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- Summary: The legendary band's pivotal album is remastered and reissued since it's 1986 release--complete with a bonus disc of demos.
- Record Label: Capitol
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Fall on Me | |
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There's a problem, feathers, iron Bargain buildings, weights and pulleys Feathers hit the ground Before the weight can leave the air Buy the sky and... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Jul 15, 2011Twenty-five years ago, Lifes Rich Pageant found R.E.M. metamorphosing from what was effectively a turbo-charged folk-rock cult indie outfit into a proper rock band capable of filling stadia.
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UncutJul 28, 2011R.E.M. were already walking head and shoulders taller than most by now, but Life's Rich Pageant was nevertheless a startlingly great leap forward. [Aug 2011, p.102]
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Jul 15, 2011Life's Rich Pageant serves as both a guidepost for how R.E.M. moved in an arena-sized direction and as another extraordinary album in the band's uninterrupted run of true greatness that spanned between Murmur and Automatic for the People.
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Aug 3, 2011Taken as a whole, the two-CD incarnation of Life's Rich Pageant makes a case for the album taking its rightful place alongside such obvious classics as Murmur and Out of Time.
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Jul 15, 2011It's both epilogue and prologue, yet these songs retain their own specific flavor, as R.E.M. map the borders between small clubs and large venues, between underground and mainstream, between rhythm and melody, between outrage and hope. That in-between quality still sounds invigorating so many years later.
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Q MagazineAug 9, 2011Before stardom, they stopped off to reinvent guitar rock. [Aug. 2011, p. 128]
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Jul 15, 2011Although it shines a giant and unmistakable signal toward the direct and poppy approach the band would undertake on their next few albums, Pageant still retains the mumbles of Murmur, the jangles of Reckoning, and the rustic tones of Fables of the Reconstruction.
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Mar 10, 2023Great album need I say more? What more can I say about an album from one of the best rock bands of alltime
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