Is it the wine or the music?

Review Score: (10/10)
I don't know which it is, but I haven't felt so strongly about an REM CD since I was in college. More specifically, I haven't enjoyed a song as much as "e-bow the letter" since I can remember. There are other good songs on this CD, but I really can't judge it as a whole, since I'm totally sucked into this song. Buy it just for this song. You'll probably like at least a few others too. Maybe, if you're over 30, you'll feel like you're 19 again, when everything was intense and technicolor.

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