Album – Document (1987)
Highlight – It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Reason – The final album from their independent label IRS, completing the 5 record deal they signed way back in 1982. Breakthrough single The One I Love brought them chart success, and is bizarrely played at weddings quite often in spite of the heartless attitude of the narrator (a simple prop, to occupy my time). But the stand out track for me is the Subterranean Homesick Blues tribute to ecological Armageddon, finished off with a cheerful shrug, a closer for the stadium tours they were later to perform.
Stipe Gayness Factor – 5. A distancing from romantic engagement, more environmental worries and a passion for human rights and justice. Anything to take your mind off those dream about trains forcing themselves into tight tunnels.
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