R.E.M.

Europe first press 1988. Record and sleeve EX.
The one where R.E.M. signed to a major and somehow got weirder. Green mixes jangly anthems with oddball folk tunes and a few proper chart-botherers. It’s half stadium, half student union basement, and somehow it works. Put it on and you’ll remember a time when having a mandolin in a rock band seemed like a good idea. FFO: The Replacements, The Smiths, Talking Heads, The B-52’s, Echo & The Bunnymen