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the seeds of what will happen in the next decade are already all there by the end of the 80s. college rock like r.e.m. was something new entirely. collar me, don t collar me i ve got my spine, i ve got my orange crush heilemann: the way that peter buck played the guitar and the way that stipe song, where the voice was incredible but you couldn t quite figure out what he was saying, it just kind of made them more alluring and more mysterious. you could get why that band would become huge. [ indistinct singing ] peresman: it wasn t new wave. it wasn t a new romantic. they started calling it alternative music. it s the end of the world as we know it it s the end of the world as we know it i feel fine fine, fine fine, fine