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Accelerate (digipack)

~ REM (Artist)
3.8 out of 5 stars  (66 customer reviews)
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Product details

  • Audio CD (31 Mar 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Wea
  • ASIN: B0013BNY2Q
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (66 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 212 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

    Popular in these categories:

    #45 in  Music > Adult Contemporary > Pop Rock
    #59 in  Music > All Bargain CDs

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Track Listings

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

Product Description

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 cliché, this really does sound like a band--and a band half th