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UNFAGGOT R.E.M.
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Of all the bands from the early 1980s, R.E.M. accomplished perhaps the most: defining the indie rock aesthetic, explaining the existential fears of generation X, giving a voice to folk and country music through pop. Unfortunately, they got absorbed by one of the great rock 'n' roll timewasters, which is liberal politics, at which point they began to whine like an emo band and all their songs sounded roughly the same. This compilation assembles the R.E.M. songs from before they sold out to an audience of grateful but clueless liberals, and thus had artistic integrity. It is hoped that this will prompt those who have overlooked this band because of Michael Stipe's brand-name-Democrat carryings on to instead give their early, less dogmatized work, a chance. The saga of R.E.M. illustrates the essence of art: when captive, it declines. As soon as you stop trying to communicate to your audience, and give them an experience, and start selling them a product based on the experience they say they'd like to have, you're muzak and not music. Sadly, that happened to R.E.M. in the late 1980s and it has been downhill ever since. These tracks however are timeless and should remind us all of how once great this band was.

01-Wolves Lower
02-Gardening at Night
03-Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)
04-1,000,000
05-Stumble
06-Pilgrimage
07-Laughing
08-letter Never seNt
09-White Tornado
10-9-9
11-Shaking Through
12-Perfect Circle
13-Windout
14-(don't Go back To) ROCKVILLE
15-Rotary Ten
16-Swan Swan H
17-We Walk

Compilation created by VIJAY PROZAK (prozak@anus.com; http://www.anus.com/). Direct all whining to that address so it can be viciously ignored.

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