R.E.M. / Green deluxe edition

R.E.M.‘s first album for Warner Bros. – 1988’s Green – is to be reissued on 13 May as a two-CD deluxe edition, pairing a remastered version of the album with 21 tracks from a Nov ’89 concert in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Like previous deluxe editions, this set will come packaged in a small clam-shell style box with some postcards. A vinyl version will also be issued at the same time.

A special EP – Live in Greensboro – is also being issued (on CD) for Record Store Day on 20 April. This EP contains five more tracks from the same gig, and comes with a patch which we are assured are original from the era, rather than reproductions. 

Green was last reissued in 2005 when Warners released a CD+DVD-A edition which contained a hi-res surround sound version of the album (on the DVD-A), a 23 minute documentary and some promo videos. These excellent features are ignored for this new 25th anniversary ‘deluxe’ edition.

• • UK Pre-order: Green (Deluxe)
• • US Pre-order: Green (Deluxe)
• • CANADA Pre-order: Green (Deluxe)
• • GERMANY Pre-order: Green (Deluxe)

Green: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition:

Disc 1: Original album:

• 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 Untitled

Disc 2: Live in Greensboro, 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

Live in Greensboro / Record Store Day EP

• 1. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 2. Feeling Gravitys Pull
• 3. Strange
• 4. King of Birds
• 5. I Remember California