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	Murmur (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Murmur is the first full-length album released by Athens, Georgia alternative rock band R.E.M. Released in April 1983, Murmur was preceded by the Chronic Town EP the previous year.
		Murmur's sound characterized the quieter, introverted side of the first wave of alternative rock in the U.S.A. The sound was new at the time, though not stepping beyond the constructs of traditional rock music.
		The album was produced and engineered by Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, recorded in Charlotte, North Carolina, and released on indie I.R.S. Records.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murmur_(album) (576 words)

	Murmur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Murmur in Latin means a whisper, noise, or the sound of the trumpet.
		Murmur is an album released by the band R.E.M. in 1983.
		A heart murmur is a quiet but audible sound emanating from the chest in addition to the normal heart sounds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murmur (180 words)

	REM Album Reviews
		The album has a perfectly understated air of mystery about it, and though not every song here is substantial (“9-9” and “West of The Fields” being the weakest links), these slightly psychedelic folk rock songs have an offbeat overall feel that’s unlike anything else in the rock spectrum.
		Supposedly this album was made during a trying time for the band, and this is reflected in the albums darker overall mood.
		The album is basically comprised of a handful of brilliant pop songs surrounded by effective-if-hard-to-remember-at-first mood pieces, and it’s also notable for a couple of Mike Mills lead vocals and high profile guest appearances from KRS-One and the B52's Kate Pierson.
	www.geocities.com /sfloman/rem.html (4112 words)

	Music : Murmur : reviews
		Murmur ends with a remake of their first single, 'Radio Free Europe', as joyful a song as they've ever recorded, and a song that in a very real way created 'alternative rock'.
		That would be a mistake, because that would mean missing out on "Murmur," the 1983 album that created R.E.M.'s distinctive sound and which, in retrospect, can be seen as an important album in the history of music as representing the move from post-punk to alternative music.
		"Murmur" only made it to #178 on the Billboard 200 chart (#36 for the Pop Album version), but this is clearly a case where the tree in the forest most definitely makes a sound, regardless of the number of people there to hear it.
	www.centralreview.com /ItemId/B0000073AT (1076 words)

	R.E.M.
		R.E.M.'s third album is one of their most controversial among fans, in that some consider it to be a dark, brooding reflection on the murky qualities that made R.E.M. so great in the '80s, while others consider it to be dull, boring, underwritten and a stylistic dead end for the band.
		The album's only actual flaw is that the album title on the CD spine is upside-down, thus resulting in the disorder of CD racks across the country and the mental anguish of their panic-stricken owners, but that can be easily fixed with some tape.
		In his place on the album are a slew of session drummers, many with wildly different styles (and none of them very impressive), and the songwriting gap is mostly filled by tossing in a bunch of slow ballady dirge-ish numbers, some of which contain electronic elements.
	www.geocities.com /mjareviews/rem.html (13940 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : R.E.M. (band) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Their debut album, Murmur (1983), is held to be one of the best records of the 1980s (#197 on Rolling Stone Magazine's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time," #8 on the magazine's list of the "Greatest Albums of the '80s").
		This, along with Murmur, is considered the band's greatest album and is a standard-bearer for 1990s R.E.M. and for alternative rock in general.
		Though the record was conceived as a back-to-basics album, the recording of the grunge-influenced Monster (1994) was difficult and plagued with tension.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /R.E.M._(band) (3778 words)

	321 -> Music, Music, Music: Murmur by R.E.M. \| Order now @ 321-music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The album starts out with a new (well, new in 1983) version of Radio Free Europe, which as someone who bought Eponymous before Murmur, is a disappointment to me. It is still a great song, although not as good as the Hib-Tone version.
		And the fact that Murmur reached #36 on the Billboard Top 200 is a testament to the size of the market that R.E.M. was able to tap (not that that was their intention).
		Their early albums were a bit inconsistent (maybe this one less so) but right from the off when they hit it they really hit it.
	www.321-music.com /t212066/murmur.html (2779 words)

	R.E.M. (band) - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Their debut album, Murmur (1983), is held to be one of the best records of the 1980s.
		The album is described in the liner notes as "A little bit of uh-huh and a whole lot of oh-yeah".
		The album was followed by a massive tour during which drummer Bill Berry suffered a brain hemorrhage on stage, which would eventually lead to his leaving the band.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/R.E.M._(band) (1024 words)

	Xhosa language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many Xhosa consonants are murmured, aspirated, and ejective.
		When consonants are prenasalized, their pronunciation and spelling may change.
		The music album Amarok by Mike Oldfield, whose "Sondela" chorus finale is sung in Xhosa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xhosa_language (889 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Murmur - R.E.M. at Epinions.com
		Released in 1983, Murmur is considered by a lot of people to be one of the greatest albums of the 80s.
		This is one of those rare albums that if you talk to 10 people and ask them what song they like the best, they'll likely give you 10 completely different answers.
		Well, the melody is among the album's catchiest, and the overall feel of the song is incredibly emotional (which is weird considering that Stipe's voice isn't really equipped to sound emotional).
	www.epinions.com /content_213016284804 (1297 words)

	Prindle Record Reviews - R.E.M. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The album, unfortunately, ends on a sour note with "little america", which has a pretty good riff but the rest of the song just sounds half-baked and the chorus is a wretched, unmelodic mess.
		Murmur and Reckoning were truly the most original albums of the 80's and deserve their high status.
		The album shows full use of their talents, going from acoustic instruments, to rock guitars, to strings, not to mention Michael's voice at his best, and then there are the lyrics.
	www.markprindle.com /rema.htm (19432 words)

	Murmurings -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Murmur in Latin means noise, whisper, murmur, and the sound of the trumpet.
		In demonology Murmur is a Great Duke and Earl of Hell, and has thirty legions of demons under his command.
		Murmur is depicted as a soldier riding a vulture or a griffin, and wearing a ducal crown.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/101/murmurings.html (633 words)

	Album Review: R.E.M.-Murmur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It’s also not to say any of those are bad - Document is one of the greatest albums of the 20th century, and “Losing My Religion” is a classic single, but Murmur is better.
		Murmur was R.E.M.’s first full-length release and found them at a sound.
		Where Murmur fit into the mix is still a mystery.
	www.musicunderwater.com /rem_murmur.htm (323 words)

	Murmur
		Murmur a bit and then go back to the main R.E.M. page...
		Murmur has the honorable distinction of being one of those rock albums that I bought back in the summer of 2002 back when I used to actually make money.
		Murmur is a great album (some very nice noise gates on the drums, advanced for, what was it, 1983?.
	donignacio.com /rem/murmur.html (826 words)

	Murmur Music at Shop Ireland
		The album itself is a unique piece which, like many of R.E.M.'s subsequent platters, pulls off the paradox of sounding both quintessentially "R.E.M." and, at the same time, like no other album in the world.
		Peter Buck wryly commented that people tell him this is their favourite R.E.M. album, and thus he's been wasting his time making any albums since, but it doesn't take much to see why this singular album endures so well.
		Debut albums don't get much better than this, and in REM's first offering it is easy to see why they became one of the biggest bands of our time.
	www.shopireland.ie /music/reviews/B0000073AT/2 (549 words)

	R.E.M.: Fyfeopedia Music Reviews
		The dour Indie folk of Murmur has already altered somewhat, and the group are pursuing a more conventional college rock sound; over the course of their independent label albums, R.E.M. gradually became less cryptic and more direct.
		In many ways, Monster, the resulting album, is the most atypical of R.E.M.’s records, trading in the sincerity and restrained arrangements of the rest of their oeuvre for a sound that’s equal measures of seventies glam and nineties grunge.
		While the change may have helped the group redefine their sound, this album still has the sense that song writing doesn’t come as naturally to the band as it used to, and that they had to spend a lot more time agonising over these songs than they did previously.
	fyfe.fusion.net.nz /rem.php (3612 words)

	SongBook \| Murmur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It's very easy for me to take Murmur for granted - I didn't hear it until well after I had become a fan of the band's later work, and I didn't start paying attention to the world of college/alternative/modern rock until almost a decade after this album helped establish its importance.
		The folky influence, the gentle layered harmonies, and the cryptic, emotive lyrics were such a natural part of my musical world by that time that this album didn't come across as the shock to the system that it did in 1983, inspiring Rolling Stone to name it the album of the year.
		Murmur is generally a fast and energetic album, with songs like Shaking Through, Catapult and Moral Kiosk in the same spirit as Sitting Still.
	www.thelogbook.com /disc/rem/murmur.htm (491 words)

	Murmur by R.E.M. CD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		R.E.M.'s full-length debut is a landmark album that set the standard for the next 10 years of indie rock.
		R.E.M. was also one of the first bands to make the long, hard journey from college radio (when it was still college radio) to mainstream acceptance, and managed the difficult task of maintaining its integrity at every step along the way.
		MURMUR, far from an embryonic debut, shows a fully-formed unit with a strong artistic vision.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/1059387/a/Murmur.htm (361 words)

	Murmur by R.E.M. (lyrics & reviews)
		To fully appreciate the beauty of "Murmur", you have to remember the creative wasteland from which it emerged.
		None of the songs on "Murmur" are monster "classics" in the same sense as say the Beatles "A Day in the Life" or the Beach Boys "God Only Knows", but then again thats not the point.
		Their mid-80's albums are all great as well, just not this great.
	www.19.5degs.com /album/murmur/15485 (975 words)

	Amazon.com: Murmur: Music: R.E.M. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		See, the whole reason the words "alternative" and "indie-rock" were invented was because by 1984, MTV and "Thriller" had killed the face of mainstream music and it was albums like this that were considered worthwhile "alternatives" to the mainstream corporate rock sound.
		I have enjoyed occassional songs from occassional REM albums since this period, but am usually saddened that the golden sounds of my youth were supplanted by the diamond-studded cash cow.
		Musically, Murmur delivers on the promise of the Chronic Town EP, with many of their trademarks firmly in place on the first single, "Radio Free Europe".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001I0A?v=glance (3136 words)

	The Murmur - Vietnam Morning : album review
		Except it's not a short album (it's just over 30 minutes) going by 21st century standards and this is a '60s album.
		If you didn't know this album was new material, if you'd just heard it on the radio, you'd be racking your brains thinking "hey, I remember this one, what the hell was it called now?" before attacking your parents' record collection once more in order to track it down.
		It's interesting, too, to compare The Murmur's music with John Squire's take on the same influences during our all-too-brief British Summer of Love that rang in the 1990s.
	www.musicomh.com /albums5/murmur_1005.htm (715 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Murmur: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		R.E.M.'s full-length debut is a landmark album that set thestandard for the next 10 years of indie rock.
		'Murmur', which was a critical favourite at the time, remains a classic debut recording - the chemistry between Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills & Michael Stipe is fantastic.
		'Murmur' more than stands up these days, and forms part of a trilogy of R.E.M. albums with 'Reckoning' (1984) & 'Fables of the Reconstruction of the Fables' (1985)- afterwards the band would rock out more and Stipe's vocals were clearer.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000073AT (1181 words)

	R.E.M.: Murmur ---Ink Blot Magazine
		In the wake of punk and new wave, the garage band sound of the Chronic Town EP, released in 1982, was R.E.M.'s first taste of critical worship, something that washed over into 1983 when the band's full length debut Murmur was universally considered the best album of the year.
		R.E.M. spent the early half of the '80s as a college radio station staple at universities across America, releasing at least one album a year on I.R.S. Records.
		The vocals are soft-spoken and heavy on harmony, the guitars are jangly and more acoustic-sounding than electric, the fingerpicking is intricate, the drums are tight and upbeat, and the sum of these parts is a solid album of dark pop songs.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/REM_Murmur.htm (539 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Music Review - R.E.M.: Murmur
		The opening line of "Laughing" ("Laocoon and her two sons/Pressured storm tried to move/No other more emotion bound/Martyred, misconstrued") is an early indication that Murmur's pleasures aren't of the simple kind—its gloomy maxims about pilgrimage, spiritual sacrifice and lost time are smartly humorous and satirical.
		At the time, most of the folksy songs on Murmur didn't fit within pop radio's limitations—these were songs to be listened to, not just danced to.
		If the band's recent sun-drenched Up and Reveal are any indication, trading in their idealistic jingle-jangle for the intricate truths of yesteryear isn't in the band's current agenda.
	www.slantmagazine.com /music/music_review.asp?ID=369 (276 words)

	BBC - Radio 2 - Critical List - REM
		The longevity and credibility of REM certainly owes a lot to their debut album.
		It was even named best album of 1983 by Rolling Stone, despite stiff competition from Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
		Murmur remains one of the best debut albums ever made.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio2/shows/criticallist/must_have_rem.shtml (539 words)

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