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Radio Ulster,11 May 2025,59 mins

Available for 22 days

On Long Player, Steven Rainey takes a deep dive into REM's 1991 album Out of Time, and asks if this was the album that brought alternative music into the mainstream. In the year where Nirvana changed music forever, was the path laid by four men, some enigmatic lyrics, and a mandolin? Over the course of an hour, Steven uses archive and some classic tracks to get under the skin of this classic album.

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