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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Plays the Music of Rem

By: REM
Label: Music Club
Released: 06 Dec 1999
RRP: £6.99
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A whole new perspective onREM - By: , 17 Nov 2003
REM were once callled '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' & '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 & 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 & 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'.