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- Original Release Date: 15 Oct 2004
- Format - Music: MP3
- Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
- Also available in CD Format
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| Song Title | Time | Price | |||
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| Play | 1. The Lifting | 4:39 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 2. I've Been High | 3:26 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 3. All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star) | 4:44 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 4. She Just Wants To Be | 5:22 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 5. Disappear | 4:10 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 6. Saturn Return | 4:54 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 7. Beat A Drum | 4:21 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 8. Imitation Of Life | 3:55 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 9. Summer Turns To High | 3:31 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 10. Chorus And The Ring | 4:31 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 11. I'll Take The Rain | 5:49 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 12. Beachball | 4:13 | £0.89 |
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I'm one of those people who has to be doing something else while listening to music - be it reading, working, whatever. It's not often that you get an album that strikes so many chords in you with the lyrics particularly, that you have to stop what you're doing to listen to certain songs. Admittedly, this isn't REM's best album. There can be no decisive 'best' album for REM because they're all so different. However, this album does have stand-out songs, almost every one of them. "I'll take the rain" shows Michael Stipe's feelings on singing - "I used to think, as birds take wing, they sing through life, so why can't we?" as well as other meanings, obviously.
What Stipe seems to do is invoke a feeling in you that makes you think every song is delivered to you. Three REM songs stand out like this, 'Tongue' on Monster, 'Walk Unafraid' on Up, and 'I'll take the Rain' on this one. REM are unstoppable in their ability - to get through crisis after crisis and still make music this beautiful, 20 years after 'Murmur'.
In one word - outstanding.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Up until now I was an REM virgin, having never previously owned anything of theirs before, although I loved many of their singles. After listening to Reveal, all that will change. The album kicks off with the spacey, electronic/rock of The Lifting, though the album, in my opinion, really starts to shine when I've Been High (Track 2) begins. A fragile, heartrending ballad, about coming down (not from drugs, but from life); it is a real standout. Next comes All The Way To Reno, a lightweight piece of fun, country-tinged rock. Following Reno, is She Just Wants To Be, a folkish ballad with a powerful, albeit short, repeated chorus. Disappear, a strangely uptempo, but melancholy song, follows maintaining Reveal's high standards. Next comes Saturn Return, the most experimental track on the album. Michael Stipe's beautiful voice is backed by sparse electronica and punctuated by piano and guitar chords.
With the exception of Reno and The Lifting, the album so far is quite bleak, but the mood changes on Beat A Drum, a summery, folkish tune. Imitation Of Life, Summer Turns To High and Chorus And The Ring follow, all more uptempo, and with the occasional Beach Boys influene thrown in. In my opinion, this is the weaker part of the album, but is still highly listenable.
The penultimate track is easily the highest moment of Reveal. The gorgeously sad ballad, I'll Take The Rain, rivals such REM classics as Losing My Religion, Everbody Hurts and The One I Love, with its anthemic chorus. Michael Stipe's voice sounds its fullest and richest on this track, complementing the soaring strings - pure REM class. While I'll Take The Rain would have made the perfect closer, the band opted for Beachball, a summery track, complete with horns. A happy end to a balanced and very good album. I'll be checking out the back catalogue very soon indeed.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
You could be forgiven for noting the similarities between Up and Reveal as they are both feature mainly slow tempo yet stirring, almost chill-out numbers. However, Reveal seems to have a prominent Summer feel to it especially in blissed-out 'Summer Turns to High', the care-free 'Beat a Drum' the shining 'The Lifting' and the shimmering 'All the Way to Reno'. Also worth a mention is the song 'Beachball', which feels a little odd even for REM, but has a nice holiday-island style sound to it.
Also featuring on the album is the brilliant yet catchy 'Imitation of Life', the true to life 'She Just Wants To Be' and 'Disappear', and the sombre yet defiant 'I'll Take the Rain'.
Although a slightly unorthodox sound for the band (as they seem to be exploring just about every type of instrument, synth and sound effect possible), still one of the most moving and unique REM albums available. Words simply cannot do it justice.
Also featuring on the album is the brilliant yet catchy 'Imitation of Life', the true to life 'She Just Wants To Be' and 'Disappear', and the sombre yet defiant 'I'll Take the Rain'.
Although a slightly unorthodox sound for the band (as they seem to be exploring just about every type of instrument, synth and sound effect possible), still one of the most moving and unique REM albums available. Words simply cannot do it justice.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Every song is a pearl.
One of REM's finest albums which I recommended to anyone interested in rock and music in general.
The cd came well wrapped and was delivered immediately.
The cd came well wrapped and was delivered immediately.
Published 7 months ago by tuxide
A Worthy Addition
The first thing to say is that the album has a clear tone - many of the songs are slower than most R.E.M. songs and focus on lyrics and beautiful melodies. Read more
Published 8 months ago by T. Edwards
Doesn't seem as Revealing as some other R.E.M. albums
Reveal is sometimes regarded as a bit like R.E.M.'s 'All that you can't leave behind', an attempt to gain back mass popularity using tried and tested sunny hooks. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Picnic
this is the third time you have done this
I own all but their latest albums and this has got to be their worst. There are four albums which I don't like that much, on two of them there are a few great songs on them Out of... Read more
Published on 13 May 2010 by Stephen
A step up from... Up.
Following the departure of Bill Berry, REM became what Michael Stipe described as a 'three legged dog. Read more
Published on 17 Feb 2010 by dynamitekid156
She just wants to be
Another `return to form` album from REM which isn't really, but it's still pretty good. The album carries on the more keyboard-friendly sound of `Up' (which almost was a `return to... Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2010 by A. Willard
charming
it took me quite a while to get into this album and really appreciate the subtlety of the music and lyrics. Stipe has a wonderful soft, but fresh voice. Listen to it... Read more
Published on 5 Dec 2009 by C. Oldham
Hmmmmm
I thought it would be interesting to see what customer rating this album has after looking at all the 'return to form after the last two disappointments' reviews of Accelerate. Read more
Published on 22 May 2008 by bumble76
UnderEstimation - Easily one of the Best
I'm glad no-one under-estimated She Just Wants to Be, which is one of my personal faves (besides Losing my Religion, Lotus, the Outsiders, Make it All OK, Final Straw, The... Read more
Published on 31 July 2005 by "tattle_teller"
Mind-numbingly boring
First of all, I'd like to say that I'm a big R.E.M. fan, and I've really liked all of their albums, with the exception of 'New Adventures' and, now, this one. Read more
Published on 25 Jun 2004 by creature40
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