Michael Stipe reveals his favorite R.E.M. album 

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Life’s rich pageant for me

"Fables of the Reconstruction." 👍

I was 16 when Murmur was released. I remember staying up with my brother and watching TV. I saw their first national TV debut on Letterman. I bought Murmur that weekend. I have literally grown up with R.E.M. I'm now in my late 50's. I own every single R.E.M. album. My favorite? Murmur because it was the first and the B side of that album is unbelievably beautiful. My sentimental favorite is Lifes Rich Pageant.

New Adventures in Hi-Fi might be my favorite R.E.M. album as well! It’s the perfect sprawling culmination of every styles the band had ever done to that point. You get jangle and distortion, intimacy and stadium feel, quietness and loudness, light and darkness; I just adore it. Michael Stipe had never been so confident than he is on that album!

Life's Rich Pageant.

Green 💚

My Favorite Album Is Up. Criminally Underrated One. A Pure Gem.

So much information packed into one video

Murmur is their best album

Murmur, for sure is one of my favorite debut albums!

Definitely: Up and Reveal!

Fables for me

Automatic for the People is their masterpiece. Just add Losing my Religion as an extra track and it's perfect.

This is insane. The two albums he mentions are near the bottom of my list

Indeed, there is something about reveal.

New Adventures is an amazing record. Leave might be my favorite R.E.M. song, the siren on that song is so fucking awesome!

I like Fables of the Reconstruction best. Something dark and murky about it. Even the album art reflects that with its rustic brown tones. I was surprised when Life's Rich Pageant came out and how bright it looked and sounded.

Love Michael

His music is beautiful

"Murmur" is their best Record. "Chronic Town" is a Close second.

I miss them❤

They have about five albums that I could say is their best or my favorite but if I had to pick a favorite it’s reckoning followed very closely by murmur

Eponymous ❤

Probably Up for me. I knew he'd mention Reveal somewhere, ha!

My top 3 are Automatic For the People, Out of Time, and Monster. Two more to round out a top 5: New Adventures In Hi-Fi and Document.

Monster is my favorite REM album by far

Fables and Life's Rich Pageant

OMG - this is so great - Michael agrees with me! 😂 Can't believe how hard it is to get my friends who think REM "sold out" (when they went to Warner) to even give this album a chance. Their loss I guess.

Tough one. Pound for pound chronictown. Fables. Document

Automatic for The people es mi favorito.....

Mine is Fables of Reconstruction

Ebow the letter and leave are classics.

I believe that any album mentioned by a true REM fan can be the best album. Albums like Automatic or Reckoning aren't my favorites, but I totally understand that they could be someone else's.

So which is his favourite R.E.M album ??

New adventures is a fantastic album.

Automatic for the people. Huge.

Fables!

'Up' could've been their 2nd best but it was just too damn long. 'Automatic For The People' is majestic in terms of artistic maturity. 'Murmur' and 'Reckoning' are sister albums so it's hard to consider one without the other, but Murmur was their best because it's so damn enigmatic and atmospheric. 'Out of Time' was a perfect mid-career album for them.

I can hear you

Murmur/Automatic..

Green

In no particular order. LRP, Up, NAIHF.

Monster

Fables 100%

I love how he explains its not about road life, only to say its about road life but its too boring and cliche so i added fictional characters to it lol

Murmur, Fables of the Reconstruction and the criminally underrated Monster, for me.

Murmur

Love Automatic For The People, one of their best albums. Favorite songs are The One I Love, Losing My Religion and Everbody Hurts