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5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
The perfect debut, 2007-04-02
Although there aren't many REM albums that fail to enlighten, come to think of it I don't think theres a REM album that I would call bad but this now classic 1983 debut is defitnatly REM's finest album to date it's the icing on the cake of there extraordinary 27 year career.
Murmur really is a unique album like with all great albums never seems dated. This album shows that right from the beginning Michael Stipe has always had a beautiful singing voice,which really shows on here, really this record has so much going for it, if they had called it a day after making this they would have ensured themselves a place in music history YES Murmur is that good.
With Murmur Michael uses his voice more as an instrument a way to generate sound with the instruments rather then a way of communicating to the audience if you listen to this album then any of the latter releases you notice a difference to the lyrics and vocal delivery.
This record has so many good songs its hard to pick a standout tracks or the one significant song because there all amazing.
If you had to choose one REM album to listen to whether out of curiosity or just to hear what all the fuss is about buy Murmur it's the best of the best.
1 of 13 customers found the following review helpful:
 Maybe It's Just Me, 2006-11-01
I don't think I've ever seen a bad review of this album. I just don't get it. Admittedly, I ignored it when it came out, mistakenly thinking R.E.M. was just another 80's Techno band that would fade away. I finally purchased it in the late 90's, after R.E.M. conquered the world. "Talk About The Passion" and "Perfect Circle" are top notch, but, for the most part, most of these songs wouldn't have made the cut on any other R.E.M. album.
6 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
Resusitated the Heartbeat of Music, 2006-09-06
If you don't count R.E.M.'s first long E.P (extended play) beginning 'Chronic Town,' then their debut starts here. 'Murmur' their first album is brilliant, deserving all the accolades that are heaped upon it. With brilliant echo effects, a repertoire of ecclectic guitar, including folk, rock, punk, and new-wave patterns, 'Murmur' would be the crowning achievement of any other band. Having romantic, religious, and surreal images, R.E.M. propulsively and hypnotically lives up to the band name with a solid set of songs that work well together. Before alternative was a household world, R.E.M. came up with an avant guard folk-rock, new wave masterpiece before anyone could give the genre a name.
Their pell-mell approach is progressive, but hardly conventional. The opener "Radio Free Europe" and the latter "Sitting Still" stand up to the best punk. But, "Moral Kiosk," "9-9," and "Shaking Through" contain complex, yet mesmerizing fast-forward appeal. They can also bring "dreams of elegian" with the depths of hypnotic songs like "Pilgrimage" and "West of the Fields". (One shouldn't forget that they are an art band among other things. Their rendering of "Pilgrimage" is done with echo effects that resemble Gregorian Chant, and the music to "9-9" musically refers to NFL music used during highlights in the eighties.) If the variety weren't enough, then folk-rock is mastered on the celestial "Talk About the Passion" and "We Walk". Variety is underscored with some intricate musicianship on the exquisite "Perfect Circle". Song for song, 'Murmur' is a throbbing, heartfelt album of excellence. Later, albums would reinvent the band like no other since The Beatles, but on 'Murmur' they already showed they were perfectionists with every aspect of their music.
7 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
This album is gold... literally., 2006-08-12
I'll keep this short and sweet, because anything I have to say about the actual album has already been said by other reviewers. This particular version is the Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs version, which was remastered at their very high-tech labs and pressed on a 24-karat gold disc. Why gold? 2 reasons: it reflects the laser better than standard aluminum, and it lasts longer, too. So what makes the MFSL version of this album so special? Well, to quote Shawn Britton of MFSL, "...the original version was mastered such that there wasn't much low frequency information...." This version is a flat transfer of the original master tape, meaning that all the low, deep bass you were originally supposed to hear is there in this version.
It's also important to note that this version is OUT OF PRINT, and has been for quite some time, so this is a hard-to-find disc. If you're already a fan of this album, and you haven't heard this version yet, do yourself a favor and pick it up while you can. If you're not yet familar with the album, I still suggest you get this version of it, because not only will you be treated with one of R.E.M.'s best albums ever, but you'll also have the best sounding version of it.
5 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
When I learned of this, I knew they would one day be huge, 2006-03-03
I was a college freshman in the spring of 1983 and already had "Chronic Town" (just the 5-song EP, on vinyl), and my dorm roommate thought they stank and would never release anything else and would fade into oblivion along with hundreds of other Next Big Things.
I had to admit she was right about the last part, until I got a small package in the mail one day in late April.
It was a cassette tape from my brother.
Side one, "Deep Sea Skiving" by Bananarama.
Side two, this.
It sounds just as fresh and exciting now as it did 23 years ago. And it was only a sneak peek at what was to come.
Now you all know where my "name" came from!
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