In Time: The Best of R.E.M. (1988-2003)

First published by The Murray State News sometime in 2003

R.E.M. is indisputedly one of the best and most influential bands of the eighties. They managed—for better or worse—to crash into the mainstream while their equally great and influential contemporaries Husker Du and The Replacements never sold enough records to justify their major label existence and eventually self-destructed.

Unfortunately, the mid-nin…