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[thomas08]

yippee

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R.E.M.'S GREEN REVOLUTION: 25TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION OF THE BAND'S MAJOR-LABEL BREAKTHROUGH OUT MAY 14TH ON RHINO
PRESS RELEASE:
25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Of The Band’s Major-Label Breakthrough Includes Original Album Remastered And Live Disc Spotlighting The Penultimate Show Of 1989 World Tour; Available May 14 From Rhino

Green Remastered Will Also Be Available On 180-Gram Vinyl The Same Day

Five Song Live In Greensboro EP Will Be Released
On CD As Record Store Day Exclusive On April 20

R.E.M. achieved global success with the 1988 release of GREEN, the Athens, Georgia, quartet’s sixth studio album and first for Warner Bros. Records, which would be the band’s label home for the rest of their recording career. While R.E.M. was fast becoming one of the most acclaimed and revered acts in the U.S., GREEN was their first album to gain the attention of a worldwide audience. Packed with tracks destined to be definitive additions to the band’s canon, including “Orange Crush,” “Pop Song 89,” and “Stand,” GREEN was certified double platinum by the RIAA and doubled the domestic sales of the band’s previous release. GREEN continued R.E.M.’s dedication to the message of social consciousness, as evidenced by the album’s title, which would go on to became a ubiquitous buzzword for environmentally friendly initiatives.

To celebrate the landmark album’s 25-year anniversary, Rhino is releasing a two-disc deluxe edition that features the remastered original album accompanied by a disc of live performances taken from the penultimate show of R.E.M.’s 130-date Green World Tour. All 21 songs were recorded in Greensboro, North Carolina, on November 10, 1989, just miles from where Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry had their very first recording session at Mitch Easter’s Drive-In Studio in Winston-Salem.

The anniversary set is packaged in a hard clamshell box (similar to previous R.E.M. reissues) and comes with four postcards and a foldout poster, plus insightful liner notes by Uncut editor, Allan Jones. GREEN: 25TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION will be available on May 14 as a 2-disc set and digitally. The same day, the remastered album with original art and packaging will also be available on 180-gram vinyl.

In anticipation of the anniversary set, Rhino will release a limited edition, five-track EP as part of Record Store Day. This exclusive CD features a handful of performances from the Greensboro show that, due to space constraints, are not found on the Deluxe Edition, including the Green track “I Remember California” and classics like “So. Central Rain” and “Feeling Gravitys Pull.” Limited to just 2,500 copies, the disc comes with an original (non-reproduction) patch from the Green Tour. These patches were recently uncovered in the band’s vault. The LIVE IN GREENSBORO EP will be available for Record Store Day on April 20 for $7.98. For a list of participating stores, please visit wrecordstoreday.com.

The concert spread across the anniversary set and the Record Store Day EP captures a fiery set from R.E.M., which had been forged in the crucible of nearly one year of shows. R.E.M. performed most of GREEN (“Get Up” “World Leader Pretend” and “You Are The Everything”), while mixing in early favorites like “Fall On Me,” “Finest Worksong,” “The One I Love” and “Perfect Circle” from the band’s 1983 debut Murmur. The show also finds the band testing out new songs (“Low” and “Belong”) that would appear two years later on GREEN’s follow-up, Out Of Time.

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GREEN: 25TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION
Track Listing

Disc One – Original Album
1. “Pop Song 89”
2. “Get Up”
3. “You Are The Everything”
4. “Stand”
5. “World Leader Pretend”
6. “The Wrong Child”
7. “Orange Crush”
8. “Turn You Inside Out”
9. “Hairshirt”
10. “I Remember California”
11. “Untitled”

Disc Two – Live In Greensboro 1989
1. “Stand”
2. “The One I Love”
3. “Turn You Inside Out”
4. “Belong”
5. “Exhuming McCarthy”
6. “Good Advices”
7. “Orange Crush”
8. “Cuyahoga”
9. “These Days”
10. “World Leader Pretend”
11. “I Believe”
12. “Get Up”
13. “Life And How To Live It”
14. “Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”
15. “Pop Song 89”
16. “Fall On Me”
17. “You Are The Everything”
18. “Begin The Begin”
19. “Low”
20. “Finest Worksong”
21. “Perfect Circle”

LIVE IN GREENSBORO EP – Record Store Day Exclusive

1. “So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)”
2. “Feeling Gravitys Pull”
3. “Strange”
4. “King of Birds”
5. “I Remember California”

[pelagius42]

That explains what the RSD release is.  

[liamthedon]

I'm mostly looking forward to the vinyl release, although sometimes tough to track down in the UK.

Slightly disappointed the RSD release isn't on vinyl though.

[pelagius42]

liamthedon, on 06 March 2013 - 11:29 AM, said:

I'm mostly looking forward to the vinyl release, although sometimes tough to track down in the UK.

Slightly disappointed the RSD release isn't on vinyl though.

A vinyl RSD release would've been good.
I've got Green on vinyl so until that wears out, I think I'm good.  
I'll probably pick up the CD box though, as I don't have this show.

[thomas08]

Did a check on the Rhino website and after seeing this I think it's safe to say that Rhino is the new label for future R.E.M. releases:

http://www.rhino.com...no-factoids-rem

Also, the new Buck, Mills, Stipe albums collection (Up to CIN) is being released on Rhino

[Hoffi_65]

Rhino is an imprint Warners use to exploit their catalogues, they have done so for several years. Recent examples include Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' and The Smiths re-releases. So, of course, all R.E.M. WB albums will be re-released through Rhino. If the band continue to work through their catalogue, that is.

[Driver Nate]

Is "exploit" the right word? I know many (if not all) of the Warner Brothers albums were re-released recently in the DVD-A format but I never purchased them. However, if the reissue campaign is going to continue with the remainder of the WB albums through Rhino I'll probably pick those up. I know the Grateful Dead's studio albums (along a few of the live ones) were reissued as two box sets (The Golden Road, Beyond Description) by Rhino a few years ago but I never thought of WB, Arista or the Dead's own label as being exploitative. Then again, that was the first time any of those albums had ever been reissued in any form. Rhino, like Rykodisc is a label who's speciality is reissues or putting albums out that never saw the light of day on CD. I've never seen the harm in that. I mean, no one has forced me to buy any of these R.E.M. reissues so I'm not so sure that that's what I'd consider to be exploitative.

[Hoffi_65]

'Exploitation' is the term used in the music industry. It's not a judgement of any kind.

[cjr67]

Looking forward to a good quality live version of Low from this tour.  Hope they include the sung snippets introducing various songs as well as the spoken word intros.

[uglyredhonda]

I think it's cool to see this kind of show getting released (without looking, I'm assuming this was one of the shows recorded for TourFilm), but I wish they would do something different for the digital release and include the entire show, uncut.  

I get that the entire show won't fit on one disc, but the digital formats aren't limited by that constraint. Forcing anyone who wants the entire show to hunt around various stores on RSD and find a copy of the EP (or pay the eBay premium afterward) is kind of obnoxious, even if the patch is a nice bonus.  (Some of the songs on the EP are among my favorites on TourFilm, so I'm already dreading having to run around to find that disc.)

[liamthedon]

uglyredhonda, on 06 March 2013 - 09:48 PM, said:

Forcing anyone who wants the entire show to hunt around various stores on RSD and find a copy of the EP (or pay the eBay premium afterward) is kind of obnoxious

I always felt this was kind of the point in RSD. Why celebrate independant record stores if people will go ahead and download it instead? That contradicts the whole point of the thing.

[Sweden]

liamthedon, on 07 March 2013 - 12:51 AM, said:

I always felt this was kind of the point in RSD. Why celebrate independant record stores if people will go ahead and download it instead? That contradicts the whole point of the thing.

+1

Just like Peter's solo album, even though that was slightly easier, at least after a while.

[THE UNAFRAID]

Talk about a (fully expected) let down.

[Driver Nate]

liamthedon, on 07 March 2013 - 12:51 AM, said:

I always felt this was kind of the point in RSD. Why celebrate independant record stores if people will go ahead and download it instead? That contradicts the whole point of the thing.

I like Record Store day but the very nature of it tends to bring out the worst in people. Like those that have absolutely no interest in a record that will be the first in line to acquire the super rare stuff just so they can flip it on eBay. That sort of thing takes all of the fun out of it.

I really hate that all of these concerts that have been part of the reissue series have been edited in some way. I wish they could make them available separately or whatever it takes so that we could get the entire concert.

It's not Record Store Day related but I know that with the Replacements Songs for Slim project a download of the EP was only made available after the auction was over (it'll also be out on vinyl next month). They're now in the phase where they're releasing singles (from other artists). Once that's complete and all the bidding is over there's talk of releasing all of those singles as a compilation.

[pelagius42]

Driver Nate, on 07 March 2013 - 09:26 AM, said:

I like Record Store day but the very nature of it tends to bring out the worst in people. Like those that have absolutely no interest in a record that will be the first in line to acquire the super rare stuff just so they can flip it on eBay. That sort of thing takes all of the fun out of it.

Which seems to have been what happened a couple years ago with the release of an early mix of Big Star's 3rd/Sisters Lovers.  I never even saw a copy, but the next day there were tons of them on ebay at highly-inflated prices.  Being a fan of the Rykodisc reissue of the album, the RSD release is an LP i'd love to hear/have.

[Driver Nate]

I never even saw a copy of it either. I believe Schoolkids in Raleigh only got 2 in and they were gone within seconds of them opening the door that morning. The folks that started Record Store Day originally just wanted to have a special day to celebrate record stores. Adding limited edition vinyl was an afterthought. Thing is, it was sort of a necessary evil as it gives people an incentive to actually visit their local record store. I know that last year, Schoolkids had their best business day ever thanks to Record Store Day (the April one, not the Black Friday one). So, unfortunately Record Store Day has turned out to be a bit of a double edged sword. I think it's cool to take part in and to see places like Schoolkids with lines flowing around the block but the people that are only in it to make money off of the rarest stuff spoil the fun. Then, there's the argument that the limited edition stuff creates a market for records that wouldn't exist otherwise. I sincerely believe the Record Store Day folks started it as a way of celebrating vinyl and record stores but unfortunately it also has it's downside.

[uglyredhonda]

liamthedon, on 07 March 2013 - 12:51 AM, said:

I always felt this was kind of the point in RSD. Why celebrate independant record stores if people will go ahead and download it instead? That contradicts the whole point of the thing.

Not really.  The patch makes it a unique and desirable item, and it would be the only way to get those particular tracks in a lossless format.  Plus, the RSD release would be almost a month before the Deluxe Green release.  I can't imagine that 2500 copies of an unusual R.E.M. release would be difficult to sell out in that time (if they, surprisingly, didn't sell out on RSD).

[Sweden]

uglyredhonda, on 07 March 2013 - 09:59 PM, said:

Not really.  The patch makes it a unique and desirable item, and it would be the only way to get those particular tracks in a lossless format.  Plus, the RSD release would be almost a month before the Deluxe Green release.  I can't imagine that 2500 copies of an unusual R.E.M. release would be difficult to sell out in that time (if they, surprisingly, didn't sell out on RSD).

Not sure I get your point...

[uglyredhonda]

Sweden, on 08 March 2013 - 12:39 AM, said:

Not sure I get your point...

They're not going to download it instead of buying the EP.  The EPs will sell out, either way.

[Sweden]

uglyredhonda, on 08 March 2013 - 02:54 PM, said:

They're not going to download it instead of buying the EP.  The EPs will sell out, either way.

And the tracks will be available for download, even though perhaps not legally, within three hours of release, so I guess everyone's happy?