# What's the best song off of "Murmur"?

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**Created:** [September 16, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-murmur/554011 "2010-09-16T20:26:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-murmur/554011/21 "2010-09-18T20:41:26Z")

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I gotta find my copy and give it a listen. I loved this album when I first got into REM, I’m not sure they ever surpassed it.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-murmur/554011/22 "2010-09-22T16:53:46Z")

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> [@woodstockbirdybird](#):
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> Surprised the album version of “Radio Free Europe” is beating the single version (so far), as I consider it so obviously inferior.

I had to go find the single version of Radio Free Europe to compare (I’m really only very familiar with _Murmur_, as far as REM goes), and I could see arguments for both of them, but the single version is certainly more energetic and impassioned, so I voted for that one. I’d could use a touch better production, though. I think _Murmur_ on the whole has a good dose of production without sounding too polished. If we could combine the single’s energy with the album’s production, that’s the one I’d go for.

My (very close) #2 would have been “Catapult.”

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**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-murmur/554011/23 "2010-09-23T01:28:24Z")

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“Sitting Still”

One of the few lines I could ever understand off this succession of mumbles was “…wasting time, sitting still.”

I can relate to that.

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**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-murmur/554011/24 "2010-09-25T16:15:42Z")

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I was looking on You Tube and stumbled on [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA57Pafq_NU) - their first appearance on network television. Lots of fun and they look like such kids.

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