R.E.M. - Accelerate
 

yup that's the new album out april 1st.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceler....E.M._album%29

Please God, don't make it suck. I don't think I could take another like their last one.

Yeah I really, really don't have high hopes. How did Around the Sun suck so bad when Bad Day was actually pretty damn good? Oh that's right, it was written in the 80's.

Final Straw got my hopes up for it. It wasn't a great song but it sounded promising at least.

well heres a live version of the first single

and this is an actual song from the album playing in the background


i like this one beter

They put fucking I'm Gonna DJ on there? Ugh. Ugh Ugh Ugh.

The fact that Stringfellow isn't involved in the album or tour is a good sign, though. For all the talk of it being a guitar record, I do hope it's not Monster 2.0.

Final Straw is a great song.

It's a good one and the best on the album, I'll give you that. Though I haven't heard it in a while since I like to pretend their last album never happened.

It's sad that I kinda wish it'd been Stipe instead of Layne.

Is it so much to ask for an "Automatic For the People II?"

As bad as around the sun was...I still think they have potential..unlike Layne who was too burned out :cry:

I didn't realize anyone here liked REM. Last album I bought was New Adventures. Didn't like it at first, but then it grew on me. Unlike Monster.

Up was their last really good one.

R.E.M. has a strange knack for writing some really awesome, brilliant songs, and then writing some tremendously bad songs that leave you wondering how they could be the same band. I mean, what made them think the Worst Joke Ever was a good song?

You didn't get it. It's called the worst joke ever for a reason, stupid.
j/k

Up was amazing. Everything since has blown

i didnt love new adventures so much, except for ebow the letter

Leave is pretty great.

I only have Out Of Time but I want to get more into them. What's their best album?

Automatic For the People.

Automatic for the People is a classic. Best end-of-album three song series ever.

:love:

you guys are too young to remember when R.E.M. were good and michael stipe wasn't such a douche bag and his band didn't completely suck.

yes it is, forgot about that one

stipe isnt that douchey

murmur-reckoning-fables of the reconstruction-lifes rich pageant are all equally good in my book, not too hard to get into

That sounds like another bald headed rockstar.

I don't believe Stipe to be douchey, either.

I don't get why everyone hates on Monster so much. The guitars and vocals and lyrics and overall production of this album are fabulous. King of Comedy, I Took Your Name... this album is fuckin' cool.

Of course, the only R.E.M. records that really appeal to me are Monster, Up, & Out Of Time...So feel free to write me off as somebody who doesn't get "the real REM". Fair is fair.

But I always assumed people more generally loved those albums, and generally they don't.
Why? Aside from being out of left field ala Adore.

Strange Currencies is an awesome song. The rest...not so much.