VINYL FORMAT. LP version includes a bonus CD. Accelerate, the first studio album in four years from R.E.M., finds modern rock's most acclaimed band returning to the stripped down, guitar-driven power that first enraptured fans. Helmed by the band and, for the first time, Jacknife Lee (co-producer of U2's '05 Grammy® Album Of The Year How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, The Hives, and Snow Patrol), Accelerate puts the 2007 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame group once again firmly behind the wheel of alternative   [ read more ]

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This is a special edition of the Live At The Olympia album which includes four LPs (in addition to the 2xCD+DVD from the Special Edition). The vinyl contains all the songs from the CDs, spread over four LPs in three gatefold sleeves. This package also includes a sixteen page booklet, six postcards, and a 24x36" poster! The DVD includes concert and backstage footage (19 songs) shot by noted French filmmakers Vincent Moon and Jeremiah. Strictly limited to 2,500 copies! [ read more ]

4xLP+2xCD+DVD $99.98

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Live At The Olympia features 39 tracks and liner notes by author and music journalist Andy Gill. The two-CD set, produced by Jacknife Lee, features 39 songs that capture the best moments from the band's "working rehearsals" at Dublin's fabled Olympia club during which singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, and bassist Mike Mills Stipe tested out new songs for R.E.M.'s 2008 studio album Accelerate. Live at The Olympia ventures back to July 2007 when R.E.M. set up camp at    [ read more ]

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This special edition includes a DVD! The DVD includes concert and backstage footage (19 songs) shot by noted French filmmakers Vincent Moon and Jeremiah. Live At The Olympia features 39 tracks and liner notes by author and music journalist Andy Gill. The album, produced by Jacknife Lee, features 39 songs across two discs that capture the best moments from the band's "working rehearsals" at Dublin's fabled Olympia club during which singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, and bassist Mike M   [ read more ]

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Prepared in conjunction with the band, this 25th Anniversary Edition features the original album remastered as well as a previously unreleased live show recorded in Toronto, July 1983. Includes new essays by album producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, and former I.R.S. executives Jay Boberg, Sig Sigworth, Carlos Grasso and Michael Plen. Leaving behind the garagey jangle pop of their first recordings, R.E.M. developed a strangely subdued variation of their trademark sound for their full-length d   [ read more ]

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Basically a singles collection from R.E.M.'s first five albums, Eponymous gives the listener a sense of the band's change from folk-rock to rock. The songs are intelligently selected, distilling most of the best moments from their first five albums for IRS. Included is the original single of "Radio Free Europe," and different mixes of "Gardening at Night" (where it's actually possible to hear the vocal) and "Finest Worksong," and the previously unreleased (and unspectacular) {&"Roman   [ read more ]

CD $16.13

R.E.M.'s eponymous second album, Reckoning, re-mastered and re-issued. Second disc includes a live recording taken from a performance at Chicago's Aragon Ballroom in 1984. R.E.M's second album, Reckoning, saw them abandoning the post-punk aesthetic of their debut for a more garage-pop orientated sound. This LP contains ten melodic, jangly-pop gems - all driven by Michael Stipe's distinctive vocals. Although vastly different from its predecessor, Reckoning still proved to be ju   [ read more ]

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The second LP of R.E.M. Mach II (post-Bill Berry) finds the 21-year vets exploring more of Up's sensual cosmos, only via their directly-melodic, early '90s writing. Like a warmer, more rainy version of their 1991 breakthrough smash LP Out of Time, the trio with hand-picked permanent guests seems totally inspired by the chamber-spiritual, subconscious elements they now favor. The opening "The Lifting" is a perfect example. Michael Stipe's epicurean, beguiling vocal comes out of swatches of looping, icy keybo   [ read more ]

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Leaving behind the garagey jangle pop of their first recordings, R.E.M. developed a strangely subdued variation of their trademark sound for their full-length debut album, Murmur. Heightening the enigmatic tendencies of Chronic Town by de-emphasizing the backbeat and accentuating the ambience of the ringing guitar, R.E.M. created a distinctive sound for the album -- one that sounds eerily timeless. Even though it is firmly in the tradition of American folk-rock, post-punk, and {\garage    [ read more ]

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R.E.M. abandoned the enigmatic post-punk experiments of Murmur for their second album, Reckoning, returning to their garage pop origins instead. Opening with the ringing "Harborcoat," Reckoning runs through a set of ten jangle pop songs that are different not only in sound but in style from the debut. Where Murmur was enigmatic in its sound, Reckoning is clear, which doesn't necessarily mean that the songs themselves are straightforward. Michael Stipe continues to sing power   [ read more ]

CD $9.45

Accelerate, the first studio album in four years from R.E.M., finds modern rock's most acclaimed band returning to the stripped down, guitar-driven power that first enraptured fans. Helmed by the band and, for the first time, Jacknife Lee (co-producer of U2's '05 Grammy® Album Of The Year How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, The Hives, and Snow Patrol), Accelerate puts the 2007 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame group once again firmly behind the wheel of alternative rock, a genre R.E.M. helped invent.

CD $17.99

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The songs collected on And I Feel Fine... The Best of The I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 are just good enough to render the previous I.R.S. years collection, 1998's Eponymous, officially dead. The latter was likely the way the masses heard R.E.M.'s underground hits on CD the first time--after all, the band had just come off of their apocalyptic breakthrough single ("It's the end of the world...") and CD players were finally hitting below the $400 mark. It did the trick. We all got up to date and it pa   [ read more ]

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