REM - Murmur (w/ guest Jeff Fiedler)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2015

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian discuss REM's Murmur (1983, I.R.S.) with Mr. Jeff Fiedler--musician, songwriter, singer, producer extrodinaire (sleepingsatellites.bandcamp.com). Jeff shares his near encyclopaedic knowledge of all things pop music related and helps us figure out exactly what makes Murmur so great. Is it Brian's butt baby? You'll just have to listen to until the end to find out!

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0:00.0	When we were little boys,
0:03.0	We were little boys.
0:32.1	Hello. Welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill. I'm Brian.
0:35.7	And today's guest is Jeff Heedler.
0:37.9	Welcome, Jeff. Yeah. Thank you.
0:38.7	You are actually our first guest that we've had on the podcast.
0:43.5	Oh, nice.
0:44.6	We're sorry.
0:46.8	I feel honored.
0:48.7	Thank you. We also feel honored.
0:53.8	Today's album is going to be R.E.M.'s murmur. We also feel honored.
0:57.7	Today's album is going to be R.E.M.'s murmur.
1:05.7	And that's why we have Jeff here, because he's more of an expert, I think, than we are in R.E.M., although it's, you know, I definitely enjoy them as a band.
1:09.8	I think that you are a little bit more of a fan than we are, possibly.
1:16.5	Possibly, yes.
1:17.7	Well, can you, how did you get into REM originally?
1:23.6	I kind of got into them like midway through just, well, like when they broke through like
1:29.6	into the mainstream with like the one I love and stand.
1:34.4	Just, yeah, started listening to them there and then just kind of worked my way up through
1:38.8	like the early 90s period and then and then I actually discovered like their early 80s albums
1:43.4	last.
1:46.3	Yeah, actually, me too.
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