New Listen to New Adventures in Hi-Fi

I put R.E.M.'s New Adventures in Hi-Fi on a couple of days ago, and I have to say that I was more than impressed. My general impression of R.E.M. has been that they have made better songs than albums.

I'd bought New Adventures in Hi-Fi for the song "Bittersweet me", which I absolutely love. I was never impressed by "E-Bow the letter," and I'm still not. But there are other good tracks such as the opener "How the west was won and where it got us."

I remember listening again to Automatic for the people after seeing R.E.M. in concert here a couple years back. I was also duly impressed with that album, so maybe my low judgment of R.E.M. as an album band needs some revising.