Friday, March 4, 2011

Headaches And Red Lines On Forehead

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REM "Collapse Into Now" (Warner) REM
Even if you always treated with respect and all due respect, one may the full-bodied Announcements of band and record company look quiet with a healthy skepticism. Until her last truly great work of "Up" from the year 1998, the men around Michael Stipe a seemingly inexhaustible supply accumulated, brilliant songs, which they could give concerts safely several days at a time without having to run the risk to repeat or hear sacrificing quality. Strangely, their records act but since the turn of the millennium as uncertain steps on unfamiliar terrain, a little disoriented the songs and sometimes arbitrary, which is surprising for a formation that has dominated like no other the 80s and 90s, and against self-confidence actually only should abound Sun

The reasons for this can only speculate. Perhaps the classic REM song is you become a little to the prison, because so well this emotional and heart going mid-tempo numbers like the current "Überlingen", "Everyday Is Yours To Win" and "Walk It Back" hammer out still , they will clearly not over it again and again to perfect and even the most loyal supporters should occur after some time, a certain feeling of satiety. Try the other hand, self-imposed break from the corset - a prime example of "Monster" is now already some Years back - it sounds often try and stiff. The first two pieces, "Discoverer" and "All The Best," are certainly intended as a wake-spirited, vulgar, unfortunately sounds in fine spirits such as Michael Stipe, the rocky sometimes a trace. Also crashing "Alligator Aviator ..." is no exception - meaning fun, it sounds rather wooden and bulky and is probably for what REM understood even at the said "Monster" in "Punk" (miss).

How is it possible to show the trio at the end of the plate: "That Someone Is You" is reminiscent of his research with indifference to the great Times of "Murmur" and "Reckoning", then sets itself Stipe with Marlon Brando for the Pow-Wow to the fire at which klönten also Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash have each other. At the very end even the obligatory duet with Patti Smith ("Blue"), a fine song, backed with electric guitar feedback, the so also the famous "Leave" from the 96 album "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" a fitting finish was.

way: the background music during REM should prove less durable than edifying, then I would buy the lyrics of Michael Stipe still unseen in book form, because at least there is the pop world's largest Melancholic still miles ahead. Who writes already have such beautiful lines like "The winners write the rulebooks, the lullabies and histories" (Marlon Brando) and "With the restraint of New Order covers, Young Marble Giants, I sat quietly waiting ... and lock with the fury of Sharon Stone Casino, Scarface, Al Pacino, '74 Torino, waiting for someone else to make the first move, .. "(That Someone Is You). Therefore, and because she was still touching the world work through pain and still have remained fundamentally likeable guys - why is this not a bad drive.

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