In Time: The Best Of Rem 1988 - 2003 - R.E.M.

Do you believe they put a man on the moon , yeah yeah yeah if you believe , Oh you are there sorry I was singing along to the CD my hubby just put on . Thought I would writet about it. The CD is R E M, In time the best of REM 1988 -2003. R E M is a band formed in 1980 an American rock band from Athens Georgia. I like their music, saw them live at Glastonbury one year. The band is Michael Stipe who fronts the band and Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry (he left 1997) You may know them from Shiny happy people their first uk top ten hit 1991 I think .However Shiny Happy people is not on this cd The tracks on this cd are 1 man on the ...

I was never a 'huge' REM fan, and never owned an album, but I felt my CD collection was in need of one. Rather than risking my money on something like Automatic For The People for example, which is a great album anyway I should point out, I played safe and went for the Best Of album.... what I discovered was a production of brilliant, beautiful and intelligent music. Before buying it, I thought I'd be able to name, roughly, 7 or 8 REM tracks, (the obvious ones - Losing My Religion, Everbody Hurts, What's The Frequency Kenneth? etc.) but I knew all but a couple of these tracks - proof that REM are a band well known across the globe. 1. Man On The ...

***Who are REM?*** REM?s career can be clearly split into 2 sections? before and after ?Losing My Religion?. Before the worldwide success of this track from the ?Out Of Time? album, REM were a successful touring band, usually playing college gigs and on the road for up to 10 months every year! They achieved some minor record sales success, but nothing to really trouble the chart compilers. Following the loss of their religion they achieved platinum album sales, $80 million record deals and the title ?America?s greatest rock band? from no less than Rolling Stone magazine. ...