R.E.M.:
Murmur - Deluxe Edition

By: Dennis Cook It's hard to convey the wriggling freshness R.E.M. possessed upon arrival in 1983. First single "Radio Free Europe" rose from the left side of the dial like a message sent across great distance. The half-decipherable lyrics, the man-boy delivering them, the perfect brutality of the drums and the ringing guitar rainfall, this was no "Europe" any of us had visited before. It sent many of us scrabbling for the original 45 record and stoked anticipation for the band's full-leng...

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