"My father gave me Monster a week after buying it, calling it “the most pretentious piece of shit I’ve ever heard.” This is funny because the whole point of Monster was a shot at unpretentiousness." [1]

I never got into REM, I preferred The Fall, The The, The Smiths, Pixies, Pavement.

[1] https://www.treblezine.com/out-of-time-r-e-m-s-generation-ga...