The best albums of the 1980s, according to Kurt Cobain
From R.E.M. to Pixies, the Nirvana frontman picks his favourites.
R.E.M.
The one REM album Michael Stipe couldn’t live without: “My absolute favourite”
The LP occupies a special place in Stipe’s heart.
“More surface and pop and bubble-gummy”: Michael Stipe on why Madonna was the opposite of REM
“More surface and pop”.
The song Michael Stipe wrote as a birthday present to himself: “I’m an instinctual”
“I’m taking it a song at a time”.
The two REM songs Courtney Love thinks are about her: “We’ve been through fake-a-breakdown”
The Hole frontwoman claims two classic R.E.M. tracks refer to her.
The one band Michael Shannon can always find solace in: “Really incredible music”
Loves them so much he dedicated months to performing
The REM album Michael Stipe said was full of “big, dumb pop songs”
“Anything hugely popular is loaded with simplistic ideas”.
The songs Michael Stipe was too horrified to listen to again: “No good for me”
Best left in the past…
‘Driver 8’: REM’s journey into “mythological America”
Can you get more poetic than a train engineer?