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Rem are back! (og members - one night only. This is not a show
youtu.be/_yAsYxrQCfw?...
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Yeah, I think "All the best" would have been a great closer.
I get what they were trying to do with the fadeout/in to discoverer, but it doesn't really work - feels tacked on.
And while it would have given the game away, segueing into Radio free Europe would have been more them.
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I found it pleasant - it's grown on me on revisiting it. It's kind of like a parallel universe 'best of' album... Tho only UBerlin, alligator_aviator, and oh my heart (or it happened today, not both) might sneak into a real one. The last two tracks are poor, which is a shame. A decent way to end.
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Point being, I was/am a huge fan and couldn't be arsed to go see them down the road. I'm glad they finished on Collapse into now and also glad they have stayed split. ATS is the only misstep of an amazing body of work, but they were drifting towards being inessential, which would have been awful.
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Interesting Ep. I'd seen the band twice before, and didn't want to see them playing in a stadium again, despite living in Cardiff. I think if they'd announced the arena gig first I'd have gone. That said, I hated ATS and it felt like they were morphing into one of those bands that chugs on.
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I'm just relieved that Adam's fruit machine score for this one didn't land on the same as ATS (or lower).
Been re-listening to Collapse into now in preparation.
It's been the one that's had the biggest reassessment for me. Will be interested to hear how Steve and Lucas (the uninitiated) find it.
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It's been interesting revisiting ATS, Accelerate and Collapse into now alongside you guys - I have a fondness for Accelerate probably based squarely on the opening track, but the album has a naff final track. Not sure REM nailed finishing an album better than NAIHF. Would have been a cool way to end
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2/10 going into this Adam? And a few of the replies here suggesting it's their worst? Blimey. Around the Sun takes that medal by a loooong way. This is flawed, for all the reasons mentioned, but Living well, Houston, Accelerate, Until the day, are all head and shoulders over anything on ATS. ymmv
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The riff in supernatural superserious sounds very like Sweet Jane (VU) , which itself was borrowed, with a little lick...
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It's one of the best live Albums I reckon. Glad you're covering it!
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Ahhh, so lucas didn't like it after all...