Athens, GA. In a statement to the world's music press from their Georgia HQ, REM frontman Michael Stipe today admitted that "3 legged dogs don't write very good songs". Nearly 15 long years and 5 long albums after drummer Bill Berry's departure and Stipe's now infamously stupid contention that "a 3-legged dog is still a dog. It just has to learn how to run differently", it would appear that the Athens three-piece have realized that that's just bollocks. With the limp drudgery of "post -Berry" albums Up, Reveal, Around The Sun, Accelerate and newest cacophony Collapse Into Now, being largely ignored critically and commercially Stipe seems finally ready to accept that the whole 3-legged dog analogy should perhaps be revisited. Flanked by bandmates, Peter Buck, incongruously wearing shades indoors, and Mike Mills, once again sporting his rather stupid looking "still with it" long hair, Stipe nodded sagely before murmuring that the whole experience had been less like that of a 3 legged dog, and more like that of a dog "with only it's two front legs, dragging it's arse slowly, painfully over very rough gravel". New Single Discovererererrrrrgghhhh is out now.
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