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| Artist: Rem
Label: Wea
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 724
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 418620
UPC: 093624988588
EAN: 0093624988588
ASIN: B0013BNY2Q
Release Date: March 31, 2008
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 zzzzz June 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Huh?! What? Where am I? Sorry must have nodded off. Was just listening to the new REM.
Time for Michael Stipe to get a new band.
 THE PARTY IS TRULY OVER June 2, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Hyped dullness to the nth degree. The guy who reviewed this in Record Collector and gave it 5 stars must be in the pay of the record company.
R.E.M, welcome back. May 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the beginning of R.E.M.'s rebirth: a fantastic return to form which harks back to the days before they became mainstream. It's a much more heavy album in comparison with their last few attempts.
One of my favourite tracks would have to be Houston, a stark song about the city post-Hurrican Katrina. Excellent and thrillingly addictive. Living Well's The Best Revenge is fast, full of furious guitar and Stipe's near shouting fighter's voice. His songwriting is darkly poetic and wonderfully engaging. Rarely have I listened to an album and fallen in love with every song, but this is one of those exceptions. Truly amazing and definitely worth buying.
Is Their Producer Deaf? May 26, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
As an occasional REM album buyer I bought this CD on the strength of the positive reviews on Amazon. Unfortunately this CD suffers from an increasingly common problem. It sounds like it was mastered by re-recording it playing from a telephone. I guess the producer is using various computer software applications such as a loudness maximiser and valve distortion emulation. Unfortunately, the recording has had all the dynamics and tonal colour squeezed out of it by over-processing and as a result, listening to this CD on a high end system is not much different to hearing an mp3 of it played through the cheapest of speakers. A muddy mess in both cases. Bruce Springsteen's Magic also suffered from this problem, but I listen to that CD in spite of its failings because, in my opinion, it has some of his best songs since Born To Run. Unfortunately, I couldn't make a similar comparison with the quality of songs on this disappointing record.
Surprising and very welcome! May 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After the recent disappointing albums this is an absolute return to form - an REM album that makes me _feel_ something again (and it's mostly joy and wonder).
Musically it's interesting, Stipe's lyrics and singing sound energised and I couldn't wait to put it on repeat and listen to it all again and again. Around the Sun was mostly boring, Reveal was hit and miss, but this is bang on the money for me. You have to accept that they'll never hit the hights of Green or Document again, but what they're doing now is visceral in parts (Sing for the Submarine), balls-to-the-wall Rock (Living Well, Supernatural Superserious, Hollow Man, Accelerate, Horse, DJ), funked-out bliss (Man-Sized Wreath), and a return to folk Americana like they showed us on Life's Rich Pageant (Until the Day is Done).
I'm suitably impressed, humbled for doubting them after the previous two albums and have fallen in love with their sound all over again. This _was_ a triumph, great success.
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