It's a pleasure to read such a robust condemnation of R.E.M.
I have been curious, disappointed and puzzled by this group. Why are they so highly thought of? There's a clip on youtube with a guy explaining for 18 mins why Losing My Religion is a "song that changed music". I couldn't find anything in the song to justify that claim at all. To me it was just a ho-hum song, conventional structure and instrumentation, with (yet again) a young man over-sharing some angst I'm not interested in.
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