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Automatic for the People (1992) Once my father realized that I was becoming a burgeoning R.E.M. fan and I had listened to Document , G...

Out of Time (1991) After spending a year on tour, R.E.M. released their second Warner Bros. record and thanks to an amazing lead singl...

Green (1988) R.E.M. ended their contract with I.R.S. and "sold out" by moving to the much bigger Warner Bros. Records for mo...

Eponymous (1988) The final album released under the I.R.S. contract was fittingly a "best of" compilation, featuring the ban...

Document (1987) I always felt as if this was the first "real" R.E.M. album.  Everything pre- Document  felt as it belonged t...

Dead Letter Office (1987) After Lifes Rich Pageant , R.E.M. had amassed enough material from the B-sides of their singles to compile t...

Lifes Rich Pageant (1986) After the experiment that was Fables of the Reconstruction , R.E.M. returned to a more traditionally focused...