Accelerate

R.E.M. - Accelerate

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Artist: R.E.M.
Brand: R.E.M.
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-04-01
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Living Well Is The Best Revenge
  2. Man-Sized Wreath
  3. Supernatural Superserious
  4. Hollow Man
  5. Houston
  6. Accelerate
  7. Until The Day Is Done
  8. Mr. Richards
  9. Sing For The Submarine
  10. Horse To Water
  11. I'm Gonna DJ

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Free Music Review: I hate this album!
Hit: 1 Stars

Now before I say anything about the album let me tell everyone that I love R.E.M. if you're talking about old R.E. M. from 81-88 and 92-94. R.E.M. have not put out a good release since Monster. When this album came out I foolishly had high expectations for it. The last 3 albums were poor. Up being too electronic and boring. Reveal being decent with some moments but not great. Around The Sun I never heard buit heard nothing but negative things so never bothered to listen to it. I thought hopefuly by their 4th album without founding member Bill Berry they could get it right and rock again instead of being real mellow. Well the songs are more guitar driven now but there is absolutly no life to them. They're just boring and I wasn't able to listen to the whole album. I found it completly unlistnable and was not the great comeback I hoped it would be. R.E.M. have put out great masterpieces like Murmer, Reckoning, Green and Automatic For The People. Monster was the last album I liked. Ever since then they have gone downhill. I would probably say this is their second worst album next to Up. Sorry fans but I couldn't get into this one at all. The songwriting and playing was weak. I'll have to say I'm done with R.E.M. If I want to hear an R.E.M. album it's going to be Chronic Town through Monster with the exception of Out Of Time (their ultimate sell out album.)

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 1-APR-2008
In the decade since the departure of drummer Bill Berry, R.E.M. could seem at times schizophrenic. Their albums of the era, which veered from the experimentalism of Up and reaffirmation of Reveal to 2004's more diffuse, reflective Around the Sun, often stood in stark contrast to the vibrancy of their live act. But here the alt-rock godfathers have resolved that dichotomy with their most focused and satisfying album in over a decade; a collection that doesn't so much revisit the bracing ethos of the band's '80s coming-of-age, as boil it down to its essence and supercharge it with the energy of their contemporary stage shows. That sensibility is evident from the opening track, "Living Well's the Best Revenge," where Peter Buck's aggressive, distortion-drenched riffs and Michael Stipe's gruff snarl set the tone for "Mansized Wreath," "Horse to Water," and "Supernatural Serious"; rockers that bristle with the abandonment and aggressive energy of a band half their tenure. Yet it's no mere blast-from-the-past. The inclusion of the band's recent touring musicians (Scott McCaughey on second guitar and drummer Bill Rieflin) into the session mix, as well as working out much of the material live onstage in Dublin, has yielded something more sonically akin to R.E.M. 2.2. Stipe's penchant for the lyrically opaque has been largely supplanted by an edgy, articulate passion that variously explores "Houston'"s displaced Katrina refugees, the bluegrass-tinged "Until the Day is Done," and the more typical, quiet self-examination of "Hollow Man," before exploding in the album's unlikely, upbeat elegy "I'm Gonna DJ," where singer and band find renewed hope in not only music, but themselves. --Jerry McCulley

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