Not the stuff you hear today on a station like WUTKFM, great though that might be. 당시 펑크와 뉴웨이브 등 당시 유행하던 모든 음악에서 벗어난 사운드인 '만성 마을'이라는 EP를 작업하던 R.E.M. were working on an EP called Chronic Town, a sound that fell outside of punk and New Wave and everything else going on at the time.