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R.E.M.—“Nightswimming”

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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The Rise and Fall of R.M.

"I didn't find anything musically interesting about r.m. at all you know and I still don't really get it," he said. "It was like a movement away from that type of detached irony or at least something sort of you know actually interesting into something that was extremely in my opinion like saccharin and awful but also still tried to carry this sort of like well we're from Athens Georgia college rock indie rock town"

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