Release Date: Apr 1, 2008. Label: Warner Bros.. Genres: Alternative Pop/Rock. Number Of Tracks: 11. Accelerate finds modern rock’s most acclaimed band returning to the stripped-down, guitar-driven power that first enraptured fans.

POSTED: 04/09/2008 - 01:56 am

Release Date: Sep 12, 2006. Label: EMI. Genres: Alternative Pop/Rock, Jangle Pop, College Rock, American Underground, Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock. Number Of Tracks: 21. The songs collected on this CD are just good enough to render the previous I.R.S. years collection, 1998's Eponymous, officially dead.

POSTED: 10/09/2006 - 07:47 am

Released: Oct 5, 2004. Genre: Rock. Styles: Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock. Number Of Tracks: 13. Around the Sun offers no weighty themes ? it dabbles in politics and relationships, but the lyrics never seem to mesh with the music ? and it's emotionally removed, keeping listeners at a considerable distance.

POSTED: 10/12/2004 - 05:27 am

Release Date: Oct 6, 1992. Label: Warner Bros.. Genres: Alternative Pop/Rock. Number Of Tracks: 12. Turning away from the sweet pop of Out of Time, R.E.M. created a haunting, melancholy masterpiece with Automatic for the People.

POSTED: 06/19/2008 - 02:34 am

Released: Mar 7, 2011. Genre: Alternative rock. Label: Warner Bros.. Number Of Tracks: 12. "Collapse Into Now" is a disc that should not be ignored; the craft put into each song mapped out on the album are hard not to replay.

POSTED: 03/08/2011 - 04:36 am

Release Date: 1987. Label: IRS. Genres: College Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Jangle Pop. Number Of Tracks: 11. It's not only a commercial breakthrough, but a creative breakthrough as well, offering evidence of R.E.M.'s growing depth and maturity, and helping usher in the P.C. era in the process.

POSTED: 01/16/2008 - 08:28 pm

Release Date: 1985. Label: IRS. Genres: American Underground, College Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock Jangle Pop. Number Of Tracks: 11. R.E.M.'s third full-length recording, Fables of the Reconstruction delivers the purest distillation of the band's early sound.

POSTED: 06/13/2007 - 01:33 pm

Release Date: 1986. Label: IRS. Genres: American Underground, College Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Jangle Pop. Number Of Tracks: 12. Lifes Rich Pageant represents a subtle shift in the program, with clearly audible lyrics (though they remain obscure in meaning) on most tracks.

POSTED: 08/20/2007 - 09:01 am

Released: Sep 27, 1994. Genre: Rock. Styles: Alternative Pop/ Rock. Number Of Tracks: 12. Monster doesn't have the conceptual unity or consistently brilliant songwriting of Automatic, but it does offer a wide range of sonic textures that have never been heard on an R.E.M. album before.

POSTED: 09/27/2004 - 05:22 am

Release Date: 1983. Label: IRS. Genres: College Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Jangle Pop, American Underground. Number Of Tracks: 12. Leaving behind the garagey jangle pop of their first recordings, R.E.M. developed a strangely subdued variation of their trademark sound for their full-length debut album, Murmur.

POSTED: 06/11/2007 - 04:14 pm

Release Date: Sep 10, 1996. Label: Warner Bros.. Genres: Alternative Pop/Rock. Number Of Tracks: 14. Recorded during and immediately following R.E.M.'s disaster-prone Monster tour, New Adventures in Hi-Fi feels like it was recorded on the road.

POSTED: 11/22/2007 - 02:17 am

Release Date: Mar 12, 1991. Label: Warner Bros.. Genres: Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, College Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Jangle Pop. Number Of Tracks: 11. Matching their ugliest album cover with some of their most sublime music, Out of Time inaugurates the finest phase of R.E.M.'s work.

POSTED: 08/08/2007 - 06:20 am

Release Date: 1984. Label: IRS. Genres: American Underground, College Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Jangle Pop. Number Of Tracks: 10. On the surface, Reckoning may not be as distinctive as Murmur, but the record's influence on underground American rock in the '80s was just as strong.

POSTED: 06/12/2007 - 10:59 am