From our good friend and guest on today's episode, Jon Phipps: "Reckoning is the first R.E.M album I truly fell in love with, top to bottom. This record was the American Fab Four's thumbing-your-nose at the notion of a 'sophomore slump.' Every song on this evergreen, crystalline and beautiful record has its own unique brawniness and mood and story all behind it. This record grabbed listeners by the ear and made them realize that this quartet from Athens, Georgia was nothing to be fucked with."