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| Artist: R.e.m.
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy New: $6.08
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (205 reviews)
Sales Rank: 170
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 418620
UPC: 093624988588
EAN: 0093624988588
ASIN: B0013BNY2Q
Release Date: April 1, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 REM is Back! ACCELERATING FULL THROTTLE June 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What a resounding jaunt back to relevance for my absolute favorite band on the planet... I own all of their albums, and DID like even their recent albums (albeit Around the Sun was definitely stretching my "love" thin) but this album goes right up with the greats of the 80's... Most importantly the VITALITY is back. After years of straying from that core energy playing "eloqeuntly" arranged studio works this album ROCKS out like yesteryear tracks of FOTR or LRP... I saw them at UC Berkeley's Greek theater last month and that was the best show i've ever seen. Way better than when I saw them at Anaheim >10yrs ago... as they write on the album-- "you cannot resist, you cannot resist"
The sidewinder stopped sleeping... June 27, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As a fan since they played dives in Athens, GA, I'll argue there are three distinct rems. The first incarnation put out three hauntingly good albums (chronic town, murmur and reckoning) that reshaped alternative music. The next incarnation discovered the power of the studio and put out well crafted pop albums with a social conscience. Then, the third incarnation put out intelligent experiments in sound that, oddly, lacked any soul and lacked a lot of listeners as well. This latest album moves back into the realm of relevance by moving back in time to rem's second incarnation - mid to up tempo rock tunes with Peter Buck's confident guitar leading the way.
It's good stuff. Not great stuff, but good stuff that's worth a listen. It might help them convert a new legion of fans. As for me, I'll still crave those rough around the edges albums where the lyrics were buried beneath a jangly guitar played as fast as possible. Sure, this is good, but can anything here touch the exuberance of wolves, lower or the beauty of camera. Not in my book.
Worth the Time June 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had just about given up hope that REM had one more good CD in them. Then I heard this. If you enjoyed early REM run out and get this tomorrow. I realize this didn't get much radio airplay, but then again what good music does these days???
 Shockingly Bad June 24, 2008
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
I absolutely love the entire REM catalogue. For me, even Around The Sun had it's moments. I'm sad to say that REM finally sold out. How could such a creative band have enlisted the same person behind U2's How To Dismantle An Atom Bomb to work on this effort? Don't believe the critical acclaim...It's all hype!
 Likeable Enough June 23, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a pretty good album. It has tracks that I enjoy while they're playing but none good enough to make me want to load them up in the first place. As a point of reference, I tend to like their mellower stuff, even Up & Reveal. (Reveal in particular is sadly underrated). Favorite song is probably Good Advices, off FOTR.
Their great back catalog means the new stuff is forced to fight the gravitational pull of their past work. After all, why listen to Supernatural Superserious when These Days is but a click away?
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