SuPOLLnatural, SuPOLLserious: REM's "Accelerate"

My other goofy reading I'd like to contribute: "Supernatural Superserious," while it works as an "Everybody Hurts" or "Imitation of Life" song of encouragement to the insecure, is also REM's "Rubber Ring," noting bitterly that the with-it and hip want to forget the moments of insecurity in which they received these these previous songs:

Nobody cares, no one remembers and nobody cares
How you cried and you cried...

Too soon to render a binding historical judgment?

No. It's overrated. I loved this band once.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

No one remembers and nobody cares, indeed. :(

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

...well, OK then.

Big deadline this Thursday but after that I'll launch the final two polls back to back.

I gave this one a decent shot, but yeah, it was the final nail in the coffin for me. Around the Sun was awful, but it wasn't Accelerate that I thought "Oh. I think this is actually the best they can do at this point." It's nothing to mourn about - very few bands are anything but shadows of their former selves by the time they approach their thirtieth (!!) year, and R.E.M. is no exception.

wasn't until Accelerate, I mean.