{"id":29080,"date":"2025-03-22T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=29080"},"modified":"2025-02-23T14:42:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T19:42:41","slug":"review-roundup-r-e-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/review-roundup-r-e-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Review Roundup: R.E.M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22629\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mtt_rem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mtt_rem.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mtt_rem-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mtt_rem-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>As I\u2019ve written about before, R.E.M. was a \u201clocal\u201d group for me. Growing up in Atlanta, I was able to observe the Athens, Georgia&#8217;s well-deserved rise from bar band to superstars. Like many, I have an enduring fondness for their I.R.S. years, but in recent times, I\u2019ve belatedly discovered the group\u2019s late-periods material, and found it far better than expected. Here\u2019s a collection of my R.E.M. reviews to date.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/20\/album-review-r-e-m-green-25th-anniversary-edition\/\">Green<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/album-review-r-e-m-up\/\">Up<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/12\/album-review-r-e-m-reveal\/\">Reveal<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/24\/album-review-r-e-m-around-the-sun-part-1-of-2\/\">Around the Sun<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/13\/album-review-r-e-m-accelerate\/\">Accelerate<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/26\/album-review-r-e-m-collapse-into-now\/\">Collapse Into Now<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/05\/album-review-r-e-m-the-best-of-r-e-m-at-the-bbc\/\">The Best of R.E.M. at the BBC<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u2019ve written about before, R.E.M. was a \u201clocal\u201d group for me. Growing up in Atlanta, I was able to observe the Athens, Georgia&#8217;s well-deserved rise from bar band to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1773],"class_list":["post-29080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-r-e-m","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29082,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29080\/revisions\/29082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}