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R.E.M. <> Murmur <> <> <> <> <> <> <><> <> Original Mint- 1983 LP , PER-fecto! You'll not find finer! FAST Shipping too! ORIGINAL 1983 EDITION US STEREO LP PRESSING on IRS RECORDS, Catalog # SP 70604 1. Radio Free Europe 2. Pilgrimage 3. Laughing 4. Talk About The Passion 5. Moral Kiosk 6. Perfect Circle 7. Catapult 8. Sitting Still 9. 9-9 10. Shaking Through 11. We Walk 12. West Of The Fields Details Distributor: Universal Distribution Recording Type: Studio Recording Mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a Album Notes R.E.M.: Michael Stipe (vocals); Peter Buck (guitar); Michael Mills (bass, background vocals); Bill Berry (drums). Additional personnel: Jefferson Holt, Bertis Downs. Recorded at Reflection, Charlotte, North Carolina in January 1983. R.E.M.'s full-length debut is a landmark album that set the standard for the next 10 years of indie rock. The Athens quartet combined Byrdsy, folk-rock guitar jangle with obscurantist lyrics and a post-punk compositional sensibility to create a vibrant new sound that would soon be imitated by every high-school poet with a Rickenbacker guitar. R.E.M. was also one of the first bands to make the long, hard journey from college radio (when it was still college radio) to mainstream acceptance, and managed the difficult task of maintaining its integrity at every step along the way. MURMUR, far from an embryonic debut, shows a fully-formed unit with a strong artistic vision. (It was preceded by two legendary underground releases: The "Radio Free Europe" single--which was re-recorded for MURMUR--and the CHRONIC TOWN EP.) Producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon's lofty reputations would have remained intact even if they had never worked on another record after this one. The gentle-but-insistent arrangements and glorious pop hooks of songs like "Catapult" and "Talk About The Passion" provide the perfect contrast to Michael Stipe's earnest, moody vocal style. Drummer Bill Berry's breathless effervescence provides the perfect backdrop for this album of jumpy, intellectual pop. Industry Reviews Rating: A Entertainment Weekly - Steve Daly (12/24/1993) Ranked #8 in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums Of The Eighties survey. Rolling Stone (11/01/1989) Included in AP's 10 Essential '80s Albums - ...REM made jangling guitars and mumbled lyrics hip again for American youth... Alternative Press (08/01/2001) Ranked #7 in CMJ's Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1983. CMJ (01/05/2004) 4 stars out of 5 -- MURMUR was a friendly ghost -- brooding but elegant, new-wave moody but folk-rock sunny, hesitant but hopeful. 5 stars out of 5 -- [D]isarmingly beautiful music that mixes '60s folk significance with '80s new-wave ambivalence. 5 stars out of 5 -- MURMUR promised not so much a new American underground, as an undergrowth, rustling with secrets. Spin Included in Spin's list of the Top Ten College Cult Classics - ...an unmitigated delight....spawned the entire breed of what has become known as `college rock'. 5 stars out of 5 -- [A]nthemic on a bedroom scale, danceable but not robotic, experimental without being oblique. [ T]heir sound emerged so fully formed that even after 26 years and 15 proper albums, it's still arguably their best. 4 stars out of 5 -- MURMUR remains the cornerstone of the R.E.M. legend, the reason they are important....An incredible collection of songs... · THIS IS THE ORIGINAL US PRESSING from 1983. · · THE LABELS are without SPINDLEWEAR, WRITING, ETC. (►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, and LABEL, SHOWN ABOVE) (Note: the image shown is the actual album, shot just for this listing. We work to show you the entire cover, all seams and corners.). RECORD CONDITION (NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we grade records under a bare light bulb or the Florida sunlight) ---THE VINYL IS MINT-. COVER CONDITION ---THE COVER IS MINT-. QUALITY CONTROL : past those details listed above, and to make sure you have no surpris... read more

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