suntimes.com - 3/31/2008
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ALBUM REVIEW | Robust songs look back on band's brilliant past but can't quite equal it This hasn't been an easy decade for fans of R.E.M. The favorite sons of Athens, Ga., haven't made a beginning-to-end great album since "Automatic for the People" in 1992. Even guitarist Peter Buck now admits the band has been on a "downward slide." Mind you, that hasn't stopped the musicians, their label ...
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R.E.M. Has Critics Racing For Their Memories [The Last Word]
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... • "When fans say they long for a return to the R.E.M. of old, they're missing the magical band camaraderie and the mysterious but undeniable poignancy of the old songs, not the particular chord patterns, jangling guitars or mumbled vocals. If R.E.M. really could write another Murmur or Automatic for the People whenever it wanted, I wish for once it would." [Chicago Sun-Times] ...
It's R.E.M. day ...
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... -- and most of them are positive. One of the first ones I searched for was from the Chicago Sun-Times ' Jim DeRogatis , who has mixed feelings, saying the band's older material had "an engaging ambiguity and a gripping emotional heft that the new tracks lack."
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