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 It all comes to gether for a great performance
I have to echo a previous review: these songs do stay on your mind - like a wonderful memory or the eyes of someone you just met. All the tracks are strong and gutsy and the band speaks their mind, but "Fall On Me"...masterful.
Submitted by garyloewenthal (Falls Church, VA, USA) 
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 R.E.M.'s most underrated album
Brilliant, masterful, and upbeat. Fall On Me and Cuyahoga still sound fresh 20 years later! Five stars plus!
Submitted by billyjoeboomboom (Bryson City, USA)
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 Seems so long ago!
A co-worker wanted me to go with him to a stereo equipment dealer that was discontinuing selling cd's and as I thumbed through what they had left it wasn't much. I thought having gone through the effort I should at least purchase something as everything was certainly priced right for pennies on the dollar even if the selection was limited. For some strange reason knowing absolutely nothing about the group R.E.M.; I picked this up and upon first listening wasn't overly astonished with the music because the recording and vocals sounded dull. I let a friend borrow it and liked to never got it back! It really grows on you! What a steal! I'd like to get a remastered copy, though!
Submitted by mheinen3 (Oklahoma City, OK, USA)
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 R.E.M.'s greatest album!!!!!!!!
I like this album best of all R.E.M. albums. It begins with the hardest-rocking pre-Monster R.E.M. songs ever, "Begin The Begin" and "These Days". Then comes the beautiful "Fall On Me", probably my favorite R.E.M. song, and "Cuyahoga". Both are protest songs. Fall On Me is a song against acid rain, Cuyahoga is the history of Cuyahoga River, where many Indians got killed. The Flowers Of Guatemala and I Believe are my favorite songs after Fall On Me. Just A Touch is not so good in my opinion. Swan Swan H makes you think that it's the end of the album, but then another good song kicks in, Superman, a cover of the song by The Clique, and more of a comedy song. Underneath The Bunker...this is some kind of joke, a last-minute addition (note you can't find the song on the album cover). Good album!
Submitted by the biggest R.E.M. fan in the world (QWERTYUIOP)
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 It stays with you
For me,this is REMs greatest album, and following on from their brilliant first four albums, that's no mean feat. 'Fall on Me' has been one of my favourites since I first heard it in 1986 - and my taste has shifted all over the place since then. The music rings of idealism and yearning and talent, and was the perfect sound of it's day. 'Superman', 'Swan Swan H', 'Flowers of Guatemala' - it made me want to wear suede, if you know what I mean. If the 1966 Byrds had been transported twenty years on, this would have been them.
Submitted by cdawson66 (Brisbane, Australia)
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