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| Accelerate | 
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| Artist: R.e.m.
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy Used: $5.00
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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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: West Omaha Store **
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| Customer Reviews:
 Best REM since Hi-Fi, or maybe Automatic April 7, 2008
21 out of 24 found this review helpful
If you like early 90's and 80's REM, this CD is the one for you.
I have listened to Accelerate three times in as many days.... each time I listen to it, I like it more.
Sounds from New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Automatic FTP, and even Fables of The Reconstrucion run through this album. This is a true follow-up to the New Adventures CD.
Listen to the samples - if you like them, and appreciate REM from the 80's and 90's, you will not be disapointed in purchasing Accelerate.
Interesting is that I can't find a true "single" on this album... no "Stand", or "Man On The Moon" or "End of the World....". Frankly, I like it that way. Hit singles are overrated (though hit singles get downloaded more on I-Tunes...)
It's Better Than Good, It's Great April 1, 2008
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
I woke up extra early this morning just to get this and I was not disapointed it's everything an R.E.M. cd should be. 10 long years I've waited for this. You guys did a great job putting this together. Not that the last three albums weren't good. We've just missed this. Welcome back and best wishes for the future.
My new third-favorite R.E.M. album April 1, 2008
20 out of 26 found this review helpful
Musically, it is very similar to "Monster," which I love. Lyrically, it is much better than "Monster." Michael is FINALLY railing against the U.S. government, as opposed to "Monster" when he was playing characters.
They needed this renaissance because "Around the Sun" is just an unspeakable piece of filth. I listened to it once then I was tempted to throw it away. I will listen to this album in its entirety at least five times TODAY.
Maybe the guys should remember the advice that Bill Berry gave to them when they made "Monster": R.E.M. IS A ROCK BAND-- DON'T BE AFRAID TO MAKE ROCK ALBUMS.
The day is not done April 2, 2008
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
All R.E.M. fans seem to have a phase that they like the most (many in fact, do not like the other stages very much at all). Some favor the band during their I.R.S. days, when they were the smallest big band in America. These people were smallish in number, but obsessive and loyal in nature. They wondered what a "Harborcoat" was and were shocked when the actual lyrics of the song "Fall on Me" were shown in the video.
Then, on a major label and with a wah-wah pedal (or maybe a mandolin) R.E.M. became the rock superstars that everyone knew. The band, as Kurt Cobain said, handled their success like saints, turning down millions to not let their songs be used by Bill Gates, and refused to make the same album twice to cash in on their massive popularity.
Yet, with any success comes a backlash, and with 1994's Monster, many fans of both eras began to drift away. By 1997, with the departure of Bill Berry, the band moved into another era. One that found the band trying to figure out a direction to go which could, somehow, tie everything together on a collective positive level.
Accelerate is the music of a band who has found that path. It will not bring back the Murmur/Reckoning faithful. It will not sell like Out of Time. Perhaps, one day, more music fans will like the studio sounds of the last three records. It is not like those albums either.
What Accelerate is, is R.E.M. phase four music. Alive and vital in 2008. A record that will have its fans and critics, but signifies the beginning of a new era in the bands history. One that by looking forward, also can reach back, where fans of all three groups might find key elements that represent why they became fans to begin with. It also deserves to make its fair share of new ones.
Accelerate in reverse... April 8, 2008
20 out of 23 found this review helpful
In the early 90's, something special happened. For the first time, alternative music would no longer be the alternative. It would become the mainstream. R.E.M. was churning out catchy alternative pop long before anyone heard the names Cobain, Nirvana or Pearl Jam. When the rock world was finally turned upside down, R.E.M. would be noted for their influence on later alternative bands thanks in part to hit songs from their back catalogue and were noted for such recent era hits like Losing My Religion, Shiny Happy People, Man On The Moon and their biggest ballad Everybody Hurts. What's The Frequency, Kenneth? would show they could record songs just as loud and distorted as the bands influenced by them. By the way, Let Me In from 94's Monster was written about Cobain.
It only seemed fitting that the band would slip back into the underground with the loss of Bill Berry retiring and the decline of alternative music after having its peak.
Years later after albums gaining praise from mostly hardcore fans, the band has once again found its stride with their best album since Automatic For The People. The sticker on the shrinkwrap says so.
But is this really true? Is this nothing more than prepaid marketing? The answer is no. R.E.M. has indeed recorded their best album in years. Songs like Mr. Richards, Hollow Man and the lead off single, Supernatural Superserious, are a return to electric with pure pop R.E.M. feel. These songs are a breath of fresh air in an era that has since forgotten what good old fashioned R.E.M. pop has sounded like. Not hard to believe considering the band had departed from their glory, struggling to find their sound without a cofounding member. Seems they finally learned to run without Berry.
I'm Gonna' DJ might be experimental but it still retains that classic R.E.M. forumula that wasn't found on the previous album Around The Sun. This song could have been easily released on 87's break through album, Document (Best known for The One I Love and It's The End Of The World We Know It). Other songs like the title track and Sing For The Submarine revisit the eerie sounds of past albums such as Fables Of The Reconstruction but never lose their integrity with classic R.E.M. nature.
"He's alive he's alive" shouts Stipe on the lead off single. As is the traditional sound of the band on this record. Welcome back, boys
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