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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Plays the Music of Rem | 
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| Artist: Rem
Label: Music Club
Category: Music
List Price: £6.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 20483
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5014797293915
ASIN: B0000259L1
Release Date: December 6, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | One I Love | | • | Losing My Religion | | • | Stand | | • | Man On The Moon | | • | Nightswimming | | • | Everybody Hurts | | • | Strange Currencies | | • | Near Wild Heaven | | • | Drive | | • | Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite | | • | What's The Frequency Kenneth | | • | Shiny Happy People |
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| Customer Reviews:
A whole new perspective onREM November 17, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
REM were once called 'America's Best Rock 'n' Roll Band' by Rolling Stone magazine. Over the years their music has progressed from a sort of up beat new face to the middle aged men on the fringe of rock who still produce great music, but still seem to get it right.
This album puts a new perspective on the REM sound. Using elements of REM but on a much bigger scale The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra create an almost entirely new series of songs to those that they are imitating. The feelings that 'Losing My Religion' and 'Nightswimming' bring forth are different to when listening Stipe strain to sing them. The feeling is not there, but the music is more intense. It creates a feeling of excitement in an old fan of the band. To hear how Stipe, Mills, Buck and Berry could have done things makes you wonder why they went for simplicity when an orchestral sound makes the music jump out at you unlike the subtleties of the original.
This album can not be taken as something that is trying to imitate REM but merely use REM as a basis for something different and fresh. Though if thought of this way it is quite honestly brilliant. However if thought of as a series of REM covers it just sounds like elevator music. So if you wish to hear something unlike anything else I would say there is nothing better than 'The RPO plays the music of REM', if you want an album of REM songs then buy 'In Time' or 'Eponymous'.
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