When their first album came out, people referred to it as MUTTER or MUMBLE because the lyrics were so unintelligible that the songs sounded like a side project of the Cocteau Twins. But their sound got--shall we say brasher?--over the years, an evolution you can clearly see between their IRS releases and their Warner releases. The IRS REM has a small club sound that occasionally erupts into something that shakes the walls; the Warners REM has an arena sound that occasionally gets very quiet and intimate.
Side note: Rolling Stone voted Murmur Best Album in 1983, over Thriller and Synchronicity. I'm guessing that you, like me, are trying to remember the last time you listened to Murmur all the way through, and knowing that it was a lot longer than the last time you heard a song from Thriller or Synchronicity . . . .
Shiny Happy People
Losing My Religion
(Don't go back to) Rockville
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