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3 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
We need a more complete REM greatest hits collection!, 2006-07-31
REM has had a helluva lot of hits, and has remained a radio staple and has been a big influence on later bands. This 18-track album does a good job for its length, but I really do feel a 2-CD hit package is warranted. The biggest omissions are "Shiny Happy People," "It's the End of the World as We Know It," and "This One Goes Out to the One I Love." It wouldn't surprise me if the band didn't really like these songs and would rather not include them in their greatest hits collection. However, there are a few other more minor hits I know from them that are missing, like "Radio Free Europe." I just can't think of other titles right now, but there are more than a few other omissions too.
Many of the minor hits that are included here, thankfully, are very good and will grow well on you: "The Great Beyond," "Bad Day," "All the Way to Reno," "E-bow the Letter," and "Imitation of Life" are songs I haven't heard enough of and I'm glad they are on this collection. Still, I hear REM is coming out with another compilation and I imagine it will be more complete; I suggest waiting for that album when it comes out.
8 of 29 customers found the following review helpful:
 REM: gate keepers to the dust bin of music history., 2006-07-12
Here, in all their glory, is REM: the undisputed Pied Pipers of the bedwetters. While Michael Stipe's nasal delivery evoked all the comfort of a German Stuka dive-bomber, the whimpering and ludicrous lyrical content became a beacon-call to legions of self-absorbed suburban cry-babies everywhere. In REM, we had a calculating and maudlin brood of cynical mountebanks who lounged in opulence while tormenting their naive minions with a decades-long barrage of unrestrained nonsense and pessimistic doomsaying. The embarrassing spectacle probably hit its painful peak in 1992, but it obviously has left a cultural skid mark that will take years to eradicate. This album is a one star stinker that might serve well as a gag gift.
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003, 2006-05-31
I was born a little late to have experienced the R.E.M. hay day but according to my estimates I must have listened to Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck and Bill Berry almost as much as the most die hard fans.
This album is a good choice ofcourse their is an import with additional songs if I remember correctly. Also there are a couple other comprehensive best of albums worth checking out. An additional cavaet is that more than other bands R.E.M. puts out really good songs consistently and so their b-sides can be the better songs of a record this means that to get the full experience one really needs the full length albums.
Despite that with the purchase of In Time you get more than 14 dollars worth of R.E.M. The album has a number of songs that I think effectively capsulate the band's best: Orange Crush, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, Losing My Religion, Night Swimming, Electrolite. This album is a nice mix but not an end all be all.
I bought the album because my R.E.M. recordings had either cracked or scratched, had been covered in crystalized coffee residue, dog hair, lint and various other decomposing materials unidentifiable. So I needed some handy for the times when my soul needs to scream but before too long I'll probably have to buy some more.
3 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
Great, but could be much better, 2006-02-08
I am a huge REM fan, and this is a fantastic collection for anyone interested in them. However, for the fan looking for all the best songs in one place, this could be a little better. Without further ado, here's my list of songs that should be on this album:
From the Green album- Stand, Orange Crush, World Leader Pretend, Pop Song 89
Out of Time- Losing my Religion, County Feedback
Automatic for the People- Drive, Everybody Hurts, Nightswimming, Man on the Moon.
Monster-What's the Frequency Kenneth, Bang and Blame
New Adventures in Hi-Fi-Wake Up Bomb, Electolite.
Reveal-All the Way to Reno, Imitation of Life
Up-Daysleeper, At My Most Beautiful.
Soundtrack- First we take manhattan (off Leonard Cohen CD), The Great Beyond, All Right Friends.
New Song-Bad Day (Animal is mediocre)
There you have it-21 songs, the true best of REM.
3 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 Some good songs, but best of a weak era, 2006-02-05
After glancing at the song list on this while listening to Eponymous I realized how REM was really at their best much earlier on. Skip this and instead pick up Eponymous, Green, and Automatic for the People. From there, dabble in the pre-Eponymous releases and enjoy the true "best of" REM.
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