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    Posted: April 05 2016 at 21:03
10: Murmur
9: Chronic Town, Reckoning, Automatic for the People
8: Fables of the Reconstruction, Lifes Rich Pageant
7: Document, Green, Out of Time

The rest are albums never heard.
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Green, most of the time.
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Reckoning, all day, every day.

1) Reckoning
2) Chronic Town
3) Document
4) Fables of The Reconstruction
5) Automatic For The People
6) Lifes Rich Pageant
7) New Adventures In Hi-Fi
8) Green
9) Out of Time
10) Murmur
11) Monster
12) Up

The ones after Up aren't any good.


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Automatic for the People.
I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place
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Love the 1st 5 (when Michael was mumbling back in the mix rather than being out front) and the B-side comp Dead Letter Office, but Chronic Town is my fave Wink 
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I've always really enjoyed Green, but I can't say I'm too familiar with much of the band's work. I should listen to them more as I have really enjoyed what I've heard.
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Originally posted by TheLionOfPrague TheLionOfPrague wrote:

Automatic for the People.

you forgot to vote for it then.
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Originally posted by LearsFool LearsFool wrote:


The ones after Up aren't any good.

Reveal is pretty good, haven't heard the others though.
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Green
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Went with Reckoning. Considering the sort of productions and music styles utilized during the time of that album's release, it's aged really well. Great album.
I like Automatic... too, especially "Find the River". Gorgeous.
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Their early stuff was righteous - the big label brought on changes that drowned out what made them great.....those indecipherable vocals and those muddy guitars mixed with Byrdsy acoustic jangle.  And the songs.....those early albums had them in spades but post-Document they were aiming at radio play and the songs and spirit of the band suffered. 
I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Gotta say 'Reckoning'.  

I was tempted to vote for 'Chronic Town' just because I remember very clearly the day I bought it back in 1982.  I had never heard anything like them before and it didn't matter that the lyrics were gibberish and they couldn't really play their instruments.  It was the same as punk or garage rock but much, much more pleasant and accessible.  After that there were loads of imitation bands like Let's Active, Guadalcanal Diary, Pylon, Aztec Camera, etc. etc., but these guys were the first and most original.

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1) Reckoning
2) Chronic Town
3) Murmur
4) Automatic for the People
5) Monster
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Murmur.
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Going to be very predictable here.

Out of Time and Automatic for the People.
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Originally posted by ClemofNazareth ClemofNazareth wrote:

they couldn't really play their instruments.


You made Bill sad.
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Document!
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Originally posted by Ozark Soundscape Ozark Soundscape wrote:

Originally posted by ClemofNazareth ClemofNazareth wrote:

they couldn't really play their instruments.


You made Bill sad.

"You don't have to be a great musician to make great music. When the band started, I knew about five chords and a Chuck Berry lick. I didn't even know bar chords."

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Points: 2360 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2016 at 13:51
Nah I know what you meant! :)
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I've never been a big fan but really like Automatic for the People.
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Monster for Mick. REM grew some balls for that album
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