“R.E.M.’s first live album — a CD/DVD combo recorded on their 2005 tour — is, if you are a real purist, two decades late. The band never released a full concert record with original drummer Bill Berry. But while this set goes back to 1984’s Reckoning, Live is as much about forward motion as the […]”
“Who needs another exegesis on what's gone wrong with R.E.M., how they're not the band they used to be, how they've grown from local to global and lost so much in the process? Whether the ongoing string of lackluster albums is the long, sad fade-out of a favorite band or merely a trough between creative crests will be apparent only with time, and past triumphs have earned the band enough good will ”
