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Reveal (Limited Edition) | 
 enlarge | Artist: R.e.m.
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
Buy New: $29.98
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 279769
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 8.1 x 0.4
UPC: 093624807827
EAN: 0093624807827
ASIN: B00005J79F
Release Date: May 15, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | The Lifting | | • | I've Been High | | • | All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star) | | • | She Just Wants To Be | | • | Disappear | | • | Saturn Return | | • | Beat A Drum | | • | Imitation Of Life | | • | Summer Turns To High | | • | Chorus And The Ring | | • | I'll Take The Rain | | • | Beachball |
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Amazon.com
R.E.M. have no right at this advanced stage in their career to be making such a spirited and beautiful album as Reveal. Twenty years after "Radio Free Europe," they're still jiggy as year-old pups. Reveal is the sound of a band that's beyond feeling the need to change or to prove themselves to each new generation, but retains its passion. Michael Stipe's voice is at its most evocatively beautiful on "I've Been High," and Peter Buck's eclectic tunes continue along the highly accessible vein mined on 1998's Up. Stipe continues his emergence as an up-front vocalist whose lyrics, if never entirely self-explanatory, now make ingenious use of more readily identifiable phrases, images, and vignettes. Hovering over much of the album is the spirit of Brian Wilson, whose genius is echoed in "Beachball" and almost transcended in the astonishingly plangent "Summer Turns to High." With so much to live up to, it's not far short of astonishing that R.E.M. can still come up with a song such as the gorgeously chiming and shimmering "Imitation of Life," which, on its own, is worth the price of admission. But, from the first synthesizer swirls of the opener "The Lifting" onward, there's nary a dud to be heard on Reveal. --Johnny Black
Album Description
This limited edition version features a custom sleeve that measure 8 inches square, a 40 page full colour booklet which includes photography by Michael Stipe and full album lyrics.
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Excellent CD, this music is art June 13, 2004
When I first bought Reveal, I didn't really like it, and so let it sit unplayed for a long, long time. Then one time, I found that I was beginning to grow tired of the hard-rock music that I listen to so much, and I tried to think of the CD that I hadn't listened to in the longest while. Reveal immediately came to mind. So I popped it in my player, and discovered that I, all of a sudden, immensely enjoyed the beautiful sounds that were coming out of my speakers. All I did for the next few days was play the album over and over, and then show my friends (who never really have liked REM) what a band like REM was capable of. It then turned out that one of my friends had discovered "Losing my Religion" and instantly liked REM, and the other friend I showed it to remains a skeptic about REM, but loved the sounds of "All the Way to Reno". I think they were probably put off of REM by Stand.........
Great album -- check out the remixes of it! June 25, 2002
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The other comments have been great, so I won't say much, especially since R.E.M. has been my favorite band for years and years, and I snatch up just about everything they put out, so I may be biased! The guys have definitely found their footing now after Bill Berry's departure. I loved Up, but Reveal showcases a band that has regained its confidence and reproven its ability to produce sublimely satisfying confections for your aural sweet tooth. The limited edition of this CD is nice, especially since it allows more free reign to Michael Stipes's visual artistry and photography. I'm only giving it 4 stars, though, since the CD comes in a vellum sleeve (I don't like it when CD's are packaged in anything that makes it easier for something to be scratched against the playing surface of the CD -- I usually supply my own jewel case) and the ... price is a bit steep, even for a diehard fan like me, for some extra artwork. (Fortunately, I found my copy used!) One last thing: R.E.M. recently put out a free MP3 album titled R.E.M.IX (get it?) which consists of well-done remixes of songs from Reveal... If you're a serious enough fan to be considering this limited edition CD, you'll want R.E.M.IX!
 Unbelievable CD April 10, 2002
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Once again, R.E.M. has raised its musical standards by delivering yet another excellent piece of work. I bought the CD expecting the ingeniousness in every collection of R.E.M.'s music, and was certainly not disappointed. Every aspect of what makes R.E.M. a great group is included in REVEAL, ranging from their perfect combination of notes and instruments to Michael Stipe's beautiful, enignamatic, and clever lyrics ("Close my eyes so i can see, make my make-believe believe in me..." and, the most powerful on the CD, those from the most powerful song, I'll Take the Rain.) If you are looking for both entertaining music and moving, reflective lyrics, REVEAL is perfect (as are all of R.E.M.'s other albums).
REM is like a bottle of wine September 17, 2001
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This album will quietly creep up on you to become one of your favourite REM albums. Reveal is the product of an REM that like a finely aged wine continues to develop its notes. Unfortunately, the record industry and MTV have abandoned great music, great performers, and great artists and have substituted them with fly-by-night gangsta's. If it weren't for this, you could expect to hear songs like All the Way to Reno, I GET High, and Imitation of Life as often as you used to hear Losing my Religion, Stand, etc. This album is great--so if you don't own it, get it, and let it grow on you. If you don't get it you'll never know what you've missed because you'll never hear it on the radio or see it on MTV.
Innovative and Evolutionary July 16, 2001
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
It always makes me laugh when so-called "veteran" R.E.M. fans pine for the olden days of "Pagaent" or "Fables". It's time to either move forward with this band or get off at the next stop. In case you hadn't noticed, R.E.M. is a band that is constantly evolving and trying new things from album to album. That's why they are so good, and that's why "Reveal" is so enthralling. It continues where "UP" left off.
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