Product Description
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 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 presents 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 concert 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.

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 as a 2-disc set and digitally. The remastered album with original art and packaging will also be available on 180-gram vinyl.

Disc 1:
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
11.11/Unititled

Disc 2: Live at the Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC – 11/10/1989
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

R.E.M., Live in Greensboro EP (CD EP only on Record Store Day w/ missing tracks from live show)
1.So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
2.Feeling Gravitys Pull
3.Strange
4.King of Birds
5.I Remember California

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I saw them on that tour. Tempting to pick this up despite already having Green on CD, but I probably won't, with my (some here in ICE would say unnatural) aversion to duplication.

It's a cool idea to put more songs from the Greensboro show on the Record Store Day EP, but also kind of a pain. If it's true that only 2500 EPs are being produced, it could be tough to get. And even with the EP, the show isn't totally complete. There are still three songs missing.

Still, I'm planning to get the Green set and the RSD EP if possible. Green is my favorite REM album.

I have the Deluxe version with the DVD, and that version did not include the B-Sides, looks like this 2nd deluxe version also does not include any B-Sides as well !

I don't think any Deluxes have included b-sides so far of the I.R.S. albums and I don't believe any of the Warner Bros. albums will either.

and STILL no B-sides?

i'm referring to the collection from the 4 singles 7" box set.

ARGHHH!

Plus, Dead Letter Office, Chronic Town and other B-sides haven't received the 25th anniversary treatment.

I have an Orlando show from this tour, but I've never hear this show. I'll buy it for that, and I'll try to get the EP.

Sure the live album attached could justify a new new purchase?

Agree with Smiff here, I'll get this for the live show and need to have my indie hold me the live EP if he can.

Rick A.

i'm in for the live show too. wish they had included 'songs for a green world' broadcast. been looking for it for a while.

my above post made me do a search again and i found/ordered it on amazon uk.
it didn't show up on the us site but is shipping from movie mars in sc.

If I'm not mistaken, a good bit of the Greensboro show ended up in the TourFilm video release

I know the acoustic version of Pop Song 89 (the B-side to the single of that song) is on the 2nd disc of the "In Time" comp. I had that single on cassette and was glad to have that version on CD.

I've got the DVD A from "Green". I don't need this. The management of this band needs to get it's shit together and offer up something interesting.....how about a REM 'Bootleg Series" from the IRS era??

Bump: Added pre-order link to the first post.

Just picked up my copy of the ep...just waiting on the reissue

I saw them on that tour also, so I may pick it up for the live show - especially if I can score a copy of the ep.

If you can't score a copy, I may be able to help you out.

i'd love a copy of the greensboro ep and would gladly reimburse
if someone stumbled across one. the nearest participating record
store is 2 hours away.

I was able to snag a copy of the EP on RSD, but unfortunately no extras. My store only had four copies. I was 7th in line, and if I'd been any farther back, I wouldn't have gotten a copy at all.