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R.E.M.—“Nightswimming”

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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REM's Out of Time

The single best B 52 song released in the 80s is Deadbeat Club. The innovation here harmonically was that they started once again with Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, but they inserted Kate Pearson from fellow Athens, Georgia legends, the B 52s. Out of time becomes the first REM album I own as an uncool 13 year old.

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