What rock music are you listening to? Non-Jazz, Non-Classical.

[Holy Ghost]

On 8/14/2025 at 11:19 AM, ghost of miles said:

My God, how did I not notice this recent thread activity?! I've been on a binge of R.E.M.'s IRS records in recent weeks...long story, *long-time* fan.  These albums remain absolutely transcendental to me, all these years (decades!) on.  

Been thinking a *lot* about these two albums recently and how newly-relevant they sound (Document in particular). I was living here in Bloomington as a student when the band came to town to record Lifes Rich Pageant. Here's an article i wrote about it for Bloom Magazine, subsequently expanded for Indiana's Musical Family Tree site:

Talk About The Pageant: When R.EM. Came To Bloomington In 1986

Can't say I've ever seen Chronic Town. Released around the same time as Mur Mur?

[ghost of miles]

23 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

Can't say I've ever seen Chronic Town. Released around the same time as Mur Mur?

A few months before, in the autumn of 1982. It’s a five-song EP that was reissued on CD a few years later as part of the B-side compilation Dead Letter Office.

[BFrank]