Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part Garbage: 1982-2011 - R.E.M.
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  • Band members: Bill Berry, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck
  • Summary: The two-disc compilation release for the alternative rock band led by Michael Stipe collects not only the hit singles from its time on Warner Brothers Records but also from its first label, I.R.S. records, and includes three new songs.

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  1. Positive: 17 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 19
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  1. Mojo
    Dec 12, 2011
    100
    Pageant has aged well, with the bonus disc of Athens Demos confirming that much of the album's brilliance is down to band and producer making the most of slum resources.[Aug. 2011, p. 113]
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  2. Uncut
    Dec 12, 2011
    80
    The chronological sequencing, kicking off with the delightfully sloppy "Gardening At night" from the "Chronic Town" EP, charts a course from indie college jangle to pensive AOR, and tracks fro their latter days on the IRS label sparkle with eloquence and grandeur. [Jan 2012, p.96]
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  3. Q Magazine
    Dec 22, 2011
    80
    This two-disc set captures R.E.M. in their prime, erasing the memory of their middling final decade. [Jan 2012, p.135]
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  4. NOW Magazine
    Nov 29, 2011
    60
    [Disc two] makes clear the fact that R.E.M. never could get back to the top of the mountain for most of their career

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  1. ricco94
    10
    As R.E.M. fan I can't avoid givin' Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage (10 also for the title!) a 10/10.
    There are all the best s    ongs of their incredible career and two of the three new songs are very good. I love We All Go Back To Where We Belong, the last single. I would have put Harborcoat from Reckoning and Cuyahoga from Lifes Rich Pageant. Maybe Be Mine and Mine Smell Like Honey would have been good, too, but that's only my personal opinion.
    Good Bye R.E.M.!    … Expand

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