More bytes and pieces: Pop goes the market once again


REM’s ‘UP’: Music
to fall in love both
with and to

REM’s latest effort, “UP”, is already being hailed as their greatest album yet. While I cannot call “UP” a truly great album, I will certainly admit that it is one of the most beautiful albums that this band has ever produced. Indeed, one would have to hearken back to “Life’s Rich Pageant” to most closely capture the same sense of poetry in the lyrics.


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Corbjin/courtesy Warner Bros.

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