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[zapiekanki]

1. A couple of television commercials bear resemblances to Imitation of Life's video. The first is from Mexican television, the second, from British television.

First video:


Second video:






2. Claudio Pasqua, an Italian engineer with a background in journalism (editor at thedailybit.net) discusses with some detail his impressions of the Imitation of Life video. Honestly I found it hard to follow the text (not least because it is in Italian, but because it's actually a physics dissertation!) Mr. Pasqua says, more or less, that "In this video there is more physics than in a laboratory at CERN." (CERN is the European centre for nuclear research).  The article (in Italian) is here:
http://www.quotidian...ella-fisica-22/




3. The following is a quote by James VanOsdol, from his book Off the Record Collection: Riffs, Rants, and Writings about Rock, published last May:

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"For a fleeting moment in 2001, i was the music director of WXRT. it was a brief career stopover, and something scarcely worth noting in the ongoing history of that legendary radio station, but I was there.

I remember the day the station got advanced copies of reveal. The program director suggested we both take the album home and take a good, hard listen to determine which songs were the most "airplay worthy".

"None of them", I said next morning. "The album's a total buzzkill and the band sounds lost." It wasn't a popular answer. I then followed up with my ""least worst" choices: "She just wants to be" and "the lifting ("imitation of life" was as good as those, but already getting airtime). Credit to XRT: they'll stick by and support and artists even when they shit out a turd like Reveal.

The book contains an interesting album by album discussion of R.E.M.'s catalog, complete with rankings for every song.

[Remixomatosys]

Many thanks, Zapiekanki.
Imitation of life is my favourite video. And the song is exceptional, too.

[mrocks7]

Great links. Thanks for posting these. I'm pretty partial to REVEAL.

[Queen of Comedy]

You can see un inedited version here

[Yarxy]

zapiekanki, on 07 September 2011 - 08:01 PM, said:

"None of them", I said next morning. "The album's a total buzzkill and the band sounds lost."

I reluctantly admit that this was my initial impression too.
Since then, I've learned to appreciate it more.
It's still not one of my favorites, but I do like it more these days.
Even "Saturn Return" is starting to grow on me.

Funny thing; whenever I think of Reveal, my immediate thought is "Hey, that was Mike's 'good hair' year."
Long story.
Here's the short version:
Of all the hair changes he's gone through, my favorite was what he had in 2001... when Reveal came out.  It was that hairstyle that sort of kick-started my Mike-obsession.

[Sweden]

Queen of Comedy, on 08 September 2011 - 03:24 PM, said:

You can see un inedited version here

That was really cool!