese Bros. (9) So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry) (10) Driver 8 (11) Can’t Get There from Here (12) Finest Worksong (13) Feeling Gravity’s Pull (14) I Believe (15) Life and How to Live It (16) Cuyahoga (17) The One I Love (18) Welcome to the Occupation (19) Fall on Me (20) Perfect Circle (21) It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine))

Tracks, Disc 2: (1) Pilgrimage (2) These Days (3) Gardening at Night (4) Radio Free Europe (5) Sitting Still (6) Life and How to Live It (live) (7) Ages of You (live) (8) We Walk (live) (9) 1,000,000 (live) (10) Finest Worksong (11) Hyena (demo) (12) Theme from Two Steps Onward (13) Superman (14) All the Right Friends (15) Mystery to Me (demo) (16) Just a Touch (live) (17) Bad Day (outtake) (18) King of Birds (19) Swan Swan H (live) (20) Disturbance at the Heron House (21) Time After Time (Annelise)

Total Running Time: 154:33

About the Album:
At this point, R.E.M. had three single-disc compilations covering their IRS years from 1981 to 1987. While a double-disc retrospective wasn’t a bad idea, the execution of this could have been better. The first disc covers most of the essential songs along with some album cuts while the second disc delves into some alternative versions of songs and previously unreleased material. A more welcome package would have been a straight chronological approach covering the singles, B-sides, and select album cuts that supplanted the previous three collections covering these same years.

Green

R.E.M.

Released: November 8, 1988

Peak: 12 US, 27 UK, 14 CN, 16 AU

Sales (in millions): 2.0 US, 0.3 UK, 4.5 world (includes US + UK)

Genre: alternative rock

Rating:

3.819 out of 5.00 (average of 27 ratings)

Awards: Go to the DMDB page to see this album’s awards.

Tracks:

  1. Pop Song 89 (12/3/88, 86 BB, 14 AR, 16 MR, 94 CN, 94 AU, 24 DF) PL
  2. Get Up (9/89, 31 DF) PL
  3. You Are the Everything (32 DF)
  4. Stand (12/3/88, 6 BB, 6 CB, 5 GR, 6 RR, 1 AR, 1 MR, 48 UK, 8 CN, 56 AU, 10 DF) IT, PL
  5. World Leader Pretend (32 DF)
  6. The Wrong Child
  7. Orange Crush (11/12/88, 1 AR, 1 MR, 28 UK, 15 AU, 9 DF) IT, PL
  8. Turn You Inside-Out (3/18/89, 10 MR, 37 DF)
  9. Hairshirt (40 DF)
  10. I Remember California
  11. This World Is Big [unlisted track]

Total Running Time: 40:43

About the Album:
Go to the DMDB page for more about this album.

Out of Time

R.E.M.

Released: March 12, 1991

Peak: 12 US, 11 UK, 19 CN, 4 AU, 13 DF

Sales (in millions): 4.0 US, 1.79 UK, 18.0 world (includes US + UK)

Genre: alternative rock

Rating:

4.081 out of 5.00 (average of 28 ratings)

Awards: Go to the DMDB page to see this album’s awards.

Tracks:

  1. Radio Song (with KRS-One) (10/12/91, 43 AR, 28 UK, 18 DF)
  2. Losing My Religion (3/9/91, 4 BB, 6 CB, 3 GR, 4 RR, 28 AC, 1 AR, 1 MR, 19 UK, 6 CN, 11 AU, 2 DF, sales: 0.5 million) IT, PL
  3. Low (8 DF)
  4. Near Wild Heaven (8/17/91, 27 UK, 65 AU, 32 DF)
  5. Endgame (instrumental) (34 DF)
  6. Shiny Happy People (with Kate Pierson) (5/18/91, 10 BB, 8 CB, 4 GR, 10 RR, 48 AC, 8 AR, 3 MR, 6 UK, 5 CN, 19 AU, 10 DF) PL
  7. Belong (32 DF)
  8. Half a World Away (38 DF)
  9. Texarkana (5/18/91, 7 AR, 4 MR, 38 DF)
  10. Country Feedback PL
  11. Me in Honey

Total Running Time: 44:08

About the Album:
In 1987, R.E.M. had the first top-ten, platinum album with Document. A year later, Green sold two million copies in the U.S. 1991’s Out of Time was the band’s biggest success yet, reaching #1 and achieving 18 million in sales worldwide. Go to the DMDB page for more about this album.

Automatic for the People

R.E.M.

Released: October 6, 1992

Peak: 2 US, 14 UK, 4 CN, 2 AU, 12 DF

Sales (in millions): 4.0 US, 2.27 UK, 18.0 world (includes US + UK)

Genre: alternative rock

Rating:

4.535 out of 5.00 (average of 31 ratings)

Awards: Go to the DMDB page to see this album’s awards.

Tracks:

  1. Drive [4:30] (10/3/92, 28 US, 23 CB, 11 RR, 2 AR, 1 MR, 11 UK, 7 CN, 34 AU, 1 DF)
  2. Try Not to Breathe [3:49] (32 DF)
  3. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite [4:06] (2/20/93, 28 AR, 24 MR, 17 UK, 60 CN, 99 AU, 20 DF) IT, PL
  4. Everybody Hurts [5:17] (4/17/93, 29 US, 18 CB, 9 RR, 21 MR, 7 UK, 8 CN, 6 AU, 6 DF) IT, PL
  5. New Orleans Instrumental No. 1 [2:12]
  6. Sweetness Follows [4:19]
  7. Monty Got a Raw Deal [3:16] (38 DF)
  8. Ignoreland [4:24] (11/21/92, 4 AR, 5 MR, 43 CN, 38 DF)
  9. Star Me Kitten [3:15]
  10. Man on the Moon [5:12] (11/28/92, 30 US, 17 CB, 10 RR, 46 AC, 4 AR, 2 MR, 18 UK, 3 CN, 39 AU, 7 DF) IT, PL
  11. Nightswimming [4:16] (7/24/93, 27 UK, 71 AU, 32 DF) IT, PL
  12. Find the River [3:49] (12/11/93, 54 UK, 25 DF)

Total Running Time: 48:52

About the Album:
R.E.M. followed up their best-selling, #1 album Out of Time with the most acclaimed album of their career. Automatic for the People also matched its predecessor with 18 million in worldwide sales. Go to the DMDB page for more about this album.

Monster

R.E.M.

Released: September 27, 1994

Peak: 12 US, 12 UK, 11 CN, 2 AU, 12 DF

Sales (in millions): 4.0 US, 0.9 UK, 11.7 world (includes US + UK)

Genre: alternative rock

Rating:

3.587 out of 5.00 (average of 28 ratings)

Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

Tracks:

  1. What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? (9/17/94, 14a BB, 16 CB, 12 GR, 10 RR, 2 AR, 1 MR, 9 UK, 2 CN, 24 AU, 11 DF) IT, PL
  2. Crush with Eyeliner (2/4/95, 20 AR, 33 MR, 23 UK, 28 CN, 55 AU, 32 DF)
  3. King of Comedy (37 DF)
  4. I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
  5. Star 69 (2/18/95, 74a BB, 15 AR, 8 MR, 73 CN 28 DF)
  6. Strange Currencies (4/15/95, 47 BB, 49 CB, 17 GR, 18 RR, 8 AR, 14 MR, 9 UK, 13 CN, 100 AU, 31 DF)
  7. Tongue (7/29/95, 13 UK, 38 DF)
  8. Bang and Blame (11/12/94, 19 BB, 14 CB, 5 GR, 8 RR, 3 AR, 1 MR, 15 UK, 1 CN, 29 AU, 12 DF)
  9. I Took Your Name
  10. Let Me In
  11. Circus Envy
  12. You

Total Running Time: 49:15

AllMusic.com review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
“Monster is indeed R.E.M.’s long-promised ‘rock’ album; it just doesn’t rock in the way one might expect. Instead of R.E.M.’s trademark anthemic bashers, Monster offers a set of murky sludge, powered by the heavily distorted and delayed guitar of Peter Buck. Michael Stipe’s vocals have been pushed to the back of the mix, along with Bill Berry’s drums, which accentuates the muscular pulse of Buck’s chords. From the androgynous sleaze of Crush with Eyeliner to the subtle, Eastern-tinged menace of You, most of the album sounds dense, dirty, and grimy, which makes the punchy guitars of What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? and the warped soul of Tongue all the more distinctive.”

“Monster doesn’t have the conceptual unity or consistently brilliant songwriting of Automatic for the People, but it does offer a wide range of sonic textures that have never been heard on an R.E.M. album before.”

New Adventures in Hi-Fi

R.E.M.

Released: September 10, 1996

Peak: 2 US, 11 UK, 13 CN, 1 AU, 12 DF

Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, 0.3 UK, 4.5 world (includes US + UK)

Genre: alternative rock

Rating:

3.803 out of 5.00 (average of 27 ratings)

Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

Tracks:

  1. How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us (4/97, 38 DF)
  2. The Wake-Up Bomb (1/25/97, 30 AR, 51 CN, 38 DF)
  3. New Test Leper PL
  4. Undertow
  5. E-Bow the Letter (8/27/96, 45a BB, 7 AA, 15 AR, 2 MR, 4 UK, 6 CN, 23 AU, 12 DF) IT
  6. Leave
  7. Departure
  8. Bittersweet Me (10/12/96, 36a BB, 70 CB, 21 GR, 25 RR, 1 AA, 7 AR, 6 MR, 19 UK, 6 CN, 90 AU, 12 DF)
  9. Be Mine
  10. Binky the Doormat
  11. Zither
  12. So Fast, So Dumb
  13. Low Desert
  14. Electrolite (12/14/96, 96 BB, 5 AA, 29 UK, 24 CN, 39 DF) IT, PL

Total Running Time: 65:33

AllMusic.com review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
“Recorded during and immediately following R.E.M.’s disaster-prone Monster tour, New Adventures in Hi-Fi feels like it was recorded on the road. Not only are all of Michael Stipe’s lyrics on the album about moving or travel, the sound is ragged and varied, pieced together from tapes recorded at shows, soundtracks, and studios, giving it a loose, careening charm.”

“New Adventures has the same spirit of much of R.E.M.’s IRS records, but don’t take the title of New Adventures in Hi-Fi lightly – R.E.M. tries different textures and new studio tricks. How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us opens the album with a rolling, vaguely hip-hop drum beat and slowly adds on jazzily dissonant piano. E-Bow the Letter starts out as an updated version of ‘Country Feedback,’ then it turns in on itself with layers of moaning guitar effects and Patti Smith's haunting backing vocals. Clocking in at seven minutes, Leave is the longest track R.E.M. has yet recorded and it’s one of their strangest and best – an affecting minor-key dirge with a howling, siren-like feedback loop that runs throughout the entire song.”

“Elsewhere, R.E.M. tread standard territory: Electrolite is a lovely piano-based ballad, Departure rocks like a Document outtake, the chiming opening riff of Bittersweet Me sounds like it was written in 1985, New Test Leper is gently winding folk-rock, and The Wake-Up Bomb and Undertow rock like the Monster outtakes they are.”

“New Adventures in Hi-Fi may run a little too long – it clocks in at 62 minutes, by far the longest album R.E.M. has ever released – yet in its multifaceted sprawl, they wound up with one of their best records of the ‘90s.”

Up

R.E.M.

Released: October 27, 1998

Peak: 3 US, 2 UK, 2 CN, 5 AU

Sales (in millions): 0.9 US, 0.3 UK, 3.0 world (includes US + UK)

Genre: alternative rock

Rating:

3.375 out of 5.00 (average of 25 ratings)

Tracks:

  1. Airportman
  2. Lotus (12/7/98, 4 AA, 31 AR, 31 MR, 26 UK, 32 CN, 32 DF)
  3. Suspicion (6/28/99, --)
  4. Hope
  5. At My Most Beautiful (3/8/99, 10 UK) PL
  6. The Apologist
  7. Sad Professor
  8. You’re in the Air
  9. Walk Unafraid
  10. Why Not Smile
  11. Daysleeper (10/12/98, 57 BB, 33 A40, 1 AA, 30 AR, 18 MR, 6 UK, 5 CN, 57 AU, 27 DF) IT
  12. Diminished/I’m Not Over You (hidden track)
  13. Parakeet
  14. Falls to Climb

Total Running Time: 64:31

About the Album:
This was R.E.M.’s first album without founding member and drummer Bill Berry, who retired in 1997. The band used session drummers and drum machines to replace him. This was the band’s first album since Life’s Rich Pageant not produced by Scott Litt. The album showed much more use of electronic influence with keyboards and drum programming.

Reveal

R.E.M.

Released: May 15, 2001

Peak: 6 US, 12 UK, 4 CN, 5 AU

Sales (in millions): 0.5 US, 0.3 UK, 4.0 world (includes US + UK)

Genre: alternative rock

Rating:

3.509 out of 5.00 (average of 26 ratings)

Tracks:

  1. The Lifting
  2. I’ve Been High
  3. All the Way to Reno (You’re Gonna Be a Star) (7/23/01, 8 AA, 24 UK, 26 DF) IT
  4. She Just Wants to Be
  5. Disappear
  6. Saturn Return
  7. Beat a Drum
  8. Imitation of Life (4/16/01, 83 BB, 15 A40, 1 AA, 22 MR, 6 UK, 5 Cn, 32 AU, 26 DF) IT, PL
  9. Summer Turns to High
  10. Chorus and the Ring
  11. I’ll Take the Rain (11/19/01, 44 UK, 28 DF)
  12. Beachball

Total Running Time: 53:43

About the Album:
This is R.E.M.’s twelfth studio album and second without founding member Bill Berry. They continued to experiment with electronic music as they had with the previous album.

In Time: The Best of (compilation)

R.E.M.

Recorded: 1988 to 2003

Released: October 28, 2003

Peak: 8 US, 11 UK, 4 CN, 5 AU, 11 DF

Sales (in millions): 1.2 US, 1.5 UK, 10.0 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: alternative rock

Rating:

4.200 out of 5.00 (average of 25 ratings)

Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

Tracks: (1) Man on the Moon (2) The Great Beyond (3) Bad Day (4) What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? (5) All the Way to Reno (You’re Gonna Be a Star) (6) Losing My Religion (7) E-Bow the Letter (8) Orange Crush (9) Imitation of Life (10) Daysleeper (11) Animal (12) The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (13) Stand (14) Electrolite (15) All the Right Friends (16) Everybody Hurts (17) At My Most Beautiful (18) Nightswimming

Total Running Time: 76:15

Tracks Not on Previously Noted Albums:

  • The Great Beyond (from the Man on the Moon soundtrack, 11/20/99, 57 BB, 37 GR, 38 RR, 13 A40, 1 AA, 33 AR, 11 MR, 3 UK, 16 CN, 25 AU, 19 DF) IT, PL
  • Animal (1/31/04, 33 UK, 93 AU, 40 DF) IT

About the Album:
This was a retrospective of R.E.M.’s years with Warner Brothers, covering seven albums released from 1988 to 2001. It also includes “The Great Beyond” from the 1999 movie Man on the Moon and two new cuts, although “Bad Day” was first recorded in 1986. The song “All the Right Friends” was also recorded much earlier – in 1983 – but released on the Vanilla Sky soundtrack in 2001.

Around the Sun

R.E.M.

Released: October 5, 2004

Peak: 13 US, 11 UK, 7 CN, 6 AU

Sales (in millions): 0.23 US, 0.1 UK, 2.0 world (includes US + UK)

Genre: alternative rock rock

Rating:

2.969 out of 5.00 (average of 28 ratings)

Tracks:

  1. Leaving New York (8/29/04, 1 AA, 5 UK, 57 AU, 31 DF) PL
  2. Electron Blue (2/28/05, 26 UK)
  3. The Outsiders (with Q-Tip)
  4. Make It All Okay
  5. Final Straw
  6. I Wanted to Be Wrong
  7. Wanderlust (7/11/05, 27 UK)
  8. Boy in the Well
  9. Aftermath (11/29/04, 15 AA, 41 UK)
  10. High Speed Train
  11. The Worst Joke Ever
  12. The Ascent of Man
  13. Around the Sun

Total Running Time: 55:16

About the Album:
After Bill Berry left in 1997, R.E.M. soldiered on with session drummers and drum machines. This time, they brought in Bill Rieflin as the drummer. Although he was never made an official band member, he would sit in the drummer’s chair until the band hung it up in 2011.

Accelerate

R.E.M.

Released: March 31, 2008

Peak: 2 US, 11 UK, 11 CN, 13 AU

Sales (in millions): 0.35 US, 0.1 UK, 1.36 world (includes US + UK)

Genre: alternative rock

Rating:

3.762 out of 5.00 (average of 22 ratings)

Tracks:

  1. Living Well Is the Best Revenge PL
  2. Man-Sized Wreath (8/11/08, --)
  3. Supernatural Superserious (2/25/08, 85 BB, 1 AA, 36 AR, 21 MR, 54 UK, 50 CN, 26 DF) PL
  4. Hollow Man (6/2/08, 7 AA, 1 DF)
  5. Houston
  6. Accelerate
  7. Until the Day Is Done (11/14/08, --)
  8. Mr. Richards
  9. Sing for the Submarine
  10. Horse to Water
  11. I’m Gonna DJ

Total Running Time: 34:39

About the Album:
Wikipedia says this “was heralded as a return to form for the band.” Q magazine’s Keith Cameron said, “Accelerate is the sound of a band having enjoyed a good word with themselves – and us.” It was the last album that was accompanied by a tour.

Collapse Into Now

R.E.M.

Released: March 7, 2011

Peak: 5 US, 5 UK, 6 CN, 15 AU

Sales (in millions): 0.06 US, 0.06 UK

Genre: alternative rock

Rating:

3.451 out of 5.00 (average of 15 ratings)

Tracks:

  1. Discover (1/22/11, 28 AA)
  2. All the Best
  3. Überlin (1/25/11, 26 AA) PL
  4. Oh My Heart (2/1/11, --) PL
  5. It Happened Today (12/20/10, --)
  6. Every Day Is Yours to Win
  7. Mine Smell Like Honey (1/18/11, 8 AA)
  8. Walk It Back
  9. Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter PL
  10. That Someone Is You
  11. Me, Marlon Brandon, Marlon Brando and I
  12. Blue

Total Running Time: 41:05

About the Album:
This was it. The end. The last R.E.M. album.

Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage (compilation)

R.E.M.

Recorded: 1981 to 2011

Released: November 11, 2011

Peak: 55 US, 19 UK, 79 CN, 71 AU

Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.1 UK

Genre: alternative rock

Rating:

4.473 out of 5.00 (average of 8 ratings)

Tracks, Disc 1: (1) Gardening at Night (2) Radio Free Europe (3) Talk About the Passion (4) Sitting Still (5) So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry) (6) Don’t Go Back to Rockville (7) Driver 8 (8) Life and How to Live It (9) Begin the Begin (10) Fall on Me (11) Finest Worksong (12) It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (13) The One I Love (14) Stand (15) Pop Song 89 (16) Get Up (17) Orange Crush (18) Losing My Religion (19) Country Feedback (20) Shiny Happy People (21) The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite

Tracks, Disc 2: (1) Everybody Hurts (2) Man on the Moon (3) Nightswimming (4) What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? (5) New Test Leper (6) Electrolite (7) At My Most Beautiful (8) The Great Beyond (9) Imitation of Life (10) Bad Day (11) Leaving New York (12) Living Well Is the Best Revenge (13) Supernatural Superserious (14) Überlin (15) Oh My Heart (16) Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter (17) A Month of Saturdays (18) We All Go Back to Where We Belong (19) Hallelujah

Total Running Time: 1:51:24

Tracks Not on Previously Noted Albums:

  • We All Go Back to Where We Belong (10/18/11, 13 AA) PL
  • A Month of Saturdays PL
  • Hallelujah PL

About the Album:
This two-disc, career-spanning retrospective largely succeeds, although one could quibble with the omission of singles such as “Can’t Get There from Here,” “Superman,” “Drive,” “Bang and Blame,” “E-Bow the Letter,” “Bittersweet Me,” “Daysleeper,” and “Supernatural Superserious,” especially in light of some of the lesser-known album cuts that populate this set.

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