Album – Life’s Rich Pageant (1986)
Highlight – Fall On Me
Reason – Maintaining both their workrate and their commitment to new directions of music, REM cleared up the vocals and with more accomplished musicianship tiptoed ever so closer to the mainstream. Fall On Me, perfect for radio, sets their newly stated environmental concerns to their now trademark choral refrains. Even better on their MTV Unplugged set.
Stipe Gayness Factor – 4. Ah, politics. Where would political activism be without the closet cases and the sexophobic, as I know all too well. The common refuge for those struggling with strange and confusing feelings is a better and more equal society’s gain. Stipe would hold onto this beard for a few albums to come.
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