It started with Murmur . 1983. Elias wasn't even born then. He imagined a younger version of his father, maybe driving a beat-up sedan down a dusty road in Georgia, the AM radio crackling with "Radio Free Europe." That was the magic of the FLAC file he was about to possess; it wouldn't just play the song, it would preserve the haze of the 80s, the jangle of the Rickenbacker, the mumbled, indecipherable poetry of Michael Stipe when he was just a shy kid from Athens.
"Driver 8," "Can't Get There from Here," "Life and How to Live It." REM - Studio Discography 1983 - 2011 -FLAC- - K...
: R.E.M. favored dynamic music, oscillating between quiet acoustic meditations and loud, overdriven choruses. Lossless files maintain the full contrast without the "brickwalling" or clipping sometimes found in compressed formats. It started with Murmur
begins with Green and continues through Collapse into Now . Moving to a major label allowed the band to expand their sonic palette significantly. This period includes the massive global hits of Out of Time ("Losing My Religion") and Automatic for the People ("Everybody Hurts"), as well as the alternative-rock grit of Monster , the experimental electronic tones of Up , and the triumphant return-to-rock of Accelerate . Collecting all 15 albums allows you to hear how seamlessly the band managed this massive stylistic pivot. He imagined a younger version of his father,
In 2011, they did something almost no other legendary band does: they quit while they were ahead. Collapse into Now
was a rare creative dip, they roared back with the aggressive Accelerate (2008)