Title: REM's worst record? Sure!
Product review: I'm a huge REM fan, but if it were somehow up to me I'd end this business about "Out of Time" being REM's best album. If you listen to REM's early records (namely, the first three) what you get is a group full of originality, with lyrical ambiguity, guitars that jangle, melodies that are timeless, and so forth.With "Out of Time" ironically, you get a record that is very much *not* timeless. In fact it's basically your typical radio pop ...! If REM could ever be accused of selling-out artistically, this is the one that did it. "Green", for me, was a hint of trouble to come, but "Out of Time" embodies everything that I don't like about REM. Somehow, they redeemed themselves with "Automatic for the People" and the very underrated "New Adventures in Hi-Fi", but ever since they're becoming more and more irrelevant. ...
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