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Key Information
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| Artist: |
R.E.M. |
| Record Label: |
Warner Bros. Records (Record Label) |
| Contributing Artist: |
Q-Tip |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Alternative |
| Release Date: |
October 05, 2004 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Leaving New York
2. Electron Blue
3. Outsiders, The (featuring Q-Tip)
4. Make It All Okay
5. Final Straw
6. I Wanted to Be Wrong
7. Wanderlust
8. Boy in the Well
9. Aftermath
10. High Speed Train
11. Worst Joke Ever
12. Ascent of Man
13. Around the Sun |
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| Details: |
R.E.M.: Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck . Additional personnel: Ken Stringfellow, Q-Tip, Scott McCaughey, Bill Rieflin, Jamie Candiloro, Hahn Rowe. The follow-up to 2001's laid-back REVEAL, AROUND THE SUN finds R.E.M. mining a similar vein of dreamy, mellow rock. "Leaving New York" sets the tone with Peter Buck's chiming guitar and Michael Stipe's plaintive vocals at the fore, while "Electron Blue" continues the band's occasional forays into electronic territory with keyboard-driven atmospherics. Other standout tracks include the haunting "The Outsiders" (which features rapper Q-Tip, recalling OUT OF TIME's "Radio Song" with KRS-One in execution if not in tone) and the folky, defiant "Final Straw," a blatant condemnation of fear-instilling governmental policies. Not as exploratory as other latter-day R.E.M. albums NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI (1996) and UP (1998), AROUND THE SUN occasionally echoes the ensemble's lauded AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE's laconic feel, though it doesn't quite match that record's... |
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