Up (REM album)

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Up
Studio album by REM

Publication
(s)

1998

Label (s) Warner Brothers

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

Rock , alternative rock

Title (number)

14th

running time

64:33 min

occupation Singing : Michael Stipe

Electric guitar : Peter Buck
Electric bass : Mike Mills

production

Pat McCarthy , SEM

Studio (s)

Armory Studios , Vancouver , British Columbia

chronology
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
(1996) 		Up Reveal
(2001)

Up is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band REM. It was released on October 26, 1998 and followed New Adventures in Hi-Fi .

Track list

  1. Airportman - 4:12
  2. Lotus - 4:30
  3. Suspicion - 5:36
  4. Hope - 5:02
  5. At My Most Beautiful - 3:35
  6. The Apologist - 4:30
  7. Sad Professor - 4:01
  8. You're in the Air - 5:22
  9. Walk Unafraid - 4:31
  10. Why Not Smile - 4:03
  11. Daysleeper - 3:40
  12. Diminished - 6:01
  13. Parakeet - 4:09
  14. Falls to Climb - 5:06

The songs were written by Peter Buck , Mike Mills and Michael Stipe . For Hope , Leonard Cohen is also listed as a co-author, as it was later recognized that the piece is very similar to Cohen's Suzanne .

Music genre

Unlike its predecessors, Up was determined by keyboards , muted percussion and very reserved guitars.

useful information

After Bill Berry left , various drummers took his place for the recordings, but without becoming a permanent member of the band. Up was the first album the band for Green (1988), which topped the charts in the UK missed.

reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic wrote that Up sounds like REM even without the guitars, even if REM wanted to be adventurous and hip. In a way, this is a good thing, because it shows that the band have developed their own sound that is more elastic than many had predicted. Many of the pieces are "easy to admire, but difficult to love." He awarded two and a half stars out of five. With increasing distance, however, the judgment of the music critics was increasingly positive; For example, the German edition of Rolling Stone awarded the album five out of five stars in 2013 for the fifteenth anniversary of the album.

Charts

album

country position
United States 3
Great Britain 2
Germany 1
Austria 1
Switzerland 7th

Singles

year title Chart placements
DE AT CH UK US
1998 Daysleeper 57 17th 49 6th 57
lotus - - - 26th -
1999 At My Most Beautiful - - - 10 -

swell

  1. ↑ a b Review Up by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
  2. ↑ http://www.everyhit.co.uk/
  3. ↑ http://www.rollingstone.de/reviews/alben/article487745/rewind-today-1998-rem-veroefflichen-up.html
  4. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US