The Best Band, Part 2

The following is an expanded and edited version of a previous post. As a follow-up to Reckoning, R.E.M. travelled to London to record the album that became Fables of the Reconstruction.  By all accounts, it seems to have been an absolutely miserable time.  They were working with a new producer and putting the album together [...]

The Best Band

I’m biased, in that I’m of a certain age.  For me it has to be REM, The Smiths, or The Cure. I came “of age” in the 80s, and it was the age of cds.   I distinctly remember hearing my first albums on this new technology of compact disc.   Obviously the sound was [...]