On September 25, 2012, R.E.M. is celebrating the 25th anniversary of their 1987 fifth studio album, Document, with a remastered re-release. The 25th Anniversary Edition will include all of the original songs plus a “previously unreleased 1987 concert from R.E.M.’s ‘Work’ tour.” The remastered release also has liner notes provided by journalist David Daley.
Document was R.E.M.’s first platinum record, peaking at #10 on and spending 33 weeks on the Top 200 chart. In the new liner notes, band member Mike Mills tells Daley: “We always felt that if we had a hit, it would be despite us, not because of us.”
R.E.M.: Document (25(th) Anniversary Edition) [2CD, digital] Details
CD 1 (digitally remastered original album)
1. Finest Worksong
2. Welcome To The Occupation
3. Exhuming McCarthy
4. Disturbance At The Heron House
5. Strange
6. Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
7. The One I Love
8. Fireplace
9. Lightnin’ Hopkins
10. King Of Birds
11. Oddfellows Local 151
CD 2 (previously unreleased “Work” tour concert, recorded live in Utrecht, Holland – September 14, 1987)
1. Finest Worksong (4.20)
2. These Days (3.36)
3. Lightnin’ Hopkins (3.43)
4. Welcome To The Occupation (2.52)
5. Driver 8 (4.15)
6. Feeling Gravitys Pull (5.00)
7. I Believe (4.28)
8. The One I Love (4.38)
9. Exhuming McCarthy (3.23)
10. Wolves, Lower (4.23)
11. Fall On Me (3.05)
12. Just A Touch (3.12)
13. Oddfellows Local 151 (5.34)
14. Little America (2.50)
15. Its the End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (4.01)
16. Begin The Begin (4.32)
17. Disturbance At The Heron House (3.42)
18. Moral Kiosk (3.02)
19. Life And How To Live It (4.59)
20. So. Central Rain (5.35)
All songs by Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe except “Strange” (Gilbert, Lewis, Newman, Gotobed)
Source: Capitol/I.R.S. Records
—Posted by Rebecca Murray