Title: Down
Product review: Now that we're all musing over 'Up!' and whether it's any good or not (and I think it's good), I decided to pop over to the 'Out of Time' review and acknowledge the most god-awful REM album to date. Ironically, it's not that the songs are too bad, they just don't gel AT ALL. There are some great songs here - Me In Honey, Country Feedback, Texarkana, Belong, Half A World Away, but REM should never be forgiven for three of the most annoying songs of the nineites: Radio Song, Losing My Religion and Shiny Happy People. Four if you include Near Wild Heaven (Da da da da da da da da da yeah, yeah). This was the first REM album I ever bought, and it took me 2 years before I dared touch another. Then fortunately I bought the much maligned IRS collection 'The Best Of' in 1993 and found something a whole lot better. Has anybody noticed that 'Green' just gets better and better...?
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