The Out of Time/Automatic for the people era of R.E.M. is the point at which they became my favorite band. Was this because I was ~12 years old at the time? Yeah, probably. But what a great pair of records to have available to me in my formative years. The Deep Southern Melancholy of Early 90s R.E.M. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCatW6UaCv0