I picked up this EP after Annie Zaleski mentioned it in passing her book on Duran Duran's Rio. Several years ago I picked up every R.E.M. album on CD, up to Out of Time (later I downloaded "Everybody Hurts" from Amazon). Can't believe I never heard of this EP before.
Chronic Town is OK. The version of "Gardening at Night" on Eponymous is better than the one here. I like "1,000,000" with the tom-toms, especially at the end of the song.
I'm going to keep all five tracks of Chronic Town on my iPod. While I doubt I'll listen to it in one sitting, it'll be nice when a song from it pops up on my shuffle. Long live 1982!
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