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Accelerate
by R.E.M.
from Warner Bros / Wea

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Overhyped
  Accelerate can be one of those albums which fans, upset with R.E.M.'s last few releases, may judge too highly, throwing out words like comeback just to describe a vague adult-rock, easy going consistency in a way which almost insults some of their finer intricacies.

• New and Old
  Hailed even pre-release as a return to R.E.M.'s roots, and the press laid so much credence in this thought - it would kind of be hard to live up to.
  The result - they do and they don't.
  Is 'Accelerate' the new 'Fables of the Reconstruction'? No. But I didn't expect it to be. But on the upside, it's also not one of their last two or three releases either. While those were not horrid, they were just there and not horribly well thought out.
  I enjoyed 'Accelerate' - more than any disk since... more info

• "Monster" for the MySpace Generation
  I've stuck it out with REM for decades, loved "Up" and "Reveal" for the grandiose Radioheadizations that they were, and even listened to "The Lifting" more than once if you can believe that. So there's my required REM backstory. But as meaningless as that pedigree is, even people who have never heard this band before should be down on this turkey. Focus-grouped and polished for the MySpace page, "Accelerate" tries way too hard to convince us that "MICHAEL BLOGGING FROM SARAJEVO!! LIVE ALBUM MERCH VID CLIPS... more info

• A nice return to rock, but no masterpiece
  There's no doubt that R.E.M. were feeling the pressure to get back to being a rock band after their past three releases. So for the first time since 1996's New Adventures in Hi-Fi, the band has delivered a pure rock record. Peter Buck's guitar screams and shreds like it hasn't done in years and there is actually a drummer instead of a drum machine and looped beats. All of that is fine and good. But you get the sense while listening to Accelerate, that Stipe and company were primarily concerned with rocking... more info

Tracks:

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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