R.E.M. Murmur [Deluxe 25th Anniversary Edition] (2-CD)
Blender (Magazine): 5 stars out of 5 -- "[D]isarmingly beautiful music that mixes '60s folk significance with '80s new-wave ambivalence."
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CD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Released: February 16, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: A&M
Entertainment Reviews:
Rolling Stone - p.96
5 stars out of 5 -- "[A]nthemic on a bedroom scale, danceable but not robotic, experimental without being oblique."Rolling Stone - 11/89
Ranked #8 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The Eighties" survey.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'."Entertainment Weekly - 3/26/91
Rating: AUncut
5 stars out of 5 -- "It is no exaggeration to suggest that MURMUR amounts to a Rosetta Stone for what is now thought of as indie rock..."Alternative Press - 8/01, p.112
Included in AP's "10 Essential '80s Albums" - "...REM made jangling guitars and mumbled lyrics hip again for American youth..."CMJ - 1/5/04, p.12
Ranked #7 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1983".Q (Magazine) - p.120
5 stars out of 5 -- "MURMUR promised not so much a new American underground, as an undergrowth, rustling with secrets."Mojo (Publisher) - p.118
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..."Blender (Magazine) - p.106
5 stars out of 5 -- "[D]isarmingly beautiful music that mixes '60s folk significance with '80s new-wave ambivalence."Blender (Magazine) - p.67
4 stars out of 5 -- "MURMUR was a friendly ghost -- brooding but elegant, new-wave moody but folk-rock sunny, hesitant but hopeful."Paste (magazine) (p.60) - "[T]heir sound emerged so fully formed that even after 26 years and 15 proper albums, it's still arguably their best."
Tracks on Disc 1:
- 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 Though
- 11.We Walk
- 12.West of the Fields
Tracks on Disc 2:
- 1.Laughing - (previously unreleased, live)
- 2.Pilgrimage - (previously unreleased, live)
- 3.There She Goes Again - (previously unreleased, live)
- 4.7 Chinese Bros. - (previously unreleased, live)
- 5.Talk About the Passion - (previously unreleased, live)
- 6.Sitting Still - (previously unreleased, live)
- 7.Harborcoat - (previously unreleased, live)
- 8.Catapult - (previously unreleased, live)
- 9.Gardening at Night - (previously unreleased, live)
- 10.9-9 - (previously unreleased, live)
- 11.Just A Touch - (previously unreleased, live)
- 12.West of the Fields - (previously unreleased, live)
- 13.Radio Free Europe - (previously unreleased, live)
- 14.We Walk - (previously unreleased, live)
- 15.1,000,000 - (previously unreleased, live)
- 16.Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars) - (previously unreleased, live)
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