Originally Posted by
noel411
R.E.M. are one of my favorite bands, which probably makes me pretty uncool, lololol. My taste in their albums is not very typical of their fans tho, I don't think.
A great place to start is definitely their 'Live at the Olympia' double album. They had a whole career (5 albums and an EP) on an indie label before they got big, and those albums are fantastic. Very consistent. On that live album they play a shit tonne of their old songs from those albums, and they sound fucking awesome in a live situation with high quality recording technology. It was when they were working on their second last album, 'Accelerate', which is another highlights in their discog, and they perform early versions of songs from that too, as well as some other really unlikely choices from their later albums. The only well known song they do over the whole 2 discs is 'Drive'.
I'll get back with more commentary/advice on them later on.
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