Album Review: R.E.M., “Live at the Olympia” (Warner Bros.)

If anyone was wondering how R.E.M. [ tickets ] went from the brooding, disappointing murk of 2004’s “Around the Sun” to the urgent, clarion call, return-to-form of 2008’s “Accelerate,” you’ll find part of the answer on “Live at the Olympia.” This two-CD, 39-song set is culled from the band’s 2007 five-night engagement at Dublin’s historic Olympia Theatre. Th...

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