# REM - Accelerate

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rem-accelerate/50169
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [June 17, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rem-accelerate/50169 "2008-06-17T19:04:07Z")
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### Author: ![sureshot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sureshot/32/7578_2.png) [@sureshot](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rem-accelerate/50169/3 "2008-06-17T20:53:30Z")

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REM hasn’t made an album worth listening to since the 80s.

It’s fine that Michael Stipe is gay just as it’s fine that he has strong eco and political beliefs. Regrettably once he started using these things as a way of promoting the music, it went all downhill :tdown:

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