Dead Letter Office - R.E.M.

This is, by quite a margin, my least listened to of all if the official R.E.M. albums. I'm not even sure if you're 'supposed' to listen to it in one sitting, instead selecting songs like chocolates from a chocolate box as they take your fancy. A bit like Forest Gump. But less irritating. A less shrimps.

As with all chocolate boxes there will be some tracks you like, for example toffees, and those you don't. Bleearrgghh coffee creams! In the chocolate box of 'Dead Letter Office' the toffees are definitely 'Pale Blue Eyes', 'Crazy' and a wonderfully shambolic and drunken run through 'King of the Road'.

And as for the coffee creams? Well this being R.E.M. there aren't any truly awful offerings but perhaps a few squashed and slightly misshapen pieces at the bottom of the box.