40 Years Ago: R.E.M.’s Reckoning
How the new college-radio darlings inched toward the mainstream on their own terms — and why I listened every day for an entire semester.
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8 min readApr 12, 2024
The thing is, you never really know at the time which artists and which albums are going to be remembered decades later. In the spring of 1984, I knew that Aztec Camera, The…
