R.E.M. - Up
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Artist: R.E.M.Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-10-27
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Airportman
- Lotus
- Suspicion
- Hope
- At My Most Beautiful
- The Apologist
- Sad Professor
- You're In The Air
- Walk Unafraid
- Why Not Smile
- Daysleeper
- Diminished
- Parakeet
- Falls To Climb
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Free Music Review: Not the R.E.M. I know & love
Hit: 1 Stars
Look I'm all for the ability of artists to change, mature, and evolve over time. Indeed, I don't want artists to keep churning out the same record, again and again. Green is not Life's Rich Pageant; Out Of Time is not Reckoning. And that's a good thing. But this, this is just awful. Whether you like the earliest REM (Murmur, Reckoning), REM at its hit-making prime (Automatic for the People, Monster), or their most current incarnation (Accelerate), this one is just a clinker. Even the best of artists occasionally produce bad stuff (see young, Neil: Trans, re-ac-tor, Everybody's Rockin', Arc). This is that disc for R.E.M. A song by song review is overkill & unnecessary. I paid $2 for this on a whim at a used record shop. I wish I had my $2 back. Avoid.
Up Poster
After R.E.M.'s somewhat ambitious 1996 album, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, failed to ignite Billboard's Hot 100, you might have figured the band would return to the rock-solid bombast of Monster or the consumer-friendly pop of Green. But R.E.M. have enough cash not to worry about commercial failure, and they've already been to the top of the mountain, so for now they'd rather explore its lush valleys and secret caves. Up is an atmospheric journey as impressionistic as Enya and as evocative as John Barry. Some critics have compared it with the band's delicate and emotionally revealing gem Automatic for the People, but Up is more ambitious and creative. Sure, most of the songs are pastoral, but they're undercut with drama and sonic experimentation. The melodies are generally spare, the beats sparse. Guitars flicker in and out, providing tension and dynamics, while quivering strings, layered keyboards, and washes of feedback color the songs like textured lines of paint in an oil portrait. The only blatant pop song is the single "Daysleeper." The rest of the album ebbs and flows, each song a separate component of a complete artistic expression. The sound may be influenced by guitarist Peter Buck's cinematic jazz side project Tuatara or by Michael Stipe's celluloid excursions, but its source doesn't matter. What's important is that more than a decade after their sell-by date, R.E.M. continue to challenge and inspire. Things are definitely looking up. --Jon WiederhornAlternative Rock Music CDs
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