- Anniversary edition of the original album and live disc from the penultimate show of the major world tour in 1989 in deluxe edition
- Remastered album released simultaneously on 180g vinyl
Green was their breakthrough, their sixth album, and their first for Warner Bros., where they remained until their breakup in September 2011. With Orange Crush, Pop Song 89, and Stand on board, Green became the first globally successful R.E.M. album, followed in 1989 by the major Green Tour. The album quickly achieved US double platinum status and doubled the sales of the previous albums. At the same time, Green was a statement from the band regarding social awareness and environmental issues, as the title of the album indicates, which became a keyword for environmental initiatives.
To properly celebrate the 25th anniversary of this milestone in music and band history, Rhino Records will release a double CD deluxe edition on May 10, which includes the original album plus a live CD from the penultimate concert of the 130-date Green World Tour 1989. All 21 songs on the live CD were recorded on November 10, 1989, in Greensboro, North Carolina, just a few miles away from Mitch Easter’s Drive-In Studio in Winston-Salem, where Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry held their very first recording sessions.
The concert in Greensboro was a heated gig that R.E.M. played after almost a year on tour. The band performed almost all songs from Green (including Get Up, World Leader Pretend, and You Are The Everything), mixing them with early favorites like Fall On Me, Finest Worksong, The One I Love, and Perfect Circle from the 1983 album Murmur. They also put some new songs (Low and Belong) to a live test, which would not appear until two years later on the Green follow-up Out Of Time.
Similar to previous R.E.M. reissues, the anniversary set of Green will be delivered in a sturdy Clamshell Box. The edition also includes four postcards and a poster, as well as insightful liner notes from Uncut editor Allan Jones. The Green: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition will be available as a physical 2-CD version and in digital form for download. On the same day, the 180g vinyl version with original artwork and packaging will be released.
As part of Record Store Day, which has been held for several years to support small record stores in the USA, Rhino will also release a limited edition 5-track EP containing some songs from the Greensboro concert that could not fit on the Green: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition due to space constraints. This includes the Green track I Remember California and classics like So. Central Rain and Feeling Gravitys Pull. The limited edition, restricted to 2500 copies, also includes an original patch (not a reproduction) from the Green tour, which was recently discovered in a storage room of the band.
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GREEN: 25TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION
Track Listing
Disc One – Original Album
01. “Pop Song 89”
02. “Get Up”
03. “You Are The Everything”
04. “Stand”
05. “World Leader Pretend”
06. “The Wrong Child”
07. “Orange Crush”
08. “Turn You Inside Out”
09. “Hairshirt”
10. “I Remember California”
11. “Untitled”
Disc Two – Live In Greensboro 1989
01. “Stand”
02. “The One I Love”
03. “Turn You Inside Out”
04. “Belong”
05. “Exhuming McCarthy”
06. “Good Advices”
07. “Orange Crush”
08. “Cuyahoga”
09. “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. - Stand (Video)
http://youtu.be/AKKqLl_ZEEY
R.E.M. - Stand (From Tourfilm)
http://youtu.be/cvcptp-FnjQ
