03-15-2008, 07:41 PM
Leaked. Sounds pretty rockin' so far (one track in).
Stipe and new REM...hahaha
03-16-2008, 01:31 AM
"Death is pretty final.
I'm collectin' vinyl."
Fucking badass
I'm collectin' vinyl."
Fucking badass
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03-16-2008, 09:39 AM
opiated Wrote:...agree that they suck live though
I've always felt that they're one of those bands that has always been better live than in the studio, particularly following the last 3 mediocre albums.
I'll definitely be catching them at the Molson Amphitheatre this summer, and I'm crossing my fingers the new album is better than what's come out since Berry left.
03-16-2008, 12:37 PM
sean.bonner Wrote:"Death is pretty final.
I'm collectin' vinyl."
Fucking badass
?
their performance in that youtube video was painfully mediocre and the song itself is so very shit.
03-16-2008, 03:47 PM
beanmedic Wrote:sean.bonner Wrote:"Death is pretty final.
I'm collectin' vinyl."
Fucking badass
?
their performance in that youtube video was painfully mediocre and the song itself is so very shit.
:thumb:
03-17-2008, 11:37 AM
Well, perhaps I am the only Hip fan to say this........but I can not stand R.E.M............never liked them, never will.
Nothing against anybody who does, I am sure there are bands out there I love and other hate, just my own personal tastes.
And I never got the correlation between the two groups? Aside from both Stipe and Downie now being bald........thats about as close of a comparison I can find?? I don't think they sound even close to the same for people to draw comparisons to their music??
Nothing against anybody who does, I am sure there are bands out there I love and other hate, just my own personal tastes.
And I never got the correlation between the two groups? Aside from both Stipe and Downie now being bald........thats about as close of a comparison I can find?? I don't think they sound even close to the same for people to draw comparisons to their music??
03-17-2008, 04:57 PM
I love all this R.e.M bashing! It's like 1987 all over again. Any minute now a football player in a Bon Jovi t-shirt is going to walk past and knock the books out of my hands.
For those who dig....
R.E.M. - 10/02/85 Germany- Little America
[youtube]vZFPhCSManw&feature=related[/youtube]
For those who dig....
R.E.M. - 10/02/85 Germany- Little America
[youtube]vZFPhCSManw&feature=related[/youtube]
03-17-2008, 05:45 PM
I dont care what anyone thinks, Ive always liked R.E.M. Ill admit not everything they do is pure gold, but they still make great music and put on a very good live show (from the shows Ive seen anyway).
As for the new album Im really enjoying it so far, its got its highs and a couple lows..typical R.E.M. fare Id say. Its definitely a step above the last two albums, I like what they tried to do with this album and they pulled it off well..looking forward to the ampitheater show in June.
:thumb:
ps: thanks for the video, havent seen that one before. its always fun to look back and see how people have changed over the years and i dont just mean r.e.m.
As for the new album Im really enjoying it so far, its got its highs and a couple lows..typical R.E.M. fare Id say. Its definitely a step above the last two albums, I like what they tried to do with this album and they pulled it off well..looking forward to the ampitheater show in June.
:thumb:
ps: thanks for the video, havent seen that one before. its always fun to look back and see how people have changed over the years and i dont just mean r.e.m.
03-20-2008, 04:11 PM
03-21-2008, 02:53 PM
I can only hope that the leak is a rip of a bad audio stream. Maybe someone hacked the iLike feed.
However, Living Well Is The Best Revenge hits me the way Lonely End of the Rink does.
Cheers,
Pat
However, Living Well Is The Best Revenge hits me the way Lonely End of the Rink does.
Cheers,
Pat
03-21-2008, 03:19 PM
Michael Stipe Press Announcement
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03-28-2008, 03:12 PM
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03-29-2008, 01:54 PM
ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE
DAVID FRICKE
Review: R.e.M. Accelerate 4/5 Stars
When their original drummer, Bill Berry, quit in 1997, R.E.M. became more than "a three-legged dog," as singer Michael Stipe famously put it at the time. Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike Mills actually turned into a pair of trios, two very different bands, for the next ten years. One was the studio R.E.M. of Up, Reveal and Around the Sun: wounded but determined, making a stately, reflective pop rich in psychedelic luster and heavy with ballads about faith and doubt. Then there was the concert R.E.M. Armed with longtime second guitarist Scott McCaughey and, in recent years, ex-Ministry drummer Bill Rieflin, Stipe, Buck and Mills charged the musical exploration and internal debate on those records with the dirty-silver jangle and get-in-the-van surge of R.E.M.'s quartet-era classics, such as 1986's Lifes Rich Pageant and 1987's Document.
Accelerate is the first studio album by that post-Berry stage band, and it is one of the best records R.E.M. have ever made. Much of Accelerate was cut in live-band takes and even tested onstage during a run in Dublin last summer, and it shows. Guitars are front and center, in slashing-chord and rusted-arpeggio crossfires, as if you've got R.E.M.'s 1982 EP Chronic Town and the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks spinning in your CD tray at the same time. "Man-Sized Wreath," "Supernatural Superserious" and "Horse to Water" rattle and zoom like buried treasures from an old club-tour set list. And there is nothing soft or shy about the slower darkness either. In "Houston," a stark snapshot of post-Katrina exile ("If the storm doesn't kill me/The government will"), crude fuzz drones and ham-fisted organ chords roll over Buck's acoustic guitar and the fighter's will in Stipe's voice ("I was taught to hold my head high. . . . Make the best of what today has") like oily floodwater.
But the R.E.M. on Accelerate is also the one I saw at New York's Madison Square Garden right after 2004's Vote for Change Tour — and two nights after Bush's re-election. Bummed but unbowed, they opened the show with loud, fast defiance — "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" — and they do the same thing here, with "Living Well Is the Best Revenge." "Don't turn your talking points on me/History will set me free/The future is ours, and you don't even rate a footnote," Stipe sings in a rapid, ecstatic near-shout over flying fists of guitar and racing bass and drums. And that's just the start of the blowback. "Nature abhors a vacuum/But what's between your ears?" he snaps in "Man-Sized Wreath," a bitter laugh at empty pomp and sound-bite patriotism, aimed at sheep and herders alike. And whoever "Mr. Richards" is, he gets his just desserts — "Mr. Richards, your conviction/Had us cheering in the kitchen" — served with Buck and McCaughey's bristling-glam guitars.
Stipe has not sounded this viscerally engaged in his singing and poetically lethal in his writing since the twilight of the Reagan administration. But he is not merely protesting the mess of the nation. Accelerate is total-victory rock, Stipe making promises he knows he can keep — "You weakened shill . . . Savor your dying breath" ("Living Well") — because he's not alone. The apocalypse is obvious in "Sing for the Submarine," an urban-holocaust update of Crosby, Stills and Nash's hippie-escape plan "Wooden Ships." So is the strength in numbers. "It's all a lot less frightening/Than we would've had it be," Stipe insists, as Mills swoops way behind him in guardian-angel harmony. (Mills' vocals, too often taken for granted, are frequent literal high points on the album, the reassuring sunlight on Stipe's gritty delivery.) And in "Hollow Man," Stipe concedes his own needs and fuck-ups, then calls for help — "Corner me and make me something" — in a stunning mix of tender-piano ballad and big-guitar chorus that sums up the commitment that makes true loves, democracies and great rock bands possible.
Ultimately, the best thing about Accelerate is that R.E.M. sound whole again, no longer three-legged but complete in their bond and purpose. "Music will provide the light you cannot resist," Stipe crows at the end of the record, in the atomic frivolity of "I'm Gonna DJ." And you can believe him — because he and his band believe in themselves again.
DAVID FRICKE
Review: R.e.M. Accelerate 4/5 Stars
When their original drummer, Bill Berry, quit in 1997, R.E.M. became more than "a three-legged dog," as singer Michael Stipe famously put it at the time. Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike Mills actually turned into a pair of trios, two very different bands, for the next ten years. One was the studio R.E.M. of Up, Reveal and Around the Sun: wounded but determined, making a stately, reflective pop rich in psychedelic luster and heavy with ballads about faith and doubt. Then there was the concert R.E.M. Armed with longtime second guitarist Scott McCaughey and, in recent years, ex-Ministry drummer Bill Rieflin, Stipe, Buck and Mills charged the musical exploration and internal debate on those records with the dirty-silver jangle and get-in-the-van surge of R.E.M.'s quartet-era classics, such as 1986's Lifes Rich Pageant and 1987's Document.
Accelerate is the first studio album by that post-Berry stage band, and it is one of the best records R.E.M. have ever made. Much of Accelerate was cut in live-band takes and even tested onstage during a run in Dublin last summer, and it shows. Guitars are front and center, in slashing-chord and rusted-arpeggio crossfires, as if you've got R.E.M.'s 1982 EP Chronic Town and the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks spinning in your CD tray at the same time. "Man-Sized Wreath," "Supernatural Superserious" and "Horse to Water" rattle and zoom like buried treasures from an old club-tour set list. And there is nothing soft or shy about the slower darkness either. In "Houston," a stark snapshot of post-Katrina exile ("If the storm doesn't kill me/The government will"), crude fuzz drones and ham-fisted organ chords roll over Buck's acoustic guitar and the fighter's will in Stipe's voice ("I was taught to hold my head high. . . . Make the best of what today has") like oily floodwater.
But the R.E.M. on Accelerate is also the one I saw at New York's Madison Square Garden right after 2004's Vote for Change Tour — and two nights after Bush's re-election. Bummed but unbowed, they opened the show with loud, fast defiance — "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" — and they do the same thing here, with "Living Well Is the Best Revenge." "Don't turn your talking points on me/History will set me free/The future is ours, and you don't even rate a footnote," Stipe sings in a rapid, ecstatic near-shout over flying fists of guitar and racing bass and drums. And that's just the start of the blowback. "Nature abhors a vacuum/But what's between your ears?" he snaps in "Man-Sized Wreath," a bitter laugh at empty pomp and sound-bite patriotism, aimed at sheep and herders alike. And whoever "Mr. Richards" is, he gets his just desserts — "Mr. Richards, your conviction/Had us cheering in the kitchen" — served with Buck and McCaughey's bristling-glam guitars.
Stipe has not sounded this viscerally engaged in his singing and poetically lethal in his writing since the twilight of the Reagan administration. But he is not merely protesting the mess of the nation. Accelerate is total-victory rock, Stipe making promises he knows he can keep — "You weakened shill . . . Savor your dying breath" ("Living Well") — because he's not alone. The apocalypse is obvious in "Sing for the Submarine," an urban-holocaust update of Crosby, Stills and Nash's hippie-escape plan "Wooden Ships." So is the strength in numbers. "It's all a lot less frightening/Than we would've had it be," Stipe insists, as Mills swoops way behind him in guardian-angel harmony. (Mills' vocals, too often taken for granted, are frequent literal high points on the album, the reassuring sunlight on Stipe's gritty delivery.) And in "Hollow Man," Stipe concedes his own needs and fuck-ups, then calls for help — "Corner me and make me something" — in a stunning mix of tender-piano ballad and big-guitar chorus that sums up the commitment that makes true loves, democracies and great rock bands possible.
Ultimately, the best thing about Accelerate is that R.E.M. sound whole again, no longer three-legged but complete in their bond and purpose. "Music will provide the light you cannot resist," Stipe crows at the end of the record, in the atomic frivolity of "I'm Gonna DJ." And you can believe him — because he and his band believe in themselves again.
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