The review of Green is spot on. Here's an interesting thing Peter Buck said about the development of "Untitled" in
Reveal: The Story of R.E.M. by Johnny Black:
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I'm the world's worst drummer. I was trying to teach Bill a drum beat and the reason I couldn't was because it just didn't work. But as I was teaching him this drum beat he started playing this guitar part that turned out to be "Untitled". Mike walked in and started playing it. We couldn't learn each other's parts, so we cut it that way. It was a struggle, because I can't keep a drum beat to save my life!"
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I believe the song went uncredited on the original LP, and that fans had started calling it the "11th Untitled Song".