Advantages: Tremendous lyrics, awesome melodies, Cracking album Disadvantages: None
adding a glimpse into the musical talent in this band.
This album was playing when Kurt Kobain comitted suicide (personally I didn't find it THAT haunting!).
If you have never really listened to REM then I suggest you get this album, you will not be disappointed. For me this is the finest album I own. ...
Advantages: R.E.M.'s best album since "New Adventures in Hi-Fi". Disadvantages: ...R.E.M. haven't had a good album since "New Adventures in Hi-Fi".
R.E.M. "Accelerate" (Warner Bros., 2008) - More disappointing, disturbingly self-referential, placeholding.
One of the ironies of R.E.M.'s long career has been their fairly impressive inability to structure their own albums into both coherent and interesting masses, the irony rooted in three remarkable exceptions: the jangling and often menacing I.R.S.-period "Life's Rich Pageant", the nigh-perfect expression of the American plains in "Automatic for the People", and the fuzzy, brave, quasi future-rock "Monster". As an R.E.M. fan you accept that for every hit, there are the near-hits, and the awful experiments, as the band reel somewhat pretentiously from what their last album really cost in spirit, rebuilding their own character through our generous donations to the cause of their emotional stock, so far removed from their ...
Advantages: Eeverything except....... Disadvantages: New Orleans Instrumental No. 1
an introduction is a more solemn (Albeit quite powerful) song than in a few of R.E.M's other albums. Songs like 'Radio Song' (Out Of Time) and 'FinestWorksong' (Document) are considerably more upbeat. Despite this, 'Automatic' doesn't suffer too much for it. Perhaps 'Drive' is there to balance out the 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight', an upbeat song sung to the tune of 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' (Or something of a similar ilk).
'Everybody hurts' is pure brilliance. I need not say much about it because it is R.E.M at their best (Enjoyable regardless of whether you like their other songs or not). What I don't understand is the reasoning behind the inclusion of 'New Orleans Instrumental No. 1' as the following track. There must be a plausible explanation but I'm at odds to even guess what that might be. It sounds quite inane in my opinion
'Sweetness ...
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