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- Record Label: Warner Brothers
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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The sun reflected in the back of my eye I knocked my head against the sky. The dragonflies are busy buzzing me Seahorses if we were in the... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 14 out of 20
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Mixed: 6 out of 20
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Negative: 0 out of 20
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It's a landmark album for REM and the fans who stayed faithful, a shot in the arm for music in 2001 and - unless they're too foolish to accept it - a long-awaited treat for all the listeners who bailed out after Monster.
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For all its daring, Reveal still ranks among the group's most instantly winning albums, the kind whose poppiest pleasures, like "All The Way To Reno (You're Going To Be A Star)" and the single "Imitation Of Life," eventually fade into the album's overall beauty.
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Whilst this comes closer to 'Out Of Time' than anything else they've done, it never once sounds dated.
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Entertainment WeeklyReveal is billed as the band's return to form, and mostly it is.... But like 'Up,' much of 'Reveal' is haunted by an ennui that's curious for a band that made their name by talking about the passion. [18 May 2001, p.79]
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SpinUnlike U2, whose left turns have felt like oblique strategies in the band's pompous struggle to redeem rock, R.E.M.'s stylistic shifts tend to feel like survival skills. Vaguely psychedelic, filled with hazy shades of woo or whatever, much of Reveal moves with the graceful drag of 1985's Fables of the Reconstruction, yet with more ebb and flux. [June 2001, p.143]
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On the plus side, the album sounds really nice.... The problem is, things get a little too lazy and hazy; Reveal's 12 tracks all move with almost the exact same dreamy, midtempo lope.
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Blender'Up' sounded like the work of a band getting its bearings. On 'Reveal,' they're still finding their way. [Jun/Jul 2001, p.110]
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Positive: 16 out of 20
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Mixed: 4 out of 20
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Negative: 0 out of 20
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DanielENov 25, 2003
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C.S.ReedFeb 12, 2006a collection of torpid songs that taste like summer afternoon
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HenryGApr 29, 2008Atrocious for an artist of her calibre. So dissapointing. 2, maybe 3 decent tracks tops. I love her too.
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BangkokDaveJul 30, 2002
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Aug 17, 2013
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ErwinB.Nov 10, 2001A coherent album. Plenty of highlights.
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shakermakerAug 16, 2001they always sound the same after all these years it's gettin boring
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