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  • Audio CD (31 Mar 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Wea
  • ASIN: B0013BNY2Q
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,479 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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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

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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 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

CD Description
This fourteenth studio album from the veteran indie rockersis the follow-up to 2004's 'Around The Sun' and comes just six months after their 'Live' CD/DVD stopgap. The brusquest,most amped-up and aggressive album they have made in decades, the eleven songs on 'Accelerate' flash by in a scant 34 minutes and mark a return to the harder post-punk sounds of their pre-major label days, whilst not disregarding the infectious melodies that have made their name. Includes the single 'Supernatural Superserious'.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Accelerate, 16 April 2008
By Gary Kitchen "gazkitch" (Wakefield) - See all my reviews
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I can say with some relief that this is a welcome return back to form for REM. Just when you thought they had lost the plot on the last albumn they re-discover the magic that made them one of the top bands of the 80's and 90's!!! The songs are tight and catchy and they actually sound like a band that are enjoying themselves .....it's just a pity that it's all over in just over half an hour ....but it's a case of "less is more!!!"
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58 of 71 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars FINALLY, an R.E.M. record I don't have to be ashamed of., 16 Mar 2008
By M. P. Foster "Matthew Foster" (Nottingham, UK) - See all my reviews
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R.E.M. are back and this time, it's brilliant.

First impressions? Blown away. I literally danced around my bedroom at 2AM listening to it.

The opening trio of Living Well Is The Best Revenge, Man-Sized Wreath and sugarsweet single Supernatural Superserious makes for perhaps the best start to an R.E.M. record ever. I'm serious.

And the pace hardly lets up. Hollow Man starts off like a Coldplay cut, all mournful piano, before lifting into the sort of college rock, post-punk dance off the band used to make.
Houston, one of the shortest tracks the band have ever done, manages to sound experimental, sinister and hopeful all at the same time. Stipe's vocals are gruff and more buried in the mix than they have been in a decade, and his lyric writing returns to the abstract throughout.

Title track Accelerate is heavy and dark. It reminds me of Joy Division or Editors, but is unmistakeably R.E.M. The return of Mike Mills to backing vocals provides the album with some of its most impressive moments, particularly here. Until the Day Is Done is a callback to some of the material on Around the Sun, indignant and angry about the state of the world. The record seems to deal with hope and fear about the future. You get the impression that the band looks back at the past 25 years and thinks "What the hell's changed?". It's angry and bitter, but filled with little rays of sunshine and moments of beauty.

Mr. Richards provides a perfect example of this. Rallying against an evil-doer and listing his faults, the song suddenly picks up with a refrain of "We're the children of the choir, hey / And we know what's going on". This is matched with a beautiful bit of guitar work that turns it from a grungy dirge into something transcendental. Sing For The Submarine is almost, though thankfully not quite, a prog-rock track. It bounces all over the place and is the most forceful track this band have produced. Stipe self-references a couple of previous songs, which I thought would bug me, but actually serves to enhance that feeling of having a conversation with the past. This song really soars; I was expecting a meandering take, but Bill Rieflin, who, for all intents and purposes is now R.E.M.'s drummer has done wonders for this group.

Horse to Water sees Stipe tripping over his words again, which he hasn't done since It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine). This track is the only one that hasn't really grabbed me yet; it seems likes it's going nowhere in a hurry, although the chaotic ending promises to be a brilliant live moment. Rounding off the briskest set in the catalogue is I'm Gonna DJ. This is probably the goofiest, most laid-back track since The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite and has a bunged-up sounding Stipe promising to 'DJ at the end of the worrrrrld!'. A lot of people hate this track, but I think it's a fantastic and different way for them to end an album; it's fast, it's fun and it's basically saying "We're all doomed... anyone for a party?".

It's hard to talk about this album without referring to the past few R.E.M. records. I will defend Up and Reveal to the death, as necessary, if flawed records, which provided me with some of my all-time favourite songs by the band. They were quirky and different, if overlong and questionably sequenced. Around the Sun, the band's last record is harder to defend. Quite a few of the tracks had strong potential, but I once heard it described as an 'ivory tower' record; the band sat up in an expensive studio tweaking knobs and forgetting what they were really about.

Accelerate, then, is them jumping out of the window head-first and landing on two feet. It doesn't simply ape the past, or get stuck on repeat. It reminds everyone why R.E.M. ever mattered, but sounds urgent, sounds relevant and sounds like it belongs here and now. It reconnects with the past, of the hopes and fears you feel when you're younger and says "Let's do something about it!".

Incredible. Please, even if you've hated R.E.M. for the past ten years, give it a listen.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars REM are back., 21 April 2008
By Mr. T. Goodacre "Tim Goodacre" (London) - See all my reviews
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I must say I was surprised by this album. To say that the last couple of REM albums were disappointing would be an understatement. So I was relieved by this album (which I only bought out of long-term loyalty). It is the first album of theirs that I've really enjoyed since "Hi Fi". And better than that it is a ROCK album. The record is short, punchy, and very addictive. And as others will note there is both a return to form, and a welcome revisiting of some of their hey-day material. A new hey-day? Let's hope so!
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2.0 out of 5 stars One for the fans only.
I have several REM albums and this has a few good tracks. I would give it three stars if the sound quality were acceptable. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not worthy of the hype
I love R.E.M. and was delighted to see the advance publicity for this album, proclaiming that it was their best in years etc. etc. etc. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is the real REM
I bought this a few months ago, listened dutifully a few times, put it to one side (my standard procedure for most REM stuff since 'Monster', I'm sorry to say). Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars More Quality from REM
The first thing that hit me as I listened to this CD was how familiar it sounded. Not necessarily a bad thing, this made the record immediately comfortable and enjoyable. Read more
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Rock 'n' roll as it should be - loud, noisy, defiant, aggressive, hook-laden, mysterious, sing-a-long, and above all, it sounds like the band are having fun playing it... Read more
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Absolutely brilliant! In my opinion, the best REM album since Automatic For The People. Highly recommended. Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not their best by a long way
There are a few tracks on this album I'd rate highly.. but the quality of the recording is awfull. The dynamics are so compressed that the meters on my McIntosh amp just don't... Read more
Published 10 months ago by C. M. Johnson

2.0 out of 5 stars don't believe the hype
I have never written a review of an REM album before even though I have loved them for years and am even in the fan club. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars REM have nothing left to say
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... Read more
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