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1. Finest Worksong

2. Welcome To The Occupation

3. Exhuming McCarthy

4. Disturbance At The Heron House

5. Strange

6. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

7. The One I Love

8. Fireplace

9. Lightnin' Hopkins

10. King Of Birds

11. Oddfellows Local 151

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Singer Michael Stipe finally confesses that even he doesn't know what he's trying to say--among the lines flying by are "tryin' to tell you something we don't know" and "there's something going on that's not quite right." But R.E.M.'s roar is at its sharpest, as Peter Buck's guitars twist up surf riffs and the Bill Berry-Mike Mills rhythm section captures the force of forebears Big Star and the Byrds. After half a decade of college-rock heroism, R.E.M. achieved its first hit album thanks to the rambling "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" and the gentle (but subtly barbed) "The One I Love." --Steve Knopper

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Vinyl LP repressing of their 1987 album, their first real commercial breakthrough. Features the hits 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It', 'The One I Love' and more. IRS. 2008.

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5.0 out of 5 stars most complete album, Sep 21 2009

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Brian Maitland (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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I would find it hard to argue that Document is not REM's finest album from start to finish. Not sure why birds play such a part in the album from the herons ("Disturbance at The Heron House") to the "King of Birds."

Of course, "It's The End of The World" gets all the attention now but listen to this album in its entirety and you can just tell this band hit a home run.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent CD, Oct 25 2007

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This is one of the best CD's from REM. I enjoy every song even though I don't what the words mean. My favorite is the The one I love, Finest Worksong just to name a few.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best R.E.M. album, Jun 23 2004

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Following on from the difficult though rewarding "Fables Of The Reconstruction" and "Life's Rich Pageant", R.E.M.'s final independent release, "Document", stands as the best thing they ever did.

Though R.E.M. have been criticised by some as the offspring of early 1980s pop music, this criticism could never be levelled at what they do on "Document". More than anything else, the music on "Document" is proof of the eccentricity R.E.M. were developing during their years at now-defunct independent label IRS.

Often seen as R.E.M.'s effort at "power pop", "Document" really was and is much, much more than that. The amazingly thing about this album is that the band manages to be incredibly funny on the standout "Exhuming McCarthy" and at the same time develop their musicianship into waters they were never to chart after moving to Warners. The dark "Fireplace" and "Lighning Hopkins" were equally brilliant: ominous, yet amazingly powerful for that.

The more familiar, famously sly "The One I Love" might not quite compare with these three tracks, but still it marks out the direction of their best-selling "Automatic For The People" album five years before the fact. "Finest Worksong", especially in its remixed version, was a superb tribute to the past folk heroes in America.

A record that, though acclaimed in its time, is now often forgotten. Nonetheless, if you can only buy one R.E.M. record, it should be this one.

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