{"id":4590,"date":"2012-02-03T17:54:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T00:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2012-02-03T17:54:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T00:54:41","slug":"r-e-m-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/r-e-m-3\/","title":{"rendered":"R.E.M."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/R.E.M.-M-Review-November2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4680\" title=\"R.E.M.-M-Review-November2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/R.E.M.-M-Review-November2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/R.E.M.-M-Review-November2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/R.E.M.-M-Review-November2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>R<\/strong><strong>.E.M.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part Garbage 1982-2011<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Warner Bros.]<\/p>\n<p>With R.E.M.\u2019s demise last fall the timing is perfect for this double-disc, chronologically arranged retrospective that makes a valiant, if lopsided, attempt to put the group\u2019s three-decade run into perspective. <em>Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part Garbage<\/em> is the first R.E.M. compendium that surveys the full breadth of that career, from the mumbly, jangly early innovations (\u201cGardening at Night,\u201d \u201cRadio Free Europe\u201d) through the alt-rock-defining hits of the late \u201980s and early \u201990s (\u201cLosing My Religion,\u201d \u201cThe One I Love\u201d) and onward into the erratic output that marked R.E.M.\u2019s work from the late \u201990s till the end. By default, that makes disc one as vital a collection of post-punk as any extant while rendering the second half rather spotty. Three previously unreleased tunes are tossed in to lure those who already own the rest, but this collection is strictly about what\u2019s now gone, not what lies ahead. \u2013J. Tamarkin<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R.E.M. Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part Garbage 1982-2011 [Warner Bros.] With R.E.M.\u2019s demise last fall the timing is perfect for this double-disc, chronologically arranged retrospective that makes a valiant, if lopsided, attempt to put the group\u2019s three-decade run into perspective. Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part Garbage is the first R.E.M. compendium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2864,2960,2120,528],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4682,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}