Review 1:
Despite some small stutter steps, Collapse Into Now is easily the best R.E.M. album since the trio lost its way.
Review 2:
If you like REM because of the songs "Man of the moon", "Electrolite", "Imitation of life", "Everybody hurts"... then don't go for this album. Fast electric guitar songs which aren't high-quality. Only the last two tracks and tracks 3,4,5 are worth listening
R.E.M. marked the point when post-punk turned into alternative rock. When their first single, "Radio Free Europe," was released in 1981, it sparked a back-to-the-garage movement in the American underground. While there were a number of hardcore and punk bands in the U.S. during the early '80s, R.E.M. brought guitar pop back into the underground lexicon. Combining ringing guitar hooks with mumbled, cryptic lyrics and a D.I.Y. aesthetic borrowed from post-punk, the band simultaneously sounded traditional and modern. Though there were no overt innovations in their music, R.E.M. had an identity and sense of purpose that transformed the American underground. Throughout the '80s, they worked relentlessly, releasing records every year and touring constantly, playing both theaters and backwoods dives. Along the way, they inspired countless bands, from the legions of jangle pop groups in the mid-'80s to scores of alternative pop groups in the '90s, who admired their slow climb to stardom. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/rem-mn0000325459/biography
My own review:
I had never heard about R.E.M. before yesterday, but as soon as the song started a I had a bad feeling about it , I'm not a rock/punk fan but I still do like some of them, but this song , It may have been one of the worst songs I have ever heard. Hell! It's the worst song I've ever heard after "Hot problems"(www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQHx_GPKccY). The singer is just awfull, the lyrics don't make any sense.
And don't even get me started on the video clip, it's just a compilation of home made videos of wierd
people doing wierd things. Either the group members are all drug addicts or they have some big issues.
I recomend you to never watch the video and mostly to never listening to the song.
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