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| Accelerate | 
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| Artist: R.e.m.
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  211 reviews
Sales Rank: 489
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 418620
UPC: 093624988588
EAN: 0093624988588
ASIN: B0013BNY2Q
Release Date: April 1, 2008
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Condition: West Omaha Store **
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| Customer Reviews:
 I'm bitter too. April 25, 2008
Love it. I think this album can be held up to any of their classics. It's the best album since 'Out Of Time'. Michael is pissed off thank god. It's about time someone was. Anyway I just want to say I think 'I'm gonna DJ' is one of the best songs they have ever written. Those who don't like it can go jump in a lake. This is good rockin, thoughful R.E.M. folks nothing more nothing less.
 An improvement.... May 29, 2008
'Accelerate' is the album where R.E.M. attempt to stop the rot and put a halt to a run of shockingly bad albums. They succeed, mostly. It's good to hear them sound somewhat fired up again and there are a few songs here (mainly 'Mr Richards', 'Man-Sized Wreath', 'Sing for the Submarine', 'Horse to Water' and 'Living Well is the Best Revenge' that are R.E.M.'s strongest compositions for several years.
Unfortunately, the fact remains that R.E.M. are WAY past their best. 'Automatic' is their last classic and this doesn't come close to that, and these songs are aeons away from the brilliance they achieved on their first four albums. 'Supernatural Superserious' and 'Hollow Man' are bland rockers with no new ideas whatsoever, 'I'm Gonna DJ' is just downright bad, 'Houston' too ponderous... about half of this album is R.E.M. trying to imitate their old albums, but these songs are simply less inspired.
Nevertheless, this is still a fairly satisfying listen and the best songs on 'Accelerate' at least show they aren't completely washed up yet.
That's Me On the Sidelines June 5, 2008
No band shaped my life more than R.E.M. One of the greatest American rock bands of all time. And there are no harsher critics than those who love. So . . .
My favorite R.E.M. albums are Murmur, Automatic, and New Adventures, which to this day remains mystifyingly underrated. I love Up. Reveal to me was a collection of solid songs that was absolutely ruined by over production. I think I side with Peter Buck in my opinion of that album. And Around the Sun took a full solar year to get through, it felt.
With Accelerate the are once again rocking, but as one reviewer put it, brevity isn't to be confused with intensity. Living Well is the Best Revenge and Horse to Water are the best tracks in my opinion, and I also love Mr. Richards. Houston sounded great the first three listens but got old quickly. Sing for the Submarine - sort of a low point on the album. But I'm still praying that R.E.M. will crank out a few more songs equal of my favorites, which always seem to be songs that the radio stations miss:
Half a World Away
Sweetness Follows
Let Me In
Leave
New Test Leper
Lotus
Hairshirt
Swan Swan H
Likeable Enough June 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a pretty good album. It has tracks that I enjoy while they're playing but none good enough to make me want to load them up in the first place. As a point of reference, I tend to like their mellower stuff, even Up & Reveal. (Reveal in particular is sadly underrated). Favorite song is probably Good Advices, off FOTR.
Their great back catalog means the new stuff is forced to fight the gravitational pull of their past work. After all, why listen to Supernatural Superserious when These Days is but a click away?
 Very disappointing bid to return to the band's roots August 11, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's sad to see REM trying to return to their roots to produce a good album and then turning out a work that's significantly worse than their early works. This is nowhere near as good as Murmur, which came out almost 20 years ago. "Around the Sun" was disappointing but this is worse. Perhaps Mr Stipe and pals should concede that they've already achieved all they could in the world of music and retire. If they issue many more albums like this they're going to start seriously tarnishing their heritage.
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