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Station

R.E.M.

1980 to 2011 · on Alternative rock

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Active years

192019401960198020002020

The journey

19801985199019952000200520102015Alternative rock1984
  1. 1984Alternative rock · College rock to the mainstream
  2. 1991The first Lollapalooza · Landmark on the line
  3. 1999The first Coachella · Landmark on the line

1 platform, 2 moments and landmarks along the way. Lines the journey does not ride are dimmed, as they are on the map while a journey plays.

Platform

  1. Alternative rock1984 to 2011

    College rock to the mainstream

    Reckoning (1984) and the I.R.S. albums that followed defined the American college rock that became alternative rock; Out of Time (1991) took it to the top of the charts.

    Key album: Automatic for the People, 1992

    Source: Holly George-Warren and Patricia Romanowski (editors), The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Fireside, 2001

The line

Alternative rock (Rock family)

Sources

  1. Holly George-Warren and Patricia Romanowski (editors), The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Fireside, 2001
  2. Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra and Stephen Thomas Erlewine (editors), All Music Guide to Rock, Backbeat Books, 2002

Cite this page

The Metro Map of Music, ‘R.E.M.: station’, /stations/r-e-m.