'Document'

Document is REM's first album with Scott Litt producing.

Litt probably doesn't move the needle for most people and that includes those that probably follow rock music relatively closely.

Litt produced Document. Then he produced Green, Out of Time, Automatic for People and New Adventures in Hi-Fi making REM a household name and helping create some of the biggest rock hits of the era.

Producers don't get enough credit in this world. Most are musicians and most have an ear for music that most others don't possess. A good producer can take a band and its music and turn it into something beyond special. Something that will not only exist forever, but be regarded for eternity as brilliance.

Litt will never get an article written about him. However, it's pretty clear that he helped steer one of the most successful rock bands of the 1980s and 1990s in the right direction.