Accelerate

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Accelerate
Studio album by REM

Publication
(s)

2008

Label (s) Warner Brothers

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

Alternative rock

Title (number)

11

running time

approx. 35 minutes

occupation Singing : Michael Stipe

Electric guitar : Peter Buck
Electric bass : Mike Mills

production

Jacknife Lee , REM

Studio (s)

Armory Studios , Vancouver , British Columbia

chronology
Around the Sun
(2004) 		Accelerate Collapse into Now
(2011)

Accelerate is the 14th studio album by the US rock band REM. It was released in Europe on March 31, 2008 and is the successor to Around the Sun , which was released in 2004 .

production

Musically, the album is heavier and more rocking than the previous ones. The first single was released on February 25, 2008 Supernatural Superserious . A special feature of the album is the fast recording time. Within just three weeks, the entire album was recorded in three different cities, which made Michael Stipe feel pressured to write the lyrics, as he told Spin magazine .

reception

Pooltrax says about the album "... you can now celebrate your little comeback with earthy, fresh and energetic songs and beautiful melodies" and About Songs thinks: "... Despite all the criticism," Accelerate "is a good REM album and proves that the Band, in contrast to all the other bands that have been around for so long, rightly carry on ”.

Track list

  1. Living Well Is the Best Revenge - 3:11
  2. Man-Sized Wreath - 2:32
  3. Supernatural Superserious - 3:23
  4. Hollow Man - 2:39
  5. Houston - 2:05
  6. Accelerate - 3:33
  7. Until the Day Is Done - 4:08
  8. Mr. Richards - 3:46
  9. Sing for the Submarine - 4:50
  10. Horse to Water - 2:18
  11. I'm gonna DJ - 2:07

All the songs on the album were written by the band members themselves.

Publications

In Germany only the single Supernatural Superserious was released. Hollow Man was released on June 2, 2008 in the UK, Australia and the US. The singles Man-Sized Wreath and Until the Day is Done were only distributed via download portals.

Chart placements

album

country space
Great Britain 1
Germany 2
United States 2

Single releases

year title Chart positions
US DE AT CH UK
2008 Supernatural Superserious 85 26th 26th 21st 54
2008 Hollow Man - - - - 200
2008 Man-Sized Wreath (UK: 7 "& Download) - - - - -
2008 Until the Day Is Done (Download) - - - 49 -

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ pooltrax.com ( Memento from October 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ aboutsongs.de ( Memento from July 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Official Album Charts . Retrieved May 4, 2020.
  4. ↑ acharts.us . Retrieved October 7, 2010.
  5. ^ Billboard 200 . Retrieved October 7, 2010.