Without knowing me, REM did me a favor during their performance at the Greek Theater in Berkeley in June of 2008. When Mike Mills' fingers first hit the piano, I’m sure most of the audience thought they were hearing “Night Swimming”, but instead the band transitioned into “Electrolite”, the last track on New Adventures in Hi-Fi, their 1996 release which is not on the list of favorite REM albums of anyone I know. It made me remember that I had never listened much to that album, so I put the CD in my car and listened to it every day to and from work. For four months. I suspect that many REM followers did what I did when New Adventures first came out. Unimpressed by the dull , trite title, I listened to the first track, “How the West Won and Where It Got Us,” and thought, “Interesting, but doesn’t get my blood flowing the way that ‘Radio Free Europe’, ‘Begin the Begin’, ‘Finest Worksong’, ‘Radio Song’, or even ‘What’s the Frequency, Kenneth’ did to start other great albums,” and I never invested myself in the rest of the album.more . . . http://www.redgage.com/blogs/TheRippleEffect/musical-martyrs-the-vilified-albums-rem-new-adventures-in-hi-fi.html