



albums, eventually on CD, even as the quartet became a trio when Bill Berry departed. I felt sheltered, even betrayed, learning that all this music had been made during my adolescence-just up the road in Athens-while I was mowing the lawn to Foreigner 4. And when that was exhausted, I started looking for other bands that just sounded something like R.E.M. Soon after discovering Document, I had worked my way back through every cassette in their catalog. If there was a single band that shaped my teenage ears, that shook me from the confines of classic rock radio and awakened me to quirky, adventuresome college rock, it was R.E.M.
