After awhile I gave up on them but there early stuff could be good. In 88 I saw the first (Boston Garden) and last (Great Woods) shows of their Green tour.
One time on some kind of MTV awards show, Stipe was wearing about 6 different T shirts with politically correct statements on them and kept taking them off while spouting some kind
of deep thoughts.
oops, their I mean (typing fast, didn’t check!()
Early 90s... I remember that. Abortion, gay rights, global warming, AIDS, gun control... I forget the other one. That was the night Stipe became a full-blown cliche.