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One of the first alternative rock bands, R.E.M. was noted for Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style; Stipe's distinctive vocal quality, unique stage presence, and obscure lyrics; Mills's melodic bass lines and backing vocals; and Berry's tight, economical drumming style.
May 18, 2020 · In a 2016 interview with David Fricke of Rolling Stone, guitarist Peter Buck insisted that R.E.M. never truly broke up, despite their 2011 message where they declared they were "calling it a day as a band." To be fair, there's a lot of "technically," there.
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Sep 21, 2011 · The story of REM is in many ways the story of alternative rock in the USA. They emerged in the early 1980s from the college radio scene - scrappy and lo-fi, abrasive but somehow beautiful -...
Oct 7, 2024 · R.E.M. is an American rock group and the quintessential college rock band of the 1980s. R.E.M. drew on varied influences to regale fans with albums fashioned from unpredictable blends of nonmetal rock and impressionistic folk.
Apr 14, 2011 · REM's 30-year career began in the underground, with the groundbreaking and influential mid-80s albums Murmur and Reckoning. They finally achieved mainstream success with 1988's alternative rock...
Jan 8, 2015 · Unlike bands like The Replacements and Sonic Youth, R.E.M. successfully navigated the move "out of the charmingly disorganized and fertile American underground rock scene to...
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May 15, 2019 · It’s the first thing he mentions in his own new biography of the band, Begin the Begin: R.E.M.’s Early Years. But few tomes have focused closely on R.E.M.’s origins in the burgeoning musical...
