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R.e.m. - R.E.M Live
| Billboard | | R.E.M. has been generous with greatest-hits and rarities compilations, but it hasn't released a live album until now. "R.E.M. Live," recorded in February 2005 in Dublin, pits classics (1986's "Cuyahoga") against recent tunes ("Leaving New York") and hits all the marks ("Everybody Hurts," "Walk Unafraid"). R.E.M. knows there is a sweet spot between Michael Stipe's deep warble and bassist Mike Mills' honeyed tenor backing vocals, and that pairing is deployed often during the night, with Mills taking the lead on "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville."...full text |
| | Adequacy | | If there is any braying demand for a full-fledged ‘official’ R.E.M. live album - after years of relegating such material to B-sides, compilations and concert videos/DVDs - then it probably isn’t for one culling performances from the current decade. A ragged pre-Murmur set would certainly be historically intriguing, shows taped between 1985’s Fables of The Reconstruction and 1986’s Lifes Rich Pageant could potentially hold some invigorating moments, decent companion CDs to the self-descriptively titled 1990 flick Tourfilm and the band’s first MTV Unplugged session would undoubtedly be welcomed too - but surely there’s been no raging lust for post-Bill Berry concert recordings from 2005?...full text |
| | Nme | | It's been over 10 years since REM released any new material worthy of their previously enviable canon (see the IRS years) but, luckily, Stipe and the boys seem to realise this and stick largely to the classics and older slices of minor-key pop genius on this live album. Recorded over the course of two Dublin gigs in 2005, we're treated to none-too-shabby performances of the obvious lighter-wavers ('The One I Love', 'Losing My Religion', 'Everybody Hurts' and 'Man On The Moon') as well as several lesser-known wonders, including a rocked-up take on 'Green' favourite 'Orange Crush' and an airing of the sublime 'Cuyahoga' from underrated 1986 release 'Life's Rich Pageant'....full text |
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