Reveal is a very good album. I recommend it. For some reason people lost interest in R.E.M. after the highly successful Monster. My favorite R.E.M. album was recorded during the Monster tour - New Adventures in Hi-Fi. After Monster went quadruple platinum, Hi-Fi strangely failed to even go gold. They continue to make very good music, but nobody seems to be listening. Warner has lost a lot of money on their $80 million record contract, to be sure. U2 flopped at the same time as R.E.M., but they've bounced back already while R.E.M. has yet to do so. I don't get it.