Tracklist [00:00] 01. Radio Free Europe [04:05] 02. Pilgrimage [08:35] 03. Laughing [12:33] 04. Talk About The Passion [15:55] 05. Moral Kiosk (Murmer Version) [19:27] 06. Perfect Circle [22:58] 07. Catapult [26:54] 08. Sitting Still [30:13] 09. 9-9 [33:16] 10. Shaking Through [37:47] 11. We Walk [40:48] 12. West Of The Fields
-I started attending University in September of '84... I met a cool guy across the hall in my dorm building... he had a bunch of magazines, a small black & white T.V., and a stereo that played albums/cassettes... he said he moved into the dorm a month early to get settled in, and on his second night in Knoxville, he went down to a bar on "The Strip" and watched a new band named R.E.M. - he liked them, so he bought their album the very next day... it was called "Reckoning"... he wanted me to check it out... we went to the beer store, bought a six-pack of beer each, and went back to his dorm room... we turned "Late Nite... with David Letterman" on, on his little black & white T.V., and listened to "Reckoning"... soon after, on another night, we drank beer, watched "David Letterman", and listened to "Murmur"... I was very impressed... I liked "Reckoning" a lot, and I liked "Murmur", even more... but my favorite song, was on "Reckoning"... "Time after Time"... that semester, I bought both albums on cassette (new... $6.99 each), and wore them out... I had discovered my new, favorite band... R.E.M. !!! I was 18 years old then... now, I'm 56 years old, and they're still... my favorite band.
I discovered REM in 7th grade in 1983 due to my older brother in college at Mizzou (University of Missouri). He listen to their tapes from St Louis to Duluth, MN on way to grandparents for Christmas. I could not get the song "We Walk" out my mind. Only middle schooler who was into REM, always got people thinking REO Speedwagon and had to correct them and explain is s college band. Shaped my good taste in music. Saw them in Atlanta. Great show.
Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke is a huge R.E.M. fan. During the early days of Radiohead such as the Pablo Honey album, Yorke was influenced by R.E.M. Both R.E.M. and Radiohead are both of my favorite alternative rock bands of all time. It doesn’t matter which one I like better. I also happen to be a fan of The Smashing Pumpkins and my other 3 favorite rock genres are Progressive, Heavy Metal and Grunge. “The Great Beyond” was my introduction to R.E.M. and since I’m a huge fan of The Simpsons, R.E.M. appeared in the season 13 episode #3 “Homer The Moe”.
This is REM to me. Orange crush and shiny happy people just didn't do it for me. First heard this summer of '84. My roomate had it on reel to reel. It was my first summer after graduating high school. It was so incredibly different... Prior to this album I had been listening to Journey, Def Leopard etc. It definitely put my musical tastes on a totally different track.
@@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248 Yesterday I was watching Tastes Like Music and had to watch Kramzer and Joe try to argue that there was anything even remotely good about the existence of Def Leppard. Lol!
Released on April 12, 1983, R.E.M.'s debut album was a strange but intriguing combination of rock vibrancy, folk sensibility and abstruse lyricism. It came at a time when rock was at the crossroads and defined a direction that was at once retro-influenced and forward-looking. It's a testament to the songs' undiminished melodic power and engaging, often infectious drive that they sound as fresh now as they did forty years ago.
100% agree. Murmur-Reckoning-Fables-Lifes Rich Pageant is a phenomenal run (and if you include the Chronic Town EP at the start, even better). I know it's regarded as part of the classic IRS Years output, but Document never really did it for me. Yes, there are some great songs on it, but the whole album never did it for me in the same way those first 4 albums did. Absolutely magical, and their absolute peak.
I get so nostalgic everytime I put this record on, even though I never lived in Georgia in the 80s. It brings incredible images of naive absentminded youth and innocence/ with a generous dose of melancholy of course, its R.E.M.
*Summer 1983:* I'd just turned 14 (my last summer of no responsibilities), chilling on the beach lounge chair out in the backyard on a sunny afternoon with a can of soda, listening to the college radio station in my Midwestern city playing this album from my cheap cassette/FM portable stereo. Moral Kiosk made me get up and dance, even though I didn't understand a _gotdamned_ thing Michael was singing.
I first heard about these guys from a friend who was attending UGA. He couldn't say enough good things about them and they lived up to all of it with Chronic Town. I loved that E.P. , but nothing could have prepared me for the impact this masterpiece would have on me. Murmur was truly a life-changing record for me. It was responsible for my love for the band who would release an album (Automatic For The People) that would literally save my life.
Murmur was Recorded at Reflection Studios in Charlotte, North Carolina from January 6, 1983, through February 23, 1983. released on April 12, 1983, and the rest is History.......
This record aged REALLY well. Good songs, played well, and love the urgency of it... I'd never set down and listened to it end-to-end before, my REM exposure was their mainstream years primarily.. impressive, I can hear how they earned their place.
This record just blew me away when it came out in 1983. Friends of mine just didn’t get it. The only other band that had an initial impact to me like it was the Beatles in 1964.
Been listening this band before anyone even knew they existed well except in the Georgia college scene. So wonderful the rest of you finally came around. Now sit back and enjoy some of the finest music ever created.
I was in Columbia, SC in the early 80’s and fell in love with them. Going to see a tribute band tonight called Dead Letter Office. Have seen them several times and travel across the USA. If you hear about them coming to a venue near you, well worth checking them out.
moved to atlanta at 18y/o in 1981...now 61...this was the first music I ever heard like this. still love it to this day. saw them 3 times in Atlanta..1985 to 2001
One of the most important and influential albums ever made. It set a new type of popular alt-rock/indie spirit that influenced all kinds of alternative bands. And it is certainly the link between classic rock and the Radiohead era.
Saw them at Newcastle City Hall, May 1989, thank you Neil Blake for introducing them to me. Hope you are well Neil, it's been over 30 years, long overdue for a beer.
I didn't think much of this album on first listen but I woke up today with Radio Free Europe stuck in my head so i decided to give this album another listen and wow, it's very good!
Radio Free Europe 00:01-04:04 Pilgrimage 04:05-08:34 Laughing 08:35-12:29 Talk About The Passion 12:34-15:52 Moral Kiosk (Murmur Version) 15:55-19:24 Perfect Circle 19:27-22:54 Catapult 22:58-26:53 Sitting Still 26:54-30:11 9-9 30:13-33:14 Shaking Through 33:17-37:21 We Walk 37:22-40:47 West Of The Fields 40:48-44:06 1983 Metallica- Kill Em All ZZ Top- Eliminator The Police- Synchronicity Def Leppard- Pyromania Dio- Holy Diver Genesis- Genesis R.E.M.- Murmur U2- War Lionel Richie- Can't Slow Down The Pointer Sisters- Break Down Cyndi Lauper- She's So Unusual
My babysitter who was also a very close part of my family and a decade older than me visited us when I was in middle school and left the tape of REM murmur and I never looked back. Sorry for the run on.
My best album of each year of the 80s 1980 = Talking Heads - Remain in Light 1981 = This Heat - Deceit 1982 = The Church - The Blurred Crusade 1983 = R.E.M. - Murmur 1984 = Cocteau Twins - Treasure 1985 = Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen 1986 = Siouxsie and the Banshees - Tinderbox 1987 = Prince - Sign “☮︎” the Times 1988 = Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation 1989 = The Mekons - The Mekons Rock ‘n’ Roll
Put your hair back, we get to leave Eleven gallows on your sleeve Shallow figured winner's paid Eleven shadows way out of place Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room Pull your dress on and stay real close Who might leave you where I left off? A perfect circle of acquaintances and friends Drink another, coin a phrase Heaven assumed, shoulders high in the room Heaven assumed, shoulders high in the room Heaven assumed, shoulders high in the room Try to win and suit your needs Speak out sometimes but try to win Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
An album by a few kids from College Town, USA that helped spur the alternative movement. What happened to music like this?! Now it's all regurgitated (c)rap, pop country shit, and other nondescript garbage. No movement, no danger, no challenge to the mainstream establishment. Rock will rise again when it's time. Thanks for reading my rant.
Tracklist
[00:00] 01. Radio Free Europe
[04:05] 02. Pilgrimage
[08:35] 03. Laughing
[12:33] 04. Talk About The Passion
[15:55] 05. Moral Kiosk (Murmer Version)
[19:27] 06. Perfect Circle
[22:58] 07. Catapult
[26:54] 08. Sitting Still
[30:13] 09. 9-9
[33:16] 10. Shaking Through
[37:47] 11. We Walk
[40:48] 12. West Of The Fields
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Series tlisreck perfect me ambilive, ambilive yeeaah...
-I started attending University in September of '84... I met a cool guy across the hall in my dorm building... he had a bunch of magazines, a small black & white T.V., and a stereo that played albums/cassettes... he said he moved into the dorm a month early to get settled in, and on his second night in Knoxville, he went down to a bar on "The Strip" and watched a new band named R.E.M. - he liked them, so he bought their album the very next day... it was called "Reckoning"... he wanted me to check it out... we went to the beer store, bought a six-pack of beer each, and went back to his dorm room... we turned "Late Nite... with David Letterman" on, on his little black & white T.V., and listened to "Reckoning"... soon after, on another night, we drank beer, watched "David Letterman", and listened to "Murmur"... I was very impressed... I liked "Reckoning" a lot, and I liked "Murmur", even more... but my favorite song, was on "Reckoning"... "Time after Time"... that semester, I bought both albums on cassette (new... $6.99 each), and wore them out... I had discovered my new, favorite band... R.E.M. !!! I was 18 years old then... now, I'm 56 years old, and they're still... my favorite band.
I discovered REM in ‘86 (I guess on 120 Minutes) as a freshman in high school. It completely changed my perception of music.
Wow what a wonderful memories
I discovered REM in 7th grade in 1983 due to my older brother in college at Mizzou (University of Missouri). He listen to their tapes from St Louis to Duluth, MN on way to grandparents for Christmas. I could not get the song "We Walk" out my mind. Only middle schooler who was into REM, always got people thinking REO Speedwagon and had to correct them and explain is s college band. Shaped my good taste in music. Saw them in Atlanta. Great show.
-you were one of the lucky ones
@@lm1314 I’m from St Louis too. Discovering REM as a middle schooler in the land of K-SHE 95 was kind of life changing.
one of the best albums ever made by any band
True❤🎉
My favorite song on it is actually Shaking Through! :)
Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke is a huge R.E.M. fan. During the early days of Radiohead such as the Pablo Honey album, Yorke was influenced by R.E.M. Both R.E.M. and Radiohead are both of my favorite alternative rock bands of all time. It doesn’t matter which one I like better. I also happen to be a fan of The Smashing Pumpkins and my other 3 favorite rock genres are Progressive, Heavy Metal and Grunge. “The Great Beyond” was my introduction to R.E.M. and since I’m a huge fan of The Simpsons, R.E.M. appeared in the season 13 episode #3 “Homer The Moe”.
@@JakeTheComicBookDude great !
Mine is unquestionably " Perfect Circle."@@curly_wyn
I started listening to ReM in 1983...I bought all the albums from the IRS sessions...those records are The Best!!! I Love this band!!!
Absolutely every song is awesome, then, now and forever. Their best album!!
True❤🎉🤘🤘🤘🤘💋💋💋💋
This is REM to me. Orange crush and shiny happy people just didn't do it for me. First heard this summer of '84. My roomate had it on reel to reel. It was my first summer after graduating high school. It was so incredibly different... Prior to this album I had been listening to Journey, Def Leopard etc. It definitely put my musical tastes on a totally different track.
bravo
@@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248
Yesterday I was watching Tastes Like Music and had to watch Kramzer and Joe try to argue that there was anything even remotely good about the existence of Def Leppard. Lol!
That's it, their best.
Released on April 12, 1983, R.E.M.'s debut album was a strange but intriguing combination of rock vibrancy, folk sensibility and abstruse lyricism. It came at a time when rock was at the crossroads and defined a direction that was at once retro-influenced and forward-looking. It's a testament to the songs' undiminished melodic power and engaging, often infectious drive that they sound as fresh now as they did forty years ago.
this reads like a professional record review
Yep. Total plagiarism
Because they used chatgpt@@angelareese390
so good. these guys never made an album that wasn't great, but their first four are world-changing.
bravo
Include the debut EP Chronic Town and make it 5.
100% agree. Murmur-Reckoning-Fables-Lifes Rich Pageant is a phenomenal run (and if you include the Chronic Town EP at the start, even better). I know it's regarded as part of the classic IRS Years output, but Document never really did it for me. Yes, there are some great songs on it, but the whole album never did it for me in the same way those first 4 albums did. Absolutely magical, and their absolute peak.
@@theflyintheointmenttheir label IRS records was trying to push them towards a greater pop direction after a few of their releases
What’s wrong with Document? I feel like Green was when their sound began to change a lot
I get so nostalgic everytime I put this record on, even though I never lived in Georgia in the 80s. It brings incredible images of naive absentminded youth and innocence/ with a generous dose of melancholy of course, its R.E.M.
*Summer 1983:* I'd just turned 14 (my last summer of no responsibilities), chilling on the beach lounge chair out in the backyard on a sunny afternoon with a can of soda, listening to the college radio station in my Midwestern city playing this album from my cheap cassette/FM portable stereo. Moral Kiosk made me get up and dance, even though I didn't understand a _gotdamned_ thing Michael was singing.
I often come back to this album when it's a drizzly nothing day. Is it a perfect circle of it's kind?
I first heard about these guys from a friend who was attending UGA. He couldn't say enough good things about them and they lived up to all of it with Chronic Town. I loved that E.P. , but nothing could have prepared me for the impact this masterpiece would have on me. Murmur was truly a life-changing record for me. It was responsible for my love for the band who would release an album (Automatic For The People) that would literally save my life.
Murmur was Recorded at Reflection Studios in Charlotte, North Carolina from January 6, 1983, through February 23, 1983. released on April 12, 1983, and the rest is History.......
Happy 40th Anniversary to this life-changing album.
Pilgrimage is my favorite!!
Mine too. Talking About the Passion is my 2nd favorite
@@johnmclaughlin1475
Combien de temps
This record aged REALLY well. Good songs, played well, and love the urgency of it... I'd never set down and listened to it end-to-end before, my REM exposure was their mainstream years primarily.. impressive, I can hear how they earned their place.
I believe that it's like this...Led Zeppelin...the Beatles...Stones and then rEm!!
This record just blew me away when it came out in 1983. Friends of mine just didn’t get it. The only other band that had an initial impact to me like it was the Beatles in 1964.
This album is 40 years old and still sounds ahead of its time.
Been listening this band before anyone even knew they existed well except in the Georgia college scene. So wonderful the rest of you finally came around. Now sit back and enjoy some of the finest music ever created.
They were huge in Germany in the 90s. I discovered they had released music before 1991 just recently. Great discovery, their 80s stuff is brilliant.
grunge, post punk and many others are the way they are because of these guys, one of the most important groups to ever exist
Except everyone listening to college radio in 1981.
I was in Columbia, SC in the early 80’s and fell in love with them. Going to see a tribute band tonight called Dead Letter Office. Have seen them several times and travel across the USA. If you hear about them coming to a venue near you, well worth checking them out.
moved to atlanta at 18y/o in 1981...now 61...this was the first music I ever heard like this. still love it to this day. saw them 3 times in Atlanta..1985 to 2001
Thank you for posting this album. Means more than you can imagine.
There's absolutely no chance at all you're politicaly on the right, huh🤌👌😘!
I Love you💓
@@gulfmarine8857 Hunter Biden '28.
Led Zeppelin...the Beatles...the Stones and rEm!!!
Indeed the best Album in their unbelievable collection. Timeless! The Belfast poet Andrew Beattie. Food for thought... ❣️
Perfect Circle. The perfect song.
One of the most important and influential albums ever made. It set a new type of popular alt-rock/indie spirit that influenced all kinds of alternative bands. And it is certainly the link between classic rock and the Radiohead era.
My girlfriend says "I can't understand what he is saying"; I just smile and keep dancing.
The cover always reminds me of the REM sound and vice versa,
the music reminds me of the nostalgia of the cover.
If I could define myself with music it would be REM, the Clash and The Ramones.
Soundtrack of my life.
So what?
@@susantidad1038 Do you need a hearing aid or an understanding aid?
Thank you for your service!
Ours are close.....mine would be REM, The Ramones, and Queen!!
Awesome - REM, The Clash and The Jesus and Mary Chain for me. But Ramones definitely in my top 10!
My favorite record of all time
Me too 💕
Me tooo❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Saw them at Newcastle City Hall, May 1989, thank you Neil Blake for introducing them to me. Hope you are well Neil, it's been over 30 years, long overdue for a beer.
Il mio disco preferito dei Rem
I didn't think much of this album on first listen but I woke up today with Radio Free Europe stuck in my head so i decided to give this album another listen and wow, it's very good!
Top notch recording. Hats off for Don Dixon and Mitch Easter.
"I can hear you
I can hear you
I can hear you.
Can you, hear me?"
My favorite album!
Rem and midnight oil are 2 of the best bands from that era, both have an amazing sound and influenced so many bands especially in punk
I'd just got to college and the guy in the next room had this album. That was 1983. Been a fan ever since.
A stunning and timeless debut album.
Vengo por la recomendación en un comentario del primer disco de The Cranberries...nunca escuché completo un album de REM pero siempre amé su sonido.
My favorite album just turned 40 (APR 12, 1983)
Radio Free Europe 00:01-04:04
Pilgrimage 04:05-08:34
Laughing 08:35-12:29
Talk About The Passion 12:34-15:52
Moral Kiosk (Murmur Version) 15:55-19:24
Perfect Circle 19:27-22:54
Catapult 22:58-26:53
Sitting Still 26:54-30:11
9-9 30:13-33:14
Shaking Through 33:17-37:21
We Walk 37:22-40:47
West Of The Fields 40:48-44:06
1983
Metallica- Kill Em All
ZZ Top- Eliminator
The Police- Synchronicity
Def Leppard- Pyromania
Dio- Holy Diver
Genesis- Genesis
R.E.M.- Murmur
U2- War
Lionel Richie- Can't Slow Down
The Pointer Sisters- Break Down
Cyndi Lauper- She's So Unusual
Oh the 80's "HIGH"....LIFE THEN WAS A "RAVE"
thank you for sharing this, one of the greatest albums of all time
Legendary Album.
Really?
24 years since first listen and its the album that keeps on giving.... a classic
My babysitter who was also a very close part of my family and a decade older than me visited us when I was in middle school and left the tape of REM murmur and I never looked back. Sorry for the run on.
Delicious debut album. A masterpiece.
Hardly
@@caesarsmith4711it's a masterpiece compared to their latter albums. One of those great bands that became politically nauseating to the ears.
I always thought they needed a much better vocalist, one that did not sound so whiney.@@MrRobison94
@@caesarsmith4711 the beauty in a word is not tainted by the voice which utters it.
I love this so much
Thanks from Argentina
album is fire ... early R.E.M. was so good
Always crap
@@caesarsmith4711I'm sorry someone hurt you but get over yourself.
My best album of each year of the 80s
1980 = Talking Heads - Remain in Light
1981 = This Heat - Deceit
1982 = The Church - The Blurred Crusade
1983 = R.E.M. - Murmur
1984 = Cocteau Twins - Treasure
1985 = Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
1986 = Siouxsie and the Banshees - Tinderbox
1987 = Prince - Sign “☮︎” the Times
1988 = Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1989 = The Mekons - The Mekons Rock ‘n’ Roll
1980: Joy Division- Closer
1982 The Cure - Pornography
1984: The Smiths - The Smiths
Put your hair back, we get to leave
Eleven gallows on your sleeve
Shallow figured winner's paid
Eleven shadows way out of place
Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
Pull your dress on and stay real close
Who might leave you where I left off?
A perfect circle of acquaintances and friends
Drink another, coin a phrase
Heaven assumed, shoulders high in the room
Heaven assumed, shoulders high in the room
Heaven assumed, shoulders high in the room
Try to win and suit your needs
Speak out sometimes but try to win
Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
This music reminds me of writing term papers while being slightly buzzed..
❤catapult💺favorite song🥇
Happy 40th Anniversary Murmur!
thanks to the uploader, great performance
somehow managed to perfectly blend the 80s and the 90s 7 years before it was even on the culture's mind. such an impressive feat! :)
락의 시대는 온다..
Discazo, gracias.
Bought this cassette after I saw them at Beattys Back Street music garden
Happy 41st anniversary. I wish other zoomers liked this stuff
Rem,Dinosaur jr,Husker du,Wipers....todas buenas bandas
마지막에 한국어 나와서 깜짝 놀랐네. 코리안 모여라.
An album by a few kids from College Town, USA that helped spur the alternative movement. What happened to music like this?! Now it's all regurgitated (c)rap, pop country shit, and other nondescript garbage. No movement, no danger, no challenge to the mainstream establishment. Rock will rise again when it's time. Thanks for reading my rant.
Try Kanye west. He’s the Mozart of our generation
@@chivimbehe loves listening to his albums. Kanye is his biggest fan.
you jumpscared me with that outro
✌️👍
Ace xx
West of the fields has more balls than any song on Monster.
#OdedFriedGaon #OdedMusic #OdedFullAlbumPlaylist #OdedWeekendPlaylist #Audioded
Great REM album. But then there was that vomit at the end. How do I get the vomit out of my ears?
birth of new wave ?
Hardly understood a word, and really didn't care.
Hahahaha
It's been said that Michael Stipe used his voice more like a blended instrument, rather than pure vocals. I love it!!
Ain't it the greatest😊
Might wanna check your hearing m8. I hear perfectly and understand every word, and english isn't even my native language!
@@josefinebliss2801 You're rude. Why are you behaving like this?
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Crap
must be nice...
I usually never defend albums but you should try sitting on a dildo to prevent the crap from coming out.
Lmao what?
Fuoriclasse. Translate in English : over the top