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R.E.M.
The exact turning point was the album Green and their switch from independent IRS records to Warner Brothers. EVERYTHING from that point forward is crap. That's why their drummer quit (was fired?). I owned every R.E.M. album, and went to see them in concert on the Green tour, and didn't really like not only the slick commercial feel that had been added to what had been a great college band. I let it go though, and when Out of Time came out I was even more disappointed. Then Automatic for the People came out and it was all over. I didn't even bother with Monster or whatever their last few shitty albums were called. By this time my idealistic lefty college way of thinking had given way to my more conservative self anyway, and I found myself selling off all of my R.E.M. CD's to the local record store. I kept one: Life's Rich Pageant. It's the only one I think is even worth listening to anymore.
-Mikey
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