Ranking The Albums - R.E.M.
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
- Chris from Rekkid Talk ranks the 15 studio albums of his favorite southern rock band, Athens Georgia's R.E.M., from least favorite to favorite. Probably no huge suprises here, and I did make myself go back and re-listen to those post-Bill Berry rekkids before finalizing my rankings.
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From all the R.E.M. albums ranked lists I've watched on RUclips, yours is the most similar to mine !!! You're also the one and only ranker I've watched who chose the same album as mine for no.1: as you said, never get tired of that album !!! Great video Rekkid Talk !!!
Great minds think alike, heh.
@@RekkidTalk Haha !!! Pretty well said !!!
@@rrrockfrog2702 My fav as well...though Document, Fables of the Reconstruction, Green and Monster give it a run for its money. And I haven't even mentioned Automatic for the People or Reckoning! What a band!
@@usmcfutball Agree with you !
My dad bought Monster for me when I was in 7th grade and it changed my life. Its one of my favorite records. I love all of the IRS stuff but Monster will always be tops for me.
Yeah, often the first album I heard from a band that ended up being a big part of my collection is my favorite. I remember checking out the vinyl Life's Rich Pageant from the public library when it came out, and that was my entry point into R.E.M. Another example is that I like the early-mid 80s Rush like Grace Under Pressure better than most Rush fans, as that was my introduction rather than 2112 or Farewell to Kings or other 70s Rush.
my friend and i literally raced two other kids in our cars to get that album at lunch during high school on the first day it was on sale. ended up being somewhat disappointing to myself and many other r.e.m. fans, but hey
Great ranking. I would put Document and Green a step or two higher. Good call on New Adventures, it's one of my favorites. Pageant is my #1, Murmur is right up there with it. I also like how you ranked the post-Berry albums.
I love a couple of songs on Around the Sun, but otherwise agree with the album being dull and pedestrian overall. For REM anyway.
Thanks, I enjoyed the clip! Only 12 minutes and you got your points across well. Cheers!
Thanks for watching and sharing some of your rankings.
My list would be as follows:
1. Fables of the Reconstruction
2. Out of Time
3. Automatic for the People
4. Murmur
5. Life's Rich Pageant
6. New Adventures in Hifi
7. Up
8. Reveal
9. Reckoning
10. Monster
11. Green
12. Document
13. Around the Sun
14. Accelerate
15. Collapse into Now
Thanks Chris, really enjoyed your ranking. So many great REM albums.
Thanks for watching.
Hey there, I'm late to the party. I love REM's 1st 4 albums and was wondering are those remasters? I have the deluxe editions of Murmur and Reckoning but can't find the DEs for fables or Life's Rich Pageant
No, my Fables & Life's Rich Pageant are both CDs from sometime in the 1990s, after I had originally taped both of them off of vinyl that I had checked out from the town library in the 80s.
@@RekkidTalk Okay, thanks. My CD versions are copies from the 80s. When you held them up, they looked different from what I have. Yours looked like cardboard with no jewel cases. My search for remasters of Fables and Pageant goes on
@kevtruth Those particular jewel cases are beat up, so I took the inserts out of them while making the video.
Love Around the Sun. Maybe it’s too mellow for you. 7 great songs on it.
I'll give it another try in the future.
Fables is currently my favourite. It's probably the album i would start an REM newbie on.
Not a bad choice, I think any of the first four albums is a decent strating point.
Fables is the BEST!!! So f ing good!!!
Fables all day
Love Up and Reveal...
I'd go with this:
My personal ranking:
1. Automatic for the People (1992)
2. Murmur (1983)
3. New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996)
4. Reveal (2001)
5. Lifes Rich Pageant (1986)
6. Up (1998)
7. Monster (1994)
8. Out of Time (1991)
9. Document (1987)
10. Fables of the Reconstruction (1985)
11. Reckoning (1984)
12. Accelerate (2008)
13. Collapse into Now (2011)
14. Around the Sun (2004)
15. Green (1988)
Interesting, you obviously like Up & Reveal more than I and Green quite a bit less.
I like that you have Up higher on your list. To me it definitely is not a bottom 5 where most put it. I have just recently committed time to the later R.E.M. records as they were not listened to with the same intensity as the prior albums and have found this full of great listens. At My Most Beautiful, Walk Unafraid, Daysleeper, The Apologist, Why Not Smile, Lotus, Parakeet, Falls to Climb are all good songs. There are a number of concert videos on RUclips of REM after this album and seeing live performances of the songs always enhance the song experience. Walk Unafraid is always great live.
You Are The Everything is a gorgeous song off of Green
Green doesn't get any love, its also in my top 6 of their albums. Stand is clearly a fluff song. But Turn you inside out is a banger, and World leader pretend and You are the everything is a masterpiece!!
My take: 1. Tie: Murmer/Reconing, 2. Fables, 3. Automatic, 4. Chronic Town (yeah, i know, EP), 5. Pageant, rest: whatever.
I like whatever a shade better than Automatic.
You're so wrong about Reveal, it's a beautiful record full of sunny Beach Boys joy.
It's awful.
@@davidbowman4259are you the guy I met at Walmart yesterday?
@@willemhoyles9331 Nah. Only MAGATs shop at Walmart.
Okay, now I actually watched the whole video. You fucking nailed it man. Great taste in REM as well. If you are ever in Northern Europe I'll buy you a drink no problemo ;D
Haha, buying my ticket right now!
Totally agree Chris with your # 1 and 2 picks. Murmur initially propelled me into being a fan and Pageant would seal the deal forever. Both are the absolute best from this remarkable band.
I've gotten Life's Rich Pageant on vinyl since the video was made, still my favorite.
@@RekkidTalk It's a cliche...but Life's Rich Pageant "changed...my...life". I was hooked by the opening duo of Begin The Begin and These Days. Like "Heartbreaker" launching into "Livin' Luvin' Maid" by Zeppelin. And 'Swan Swan Hummingbird' made my neck hairs bristle!
Perfect ranking! Agree with your "don't like most singles as much as deep cuts"!
I would have chosen singles a lot differently for R.E.M. if it had ben my decision.
And the post Bill albums are ranked in the same order for me to the point that I was calling them prior to you naming them👍🏻
Are studio album 💿 are book 📕?
Pretty good list. Document and Green may drop out of my top 10 for some of the post Bill stuff.
I haven't really connected with those later albums.
I really like your list! In my mind 1. Fables 2. Hi-Fi 3 Murmur 4. Life’s Rich Pageant
Monster is also much higher in my list. Perhaps #5
But for me Fables is the best. There is not a bad note on that record. Every song is SO good.
Green Grow The Rushes has such a great feel!
“Stay off that highway, word is it’s not that safe.”
Begin The Begin is my favorite REM song, probably why I put Life's Rich Pageant at the top of my list.
Got every REM album on my streaming platform and hit random and rarely have to skip a track except for Stand, Shiny Happy People and Everyone Hurts.
You must be like me and prefer the deep tracks.
@@RekkidTalk Absolutely!
I've had a lot more R.E.M. albums in the past than I do now. I only kept my favorites, the first 5 albums and one you didn't mention Dead Letter Office which is one of my top 2 or 3.
I have and like Dead Letter Office but didn't include it as I wasn't considering compilations. My CD version also has the Chronic Town EP included as the final 5 tracks.
@@RekkidTalk
My Chronic Town is on cassette. That used to be a negative but I bet it's considered a plus these days. Cassette values go up!
Speaking of Dead Letter Office, which really didn’t need to be made, Burning Hell is the worst song in R.E.M.’s entire catalog. Bar none, the worst.
In my opinion the number is a chapter which means a main division of a book, typically with a number or title while the song title is a song title more of chapter 1 leaning towards book 📕 📖 📚. For me as a listener studio album 💿 and book 📖 📕 are the same. Because both books and studio albums have a song title and a number right next to it which is book 📕 📖 📚 and chapter.
I started watching this vid thinking to myself "I hope this dude gives Lifes Rich Pageant the respect it deserves". Turns out I need not worry.
I'm Miles Standish proud.
'reveal' certainly doesn't rank with their best work, but it is an excellent album. and shiny happy people, like sidewinder, is a terrific pop song. i'd put 'automatic' a little higher, but good call on the excellence of 'hi-fi'. interesting that that one was the beginning of the end for them commercially, although that probably started with 'monster.'
Thanks for bearing with my list, even on the stuff I was harsh on.
Hard to argue with those top two.
Ha, I like them but many have other favorites.
Great choice
thanks
Fables FROM the Reconstruction?????
Ha, I don't edit out my errors.
fables of the reconstruction of the fables
*Personal favorites are so for that*
*I have got to find the river ... ...*
Only band that ever really battled The Replacements for the "best band ever" throne in my book.
Great list once again. It's hard for me to rate them, because they were just such an amazing band.
Definitely would put Murmur, Fables, and Pageant in top 5! Reckoning and Document are up there as well, but I would opt to clinch in New Adventures and probably Monster too.
They really went for something else on those two, and I just felt them more than Automatic (which is a great album tbh).
Some albums I feel less about are Green and Out of Time. Out of Time have some of the worst REM songs ever in Radio Song and Low, if you ask me. But you didn't haha.
Then again, it has raw beauty in Half a World Away and Country Feedback, so.. I have to admit that the last two REM albums I bought on release day were Up and Reveal, and I sensed a downward spiral ever since Bill Berry left the band. REM and drum machines = no thank you. But, fantastic band none the less. And always good to hear a fan praising Fables. A simply fantastic record!
Your comment is better than my video!
Solid top #5 n totally agree with all the songs u don't like but around the Sun i don't think is their worst ...I give that to Collapse into now ,their last effort
Usually with my rankings videos the records at the bottom are the ones I go back and listen to the least, so I don't know them as well as my favorites.
I agree with you on the #1 album
Begin The Begin. 👍
Like the Beatles, they changed their sound over the years. Their early sound was terrific, but Automatic showed their growth. Hard to make a list.
R.E.M. is one of those bands where there is going to be huge variance in rankings since there are so many good albums from different points of their career.
Nice list overall. I also prefer the early albums far more than most of the post 1990 releases, w/ New Adventures being an exception. I've have Reckoning, Murmur, LRP, Document, and Fables as my top 5, w/ Green, DLO, NAIH, Out of Time, and Chronic Town being next, w/ no definitive order as that fluctuates for me. So much of the later albums sound too much like comfortable AOR music to me.
The middle part of my list would probably be a bit different if I went back and remade this video.
One of the things about Around The Sun that's really off compared to their other albums is that Mike Mills doesn't do any backing vocals. It is awful through and through.
My ranking would be:
15: Around The Sun
14: Reckoning
13: Murmur
12: Out Of Time
11: Fables Of The Reconstruction
10: Monster
9: Reveal
8: Up
7: Accelerate
6: Life's Rich Pageant
5: Green
4: Collapse Into Now
3: New Adventures In Hi-Fi
2: Document
1: Automatic For The People
You don't seem to be a fan of the early records on I.R.S., either.
I do thoroughly enjoy them, it's just that I prefer their later albums. Around The Sun is the only one I actively dislike.
@@JeremiahPickardMusic OK, I see.
1. New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996)
2. Murmur (1983)
3. Automatic for the People (1992)
4. Life's Rich Pageant (1986)
5. Fables of the Reconstruction (1985)
6. Document (1987)
7. Reckoning (1984)
8. Green (1988)
9. Out of Time (1991)
10. Up (1998)
11. Monster (1994)
12. Accelerate (2008)
13. Collapse into Now (2011)
14. Reveal (2001)
15. Around the Sun (2004)
Not a bad list, our top half/bottom half are pretty similar, with some scrambling of order.
Reveal is the one for me - it's the best Beach Boys album that they never recorded!
Interesting, as you saw I was never taken in by the post-New Adventures albums.
I just don’t like the songs/songwriting after Life’s Rich Pageant as much. Stipe’s throaty crooning is better in the background as well. There are a handful of tunes from every release I like, but nothing from start to finish like those first 4 releases.
I would have "UP" higher on the list. Possibly their most underrated album. "Fables of the Reconstruction" and "Murmur" share the title for me on any given day...and will say that I find "Life's Rich Pageant" to be one of my least favorite REM albums. To each their own...
Cool, thanks for sharing your favorites.
Yes a great band
For me it's
Automatic
New adventures
Monster
Out of time
Document
Reveal
Murmur
Fables
Reckoning
Pageant
Around the sun
Green
Accelerate
Up
Collapse into now
Thanks for ranking, you like the 90s REM a bit more than me (or don't like the 80s as much as me).
Best albums are from IRS label
Mostly, yes.
Good list. 100% agree on the bottom 3. I'd need to do some re-listening, but I think I'd probably have Accelerate and Collapse Into Now ahead of a few others as well (probably Moster and Out of Time). I might be just giving those extra credit for being so much better than those bottom 3 albums. The IRS albums get my top 5 spots, and any of the first 4 releases could by my number 1 on any given day -- it's like picking my favorite kid... impossible. New Adventures is no doubt the best of the non-IRS albums.
Yeah, I'd not argue with anyone choosing any of the first four albums as their #1.
Are you an R.E.M. fan?
Yes.
Pop song 69 ?
DId I say that? I haven't watched my own video since I made it.
Pretend Around the Sun isnt an REM album and it actually sounds pretty good.
I'll have to try that! Maybe I'll put the disc in a case for another band.
@@RekkidTalk Don't bother. My earlier post was probably a recollection of a memory of an event that didn't happen. Wanting to like the album so much my mind probably created a fake memory. Listened to it again earlier, pretty unlistenable, REM or otherwise.
Hmmm ...strange list.
What do you think I underrated or overrated?
Document was their best start to finish.
I don't even remember exactly where I ranked Document. I bet there would be some shuffling if I redid my rankings.
I think I say that because I was 13 and I remember seeing the video for "The one I love" and I was mesmerized. I had an older brother who was into like TSOL, The Cramps, The Clash, etc. I liked that, but REM quickly became more my thing, I would sit in my room and listen on headphones to it over and over. SO for sure I am speaking out of nostalgia to a point. Great video!@@RekkidTalk
@@danielrn133 Yeah, I have bands where my entry point is my favorite.
I would put 1. Life's Rich, 2. Document, and 3. Murmur.
Good choices.
bro losing my religion is one of their best songs, respect the opinion though
Glad you like it.
Your top 2 would be in my top 3, but what shows the greatness of REM is that the tastes/preferences of fans (and casual listeners) vary wildly.
I’ve seen a few people claim ATS is their best album as that was their entry point- I love that, yet it makes me think there’s something they’re missing here😂
Yeah, I remember seeing a thread on some forum about favorite R.E.M. songs and the lists were all over the place. The same thread for many other bands would just be listing their hits.
Interesting list, I agree that Stand and shiny Happy people are lame, as well as some of the other radio hits.
Fables is my #1.
I've also been a "deep tracks" guy for R.E.M.
love r.e.m.'s excursions into pop
NO STAND AND SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE ARE GOOD SONGS CATCHY AND FUN PEOPLE JUST LIKE DEPRESSING SONGS FAVS ARE END OF THE WORLD LOSING MY RELIGION AND MAN ON THE MOON
@@davidcoombsbestmegadethalb9780 nah, I don’t like their depressing songs, I prefer their first 3 or 4 albums which were full of energy.
Stand and Shiny Happy people are lame for a few reasons. The production is glossy and plastic sounding for starters. Also, the vocals are higher in the mix - which is a commercial pop trait - and it overshadows the instruments to the point that all you really get as a listener is the beat and the help with the melody from the instruments.
There is a short interesting breakdown/bridge in Stand that uses some ‘experimental’ techniques, but it seems throw in just to signal that this is an “alternative” song (which looking back now sounds dated and cliche).
I’ll put REMs first EP and first 3 albums against any band. But the quality and creativity real fell off after Fables.
I knew this guy was way off when he put automatic for the people so low on the list, totally off base here, guy.
Thanks, guy.
Good ranking! Here’s mine:
1. Murmur (1983)
2. Green (1988)
3. New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996)
4. Reckoning (1984)
5. Automatic for the People (1992)
6. Document (1987)
7. Lifes Rich Pageant (1986)
8. Out of Time (1991)
9. Up (1998)
10. Fables of the Reconstruction (1985)
11. Collapse into Now (2011)
12. Reveal (2001)
13. Accelerate (2008)
14. Monster (1994)
15. Around the Sun (2004) *yeah, it’s a terrible album (except for Leaving New York and Electron Blue). Ugh..it’s just..so droning and slow and so adult-contemporary. I didn’t hear R.E.M. on this shit; I heard an early-to-mid 2000s slow lame soft rock group like The Calling or something lol. The Outsiders is one of the most ill-advised duets of all time, Boy in the Well is terrible, The Ascent of Man is interminable, The Worst Joke Ever? Probably a new low for them; it’s just so bad!
I'm doing a video in a week or so about my favorite songs on the worst albums by my favorite artists and you might hear more about Around The Sun on it.
Pop song 69 😅
Begin The Begin.
I didn't like Around the Sun either when it came out although the track Leaving New York I believe is one of their best songs. The album has grown on me somewhat though over the years. It's one of the weaker albums for sure but it's not terrible. Sorry but Out of Time being as low as No 8 is absolutely ludicrous. How can you not like Losing My Religion? This album is in the top 3 for me. AFTP only 6 as well. Ridiculous. Are you actually a fan?
Sorry I didn't rank them exactly like you did.
1. Tie-Out of Time
1. Tie- Murmur
3. Automatic For
4. Fables
5. Green
6. Life's Rich
7.. Reckoning
8.. Document
9. Up
10. New Adventures
11. Monster
12. Reveal
13. Collapse Into
14. Accelerate
15. Around the Sun
Cool, bottom of the list pretty similar although certainly a different order on the top of the list.
I thought leaving New York was a great tune from around the Sun. Terrible album though. Reveal was terrible up was terrible. I miss hearing r.e.m. on the radio but they needed to go at that point monster is my number one album so there's no way in hell I could put it at number 10 that far down the totem pole. There's absolutely no way that I could put out of time and automatic for the people higher than monster especially automatic for the people. That album was just full of drudging funeral music
I like drudging funeral music.
@@RekkidTalk all good man. Just left my 2 cents. Thumbs up
@@jasonmorgan5058 Ha, I know lots of people like Monster a lot me than me.
@@RekkidTalk seems like every album ranking I watch its always last. The albums sold over 10 million, so something just isn't adding up for me. All good though man. Enjoyed the video
I respect your opinion. As for me, around the sun is obviously very experimental and has a lot of lazy and dead sounding guitars, but I do think it's undervalued. Outsiders, electron blue, leaving New York, aftermath are highlights in my opinion. As for reveal, I think it's underrated. Lifting is a great opener, I've been high is vocally fantastic along with beach ball and beat a drum. Imitation of life and reno are obviously the big highlights of this one. Not a bad track on either album in my opinion
Dodgy list. The first four albums are dross, as are the last two. Out of Time is hugely overrated, while the opposite can be said for sleeper classics Up and Reveal. REM's best album is Automatic, imo. It's what Vitalogy is to Pearl Jam- it's dark and moody and gets under your skin.
Glad you like Up & Reveal. REM's first four albums as dross is a pretty hot take.
My top five: Lifes Rich Pageant, Murmur, Monster, Document and Automatic for the People. Next five: New Adventures, Green, Reckoning, Out of Time, Accelerate. Decent: Fables of the Reconstruction, Up, Collapse Into Now. The worst: Reveal and Around the Sun. Shocked that Stipe would like the gooey, mushy, synthesized mess that is Reveal. Blech. And surprised you'd have Monster that low. It's awesome.
A lot of people like Monster more than me. I'm surprised more people don't like New Adventures as much as I do.
reveal has several really well written songs. it is partially an homage to the beach boys and it works as something of a return to form in terms of the classic r.e.m. formula as well
Loved almost everything they've done from Chronic Town til New Adventures in Hi-Fi. Up I liked half of it. With Reveal they completely lost me.
Pretty similar to my take.