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The Importance of Out of Time
Whitney Jones: REM's out of time is the most politically important album in the history of the United States. Out of Time made such a huge impact because of its packaging, she says. The box that Out of Time originally came in led to a bill being passed in Congress and an actual concrete law. "This isn't one of those, oh it's a soundtrack to a generation or anything like that"
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