Blog: to die by your side

Looking at my LastFM statistics , it's a bit of a surprise to see R.E.M. are my fifth most listened to artists. Not because I don't like them, obviously. More that I never realised I'd listened to them quite as much as I clearly have. Most of it I think, is a result of loving 'Accelerate' as much as I did when it came out. I played that record a ridiculous amount on near constant rotation, never quite understanding why it didn't get the same amount of loving from everybody else. [...]

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