Title: Remember when these guys were good?
Product review: So R.E.M.'s breakthrough turns out to be completely inconsequential after all, with a couple exceptions: the massively catchy "Radio Song", folk-rocker "Me in Honey" (though I don't like the droning backup vocals), "Near Wild Heaven", sung by Mike Mills, and especially the inescapable hit "Losing My Religion", with an infinite number of hooks. But this album is equally inclined to wallow in miserable lite folk-rock like "Half a World Away", "Low" or "Belong". And this is the one with the detestable, brain-dead "Shiny Happy People", a truly sickening example of what commercial R.E.M. could become. It's hard for me to believe that this is the album most associate with the group...
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