About
R.E.M. was an American alternative rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia. One of the first alternative rock bands, R.E.M. was noted for Buck’s ringing, arpeggiated guitar style; Stipe’s distinctive vocal quality, unique stage presence, and obscure lyrics; Mills’s melodic bass lines and backing vocals; and Berry’s tight, economical drumming style. In the early 1990s, other alternative rock acts such as Nirvana and Pavement viewed R.E.M. as a pioneer of the genre. After Berry left the band in 1997, the band continued its career in the 2000s with mixed critical and commercial success. The band broke up amicably in 2011 with members devoting time to solo projects after having sold more than 90 million albums worldwide and becoming one of the world’s best-selling music acts.
Albums/Songs:
- Document
- Around the Sun
- Green
- Accelerate
- Monster
- Out of Time
- Eponymous
- Collapse Into Now
- New Adventures in Hi‐Fi
- Reveal
- Singles Collected
- The Collection
- Fables of the Reconstruction
- Lifes Rich Pageant
- In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003
- The Best of R.E.M.
- The Automatic Box
- Document / Lifes Rich Pageant
- Essential R.E.M.: R.E.M. in the Attic (Alternative Recordings 1985–89)
- Automatic for the People
- Up
- Murmur
- Dead Letter Office
- Reckoning
- Singleactiongreen
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