REM wake up
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Being an olds, I can still remember vividly the first flush of "that-is-fucking-genius" feeling that I heard on Murmur and the Chronic Town EP. REM over the last three decades - Geebus, can it be that long? - has consistently issued some of the best, sweetest, saddest, and occasionally hip-groovin' sounds out there. Which is absolutely amazing for a ROCK band of that age.I've seen the band three or four times live and they have consistently, again, provided great, energetic, punky poppy shows. (I have frens who allege that they have seen the band play tired, but I may just have been lucky.) The venues that REM plays are often these old, magnificent theaters and such, perfect for the kind of smarty-pants atmospherics that they virtually engineered.I've just been streaming it on line so far, but Accelerate seems to be at least as good as 2001's Reveal, which I honestly thought was very, very good; another good chapter in a long, rewarding book.
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