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| Artist: Rem
Label: Wea
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 155
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 418620
UPC: 093624988588
EAN: 0093624988588
ASIN: B0013BNY2Q
Release Date: March 31, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW - Sealed IMPORT!!
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| Tracks:
| • | Living Well Is The Best Revenge | | • | Man Sized Wreath | | • | Supernatural Superserious | | • | Hollow Man | | • | Houston | | • | Accelerate | | • | Until The Day Is Done | | • | Mr Richards | | • | Sing For The Submarine | | • | Horse To Water | | • | I'm Gonna DJ |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
At this stage in a band's career a Mojo front cover would seem more likely than actually getting their old mojo back. And at 14 albums young, REM's longevity had been taken as a byword for pale compliance--in spite of a melodic obedience, last album Around the Sun lacked the emotional vigour of their key works and was presumed by many to be no more than a footnote in their decline. Here then is where they break all the rules. Accelerate is exceptionally loyal to its title and marks a hefty return to their Document-era heyday, when their Byrdsian post-punk was beefed up to suit the arenas they were then beginning to fill. There's even a new "end of the world" song to back up that assertion--the excitable Stooges/B52s love-in "I'm Gonna DJ" ("Death is pretty final/I'm collecting vinyl/I'm gonna DJ at the end of the world!"). Michael Stipe's voice splinters scattered emotional punctuation, Mike Mills is as ever REM's secret weapon, drilling out bass-lines like rapid CPR and achieving more with a single backing vocal than many lead singers manage over a whole album, while Peter Buck deals out memorable guitar twists a-go-go evoking amongst others The Who, The Small Faces and Neil Young. To summon a cliche, this really does sound like a band--and a band half their age at that--playing live in a room, packed full of all the fire and nuances needed to feel at home in a club or the stadiums they now more regularly inhabit. --James Berry
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| Customer Reviews: Read 59 more reviews...
 Their best in 10 years ...... June 21, 2008
Kev 71 (Cardiff, Wales)
This is the album REM had to make following the dull mid-tempo sludge of Around The Sun. It's a return to better form, and despite not being up there with the great earlier albums it's still an enjoyable 35 minute rush of classic REM. The opening 3 songs in particular pack a punch, and it's good to hear Peter Buck let loose again on uptempo stonkers like Living Well Is The Best Revenge and Horse To Water. Slower songs like Houston and Until The Day Is Done have an Automatic FTP feel to them (which is a good thing) and the closing glam thrash of I'm Gonna DJ sounds like Stipe was singing it after drinking too much Babycham (which is not such a good thing).
Fans expecting another Lifes Rich Pageant or Murmur will be disappointed, but this is still the strongest set of tunes the band have recorded in the 10 years since Bill Berry left.
REM have nothing left to say June 19, 2008
Michael Mukasa (London)
I own every REM record and each time I buy in hope.. Let's face it fellow fans, its over! This record opens up with a fabulous track that grabbed me but it faded quickly and although for some moments it sounded like a return to 80's glory, it sort of limps to a dull finish. It sounds ok in places but if I want the glory days, I slip in 'Life's rich pageant' or 'Fables of the reconstruction'. Aside from the first song which is outstanding, and the next 3 (above average), the album struggles to convince me that REM will ever be the same without the much missed Bill Berry. They need new ideas and all I heard here was the same old ground. I will probably continue to buy their records as a die hard fan, hoping for a real revival, but it will probably be in vain.
Live they're brilliant, in the studio they're dull June 17, 2008
pseudopanax (London)
Yes, Accelerate is much better than Around the Sun, but REM is a band that is well past its sell by date in the recording studio. Performing live, they are exhilarating, but there is little exhilarating on this disc. Hollow Man comes close to reliving some of the old glory, but most of these songs are just one dimensional reworkings of songs written in their prime. That said, REM is a hell of lot better than their bewilderingly successful contemporaries, the pretentious, bombastic and puerile U2.
very enjoyable June 14, 2008
the (europe)
a friend invited me to watch one of the concerts REM did promoting the album before it became available and I went along thinking it might be fun. Growing up in the 90s I listen to some REM songs that were already then considered 'classics' and I have low expectations from this new album as I have formed the vague assumption that REM had already done their best work and I went to that concert mostly out of nostalgia.
I enjoyed the songs so must the first thing I did next morning was to pre-order the cd. There are songs which I must have already heard as many times as I had heard losing my religion as a teenager. I enjoyed this album very much even though I did not expected it, it had an REM sound that took me back to my school years and it felt alive and contemporary.
A great album, I recomend you to give it a try.
If I DJ at the end of the world I'll play this record at some point June 11, 2008
Mr. R. Hadfield (Wirral, UK)
This is easily the best record REM have put out since New Adventures In Hi-Fi...I like it...Not allot...But I do like it, first 3 tracks are superb...the rest of the album is just pretty good.
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