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| Artist: R.e.m.
Label: Warner Bros/WEA
Category: Music
List Price: $27.98
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 39878
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 093624987727
EAN: 0093624987727
ASIN: B0013ISU0A
Release Date: April 1, 2008
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 R.E.M. Rocks Again!!! May 5, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
R.E.M. a mainstay in the alt rock world for over 25 years now do it again with a tremendous album that rocks and doesn't take any tracks off. Reminding me of the glory days they laid back a couple of decades ago this album pays homage yet is extremely fresh as well. A must listen for every alt rock fan out there and of course any real R.E.M. fan will have listened to it several times by now. Can't wait for MSG and Jones Beach to see the fellas again!!!!!
R.E.M. RETURN TO ROCK April 30, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This album is not a return to form, as a lot of critics said, for this legendary group, but it represents just a return to rock! They've always been in form, and R.E.M. LIVE (2007)it's simply the best prove for what I'm writing! The previous two albums (Reveal 2001, Around The Sun 2004) were just too slow, but they anyway contains some pearls. Probably with a faster production and a little more of guitars and drums the average atmosphere of these two albums could have been more familiar to the band fans and even a bit more commercial. Up (1998) sounds like an incomplete album, and probably this is due to the suddenly departure of Bill Berry at the beginning of the recording sessions. It definitely sounds a little too different from anything else in 1998, but this is very R.E.M.! R.E.M. has often been very different from their contemporaries, like for example in 1983, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1996 and this is what allows them to be considered so special and great!
They've always had an average creativity and quality level superior than any other band! Reveal and Around The Sun should sound a little less R.E.M.ish than the previous albums but to explore different patterns is what they've tried to do since the winter of 1979. They're R.E.M. and this is what they've always done!!!
Accelerate is a great return to rock, or to the kind of rock they have refined during the last quarter of century (alternative, indie, jangle, garage, sofisticated, post-punk/new wave as you prefer). It's probably the better album they've done since New Adventures In Hi-Fi (their best in my opinion) but this is very reductive for this album. Some critics said it sounds like Life's Rich Pageant and Document but it isn't at the same level. I think R.E.M. has never sound the same, only the quality level is often the same! Two random R.E.M. songs could sound the same only at first listen, but not everyone is able to catch exactly the differences: You have to feel their music more than listen to it to understand!
In my opinion Sing For The Submarine and Accelerate are simply two of the best song written in this millennium, Houston is a very deep song and Living Well Is The Best Revenge and Horse to Water are very catchy. The rest is on an high level, We will listen Supernatural Superserious and Hollow Man even in a not so close future!
The production isn't exactly what You expext from Jacknife Lee, the whole atmosphere is a little to loud, and artists like Mike Mills and Peter Buck always deserves the finest and clearer production it is possible to made. But this loud atmosphere fit very well with the usually great Stipe's lyrics, visceral as ever.
Someone said this album isn't as creative as they use to be until Reveal; I say that Accelerate sounds like R.E.M. Sounds in 2008 and this is enough for me!!!
 Why do REM's videos stink? April 13, 2008
5 out of 13 found this review helpful
Unlike many people, I liked some of the songs on the last few REM albums. "Leaving New York" and "Around the Sun," for example, are wonderful songs. The new CD is really phenomenal, however, and several of the songs (e.g. "Hollow Man" and "Accelerate")are amongst the best the band has ever recorded. I made the unfortunate mistake of ordering the CD/DVD package, and given their recent track record (the "REM Live" DVD, for example), I suppose it's not a shock that the DVD is complete and utter garbage. The video looks very much like the work of a pretentious 20 year old art student who is trying very hard to show how clever he is. It's complete dreck, nearly unwatchable, and belongs in the trash.
What A Treat! April 7, 2008
14 out of 23 found this review helpful
I must disagree with the previous reviewers about this release. The DVD is short, but worth the exrtra few bucks. The footage from the live rehearsal is terrific and the in-studio footage is a hoot. Anyone who could be curmudgeonly over a short film that catches Mike Mills attempting (and failing) over and over to capture the word "water" on tape is just a sourpuss. It's hilarious! And, no offense to anyone who has served in the military, but for the previous reviewer to use a review of anything by REM, who have vocally opposed the Bush adsministration from the outset, to disparage the band is ridiculous. To say that you hate the DVD part of this release because you don't like REM's political views is like saying you hate Metallica's new album because you only listen to flute music from the Andes.
 Waste of Money April 7, 2008
12 out of 33 found this review helpful
R.E.M. has been my favorite band for years and years, so I automatically plopped down the cash for this "deluxe" version of their newest CD. As the other reviewers have stated, that was a very dumb move! I love the the CD, but this sad excuse for a mini-movie just irks me. I agree that the director was more interested in being high concept or "artistic" than in making something even remotely watchable. It's so dark that you can barely see anything, not that there's much worthwhile on the screen anyway!
In addition, I have to say something about the political content of the film. Look, I've always known that the members of R.E.M. were far more to the left politically than I could ever be, but I was still a fan because I'm listening to their music, not their views. But to hear Peter Buck say on this DVD that he's ashamed to be an American just aggravates me. I spent 20 years serving my country so that some rich rock star can complain about the country that put money in his pocket and is one of the few places in the world where he can voice his opinion? I don't mind if he complains about things he disagrees with, but I'm so sick of people bad-mouthing this great country that we're so fortunate to live in!
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