I am a child of the '80s from the American South. Like many of my brethren, R.E.M. served as my first taste of left-of-center musical fare; what was then referred to as "college music." Seems such a dated term now, but at the time it was as kicked around as the ad nauseam of today's ever-expanding catch-all term "indie."With all the recent R.E.M. news (their become a member or log in.