{"id":2532,"date":"2011-04-13T12:32:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T10:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novamuska.org\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2013-02-12T11:12:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T10:12:30","slug":"plosca-r-e-m-collapse-into-now-warner-bros-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novamuska.org\/?p=2532","title":{"rendered":"PLO\u0160\u010cA: R.E.M. &#8211; Collapse Into Now (Warner Bros, 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/novamuska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/rem-collapse-into-now.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2535\" title=\"rem-collapse-into-now\" src=\"https:\/\/novamuska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/rem-collapse-into-now.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novamuska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/rem-collapse-into-now.jpg 320w, https:\/\/novamuska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/rem-collapse-into-now-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/novamuska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/rem-collapse-into-now-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/novamuska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/rem-collapse-into-now-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kljub pogostim pisanjem, da je prej\u0161nji album <em>Accelerate<\/em> revitaliziral kariero <em>R.E.M<\/em>., \u010de\u0161 da so se na njem spet na\u0161li, je treba ponovno ugotoviti, da se pravzaprav nikoli niti niso iskali. \u010ceprav so za kratek \u010das tudi sami podlegli vsesplo\u0161ni medijski fami, da obdobje 1998\u20132004 ni bilo njihovo najbolj\u0161e in da jim bo k obuditvi stare mo\u010di pomagalo le vsevdiljno distorziranje in \u017eaganje, je ob izidu pri\u010dujo\u010dega albuma o\u010ditno, da so bolj\u0161i, kadar se ne trudijo preve\u010d. Albumi <em>Up<\/em>, <em>Reveal<\/em> in <em>Around The Sun<\/em> kljub odsotnosti <em>Billa<\/em> <em>Berryja<\/em>, ki bi naj bil nekak\u0161en njihov Samson, sodijo v sam vrh njihove diskografije. <em>Michael<\/em> <em>Stipe<\/em> je bil vedno najbolj\u0161i v baladah in to si bo prej ko slej treba priznati. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tCvnGxfBfiw\">Leaving New York<\/a> z albuma Around The Sun je bil odli\u010dna sinteza njihovih \u00bbobdobij\u00ab; spominjal je, \u010de \u017ee, na klasi\u010dne R.E.M., hkrati pa je bil sve\u017e in druga\u010den. To velja tudi denimo za <em>Houston<\/em> z Accelerate, ob izidu novega albuma pa se je marsikdo spomnil na <em>Out Of Time<\/em>. Kar ni seveda ni\u010d slabega, nasprotno. Album <em>Collapse Into Now<\/em> je nekak\u0161no nadaljevanje Accelerate, le da ni tolikanj distorziran. Kar je dobro. Najmo\u010dnej\u0161e nove pesmi so prav tiste, ob katerih si re\u010demo, da smo jih \u017ee nekje sli\u0161ali, a so hkrati nove in pomenijo tudi, da so se R.E.M. kon\u010dno nehali ukvarjati z dvomi, ali v novem tiso\u010dletju reciklirajo sami sebe ali morajo nujno izumljati nekaj novega. Tudi pri <em>U2<\/em>, denimo, se eksperimentiranje ni obneslo, pri povratku v star zvok na zadnjih plo\u0161\u010dah pa \u017eal niso dodali nobenega resni\u010dnega prese\u017eka in so sporo\u010dilno celo ope\u0161ali. Upehala jih je lastna veli\u010dina megalomanskega \u0161tadionskega rock benda. Pri R.E.M. je \u0161lo za malce druga\u010dno zgodbo, za skoraj vsesplo\u0161no kritiko njihove zrele in u\u010dinkovite baladnosti s plo\u0161\u010d zadnjega desetletja (<em>Imitation Of Life<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SDJubHFlZAE\">I&#8217;ll Take The Rain<\/a> in <em>Leaving New York<\/em> vse sodijo med najbolj\u0161e pesmi R.E.M. In so prepri\u010dljivej\u0161e, kot denimo distorzirana baladnost v <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_We6ubpUHZs&amp;feature=related\">Supernatural Superserious<\/a>, \u010deprav pesmi ni kaj o\u010ditati); na plo\u0161\u010di Accelerate so naredili uspe\u0161en hibrid, nekaj takega, kot sta bili <em>Monster<\/em> in <em>New Adventures In Hi-Fi<\/em> (1994 in 95), na novem albumu pa zvenijo precej zadovoljni in skulirani, nekako tako kot na Reveal, \u010deprav se zdi, da je ponekod Stipeov \u00bbvrtinec seznamov\u00ab (po <em>Ecu<\/em>) \u017ee iz\u010drpan (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_Ghq8vs-yBo\">Discoverer<\/a>). Vmesne bolj energi\u010dne postaje ponekod zvenijo rahlo forsirano (<em>Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter<\/em>), saj se zdi, da gre bolj zares v nekaterih odli\u010dnih baladah (<em>Oh My Heart<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PN1YpMtPIpE&amp;feature=relmfu\">\u00dcberlin<\/a>, <em>It Happened Today<\/em>, <em>Me<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kO6gmct90pk\">Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando And I<\/a>). Prva je precej preprosta, a ravno zato sve\u017ea, slednja pa nadaljuje niz ariemovskih \u00bbigralskih fascinacij\u00ab (gl. <em>Electrolite<\/em>, album New Adventures In Hi-Fi), ki pa seveda niso v funkciji priklanjanja legendam ali \u010desa takega, pa\u010d pa slu\u017eijo kot intertekstualne interference v pesmi, ki bi, sicer predzadnja, morda lahko tudi za\u0161pilila plo\u0161\u010do, a zaklju\u010dna <em>Blue<\/em> prina\u0161a \u0161ifrant naslova v verzu \u00bb20th century collapse into now\u00ab s sicer\u0161njim kontekstom besedila vred. Producent je spet <em>Jacknife<\/em> <em>Lee<\/em> in vse ka\u017ee, da REM-ovcev na sre\u010do ne namerava vkalupirati v en sam zvok, marve\u010d jim pusti, da ga izdelajo sami in se pri tem dobro po\u010dutijo. Med (vokalnimi) gosti na plo\u0161\u010di sta tudi <em>Eddie<\/em> <em>Wedder<\/em> (It Happened Today) in <em>Patti<\/em> <em>Smith<\/em> (<em>Discoverer<\/em>, Blue). Collapse Into Now ni najbolj\u0161i album R.E.M., tudi ne pomeni kaj prelomnega, je pa ponoven dokaz, da \u0161e niso povedali vsega in da to \u0161e vedno po\u010dnejo bolje od tekmecev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recenzija nove plo\u0161\u010de R.E.M. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plosce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novamuska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novamuska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novamuska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novamuska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novamuska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novamuska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6247,"href":"https:\/\/novamuska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/6247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novamuska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novamuska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novamuska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novamuska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}