| Product Summary | | Label: Traffic Entertainment Group | | UPC: 00093624988588 | | Release Date: 4/1/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 207499944 | | Item#: M433PR | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 52091 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Living Well Is The Best Revenge ~ R.E.M. |  | | 2. Man-Sized Wreath ~ R.E.M. | | | 3. Supernatural Superserious ~ R.E.M. | | | 4. Hollow Man ~ R.E.M. | | | 5. Houston ~ R.E.M. | | | 6. Accelerate ~ R.E.M. | | | 7. Until the Day Is Done ~ R.E.M. | | | 8. Mr. Richards ~ R.E.M. | | | 9. Sing For The Submarine ~ R.E.M. | | | 10. Horse to Water ~ R.E.M. | | | 11. I'm Gonna DJ ~ R.E.M. | | |
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Accelerate, the first studio album in four
years from R.E.M., finds modern rocks most
acclaimed band returning to the strippeddown,
guitar-driven power that first enraptured
fans. Helmed by the band and, for the
first time, Jacknife Lee (co-producer of
U2s 05 Grammy Album Of The Year How To
Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, The Hives,
and Snow Patrol), Accelerate puts the 2007
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame group once
again firmly behind the wheel of alternative
rock, a genre R.E.M. helped invent.
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | R.E.M.: Mike Mills (vocals, bass guitar); Michael Stipe (vocals); Peter Buck (guitars). | | On 2008's ACCELERATE, its first studio album after being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, R.E.M. fittingly returns to its post-punk roots, offering up a taut, guitar-driven set that serves as the perfect antidote to the slow, snoozy AROUND THE SUN. Aiding frontman Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, and bassist Mike Mills in this convincing return to vintage form is U.K. producer Jacknife Lee, best known for working with Bloc Party and, appropriately, R.E.M.'s peers U2. While those acts often aim for widescreen majesty, however, Stipe, Buck, and Mills seem to have remembered that the group's strength lies in concise, pithy tunes, and Lee is quite willing to meet that aesthetic, as evinced on the restless opener, "Living Well Is the Best Revenge," and the raucous "Horse to Water." | | Of course, the Georgian band hasn't forgotten its artistic evolution from MURMUR, nodding subtly to GREEN on the shimmering "Supernatural Superserious" and evoking AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE on the pensive "Until the Day Is Done." Easily R.E.M.'s finest album since NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI, ACCELERATE stands as one of the revered ensemble's most immediate and engaging records, and will undoubtedly please fans who have patiently been waiting for the trio to embark on a U2-like rejuvenation. |
Producer: Jacknife Lee |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | R.E.M. - Accelerate - CD Review By: Mariana McConnell - Cinema Blend CD Reviews Published on: 4/1/2008 3:01 PM | | In their heart of hearts, R.E.M. have always been a great pop band in the mold of all great pop bands (i.e. the Beatles) and thus have always sounded their best when creating upbeat, 2 minute opuses. Accelerate is full of these types of songs, offering the perfect balance between candy pop goofiness and garage rock casualness ...read the full review |
| | Compilation Appearances |
| | Associated Artists and Works | | The String Quartet Tribute To R.E.M. ~ Artists, Various | | A Tribute To R.E.M. ~ Artists, Various | | Automatic Baby | | Band (The) | | Beach Boys (The) | | Beatles (The) | | Bowie, David | | Cohen, Leonard | | Dylan, Bob | | Hindu Love Gods | | Kinks (The) | | Mills, Mike | | Minus 5 (The) | | Minus Five (The) | | Pickin' On R.E.M.: The Bluegrass Tribute ~ On, Pickin' | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Pickin' On R.E.M.: The Bluegrass Tribute ~ Pickin' On | | Rolling Stones (The) | | Sex Pistols (The) | | Smiths (The) | | Stipe, Michael | | Tuatara | | The String Quartet Tribute To R.E.M. ~ Various Artists | | A Tribute To R.E.M. (Big Eye) ~ Various Artists | | The String Quartet Tribute To R.E.M. Vol. 2 ~ Various Artists | | Tribute To R.E.M. (Tribute Sounds) ~ Various Artists | | Fragile: The Piano Tribute To R.E.M. ~ Various Artists | | Velvet Underground (The) | | Who (The) | | Williams, Hank | | Sentimental Hygiene [Remaster] ~ Zevon, Warren | | Zevon, Warren | | Zevon, Warren |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 04/01/2008 | | Original Release Date : 2008 | | Catalog ID : 418620 | | Label : Warner Bros. Records (Record Label) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00093624988588 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.63)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "Guitars are front and center, in slashing-chord and rusted-arpeggio crossfires....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."Spin (p.95)
- 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "ACCELERATE corrals 35 minutes of the fastest songs Stipe and Co. have written in decades, all performed with a sense of joyous purpose..." Entertainment Weekly (p.60)
- "[Buck is] playing aggressively melodic riffs again, yet they're full of contemporary crunch and compression..." Uncut (p.80)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he denseness suits REM, reconstructing their trademark intricate hedge of sound..." Q (Magazine)
(p.99)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his is an album so drenched in exuberance and flair that it suggests pop's youth fetish is no substitute for experience." Mojo (Publisher)
(p.98)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "This is rock, not pop....This is the sound of R.E.M. going into the studio, plugging in and playing songs naturally...and very loudly." Blender (Magazine)
(p.78)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[F]ull of cascading jangle, candied power chords, lonesome harmonies, Southern-gothic protest poetry and roadhouse drum bash." Pitchfork (Website)
- "ACCELERATE's broad strokes, big riffs, and beefy production are admirable....Drummer Bill Rieflin plays with a Ministry-honed power, Mike Mills' backing vocals are absolutely key..." |
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