tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709252094146084846.post1251880726208264040..comments2024-03-04T06:11:34.471-05:00Comments on Abandoned and Heartbroke: If You’re Only Going to Buy One Greatest Hits Set From… R.E.M.John E. Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02337331081503642601noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709252094146084846.post-82112172351075754882017-02-15T11:18:24.126-05:002017-02-15T11:18:24.126-05:00One of the strangest career trajectories ever. Bas...One of the strangest career trajectories ever. Basically every album/EP from "Automatic for the People" backwards to "Chronic Town" is a must-own, and everything after it is superfluous. <br /><br />Even "Accelerate," which got the best reviews and was claimed, at the time, as a "return to form," and is probably the best of the latter portion of their career, just doesn't nail it. I don't remember which rock critic wrote, in a rare pan at the time, this bullseye: "The band has forgotten that velocity does not equal urgency." <br /><br />IanPhlegminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09225336872326661921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709252094146084846.post-15447009946927264372017-02-14T19:27:57.342-05:002017-02-14T19:27:57.342-05:00Wow, EPONYMOUS was one of the first CDs I ever bou...Wow, EPONYMOUS was one of the first CDs I ever bought. I think I still have it.John E. Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337331081503642601noreply@blogger.com