What, did they just go into the studio one day and say, "How about on this record, we shake things up and turn down the suck?"
R.E.M. may be the okay-est great band in rock history; apparently you had to be there, and by there, I mean managing a college radio station between 1983 and 1987. Fear not though, as
Accelerate, their latest, has universally been hailed as a return to form. According to Bill Wyman
in the Huffington Post, however, the revanchist hosannas sound a little stale.
For what it's worth, I've heard the record, and it sounds like a big white can that says "NO FRILLS ROCK" on it. But that's okay, because
Around the Sun sounded like a big white can that said "NO FRILLS SHIT" on it.
What, did they just go into the studio one day and say, "How about on this record, we shake things up and turn down the suck?"
