I didn't include eponymous in the first run, but you are right on that front. Green is an absolute classic, they didn't make a bad record on IRS & they sounded like no one else in the context of the time. New Adventures.. I do really like, not sure it hangs together as whole, certainly their best from the later period.Nah, bollocks, both are way too patchy to be called high quality albums. Good.. but overall not good enough. That doesn't stop REM being called a great band.
Edit: Eponymous is a compilation so doesn't count according to my rules.