"Nastanovich co-founded Silver Jews in 1989 alongside Berman and Stephen
Malkmus, roughly around the same time the latter two also founded
Pavement. Nastanovich has split time between both bands, while Malkmus only returned to the Jews for 1998’s terrific American Water. "

I bought both R.E.M.'s Out of Time and Automatic for the People on CD on the same day, probably on or around the release date of Automatic. I would have been just about to turn 15. Oddly, I wasn't much into music before discovering R.E.M., other than film scores and classical music (though, being a suburban teenager,…

This is pretty much in my daily lexicon. I've grown to relish the perplexed looks I get in response from most people.