found: Work cat.: R.E.M. (Musical group). Reckoning, ℗1984(jangle pop album)
found: AllMusic website, Dec. 11, 2019(R.E.M. - Reckoning. Genre: Pop/Rock. Styles: Alternative Pop/Rock; Alternative/Indie Rock; American Underground; College Rock; Jangle Pop)
found: Wikipedia, Dec. 11, 2019(Reckoning (R.E.M. album); genre: Alternative rock; folk rock; jangle pop)
found: AllMusic website, Dec. 11, 2019:Pop/Rock > Alternative/Indie Rock > Jangle Pop (Jangle Pop was an American post-punk movement of the mid-'80s that marked a return to the chiming guitars and pop melodies of the '60s. Sparked by the arrival of R.E.M., jangle pop also had some folk-rock overtones, but it was essentially a pop-based format. Jangle pop wasn't mainstream music -- the bands' lyrics were often deliberately cryptic and their sound was raw and amateurish, bearing all the signs of do-it-yourself productions. Jangle pop was a major force between 1984 and 1987 -- not only were there Southern-pop bands like R.E.M. and Let's Active, there were the Paisley Underground bands on the West Coast who were more psychedelic, and there were numerous bands scattered throughout the Midwest)
found: Peake, S. Profile of '80s underground genre jangle pop, via LiveAbout website, posted Mar. 8, 2017, viewed on Dec. 11, 2019(Originating during the early '80s within the burgeoning college rock scene, jangle pop is a pop/rock style that has probably been around in some form (without the name) since the days of the Beatles and the Byrds. Much of the form's definition stems from the colorful word that serves as its primary descriptor: known mostly for its chiming, melodic electric guitars, the music jingles and jangles in pleasant but offbeat ways that kept it from finding a place on the pop charts; the most obvious unofficial prototype for jangle pop emerged from the fruitful Athens, Ga. scene in the form of eventual superstars R.E.M.; guitar-heavy sound and contemplative, murky lyrical musings; jangle pop exerted quite an influence on underground, alternative guitar rock on an international level)
found: Wikipedia, Dec. 11, 2019:Jangle (Jangle or jingle-jangle is a sound characterized by undistorted, treble-heavy electric guitars (particularly 12-strings) played in a droning chordal style (by strumming or arpeggiating). The sound has featured mainly in pop music and is often associated with 1960s guitar bands, folk rock, and 1980s indie music. It is sometimes classed as its own music subgenre, jangle pop; in the 1980s, the most prominent bands of early indie rock were jangle groups such as R.E.M. and the Smiths; music subgenre which is characterized by trebly, ringing guitars (usually 12-string electrics) and 1960s-style pop melodies)
found: Rate your music website, Dec. 11, 2019:Genres > Rock > Alternative rock > Jangle pop (Jangle Pop is a Rock music sub-genre with roots in the Post-Punk explosion of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Influenced by 1960s Folk Rock artists like The Byrds as well as the Power Pop of groups like Big Star, Jangle Pop is characterized for merging the sound of chiming, "jangly" guitars and Pop-oriented melodies with a somewhat rawer musical approach and production values. The genre found its greatest critical and mainstream popularity in the mid-1980s, with bands like The Smiths, R.E.M. and Felt)
found: Grove music online, Dec. 11, 2019(R.E.M.; American alternative rock group; Musically, they revived the jangly folk- and country-influenced sound of the Byrds and mixed it with aspects of post-punk rock)
