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MyMediaMusic
The sheer intelligence and beauty of this album just recently hit me. True, I've liked this album for a long time, though not initially. But now, I've truly "gotten" this album. It's so melancholy it's beautiful in a way no other R.E.M. album is. Dare I say this is their best album? This release must have been a total shock coming off of the group's two "heaviest" releases, Monster and New Adventures. No wonder critics and fans alike despised it at release. I did too. Hindsight is 20/20, right?
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RIPELIVEJAM
don't know what it says about me that i have every single lyric of this album burned into my brain.
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a-elbereth
I have so much respect for R.E.M. and there are some neat songs here but this album cover makes me inexplicably uncomfortable
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a-elbereth
It's just...how do you say it...depressing. Looks like a fancy bathroom wall in early 2000s.
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sophiewilder
Alternately, it's their White Album, a potential classic dragged down by intra-band strife.
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sophiewilder
This one's the lame nerdy kid who never gets picked for the team, but whose friends really love them. Drop Diminished, Airportman, Why Not Smile and/or Parakeet, keep I'm Not Over You, chop a minute off Suspicion, You're in the Air and Falls to Climb and it's a winner.
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heaventree22
i probably would have cut two or three songs, but for the most part this is a beautiful record
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TheSithLord
I think this is a truly amazing album. My best REM album, by far. I love Lotus, At My Most Beautiful, The Apologist, Walk Unafraid, Why Not Smile, Diminished and Parakeet.
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antonijover
@shingouz @bernlin2000 Totally agree, one of R.E.M.'s most non-obvious great albums and my personal favourite
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bernlin2000
Ahead of it's time, for sure, which probably explains why it was slammed at it's release. The hate was unjustified, though: it continues to push the envelope of what people expect out of music, and for that it deserves respect.
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irrenhaus3
This album is simply divine... Not a single song on this one I'm not in love with.
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tinybluebox
have a free ambient, electronic cover of 'lotus' from 'up' http://soundcloud.com/tinyblueboxes/lotus-r-e-m-cover2
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heaventree22
how about diminished? "up is a criminally diminished album." and yet at its most beautiful, it walks unafraid. why not lol?
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distortdistance
Yeah, perhaps it isn't cliche but just overused. I'm not gonna get into a discussion about the differences between the two. The album is a pretty good album, I didn't dismiss it entirely, just saying compared to either Out of Time or Automatic for the People, it just doesn't seem as good. I don't really know R.E.M.'s history but it does seem like a fresh and different album in relation to the previous ones, similar to how Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac are to OK Computer, yet perhaps less dramatic of a shift. By the way, is minimize really a synonym of underrate? That's not a dig, but a genuine question.
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Hetfield55
I love R.E.M., almost of all their records, but I mean this album didn't get a grip on me. I love 2 songs, but the rest...
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distortdistance
I thought hotterthanjuly had some brave and unique points (another words, I disagreed with them). But they weren't really cliche, except the underrated part, but the album is seen as a low R.E.M. point in comparision. Anyway bowser, you listen to Animal Collective, it's no wonder you find things so cliche.
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RIPELIVEJAM
this album has just grown and grown and grown on me. 4th best REM album and one of my favorites of all time. so many gorgeous, spare, and brutally honest songs on it.
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razzlebathbone
Their last quality record. Had they followed up on the more avant-garde stuuf on here, they'd still be head of the alternative-rock class. Instead, Reveal sounded like a step backwards, with that trademark R.E.M. sound so thick it sounded like a homage to themselves. Shame. Still, what an incredible run of classic records up to this point.
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aveviragione
many people don't like this one, but it is one of their best albums, imho. My favourite song is Parakeet. Hotterthanjuly, you're right: criminally underrated.
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well_spring
One of my all-time favourite albums. My favourite songs are: *Suspicion*, *Falls to climb*, *Diminished*, *Walk unafraid*, *Lotus* and *Daysleeper*.
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