Yesterday, I purchased by first REM album in over ten years. Accelerate shines in some really nice moments, and seems to be what it's hailed as - a return of the band in a lot of ways. More than the actual tunes, the process of popping the disc into the deck and listening with new ears took me back to what I recall as a pretty good times. Probably like you, I grew up with the soundtrack of REM both in the background as well as the foreground of my younger years. And probably like you, I moved on to different music, different priorities. Every now and then, like dropping an email to an old college friend, I'd check in to see what they were doing. Soon thereafter, I'd be reminded why I moved on...
But maybe there's a place for REMiniscing (I know, get used to it). Maybe it might be fun to look back on what we connected to with these songs and that era. Maybe it will just be a colossal waste of time, that's a certain possibility! But regardless, I started this little blog to offer up some thoughts, and invite some reflections on REM, good, bad, and ugly. My plan is to go by album, and not necessarily chronologically. We can get nitty-gritty into musicology, lyrics, and production, or feel free to inject some personal history and thoughts. I'll start next time where one should: "Begin the Begin" from Life's Rich Pageant.
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