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Artist: R.e.m.
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy New: $5.79
You Save: $13.19 (69%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  149 reviews
Sales Rank: 9
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 418620
UPC: 093624988588
EAN: 0093624988588
ASIN: B0013BNY2Q
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW, Factory Sealed, Thousands of Titles Listed, Fast Processing. This item is NOT returned or refurbished. May have store or price stickers affixed.
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| Tracks:
| • | Living Well Is The Best Revenge | | • | Man-Sized Wreath | | • | Supernatural Superserious | | • | Hollow Man | | • | Houston | | • | Accelerate | | • | Until The Day Is Done | | • | Mr. Richards | | • | Sing For The Submarine | | • | Horse To Water | | • | I'm Gonna DJ |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 144 more reviews...
REM never lost it... May 15, 2008
I own every REM album, including this one. Most reviews that I have read have been good but I'm frustrated by the implication that REM is back. I think they never lost it. Reveal was a real dud for me, and Monster is also at the bottom end of their catalog for me. However, I actually dug Around the Sun so I didn't see Accelerate as some massive comeback or step up.
That said, Accelerate is a very good REM album. Hey, there's only so much they can keep coming up with after all these years, but the vigor on this album is apparent. The songs are frequently political, and biting. The high speed of the album is actually a treat, and as a listener it feels like running through images and thoughts at a great pace. Supposedly, the production on this was pretty quick, too, and there are a couple of songs near the end that are lacking, such as Sing for the Submarine which could have used some judicial editing, and Horse to Water which is basically filler.
The rest, however, is killer, and the album really shines in the middle with Accelerate, Until the Day is Done, and Mr. Richards.
 Life's Rich Pageant for a new generation... & for those of us who've hung in there! May 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is REM at its best in 10 years! REM has (FINALLY!!!) returned to its roots of jangly Buck guitar and divine Stipe/Mills harmonies. From the very first track this album is channeling LRP and for once in a decade they have an album that can be listened to from beginning to end (think OOT & AFTP). One where the tracks flow into each other and don't beg the use of the 'next track' function on your cd/dvd player. While I have plenty of favorite moments over the past three albums none of them gave me the feeling of oneness but more that of individual experiments compiled together. This is the album REM fans have been waiting for!!! An absolute masterpiece!
 The youth is back May 13, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
With accelerate REM brings back the same energy into their music as "Automatic for people" and "New Adventures in Hi-Fi". However, Stipe no longer has the weird hairstyle and no longer wears a white sports jacket into a concert.
I have grown up with REM's music, their sound keeping me company - ever evolving, adventurous and experimental. So I loved "Automatic for people" when I first heard it and "Up" - on the other side of the scale as far as energy is concerned - which I absolutely loved more than anything else they have produced.
It seems that REM has come full circle; the evolution in their music is complete and its time to go back to the tried and tested sound which made them famous in the first place. "I lap it up, I lap it up anyway" but I wish there was more left.
Buy this album, you won't regret it!! May 13, 2008
This album rocks!!! this is what REM should have released after Monster. Everything else they had released after Monster was a total disappointment, until now. From the first song to the last this will keep your foot tapping. The band seems to have found the fountain of youth. I'm glad they are back.
Best since Lifes Rich Pageant May 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had all but given up hope for anything worhtwhile from R.E.M.
Accelerate is excellent. No real clunkers. Short and sweet.
Favorite selections include man-sized wreath, accelerate, mr. richards.
Well worth the price of admission.
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