{"id":18766,"date":"2011-03-03T00:14:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T23:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk:80\/wordpress-3\/?p=18766"},"modified":"2011-03-03T00:14:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T23:14:23","slug":"i-cant-tell-a-lie-its-not-all-cherry-pie-but-its-all-there-waiting-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/i-cant-tell-a-lie-its-not-all-cherry-pie-but-its-all-there-waiting-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I can't tell a lie, it's not all cherry pie\/ But it's all there waiting for you…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Quietus skriver om ‘Every Day Is Yours To Win’, sjette sang p\u00e5 REM’s nye Collapse Into Now<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The track most likely to be embraced wholeheartedly by all REM fans, and also one of the most interesting on the album. Boasting a twinkling, starry score and with Stipe’s vocal drenched in reverb and echo, it feels somewhat like treading barefoot through a dream until the reverie is broken slightly by the introduction of soaring guitar halfway through. The nursery-rhyme like quality of the words adds to the lullaby aesthetic, too, with lines such as “With the walk and the talk, and the tick-tock clock” and “I can’t tell a lie, it’s not all cherry pie\/ But it’s all there waiting for you”. Throw in the simple refrain of “Hey yeah”, and you’ve got a sure-fire anthem just waiting to be unleashed.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Har f\u00e5et h\u00f8rt Collapse Into Now<\/em> de f\u00f8rste 4-5 gange nu. S\u00e5 befriende at opleve R.E.M. endelig igen kan v\u00e6re her og lige nu, oph\u00e6ve tid, bygge bro mellem underbevidshed, dr\u00f8m og virkelighed. ‘Every Day Is Yours To Win’ er jo helt fantastisk dejlig, liges\u00e5 ‘Blue’, slutnummeret med Patti Smith. Men der er mange fine ting undervejs, ikke mindst de sange vi nu allerede kender godt i forvejen, specielt den om Berlin og s\u00e5 ‘Oh My Heart’. Der er en lidt bleg periode langt henne p\u00e5 albummet, omkring ‘Alligator…’ og ‘That Someone Is You’, hvor specielt sidstn\u00e6vnte lyder decideret throwaway. Men det er ubetydeligheder, for R.E.M. har overordnet ikke fremst\u00e5et s\u00e5 levende, ligefremme, overskudsagtige og p\u00e5 h\u00f8jde med bandets egen tunge arv siden New Adventures In Hi-Fi.<\/em> Vi taler alts\u00e5 15 \u00e5rs dvale – s\u00e5 lang en s\u00f8vn plejer intet rockband at v\u00e5gne op fra og kunne v\u00e6re sig selv bekendt. Det har R.E.M. nu gjort.<\/p>\n

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The Quietus har ogs\u00e5 ord om ovenst\u00e5ende sang:<\/p>\n

Blue<\/p>\n

So Collapse Into Now culminates with ‘Blue’, a truly bizarre closer and the most experimental that REM have been for quite some time. Rather than any musical contemporary, Stipe’s words sound more like Ginsberg and the Beat generation as he reels of lines of stream-of-consciousness observations that start with isolated self-pity (“Halloween, I’d had enough to drink to have my own party”) and end with the weird outburst of “Cinderella boy, you lost your shoe\/ Cinderella boy, your carriage awaits”. The ragged, slicing guitar line that begin the song verges on almost melodramatic; minutes later, its own histrionics are undercut by the introduction of sparse and brittle piano, and some odd scraping and squeaking noises cluttering up the background. Patti Smith also contributes the album’s final guest appearance (and in doing so, performs with the band for the second time after her turn on ‘E-Bow The Letter’ from 1996), but she’s almost relegated to secondary attraction. And rather fittingly, it all ends with a softer, slower reprise of ‘Discovery’, bringing the constant see-sawing between hope and resignation, and optimism and pessimism, full circle. Perhaps more radical moments like this wouldn’t have gone amiss, but Collapse Into Now is the sound of a band revisiting the ground that they know best – and at this point in their career, it’s probably better to be safe than sorry.<\/strong> <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Quietus skriver om ‘Every Day Is Yours To Win’, sjette sang p\u00e5 REM’s nye Collapse Into Now: The track most likely to be embraced wholeheartedly by all REM fans, and also one of the most interesting on the album. Boasting a twinkling, starry score and with Stipe’s vocal drenched in reverb and echo, it … L\u00e6s videre I can't tell a lie, it's not all cherry pie\/ But it's all there waiting for you…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n