Critiques? I don't know what you're talking about with third-party web sites - any book on R.E.M. will include these in the discography; e.g. Talk About the Passion. It's scholarly in terms of R.E.M.'s discography. Discographies of rock bands are generally not the fare of academia, so within the terms of studying the releases of R.E.M., these are certainly scholarly. —❤T☮C☺M☯