A Playlist of My 50 Favorite R.E.M. Songs

So, bad news everyone: I’ve been dealing with a really nasty ear infection over the past week and a half which is made it difficult for me to even listen to music, much less write anything. Normally, there’d be a Pressing Concerns today, and if you’re looking for weekly recommendations for stuff that comes out Friday, I can point you towards albums from the Mountain Goats, Why Bother?, Public Opinion, and Ceremony that I heard and enjoyed before I got afflicted with my current condition. Hopefully I can write about them and some other new music soon. In the meantime, I wanted to get something up on the blog for Thursday, and I have this list of my fifty favorite R.E.M. songs I made a few weeks ago when I was bored and thinking about R.E.M., as I often do. They’re one of the best bands! Part of why I wanted to do this was because I’ve always felt like R.E.M.’s “hits” are for the most part subpar compared to the whole of their output and not representative of them: this list is me…