Re: The Innocence Mission?

[stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender)]

Cheryl Rohrer rather badly misinterprets:

>>In article <0096104B.B3AC3F00.11567@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz>,
>>hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes...
>>A friend lent me a tape copy of their eponymous album. It's
>>bloody excellent.  Someone tell me all about them, *please*

>I believe that eponymous was an early 'greastest hits' for R.E.M., but i may
>be mistaken.
>cheryl

"Eponymous" also means "giving one's name to a nation, tribe, or
place".  In Hobbs's usage it means that The Innocence Mission's
first album is named _The Innocence Mission_ after the name of
the group.  R.E.M., however, also has an album named _Eponymous_.