R.E.M.: Document
Genre: Indie Rock	Dates: 1987

The success of this album anticipated the breakthrough of Nirvana's Nevermind. After six and a half years of creating chiming, mysterious post-Byrds folk-rock (with one hell of a backbeat, courtesy of Bill Berry) and defining the term "indie" for posterity, the boys from Athens reached the apex of their career by bringing all their strengths together and deigning to be understood—"The One I Love" even went Top Ten, though it might be the referential rant-cheer "The End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)" that remains in the collective memory the longest. The charts would taste good, so good that the band's work would never regain its power to so consistently rock and bewitch.

Playlist:
1. Finest Worksong
2. Welcome To The Occupation
3. Exhuming McCarthy
4. Disturbance At The Heron House
5. Strange
6. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
7. One I Love, The
8. Fireplace
9. Lightnin' Hopkins
10. King Of Birds
11. Oddfellows Local 151