Complete Studio Albums 1998-2011 (Remastered) R.E.M.

• 1 Airportman 04:13
• 2 Lotus 04:32
• 3 Suspicion 05:37
• 4 Hope 05:02
• 5 At My Most Beautiful 03:35
• 6 The Apologist 04:30
• 7 Sad Professor 04:04
• 8 You're In The Air 05:24
• 9 Walk Unafraid 04:34
• 10 Why Not Smile 04:03
• 11 Daysleeper 03:40
• 12 Diminished / I'm Not Over You 06:01
• 13 Parakeet 04:12
• 14 Falls To Climb 05:07
• 15 The Lifting 04:35
• 16 I've Been High 03:27
• 17 All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star) 04:44
• 18 She Just Wants To Be 05:22
• 19 Disappear 04:11
• 20 Saturn Return 04:55
• 21 Beat A Drum 04:21
• 22 Imitation Of Life 03:57
• 23 Summer Turns To High 03:32
• 24 Chorus And The Ring 04:31
• 25 I'll Take The Rain 05:52
• 26 Beachball 04:15
• 27 Leaving New York 04:49
• 28 Electron Blue 04:12
• 29 The Outsiders 04:15
• 30 Make It All Okay 03:44
• 31 Final Straw 04:08
• 32 I Wanted To Be Wrong 04:35
• 33 Wanderlust 03:04
• 34 Boy In The Well 05:22
• 35 Aftermath 03:56
• 36 High Speed Train 05:03
• 37 The Worst Joke Ever 03:38
• 38 The Ascent Of Man 04:07
• 39 Around The Sun 04:29
• 40 Living Well Is The Best Revenge 03:11
• 41 Man-Sized Wreath 02:33
• 42 Supernatural Superserious 03:24
• 43 Hollow Man 02:39
• 44 Houston 02:05
• 45 Accelerate 03:34
• 46 Until The Day Is Done 04:09
• 47 Mr. Richards 03:46
• 48 Sing For The Submarine 04:51
• 49 Horse To Water 02:18
• 50 I'm Gonna DJ 02:08
• 51 Discoverer 03:31
• 52 All The Best 02:48
• 53 Ãœberlin 04:15
• 54 Oh My Heart 03:21
• 55 It Happened Today 03:49
• 56 Every Day Is Yours To Win 03:26
• 57 Mine Smell Like Honey 03:13
• 58 Walk It Back 03:24
• 59 Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter 02:45
• 60 That Someone Is You 01:44
• 61 Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando And I 03:03
• 62 Blue 05:46
• Total Runtime 04:09:21

Info for Complete Studio Albums 1998-2011 (Remastered)

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and multi GRAMMY-winning artists R.E.M. and leading independent music company Concord Bicycle Music have entered into a multi-year, worldwide licensing agreement for the revered ‘indie’ rock band’s recording output spanning the years 1988 through 2011. The pact, which is set to begin early next year, includes the classic R.E.M. albums Green, Out of Time, Automatic for the People, Monster, New Adventures in Hi-Fi and Up, among many others, along with treasured hit singles 'Losing My Religion,” 'Stand,” 'Orange Crush,” 'Shiny Happy People,” 'Man on the Moon,” 'Drive,” 'Everybody Hurts,” 'What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” and 'Nightswimming,” to name just a few.

The worldwide physical and digital licensing agreement encompasses recordings that have sold in excess of 85 million albums across the globe. Forthcoming new releases include deluxe reissues with special bonus material, exclusive packaging and much more.

'The band and all at REMHQ are very happy to be joining with Concord Bicycle Music for this next phase of curating and extending R.E.M.’s recorded legacy,” stated longtime R.E.M. manager, Bertis Downs. 'The albums covered by this agreement are some of the band’s most successful, both artistically and commercially, and we know the people at Concord share our enthusiasm about this partnership. We leave the Warner Bros. family, a great label where we are certainly grateful for some of our career highlights. But moving forward, we knew this was the right time to change it up, and Concord is the right home for this key part of R.E.M.’s catalog.”

'After starting my career at I.R.S. Records and having the pleasure to work with R.E.M., it was disappointing when the band left to go to Warner Bros.,” stated Sig Sigworth, SVP Catalog Management & Development, Concord Bicycle Music. 'I’ve had the good fortune to consult with the band on their catalog for the past several years, but to now, all these years later, be able to bring the band and their incredible post-I.R.S. legacy to the Concord Bicycle Music family is very rewarding.'

One of the most revered bands to emerge from the American underground in the post-punk eighties, R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry, helped originate college rock, went on to global success and inspired generations of artists and fans along the way. The Athens, GA-based band toured relentlessly for the first decade, refining their idiosyncratic blend of brash tunefulness, poetic lyrics, chiming guitars and Stipe’s evocative vocals. R.E.M.’s extraordinary 30+ year run of creative vitality established a powerful legacy as one of the most enduring and essential rock and roll bands in popular music history.

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R.E.M.
were an alternative rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States in 1980. The band originally consisted of Michael Stipe (vocals), Peter Buck (guitar, mandolin), Mike Mills (bass, keyboards, vocals) and Bill Berry (drums). Berry retired from the band in October 1997 after having suffered a brain aneurysm in 1995.

R.E.M. released its first single, 'Radio Free Europe', in 1981 on the independent record label Hib-Tone. The single was followed by the Chronic Town EP in 1982, the band's first release on I.R.S. Records. In 1983, the group released its critically acclaimed debut album, Murmur, and built its reputation over the next few years through subsequent releases, constant touring, and the support of college radio. Following years of underground success, R.E.M. achieved a mainstream hit in 1987 with the single 'The One I Love'. The group signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1988, and began to espouse political and environmental concerns while playing large arenas worldwide.

By the early 1990s, when alternative rock began to experience broad mainstream success, R.E.M. was viewed as a pioneer of the genre and released its two most commercially successful albums, Out of Time (1991) and Automatic for the People (1992), which veered from the band's established sound. R.E.M.'s 1994 release, Monster, was a return to a more rock-oriented sound. The band began its first tour in six years to support the album; the tour was marred by medical emergencies suffered by three band members. In 1996, R.E.M. re-signed with Warner Bros. for a reported US$80 million, at the time the most expensive recording contract in history. The following year, Bill Berry left the band, while Buck, Mills, and Stipe continued the group as a three-piece. Through some changes in musical style, the band continued its career into the next decade with mixed critical and commercial success. In 2007, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Work on the group's fourteenth album commenced in early 2007. The band recorded with producer Jacknife Lee in Vancouver and Dublin, where it played five nights in the Olympia Theatre between June 30 and July 5 as part of a 'working rehearsal'. R.E.M. Live, the band's first live album (featuring songs from a 2005 Dublin show), was released in October 2007. The group followed this with the 2009 live album Live at The Olympia, which features performances from their 2005 residency. R.E.M. released Accelerate in early 2008. The album debuted at number two on the Billboard charts, and became the band's eighth album to top the British album charts. Rolling Stone reviewer David Fricke considered Accelerate an improvement over the band's previous post-Berry albums, calling it 'one of the best records R.E.M. have ever made.'

In 2010, R.E.M. released the video album R.E.M. Live from Austin, TX—a concert recorded for Austin City Limits in 2008. The group recorded its fifteenth album, Collapse into Now (2011), with Jacknife Lee in locales including Berlin, Nashville, and New Orleans. For the album, the band aimed for a more expansive sound than the intentionally short and speedy approach implemented on Accelerate. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, becoming the group's tenth album to reach the top ten of the chart. This release fulfilled R.E.M.'s contractual obligations to Warner Bros., and they began recording material without a contract a few months later with the possible intention of self-releasing the work.

On September 21, 2011, the band announced via its website that it was 'calling it a day as a band'. Stipe said that he hoped their fans realized it 'wasn't an easy decision': 'All things must end, and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way.' Long-time associate and former Warner Bros. Senior Vice President of Emerging Technology Ethan Kaplan has speculated that shake-ups at the record label influenced the group's decision to disband. The band members will finish their collaboration by assembling the compilation album Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011, scheduled for release in November 2011. The album will be the first to collect songs from R.E.M.'s I.R.S. and Warner Bros. tenures, as well as the group's final studio recordings from post-Collapse into Now sessions.

On 21 September 2011, after over 30 years together, R.E.M. announced that they had split up. (Source: artists.letssingit.com)

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