I like it, it's a reaffirmation of the band that REM were before Bill Berry
left. They had become rather bloated and this is short and snappy.

I was a big fan of Up so I would say it's their best since then.

Mark

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Sam Smith <sam@estreet.com> wrote:

> I've only listened to it three times, and with REM it usually takes me
> five spins to get my head around it. But I think I like it. It's not as good
> as /Automatic/ by any stretch, but it may be better than anything they've
> done since then.
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