Rolling Stone (p.96)
- 5 stars out of 5 -- "[A]nthemic on a bedroom scale, danceable but not robotic, experimental without being oblique."Rolling Stone (11/89)
- Ranked #8 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The Eighties" survey. Spin - Included in Spin's list of the Top Ten College Cult Classics - "...an unmitigated delight....spawned the entire breed of what has become known as `college rock'." Entertainment Weekly (3/26/91)
- Rating: A Alternative Press (8/01, p.112)
- Included in AP's "10 Essential '80s Albums" - "...REM made jangling guitars and mumbled lyrics hip again for American youth..." CMJ (1/5/04, p.12)
- Ranked #7 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1983". Q (Magazine)
(p.120)
- 5 stars out of 5 -- "MURMUR promised not so much a new American underground, as an undergrowth, rustling with secrets." Mojo (Publisher)
(p.118)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "MURMUR remains the cornerstone of the R.E.M. legend, the reason they are important....An incredible collection of songs..." Blender (Magazine)
(p.106)
- 5 stars out of 5 -- "[D]isarmingly beautiful music that mixes '60s folk significance with '80s new-wave ambivalence." Blender (Magazine)
(p.67)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "MURMUR was a friendly ghost -- brooding but elegant, new-wave moody but folk-rock sunny, hesitant but hopeful." Paste (magazine)
(p.60)
- "[T]heir sound emerged so fully formed that even after 26 years and 15 proper albums, it's still arguably their best." | 
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