R.E.M. – Document (1987/2012) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

Chart History/Awards
– Reached #10 on the Billboard 200.
– “The One I Love” reached #2 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Charts.
– On Rolling Stone‘s “100 Best Albums of the Eighties.”

Document is R.E.M.’s commercial breakthrough and one of their most politically charged albums. Co-produced by Scott Litt, the Platinum-selling work is a profound statement highlighted by its powerful rhythms, stellar guitar riffs and masterful melodies. The recording displays the band’s evolution in growth and maturity.Document would reach the Top Ten on the Billboard 200 and spent 33 weeks on the charts. It includes the hits “Finest Worksong,” “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” and the band’s first bona fide hit, “The One I Love.” The album is included on Rolling Stone’s “100 Best Albums of the Eighties.”

4 stars out of 5 – “…makes interesting archival listening. It shows a group cresting the cusp between art-rock alternative-ism and chart friendliness…the general impression is of a band freed from constraints, rocking with a vengeance…” -Q

R.E.M. began to move toward mainstream record production on Lifes Rich Pageant, but they didn’t have a commercial breakthrough until the following year’s Document. Ironically, Document is a stranger, more varied album than its predecessor, but co-producer Scott Litt — who would go on to produce every R.E.M. album in the following decade — is a better conduit for the band than Don Gehman, giving the group a clean sound without sacrificing their enigmatic tendencies. “Finest Worksong,” the stream-of-conscious rant “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine),” and the surprise Top Ten single “The One I Love” all crackle with muscular rhythms and guitar riffs, but the real surprise is how political the mid-tempo jangle pop of “Welcome to the Occupation,” “Disturbance at the Heron House,” and “King of Birds” is. Where Lifes Rich Pageant sounded a bit like a party record, Document is a fiery statement, and its memorable melodies and riffs are made all the more indelible by its righteous anger. In other words, it’s not only a commercial breakthrough, but a creative breakthrough as well, offering evidence of R.E.M.’s growing depth and maturity, and helping usher in the P.C. era in the process.

Tracklist:
01 – Finest Worksong
02 – Welcome to the Occupation
03 – Exhuming McCarthy
04 – Disturbance At the Heron House
05 – Strange
06 – It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
07 – The One I Love
08 – Fireplace
09 – Lightnin’ Hopkins
10 – King of Birds
11 – Oddfellows Local 151

Download:

1987Document2012HDTracks24192.part1.rar
1987Document2012HDTracks24192.part2.rar

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