I’ll give you “Shiny Happy” and “Everybody Hurts”... “Radio Song” is tolerable, in comparison.
“Monster” and everything after that is pretty much un-listenable. “Reckoning” and “Fables of the Reconstruction” are still my favorites.
After awhile I gave up on them but there early stuff could be good. In 88 I saw the first (Boston Garden) and last (Great Woods) shows of their Green tour.
One time on some kind of MTV awards show, Stipe was wearing about 6 different T shirts with politically correct statements on them and kept taking them off while spouting some kind
of deep thoughts.