Title: Shiny Happy Garbage
Product review: For someone like me who had been onboard the REM Express since the early days, "Out of Time" served as my cue to now exit the train. As if enlisting the help of KRS-One on "Radio Song" wasn't bad enough (no disrespect to KRS, BDP were fantastic in their own right and you were simply helping REM put lipstick on a pig), Stipe and the boys dragged a B-52 onboard for "Shiny Happy People". What resulted was the band's most pathetic recording to date. If this album represents your first exposure to REM and you liked what you heard, then pay no attention to this review or any REM records prior to "Green". However if you cut your teeth on "Radio Free Europe" and "Seven Chinese Brothers", then don't be alarmed when blood pours out of your ears after listening to this album...the very definition of a "Traveshamockery".
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