Ever try to decipher the muddy lyrics on REM's early albums? Don't bother.
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"People are still trying to figure out what the words are to some of those songs," bandleader Michael Stipe says in the December issue of US magazine. "I hate to break it to them, but . . . it's just utter nonsense, it's sounds, and it doesn't make sense sometimes, and it doesn't have to."