Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: R.E.M. Title: Accelerate Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Warner Bros / Wea Original Release Date: 1/1/2008 Re-Release Date: 4/1/2008 Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, American Alternative, Adult Alternative Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 093624988588 |
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Member CD Reviews Felicia J. (FMJ) from THORNTON, CO Reviewed on 6/4/2008... What an amazing album! I have been listening to "Accelerate" at least twice a week since its release, and I haven't tired of it yet. This is R.E.M.'s best album since "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" and possibly since "Automatic for the People." It may end up ranking in my top three R.E.M. albums of all time. I have been a fan for 20 years, but the band's last couple of albums disappointed me. It's fantastic to hear them rocking again. "Accelerate" recalls their best work of the '80s and '90s while sounding fresh and exciting. The album plays in a flash, leaving me wanting to listen to it again every time I hear it. 2 of 2 member(s) found this review helpful.
CD ReviewsReformation Accepted Michael Goodrich | Phoenix, Az. | 03/28/2010 (5 out of 5 stars) "After two decades of releasing the kind of music that is prone to attract college-aged males, REM finds themselves making music under a new record label and Accelerate is their latest implementation unto a record-sales anomaly. As R.E.M. started to record under the new label, their music has been faster paced, more tongue and cheek and more focused on the instrumental advances that their music is able to achieve. Since the departure of R.E.M.'s percussionist(multi-instrumentalist), Bill Berry, the band was not able to regain their original popularity or power. Accelerate shows that R.E.M. is ready to show the world that it is going to make records that still break boundaries, for years to come. Being that this record was recorded within a smaller amount of time that the band has ever finished a piece of work in; one might have expected less of an album. Accelerate was that of genius and having been recorded in Dublin, Ireland, as well as their hometown in Georgia, one only needs to listen to one song from this album and they will fall in love with such a masterpiece." Accelerated Rejuvenation Diane Mcgough | Lake Oswego, OR | 06/04/2010 (5 out of 5 stars) "R.E.M. are still going strong after all theses years, which is particularly good these days with bands breaking up all the time. It seemed like the band might have been at their end with the release of 2004's Around the Sun which was a somber and politically frustrated album, although they did have many songs written around world topics and political items, this album was a little different.
With this release they seem to turn up the amps differently, then they have before. They're louder and more in your face. Michael Stipe seems to push his vocals to the max with songs like "Man-Sized" and "Living Well Is The Best Revenge". I've always loved his creativity with lyrics, like when he screams, "I'd have thought by now we would be ready to proceed but a tearful hymn to tug the heart and a man-sized wreath-oh". The album is more in the up vibe, but it does slow down a bit on a couple songs like "Sing For The Submarine". This is R.E.M.'s heaviest album since Monster and it seems to me that they have rejuvenated themselves." |
