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Originally Posted by Gavin B.
I will concede that R.E.M. recorded some great music after 1987 but each and every one of their Warner's album have flaws and the Warner years are a patchwork of hits and misses. There isn't a single one of R.E.M.'s nine albums on Warner that match up to the brilliance of R.E.M.'s first five IRS albums.
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I could almost agree with this if not for the existence of
Automatic For the People which IMHO is on par with the best of their IRS stuff. I always wished that album had been their swan song, it would have been a great note to go out on after their two previous hit-or-miss releases.