On this day in music history:

Eponymous by R.E.M. (1988)

American III: Solitary Man by Johnny Cash (2000)

Eponymous

Album by R.E.M.,

released October 17, 1988.

Track list: Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone Single); Gardening At Night (Different Vocal Mix); Talk About The Passion; So. Central Rain; (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville; Can’t Get There From Here; Driver; Romance; Fall On Me; The One I Love; Finest Worksong (Mutual Drum Horn Mix); It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I...).

American III: Solitary Man

Album by Johnny Cash,

released October 17, 2000.

Track list: I Won’t Back Down; Solitary Man; That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day); One; Nobody; I See A Darkness; The Mercy Seat; Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone); Field Of Diamonds; Before My Time; Country Trash; Mary Of The Wild Moor; I’m Leavin’ Now; Wayfaring Stranger.