Why do people like this boring shit so much?

Hüsker Dü are like Black Flag crossed with R.E.M.

Perfect Circle, Radio Free Europe, pilgrimmage, and Catapult are my picks btw.

>The more stripped and effectless approach
I'm surprised you say this about Murmur, to me Murmur sounds more like a studio record whereas Reckoning sounds more like a live one.

Mine are We Walk, Pilgrimage and Perfect Circle

It sounds better if you listen to it while driving through southern towns with kudzu growing everywhere

mike on that chris chan vibe

cause it's popular

I feel like that with all of R.E.M.'s records. It's pretty bland stuff. They have good songs but even those lack real emotional impact or affect.

Nightswimming
Perfect Circle
The Flowers of Guatemala
Camera
Find the River

Talk About the Passion is one of the greatest songs ever written- very emotionally potent and beautiful. Laughing, 9-9. Perfect Circle, and Pilgrimage are all almost as good as that one.

Honestly Murmur is one of my very few 10/10s.