REM UK No1 Albums

[Spike1972]

How many UK No1 Albums have R.E.M. had?

[crafty]

i think
Out Of Time
Automatic for the people
Up and the new one

But i may be wrong

[bobbyx]

Out of time - March '91

Automatic for the people - Oct '92

Monster - Oct '94

New Adventures in hi-fi - Sep '96

Reveal - May '01

In time (the best of 1998 - 2003) - Nov '03

Around the sun - Oct '04

 

So six then.

[bobbyx]

Here's their other UK albums and highest chart position:

 

Reckoning - 91 - Apr '84

Fables of the reconstruction - 35 - Jun '85

Life's rich pagent - 43 - Sep '86

Dead letter office - 60 - May '87

Document - 28 - Sep '87

Eponymous - 69 - Oct '88

Green - 27 - Nov '88

The best of R.E.M. - 7 - Oct '91

Up - 2 - Nov '98

[crafty]

whats your favourite?

[bobbyx]

Should've said seven in my first post.

My favourite is probably 'Automatic for the people' it brings back memories of 'getting it on' with girls in my room as a teenager.

[Greedyfly]

Not a useful answer but I can't help myself:   Too many!

[crafty]

REM rule.

[crafty]

did you know that Stipe and Kurt Cobain were going to work on an album together before he shot himself?