Automatic For The People

A banda americana R.E.M. marcou o ponto em que o pós-punk se transformou em rock alternativo. Seu primeiro single, “Radio Free Europe”, de 1981, desencadeou a volta do rock de garagem e trouxe o pop de guitarra para os holofotes. Combinando letras murmuradas com uma estética caseira, a banda soava tradicional e moderna ao mesmo tempo. Ao longo da década de 80, eles trabalharam incansavelmente, lançando discos anualmente e fazendo turnês constantemente. Em 1987, eles emplacaram seu primeiro sucesso com a música “The One I Love”, que levou a um contrato com a Warner Bros Records. No início dos anos 1990, eles lançaram seus álbuns mais bem-sucedidos, Out of Time (1991), com o single “Losing My Religion”, e Automatic for the People (1992). A banda foi introduzida no Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame em 2007, e após lançar seu último álbum, Collapse Into Now, em 2011, se separou amigavelmente.

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Unlike its companion, Complete Rarities: IRS 1982-1987, the music collected on the 2014 digital-only Complete Warner Bros. Rarities 1988-2011 hasn't been anthologized often. Bits and pieces have been rounded up in singles boxes, and there was a "Rarities and B-sides" bonus disc added to the 2003 compilation In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003, but there was no Warner-era equivalent of Dead Letter Office, and the expanded editions of the albums often skimped on bonus tracks. So this mammoth collection – 131 tracks, all instrumentals, alternate, and singles, mixes, covers, and live tracks that never appeared on albums – is noteworthy for providing a service for dedicated fans who nevertheless stopped buying all those multi-part CD singles somewhere around New Adventures in Hi-Fi or Up. The eagle-eyed will notice there are a few songs missing – usually, these are alternate versions from the early '90s – but there are also a couple of live cover versions M.I.A., along with instrumental B-sides from Automatic for the People – but the sheer heft of the set guarantees that almost all will take its title claim of "Complete" as factual; it's close enough to complete for most intents and purposes.

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