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Document

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work

Document was released on 31 August 1987 on I.R.S. Records and was R.E.M.'s fifth album. It was the first record the band produced together with Scott Litt, a collaboration that would last for years. After Lifes Rich Pageant the vocals became more intelligible and the sound harder. The band also added new instruments: a dulcimer in King of Birds and a saxophone in Fireplace.

The One I Love became the first hit in the American top ten and the album reached number ten on the album chart. A Rolling Stone reviewer found it the band's best record up to then. Other critics wrote that with Document the group discovered the world outside itself, with more humour and more anger. The song It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) was called by one reviewer the most sardonic apocalypse ever.

Listening

Listening tip. Listen to Fireplace and notice the saxophone. On this album the band used such extra instruments for the first time.

Track list

  1. 1Finest Worksong3:48Apple Music ↗
  2. 2Welcome To the Occupation2:46Apple Music ↗
  3. 3Exhuming McCarthy3:19Apple Music ↗
  4. 4Disturbance At the Heron House3:32Apple Music ↗
  5. 5Strange2:32Apple Music ↗
  6. 6It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)4:07Apple Music ↗
  7. 7The One I Love3:17Apple Music ↗
  8. 8Fireplace3:24Apple Music ↗
  9. 9Lightnin' Hopkins3:20Apple Music ↗
  10. 10King of Birds4:08Apple Music ↗
  11. 11Oddfellows Local 1515:23Apple Music ↗

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