Chart entered : 28 November 1987
Chart peak : 51 ( 16 on re-release in 1991 )
Number of hits : 38
This came as a welcome reminder that not all US bands were metal or hip hop.
As it's my intention to resume the Albums blog when this one catches up to the present day, I'm not going to go through REM's previous material here and I think my post on Eponymous - which includes "The One I Love" - covers the ground adequately. It's here.
An interesting angle from my perspective is that this is a band whose best work (for me) came prior to this. All of their first four albums are at least 8/10 quality in my opinion, with "Document" the point where they first wobbled, even if only slightly.
ReplyDeleteThis particularly single, however, is up to their prior high standards. One of those songs I spent hours trying to learn to play.
I think I'd broadly agree with that; certainly they had more great songs behind than in front of them at this point.
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