R.E.M.: Pop Songs 07-08

This is an archive of my R.E.M. blog Pop Songs, in which I wrote about most every R.E.M. song released between 1981 and 2007. Though the original site had the songs presented in the order I wrote about them – and that order was deliberately non-chronological – I have now arranged them into albums, plus a section for non-album tracks. There’s also a section collecting the “Ask Michael Stipe” posts in which Stipe himself answered fan questions about specific songs. I’ve included links to the original posts throughout, which are worth checking out for their delightful comment threads.

Yes, I do intend to write about Accelerate, Collapse Into Now, and the non-album songs from the end of the band’s career at some point in the near future.