I had to order my copy from Amazon. Not even the independent record stores in my city got a copy.
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R.E.M. Green 25th Anniversary Reissue coming MAY 14TH on Rhino
Started by thomas08, Mar 06 2013 04:41 AM
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Posted 14 May 2013 - 06:06 PM
R.E.M. Shows Attended:
The Pyramid, Memphis, TN, 11.7.95
Red Rocks Ampitheater, Morrison, CO, 9.13.03
UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA, 9.23.03
City Park, New Orleans, LA, 10.26.08
The Pyramid, Memphis, TN, 11.7.95
Red Rocks Ampitheater, Morrison, CO, 9.13.03
UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA, 9.23.03
City Park, New Orleans, LA, 10.26.08
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Posted 14 May 2013 - 06:24 PM
I noticed that one of the Best Buys has completely removed their vinyl section (hard to believe they ever had one to start with) and have greatly reduced their CD section. The CD section at B & N keeps getting smaller too. I'm guessing that it will only be a matter of time before the big boxes phase out CD's altogether. By the way, I seem to recall that those places didn't stock the last two or three reissues either. I know I got the Murmur reissue through Amazon since it was such a deal. I'm going to pay a little more for Green through Schoolkids but they were kind enough to give me a Green tour program today and always look out for me with other stuff like store displays and Buck's record (I lucked out and got a signed one).
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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Posted 15 May 2013 - 01:01 PM
I just bought it today in our "independent record store". It seems that I bought the only copy they had. The price was Eur 19.50 which I thought was okay.
BTW, they still have three copies of the Greensboro EP, at a high price of Eur 17.50, though.
BTW, they still have three copies of the Greensboro EP, at a high price of Eur 17.50, though.
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"Ja das Wichtigste ist dass das Feuer nicht aufhört zu brennen,
denn sonst wird es ganz bitterlich kalt.
Ja, die Flammen im Herzen sind durch nichts zu ersetzen."
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"Ja das Wichtigste ist dass das Feuer nicht aufhört zu brennen,
denn sonst wird es ganz bitterlich kalt.
Ja, die Flammen im Herzen sind durch nichts zu ersetzen."
(Jan Delay)
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Posted Yesterday, 12:48 AM
Got the Green vinyl today. Bought it at Amazon.co.uk - around GBP 13.00 (including shipping).
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Posted Yesterday, 02:04 AM
The live disc is just Tourfilm isn't it? Plus the tracks not on that obviously.
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Posted Yesterday, 09:23 AM
haggis, on 17 May 2013 - 02:04 AM, said:
The live disc is just Tourfilm isn't it? Plus the tracks not on that obviously.
It's my understanding the audio for Tourfilm all came from Greensboro but the actual footage is mainly Greensboro with footage from other venues mixed in. It's probably already been mentioned here but all the pre-songs snippets like "With the People" (Drivin' n' Cryin'), "We Live As We Dream, Alone", etc. have been removed. Even combined with the Live In Greensboro EP that came out on Record Store Day, it's still not the entire concert as "Harpers" (Hugo Largo), "Dark Globe" (Syd Barrett) and "After Hours" (Velvet Underground) have all been edited out.
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids
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Posted Yesterday, 01:45 PM
From REMHQ:
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REFLECTIONS ON GREEN ALL THESE YEARS LATER
This week has seen a good campaign for the special 25th year anniversary edition of one of the band's pivotal records-- sometimes underrated coming as it did in between the end of the IRS era-- Document-- and the one-two punch of the early 90s international bestsellers Out of Time and Automatic for the People. But Green's definitely held up well over time and over the years even some of the lesser-known songs became tour standards and surprising crowd-pleasers--I always wished the guys would play "Turn You Inside-Out" more often, but when they did, it was a show-stopper. As were, in totally different but equally powerful ways, "You Are The Everything" and "World Leader Pretend." And to show how strong Green was, song for song, although it was one of only two R.E.M. records to place 4 songs on the career retrospective Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, none of those 3 songs were even on the "Best Of." That's a strong record in anybody's catalog, and might help account for the reviews we've been reading the past couple of weeks, which has of course been fun (Patterson Hood even remarked that the 25 years-on reviews have been stronger than the ones when the thing was released, and I think he is right).
My main memories of the recording process at the time, Scott Litt's second record with R.E.M., were that Memphis was cool--working at the iconic Ardent amidst the Big Star atmospherics, and then at just as iconic Bearsville, which was really cold there and the band learned a lesson-- don't record at cold places in the winter months. But it turned out more than well-- one of the band's best and wonderful to hear the songs again, remastered and with the Greensboro show from the very end of the tour included as a bonus disc--the 1989 tour was long, fun, tiring and ended in Macon, home of Bill and Mike. Then came a cool coda show for charity at the old Thanksgiving standby The Fox Theatre in ATL, where all of MURMUR, then all of GREEN, then a free-wheeling encore, and then everybody finally went home for a while.
This week has seen a good campaign for the special 25th year anniversary edition of one of the band's pivotal records-- sometimes underrated coming as it did in between the end of the IRS era-- Document-- and the one-two punch of the early 90s international bestsellers Out of Time and Automatic for the People. But Green's definitely held up well over time and over the years even some of the lesser-known songs became tour standards and surprising crowd-pleasers--I always wished the guys would play "Turn You Inside-Out" more often, but when they did, it was a show-stopper. As were, in totally different but equally powerful ways, "You Are The Everything" and "World Leader Pretend." And to show how strong Green was, song for song, although it was one of only two R.E.M. records to place 4 songs on the career retrospective Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, none of those 3 songs were even on the "Best Of." That's a strong record in anybody's catalog, and might help account for the reviews we've been reading the past couple of weeks, which has of course been fun (Patterson Hood even remarked that the 25 years-on reviews have been stronger than the ones when the thing was released, and I think he is right).
My main memories of the recording process at the time, Scott Litt's second record with R.E.M., were that Memphis was cool--working at the iconic Ardent amidst the Big Star atmospherics, and then at just as iconic Bearsville, which was really cold there and the band learned a lesson-- don't record at cold places in the winter months. But it turned out more than well-- one of the band's best and wonderful to hear the songs again, remastered and with the Greensboro show from the very end of the tour included as a bonus disc--the 1989 tour was long, fun, tiring and ended in Macon, home of Bill and Mike. Then came a cool coda show for charity at the old Thanksgiving standby The Fox Theatre in ATL, where all of MURMUR, then all of GREEN, then a free-wheeling encore, and then everybody finally went home for a while.
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids
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Posted Yesterday, 02:04 PM
I think the album sounds very good and fresh in this edition! I haven't compared to other issues yet, though.
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"Ja das Wichtigste ist dass das Feuer nicht aufhört zu brennen,
denn sonst wird es ganz bitterlich kalt.
Ja, die Flammen im Herzen sind durch nichts zu ersetzen."
(Jan Delay)
"Ja das Wichtigste ist dass das Feuer nicht aufhört zu brennen,
denn sonst wird es ganz bitterlich kalt.
Ja, die Flammen im Herzen sind durch nichts zu ersetzen."
(Jan Delay)
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