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Originally Posted by Seltzer
R.E.M. is one of those bands I decided I'd never like (and how wrong I was). I'll spare you the spiel about Murmur's influence and its classic status, and simply say that it really requires repeated listening. I thought the same thing as you when I approached it for the first time... compared to other music of the time and all its bells and whistles, Murmur seemed a little tame, flat, plain and certainly out of place. But having listened to it many times since, it's an album I now adore for its ingenuous bittersweet sound. It's the kind of album that makes you feel nostalgic even though it was around long before you were born... at the very least it puts me in a reflective mood.
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Repeated listens do pay off with a lot of albums, I've only listened to this about 4 times. Maybe it needs a few more, what's the lyric content of it? Why's it got such a classy status? It's pretty much cited as a perfect album, 10/10 - and I just don't hear it. Then again not many of R.E.M's albums really do it for me. Bittersweet sound? All I really heard was boring and repetitive
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