In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003R.E.M. · 1998

rollingstone

8.0

“You may remember what a big, brow-knitting deal it was when, in the late Eighties, America’s favorite indie band left IRS Records and signed with Warner Bros. for a few million bucks. This eighteen-track retrospective of the more cerebral Warner years shows that R.E.M. stuck to their principles and kept on their path, In Time […]”

pitchfork

7.5

“The main peril of writing about R.E.M. is that otherwise rational people tend to form torturously private relationships with this band. I am one of them. As with any long-term engagement, there's a back catalog of injury: some of us felt slighted by R.E.M.'s eager dash to the big leagues; some can't get over "Shiny Happy People"; still others considered the band officially defunct when Bill Berry ”