The album REM wrote in retaliation to U2: “Our version of rock music”
R.E.M. were alt-rock stars in the mid 1990s. But with the rising popularity of other bands, they decided to take a heavier turn.
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REM look back on Monster: 'We did not want to become the dancing monkey'
REM's ninth album, Monster, is the most challenging and polarising record the band ever released. When it arrived in 1994, the band were at the peak of their popularity, thanks to the acoustic ...