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June 19, 2008 Set List:
R.E.M. is back and playing from their latest album, Accelerate, the band's 14th set at Madison Square Garden, this summer! The band — Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, and Mike Mills — had a clear idea of what they wanted the collection to be, turbo-charged. The album has a sense of raw purity that shoots right to the core of everything that the band, recent inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has built over the course of its 25-year plus career, from the first spitfire note of "Living Well Is The Best Revenge," to the soaring glory of the lead-off single "Supernatural Superserious, to the final apocalyptic crunch of "I'm Gonna DJ."
In many ways, Accelerate marks a break from R.E.M.'s recent albums, 1998's Up, 2001's Reveal, and 2004's Around The Sun, all finely crafted works exploring the textures and possibilities of the recording studio. But ultimately, Accelerate ties together the band's entire canon, from the initial blast of the 1981 single "Radio Free Europe" and on, simultaneously serving as a summary and a new start ("Sing For The Submarine" even references some earlier works). For Stipe, it's all part of the vision for this album of turning old dreams into a new reality.