{"id":1350,"date":"2008-03-24T21:03:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T21:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullcull.wordpress.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2008-03-24T21:03:34","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T21:03:34","slug":"rebellious-jukebox-rem-accelerate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=1350","title":{"rendered":"Rebellious Jukebox: R.E.M. Accelerate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/skullcull.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/200px-rem_-_accelerate.jpg\\\" title=\\\"accelerate\\\"><img src=\\\"http:\/\/skullcull.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/200px-rem_-_accelerate.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"accelerate\\\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\\\"color:#999999;font-style:italic;font-size:10px;\\\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>R.E.M. today premiered their new album on iLike and goddamn if it isn\\&#8217;t fucking brilliant. I was, to put it mildly, underwhelmed by <i>Around The Sun<\/i> and I had stupidly expected to never be disappointed by one of their albums. On a first listen this is my favourite of theirs since <i>Up <\/i>and I think <i>Mr Richards <\/i>is leading on my favourite tracks at the moment. I think this album has something of <i>Monster <\/i>about it but that could just be that it sounds rockier than the last three albums. It should be a great album to play live and I am looking forward to the round of interviews that are bound to be coming up. It is a bit of shame that questions around Stipe\\&#8217;s sexuality seem to be taking the fore when what should really be concerning everyone is that this is an excitingly fresh sounding album that testifies to a band on top form both musically and lyrically. I can\\&#8217;t wait to pick up a copy!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nNow playing: <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.foxytunes.com\/artist\/r.e.m.\/track\/what%27s+the+frequency%2c+kenneth%3f\\\" title=\\\"\\'R.E.M. - What\\'s the Frequency, Kenneth?\\' - open on FoxyTunes Planet\\\">R.E.M. &#8211; What\\&#8217;s the Frequency, Kenneth?<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\\\"color:#999999;font-style:italic;font-size:10px;\\\">via <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.foxytunes.com\/signatunes\/\\\" title=\\\"FoxyTunes - Web of music at your fingertips\\\">FoxyTunes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R.E.M. today premiered their new album on iLike and goddamn if it isn\\&#8217;t fucking brilliant. I was, to put it mildly, underwhelmed by Around The Sun and I had stupidly expected to never be disappointed by one of their albums. <a href=\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=1350\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,136,137,171],"tags":[209,585,741,772,793],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-rebellious-jukebox","category-rem","category-updates","tag-accelerate","tag-ilike","tag-michael-stipe","tag-music","tag-new-album"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}