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Music DVDS In View: The Best Of R.E.M 1988 - 2003 
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| In View: The Best Of R.E.M 1988 - 2003 |
| By Gavin Hilzbrich | |
Monday, 27 October 2003 Some may not be aware that, before people actually began to sit up and take notice, R.E.M. had already recorded more albums than some band’s manage in their entire career. When they signed to Warner Brothers in 1988 and released the album Green, the relatively unknown four-piece from Athens, Georgia had already released five albums.It wasn’t really until their next album Out Of Time and it’s two huge singles ‘Shiny Happy People’ and ‘Losing My Religion’ that they really hit the big, but when they did, they never looked back and the years that followed saw the band score hit after hit as they became one of the biggest acts in the world. This DVD acts as the visual companion to the recently released best of album and does pretty much the same thing, by showing off the videos to the band’s biggest hits of the past 15 years. The track-list runs in reverse chronological order, with most recent single ‘Bad Day’ first and ‘Orange Crush’ rounding off the proceedings. There are some great videos here, most notably ‘Imitation Of Life’, which cleverly focuses on one busy scene played over and over as the camera randomly zooms in on different areas of the shot, and ‘Everybody Hurts’, which, as most people will be familiar with, sees frontman Michael Stipe emerge from his grid-locked car to sing on top of fellow motorists bonnets. If you’re a fan of R.E.M. (and let’s face it who isn’t?), this collection of videos is great to view. Not every one of them is fantastic, but the songs are and watching the video with song just adds a new dimension to it. There are bonus videos too, for the tracks that didn’t make it in to the final selection for the album, and also three great live tracks that were recorded during their memorable headlining slot at 2001’s South Africa Freedom Concert in Trafalgar Square. The excerpts of commentary in\between tracks offer an interesting insight into the videos, but nobody explains why the band dislike ‘Shiny Happy People’ so much that they decided to omit it completely. (5/5) Release Date: 27 October 2003
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