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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Not remembering R.E.M.

The band --  Mike Mills, left, Michael Stipe, Bill Berry and Peter Buck --  in a 1994 file photo originally released by Warner Bros. Records. Credit: Warner Brothers / Associated Press

I've had 24 hours to think about it and, well, nothing.

As a teen, R.E.M.'s breakup would've saddened me, big time, the way the White Stripe's did back in February.

Problem is, R.E.M., a band I once adored, has not made an album that mattered to me since 1992's "Automatic for the People."

The band's decision to finally call it quits actually comes as a relief, allowing me to focus on their masterful 1980s output and forget how boring they have been since the mid-1990s.