Sunday, September 21, 2008

R.E.M. - "Bittersweet Me" cd single

In the context of New Adventures in Hi-Fi, "Bittersweet Me" is only really a middling song - but that's no serious criticism given that, for mine, New Adventures is the best of R.E.M.'s many great albums, not to mention one of my favourite records by any artist full stop. This single has a couple of alternate versions of songs from the album, a fairly tough "Undertow" which adheres closely to the studio version and an acoustic "New Test Leper", and a live take on "Wichita Lineman" which isn't as good as it might've been, but is still pretty dern good.