R.E.M.: Murmur (Deluxe Edition)

Even with so many classic albums, R.E.M. was never better than on its debut Athens in 1983 was not the middle of nowhere. The B-52's had introduced the music world to Georgia's fifth largest city four years earlier, just before Bulldogs running back Herschel Walker introduced it to everyone else in 1980, leading UGA's football team to its first undisputed national championship. But while Athens wasn't a one-horse town, neither was it Greenwich Village or San Francisco or even Detroit; Ath...

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