File Under Water 8: Document

May 10, 2017 · 1 hr 40 min · 49.0 MBExplicit

0:00-1:40:21

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Their first platinum record. Their first top ten single. Their first kinda bad album?

It was 1987 and R.E.M. was staring down their last album with IRS. Continuing the trend from Lifes Rich Pageant, they wanted it to be loud and political. That may have been the right move commercially, but we come down on the side that Document is, overall, no great shakes. Listen to our 30 year old hot takes today!

Links:

Work Tour Trailer
REM- Exhuming McCarthy (Demo) - YouTube
REM- Oddfellows Local 151 (Demo) - YouTube
REM- Lightnin' Hopkins(Demo) - YouTube
REM- It's The End Of The World As We Know It(Demo) - YouTube
REM- Welcome To the Occupation(Demo) - YouTube
REM- Finest Worksong(Demo) - YouTube
Wire - Strange - YouTube
REM Romance - YouTube
Finest Worksong (Other Mix) (2006 Digital Remaster) - YouTube
Rem Last Date - YouTube
R.E.M. - The One I Love [Acoustic/McCabe's Guitar Shop] - YouTube
REM - Time after Time - YouTube
Finest Worksong (Lengthy Club Mix) - YouTube
R.E.M. - The One I Love - YouTube
R.E.M. - Finest Worksong - YouTube
R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World - YouTube