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Originally Posted by Zero1986
R.E.M. - Murmur
Been digging out the old REM albums lately. I don't really have to say much about this. This album pretty much created alternative rock as we know it. Hadn't listened to it in quite a while and it still sends shivers down my spine. A classic album. |
Don't get me wrong, I love Murmur (I rated it a 10/10 in my discography thread for chrissakes
) but I think you're giving it a tad too much credit. Murmur takes tremendous influence from two relatively unknown and very notable records, The Feelies' "Crazy Rhythms" (1980) and fellow Athens Georgia band Pylon's "Gyrate" (1980). These two records really laid the foundations for the 80s college rock movement and were arguably the first of the genre (which of course was spearheaded by R.E.M.).
Check em out if you like.
The Feelies - The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness
Pylon - Danger