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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Reckoning: R.E.M. Are Done

by Sean Carolan

An originally terse announcement on R.E.M.'s official site has been expanded to include each member's comments, but the sum of it is this:

R.E.M. have decided that Collapse Into Now was their last album, and there will be no more.

There's no need to question this. As Michael Stipe very correctly quotes in their farewell message, 'the skill in attending a party is knowing when to leave'. They leave behind them an awesome body of work, some of which is likely to continue to surface as though it were new in 25th/30th/50th anniversary collections.

They did what they set out to do and then some, and all that's left is for them to say goodbye. We wave farewell fondly.

Until the reunion tour.

Much of R.E.M.'s output appears with fair regularity on Altrok 90.5 HD2 - why not tune in and relive the good times?

posted 9/21/2011 01:56:00 PM

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