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Document (Music)

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Document (Music)	comment	Document (R.E.M. No. 5) is the fifth album by R.E.M., released in 1987. Their final album with independent label I.R.S. Records, it laid the groundwork for the poppier style the band would adopt on later albums, continuing Lifes Rich Pageant's shift away from their older, murkier sound. The album was also their first to be produced by Scott Litt, who would produce all of the band's albums up until Bill Berry's departure in 1997; Litt was hired at the recommendation of Lifes Rich Pageant producer Don Gehman, who the band initially wanted to produce Document, only for him to be unavailable.The album produced three singles: "The One I Love", "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)", and "Finest Worksong". Of these three, "The One I Love" gave R.E.M. their first taste of mainstream commercial success, becoming their first single to sell beyond just the alternative/indie crowd, peaking at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at No. 2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The album itself was also a major mainstream success, peaking at No. 10 on the Billboard 200 and being certified platinum by the RIAA just five months after its release; the album would eventually be certified gold in the UK as well.This success would lay the first stone in the band's path to international superstardom, which would culminate in the smash success of their breakthrough album Out of Time four years later. Additionally, the success of Document and its associated singles would, alongside other releases that year such as 10,000 Maniacs' In My Tribe, U2's The Joshua Tree, Midnight Oil's Diesel and Dust, New Order's Substance, and Depeche Mode's Music for the Masses, herald the entry of Alternative Rock into the American mainstream.
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Document (Music) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Document (Music) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: While Lifes Rich Pageant still had its share of lighter tracks among its heightened aggression, Document lacks any real breather episodes and sports an even harder sound with more overtly political lyrics, resulting in the dourest and angriest album the band had put out up to that point.
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Document (Music) / int_16d8476f	type	Protest Song
Document (Music) / int_16d8476f	comment	Protest Song: Document is still probably one of R.E.M.'s most overtly political albums (the result of frontman Michael Stipe's romantic affiliations with 10,000 Maniacs frontwoman Natalie Merchant, herself no stranger to protest music), and as such many of the songs on the record count as this. To name a few particularly standout examples... "Exhuming McCarthy" equates the reactionary Red Scare promoted by U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy in The '50s to the nation under Ronald Reagan in The '80s. It includes a Sample of Joseph Welch famously asking McCarthy "Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator ... You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" during the Army-McCarthy hearings and the end of the song includes the line, "Meet me at the Book Burning." "Welcome to the Occupation" is about American intervention in Central America. Some analysts speculate that "It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" is one to the general state of the world in the waning years of the Cold War, with the lyrics implicitly equating the United States and the Soviet Union as similar in their use of authority, military might, and control of the general public.
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Document (Music) / int_1f37a427	type	Face on the Cover
Document (Music) / int_1f37a427	comment	Face on the Cover: Michael Stipe appears as the cameraman on the album's front cover.
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Document (Music) / int_22093e9b	type	New Sound Album
Document (Music) / int_22093e9b	comment	New Sound Album: Keeping in line with R.E.M.'s tendency to make each album sound markedly different from the last, this one ramps up the harder sound of Lifes Rich Pageant to create an even more overtly aggressive direction, with many tracks featuring a greater use of processed guitars and harsher lyrics that presage the coming of Tin Machine two years later, as well as R.E.M.'s own album Green a year after this one. This shift certainly worked in the band's favor, as it occurred concurrently with the shift in public favor towards harder, noisier rock as the most "authentic" form of music. A less prominent but still significant addition on this album is the band using synthesizers for the first time on their records, having previously shunned them out of a desire to avoid any radio-friendly clichesnote so heavy was their early distaste towards synths that Stephen Hauge adding them to "Catapult" during production of Murmur led the band to drop him in favor of working with Chronic Town producers Don Dixon and Mitch Easter. Specifically, Carl Marsh is credited with playing the Fairlight CMI on "Fireplace", and "Oddfellows Local 151" features synth strings in the middle and outro of the song. The presence of synths is still incredibly light for the time (for one, the Fairlight is impossible to notice, in part due to it being sample-based), but it's definitely a noticeable step away from the total absence on previous albums; R.E.M. wouldn't more heavily incorporate synthesizers though until the Pat McCarthy-produced albums between 1998 and 2004.
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Document (Music) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Document (Music) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: "Lightnin' Hopkins" opens with a nod to the same "now I lay me down to sleep" bedtime prayer quoted in "9-9". "King of Birds" features a similar sound and structure to "Time After Time (Annelise)" off of Reckoning.
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Document (Music) / int_2719ab04	type	Special Guest
Document (Music) / int_2719ab04	comment	Special Guest: Steve Berlin of Los Lobos plays the saxophone solos on "Fireplace"; the band specifically sought him out because of his improvisational skills and how they could contrast the rigid structure of the rest of the song.
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Document (Music) / int_29232548	type	Rhythm Typewriter
Document (Music) / int_29232548	comment	Rhythm Typewriter: "Exhuming McCarthy" starts with the sound of a manual one, played by Michael Stipe. The typewriter used is in fact the same one that Stipe wrote the band's lyrics with at the time; he'd switch over to an electronic typewriter for Green and eventually a computer from Automatic for the People onward.
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Document (Music) / int_2bf54826	type	Longest Song Goes Last
Document (Music) / int_2bf54826	comment	Longest Song Goes Last: The 5:21 "Oddfellows Local 151" both dwarfs every other song on Document in length and closes out the album.
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Document (Music) / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Document (Music) / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The album cover is deliberately designed to appear as if it was misprinted, specifically being noticeably off-center.
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Document (Music) / int_6053dc28	type	Record Producer
Document (Music) / int_6053dc28	comment	Record Producer: Scott Litt, this being the first of six albums he produced for the band. R.E.M. themselves are listed as co-producers, though they claim they didn't really do any actual producing.
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Document (Music) / int_67784113	type	Non-Appearing Title
Document (Music) / int_67784113	comment	Non-Appearing Title: All the words in the title "King of Birds" appear in the song, but not in that order. "Lightnin'" appears plenty in "Lightnin' Hopkins", but not the titular blues singer's name itself.
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Document (Music) / int_6f77ef8e	type	Anti-Love Song
Document (Music) / int_6f77ef8e	comment	Anti-Love Song: "The One I Love", in which the narrator describes the title character as "a simple prop to occupy my time" and quickly drops them for "another prop."
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Document (Music) / int_74e34bb	type	Singer Namedrop
Document (Music) / int_74e34bb	comment	Singer Namedrop: The cover of "Strange" changes the line "Joey's nervous and the lights are bright" to "Michael's nervous and the lights are bright." Note that there was never anyone named Joey in Wire's lineup.
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Document (Music) / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Document (Music) / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: "Oddfellows Local 151", as Peter Buck told Q Magazine in 1992.
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Document (Music) / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
Document (Music) / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: Michael Stipe famously prattles off the lyrics of "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" at supersonic speed.
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Document (Music) / int_993783f2	type	Hot Men at Work
Document (Music) / int_993783f2	comment	Hot Men at Work: The video for "Finest Worksong" features muscular, shirtless men working at a metal factory.
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Document (Music) / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Document (Music) / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "LEO-NARD-BERN-STEIN!"
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Document (Music) / int_9f2898f7	type	Long Title
Document (Music) / int_9f2898f7	comment	Long Title: "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)". Counting the parenthetical subtitle, the track holds the distinction of having the longest title of any of R.E.M.'s songs, at fourteen words and 44 characters (57 if you include spaces); if you discount the subtitle, it's tied by word count with "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us".
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Document (Music) / int_ac1e30d8	type	Red Scare
Document (Music) / int_ac1e30d8	comment	"Exhuming McCarthy" equates the reactionary Red Scare promoted by U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy in The '50s to the nation under Ronald Reagan in The '80s. It includes a Sample of Joseph Welch famously asking McCarthy "Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator ... You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" during the Army-McCarthy hearings and the end of the song includes the line, "Meet me at the Book Burning."
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Document (Music) / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Document (Music) / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Keeping in line with R.E.M.'s tradition of giving custom names to their LP sides, vinyl and cassette copies list a "Page" side and a "Leaf" side.
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Document (Music) / int_b32aca10	type	Packaged as Other Medium
Document (Music) / int_b32aca10	comment	Packaged as Other Medium: The album cover is stylized to resemble a spread-open paperback book cover, complete with wear and tear at the book's "spine".
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Document (Music) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Document (Music) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "Exhuming McCarthy" features Mike Mills singing "it's a sign of the times" during the hook; Prince's Sign o' the Times and its Title Track came out before and during the recording sessions for Document, and author Marcus Gray noted in his 1996 book It Crawled from the South that the reference was intentional (given that Prince, like R.E.M, was commonly viewed as one of the more left-field acts in the industry). A truly unlikely example. "Fireplace" is based on a speech by Mother Ann Lee, an 18th Century leader of the religious sect the Shakers. "Disturbance at the Heron House" contains references to Animal Farm. "King of Birds" includes the phrase "my kingdom for a voice". The Stylistic Suck "off-center printwork" cover is a noticeable homage to a similar technique on initial pressings of Elvis Costello's This Year's Model. "Lightnin' Hopkins" mentions "birdlands," which may be a reference to Patti Smith's song "Birdland" from her debut album Horses. "Lightnin' Hopkins" and "Oddfellows Local 151" both feature David Byrne-inspired scatting from Michael Stipe.
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Document (Music) / int_cff53786	type	Cover Version
Document (Music) / int_cff53786	comment	Cover Version: "Strange" was originally recorded by Wire on their debut album Pink Flag.
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Document (Music) / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Document (Music) / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Document, "Strange", "Fireplace".
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Document (Music) / int_d40b9465	type	Title-Only Chorus
Document (Music) / int_d40b9465	comment	Title-Only Chorus: "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"
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Document (Music) / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
Document (Music) / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It
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Document (Music) / int_db26451e	type	Limited Lyrics Song
Document (Music) / int_db26451e	comment	Limited Lyrics Song: "The One I Love" consists solely of one verse and chorus repeated three times; the third instance of the verse at least changes up the line "a simple prop to occupy my time" with "another prop has occupied my time."
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Document (Music) / int_e18675e6	type	Word Salad Lyrics
Document (Music) / int_e18675e6	comment	Word Salad Lyrics: "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)", the lyrics of which were derived from a dream Michael Stipe had.
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Document (Music) / int_e40f6792	type	Design Student's Orgasm
Document (Music) / int_e40f6792	comment	Design Student's Orgasm: The album cover is one of the band's most elaborate, being a series of photographs taken on top of each other through exposing a single negative frame multiple times at different orientations. The end result is a collage-like jumble of images that fits the chaotic settings that the album describes.
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Document (Music) / int_eb8856	type	The X of Y
Document (Music) / int_eb8856	comment	The X of Y: "King of Birds", "[...] the End of the World [...]"
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Document (Music) / int_f2c895f	type	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
Document (Music) / int_f2c895f	comment	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Invoked with the original line in "Welcome to the Occupation", "Hang your freedom fighters", changed to "Hang your freedom higher" at Bill Berry's request.
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Document (Music) / int_f3faf1d4	type	Something Something Leonard Bernstein
Document (Music) / int_f3faf1d4	comment	Something Something Leonard Bernstein: "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" is the Trope Namer, derived from how Bernstein's Punctuated! For! Emphasis! namedrop is one of few parts of the lyrics that most listeners remember.
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