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| Artist: R.e.m.
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $31.98
Buy Used: $3.00
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 260676
Format: Special Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 093624890621
EAN: 0093624890621
ASIN: B0002XED44
Publication Date: 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Disc and box are in great shape!
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| Tracks:
| • | Leaving New York | | • | Electron Blue | | • | The Outsiders | | • | Make It All Ok | | • | Final Straw | | • | I Wanted to be Wrong | | • | Wander Lust | | • | The Boy in the Well | | • | Aftermath | | • | High Speed Train | | • | Worst Joke Ever | | • | The Ascent of Man | | • | Around the Sun |
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Album Description
Around The Sun, R.E.M.'s first new studio album since 2001's gold Reveal, is as emotional and ulti- mately uplifting as its "Leaving New York" single. With a renewed band dynamic and songs influenced by world events, Around The Sun surprises and satisfies and is both political and poignant. Says Michael Stipe: "Even the most depressing R.E.M.song is going to have a glimmer of hope." For fans of one of rock's most acclaimed bands, hope revolves around R.E.M. The Special Edition is a two-piece wrapped box containing 14 four-color posters with the CD in a babypak.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Outstanding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! February 7, 2005
Renato (from Sao Paulo, Brazil)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This album is sophisticated, beautiful, well crafted, brilliant, well produced, well composed, well sung, and, moreover, the lyrics are very symbolic and poetic. It's, undoubtedly, the most solid album this band has put out in years!!!
 Good Grief October 15, 2004
Jack Thompson (Los Angeles, CA)
20 out of 33 found this review helpful
What marketing genius came up with this? Repackage the same boring songs and charge twice as much. I am embarrassed for Mike, Peter and Michael to use this type of marketing on their fans just to add a little cushion in their wallet. I'll save my money for the complete REM box set (from day 1) and hopefully it will include some behind the scenes pics and videos from the early days and not some lack-luster posters just so they can sell it as a "special edition" People please...be smart and do not encourage this type of marketing. Just buy the regular cd and enjoy.
R.E.M.'s best in a very long time October 11, 2004
Me
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
12 years, no less.(Yeah, I was reluctant to admit it was better than NAIHF too). But definitely an album worth buying. And the special edition comes with a poster for every song (all really interesting, by the way) and it comes with a box which smells kind of like I think the album should (though I'm not sure that was intentional).
 R.E.M.'s Next Finest Hour... October 7, 2004
S. Bowen (Freiburg, Germany)
12 out of 19 found this review helpful
R.E.M. fans are forced to wait a long time inbetween album releases, and for good reason. Perhaps the hallmark of a true creativity is the willingness and ability to wipe the slate clean, forget everything great and good that preceded the last best thing and dig deep to find, yet again, some new territory.
Around The Sun is stripped down, raw, beautiful song writing. Stipe's voice is ever searching for nuances and ways to haunt us in a way that only he can do.
Lyrically this is probably the richest and most complex of R.E.M.'s work to date. Stipe clearly wishes to say more and emerge from the shadows of his own enigma, and yet there is always the slippage, the question and the mystery of what he actually wants to say. It's still up to the listener to discern and to put the pieces together.
This isn't a perfect album. Sure, it doesn't rock (Green). It isn't pop ballad brilliance (Automatic For The People) or quite R.E.M. in the peak of their audaciousness (New Adventures in Hi-Fi). Around The Sun is crafted, thoughtful, poignant and has something to say. It may not rock you but it'll warm your heart and, in the way Stipe does so well, you won't know whether you want to cry or wiggle a strange happy dance.
 Around the Sun October 7, 2004
Georgia Girl (Athens, GA)
4 out of 15 found this review helpful
Well written and very melodic, however, a little disappointed that it doesn't rock.
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