R.E.M.

R.E.M. - "Accelerate" / Originally released in 2008, Accelerate was intended as a departure from R.E.M.'s previous album, Around the Sun, and was lauded for the aggressive, purposeful sound of the songs. The album was described by Rolling Stone as "one of the best records R.E.M. has ever made." It debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the chart for 18 weeks. The LP contains fan favorite "Supernatural Superserious." This edition is pressed on 180-gram vinyl with a printed insert.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Living Well Is the Best Revenge
• 2 Man-Sized Wreath
• 3 Supernatural Superserious
• 4 Hollow Man
• 5 Houston
• 6 Accelerate
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Until the Day Is Done
• 2 Mr. Richards
• 3 Sing for the Submarine
• 4 Horse to Water
• 5 I'm Gonna DJ

R.E.M. -"Around The Sun" - Around The Sun is R.E.M.'s 13th studio album, released in 2004. The album hit #1 on the UK albums chart and #13 on the Billboard 200. Includes the singles "Leaving New York," "Aftermath," "Electron Blue," and "Wanderlust." Also features "The Outsiders" with guest vocals from Q-Tip. This 2-LP set is pressed on 180-gram vinyl and comes housed in a gatefold package with printed inner sleeves.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Leaving New York
• 2 Electron Blue
• 3 The Outsiders
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Make It All Okay
• 2 Final Straw
• 3 I Wanted to Be Wrong
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Wanderlust
• 2 Boy in the Well
• 3 Aftermath
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 High Speed Train
• 2 The Worst Joke Ever
• 3 The Ascent of Man
• 4 Around the Sun

25th Anniversary 180g Vinyl Pressing Remastered from the Original Analog Tapes

25 years ago, firmly ensconced as U.S. rock royalty, R.E.M. unleashed the album many count as their defining moment in Autumn 1992. The legendary Automatic For The People stood alone at a time when many of the other great alternative acts had packed up, filling any void with the likes of "Drive" (referencing both David Essex's "Rock On" and any of Queen's stop-start stadium fillers), the Andy Kaufman homage "Man On The Moon," the oblique "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight" and the deliberately heavy angst of "Everybody Hurts," a song that managed to appeal to woebegone adolescents and wannabe-young-again oldsters, with John Paul Jones' orchestral arrangement increasing the emotional overload.

Whatever the formula, it certainly worked: sales off the scale, constant airplay, non-stop five-star reviews, and bigger and bigger live shows. Not too shabby when one considers the album was conceived during a dark time, and dealt with genuinely traumatic reflections on suicide, mortality and the harsh fact that everyone is going to reach the finishing line at some point.

Commemorating Automatic For The People's 25th Anniversary, this 180 gram vinyl edition features the full original album, remastered from the original analog tapes and an accompanying digital download card.

1. Drive
2. Try Not to Breathe
3. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
4. Everybody Hurts
5. New Orleans Instrumental No. 1
6. Sweetness Follows
7. Monty Got a Raw Deal
8. Ignoreland
9. Star Me Kitten
10. Man on the Moon
11. Nightswimming
12. Find the River

R.E.M. - "Chronic Town" - 40th Anniversary Edition of the debut EP from R.E.M. featuring "Gardening At Night," "Wolves, Lower," and more. Available on a double-sided picture disc featuring the album cover's iconic gargoyle and 1982 image of the band. Indie Exclusive.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Wolves, Lower
• 2 Gardening at Night
• 3 Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 1,000,000
• 2 Stumble

Collapse Into Now is R.E.M.'s fifteenth and final studio album, released in 2011. Produced by Jacknife Lee, the record features singles "šberlin," "Oh My Heart" and "It Happened Today," with guest appearances from Patti Smith, Eddie Vedder and Peaches. This edition is pressed on 180-gram vinyl with a printed insert.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Discoverer
• 2 All the Best
• 3 Überlin
• 4 Oh My Heart
• 5 It Happened Today
• 6 Every Day Is Yours to Win
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Mine Smell Like Honey
• 2 Walk It Back
• 3 Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter
• 4 That Someone Is You
• 5 Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I
• 6 Blue

Long Out Of Print Warner Bros. Era Anthology Back on Audiophile-Quality 180g Vinyl 2LP!

Craft Recordings presents a vinyl reissue of R.E.M.'s platinum-selling collection, In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003. Available for the first time on vinyl in over 15 years, the album includes 18 songs from the Athens, GA alt-rockers, spanning 1988's Green to 2001's Reveal, plus two previously unreleased tracks. The double-LP set – which makes its debut on audiophile-quality, 180-gram vinyl – is housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket. Originally released in late 2003, In Time serves as an opportunity to reflect on the astonishing creative and cultural influence that R.E.M. offered during the height of their 30-year run together.

One of the most revered groups to emerge from the American underground, singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck,bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry – who amicably retired from the band in 1997 – helped originate college rock during the post-punk scene of the '80s, and went on to become one of most popular and critically acclaimed bands in the world; their idiosyncratic blend of brash tunefulness, poetic lyrics, chiming guitars and evocative vocals served as a soundtrack to the cultural tide of the late '80s and '90s. The songs included on In Time offer more than just a collection of charting hits. Rather, listeners will hear the evolution of a band on the rise, reaching and surfing the peak of its fame.

In his original song-by-song liner notes, Peter Buck writes, "If you think about it, our career can be divided into...two parts: pre-‘Losing My Religion' and post-‘Losing My Religion'." Buck explains that before the band's breakthrough, chart-topping 1991 hit, "R.E.M. was a large cult band touring ten months a year. Respected and successful, we were still considered kind of minor league. Afterward, we had hit singles, platinum albums, we were on the covers of all kinds of unlikely magazines, and, at least for a couple of years, were one of the biggest bands in the world. All of which is irrelevant."

Highlights include fan favorites like "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" (off 1994's Monster), "Orange Crush" from Green (1988), and "Daysleeper," from 1998's Up. Listeners can also expect R.E.M.'s most iconic hits, like Automatic for the People's soulful hit single "Everybody Hurts," a song which, Buck recounts, "doesn't really belong to [the band] anymore; it belongs to everybody who has ever gotten any solace from it." Also among the 18 tracks are two songs which had previously been exclusive to soundtracks: "All the Right Friends," from 2001's Vanilla Sky, and "The Great Beyond," written for the 1999 Andy Kaufman biopic, Man on the Moon; a film which borrowed its title from R.E.M.'s 1992 single about the late comedian. Also on the album are two previously unreleased tracks, 2003's "Animal" and "Bad Day," a song which was conceived of in the mid-'80s, but remained unfinished until 2003.

Features:
• Audiophile-quality 180g vinyl 2LP reissue from Craft Recordings
• Available for the first time on vinyl in over 15 years
• Features 18 iconic hits, including two tracks first released as part of this compilation, "Animal" and "Bad Day"
• Deluxe gatefold jacket packaging

LP1

1. Man On The Moon
2. The Great Beyond
3. Bad Day
4. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
5. All The Way To Reno
6. Losing My Religion
7. E-Bow The Letter
8. Orange Crush
9. Imitation of Life

LP2

1. Daysleeper
2. Animal
3. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
4. Stand
5. Electrolite
6. All The Right Friends
7. Everybody Hurts
8. At My Most Beautiful
9. Nightswimming

R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant on LP

2016 Vinyl Reissue of 1986 Classic!

Very few albums are regularly credited with changing people's lives. R.E.M.'s Lifes Rich Pageant is one of them. For a generation that came of age in the 80s, as well almost everyone that came within earshot of its contents, the Georgia band's 1986 landmark effort remains an utterly distinctive sonic blend of elegance and whimsy, seriousness and humor, artfulness and accessibility. It's here that R.E.M. evolves beyond its college-rock identity albeit retains its youthful innocence, here where Michael Stipe's enigmatic vocals finally attain the same level of prominence as the group's potent rhythm section.

Lyrically, R.E.M. hits upon more concrete themes, and while Stipe's occasionally mumbled singing still lacks clear enunciation – a trait that adds to the songs' mystique and surrounding textures – there's no mistaking the overt political and environmental sentiments in tunes such as the hit "Fall on Me" and gorgeous "Cuyahoga." Similarly, "Flowers of Guatemala" epitomizes R.E.M.'s hallmark ability to turn allegory into dreamy poetry, the counterpoint melodies, atmospheric guitar fills, and majestic bridges all enchanting devices of a band that manages to get its point across via spiritual performances and indirect suggestiveness.

Such qualities lie at the heart of Lifes Rich Pageant, on which subtle details and concerted purposes unite to make transcendent, lasting art. Bolder, more pronounced, refined, and immediate than that on previous efforts, Mike Mills' bass lines and Peter Buck's swelling guitar passages augment the hard-driving beats as well as Stipe's increasingly upfront vocals. Disposing with the intentional murkiness and subconscious approach of earlier records, R.E.M. goes in attack mode here, with even mellow numbers resonating with an attention-getting kick. It doesn't hurt that the band covers the field with expertly executed songs that comprise garage rock, jangle pop, rustic country, and more either.

1. Begin the Begin
2. These Days
3. Fall on Me
4. Cuyahoga
5. Hyena
6. Underneath the Bunker
7. The Flowers of Guatemala
8. I Believe
9. What If We Give It Away?
10. Just a Touch
11. Swan Swan H
12. Superman

R.E.M.’s ninth album, Monster, was released at a time when the band were coming off the peak of their mainstream success, following Out of Time (1991) and Automatic For The People (1992). Coming from a long break in touring (the band famously didn’t tour with the two previous records), Monster represented an intentional shift in R.E.M.’s sound, a “return to rock” with guitar laden, simple arrangements. It was released to strong reviews and significant global success - reaching #1 on Billboard.

When Monster was released in September 1994, the members of R.E.M. were at a crossroads in their career. Singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry were decompressing from the massive commercial and critical success of 1991’s Out of Time and 1992’s Automatic for the People. In just a few years, the Athens, GA, four-piece had become one of the biggest, most recognizable bands in the world. It had also been six years since the group had toured. By the time that work

Celebrating Monster's 25th anniversary, this 180-gram single disc edition offers the original album remastered. Highlights include the singles “What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?,” “Crush with Eyeliner,” “Star 69,” “Strange Currencies,” “Tongue,” and “Bang and Blame.”

Tracks

1. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
2. Crush With Eyeliner
3. King Of Comedy
4. I Don't Sleep, I Dream
5. Star 69
6. Strange Currencies
7. Tongue
8. Bang And Blame
9. I Took Your Name
10. Let Me In
11. Circus Envy
12. You

Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of R.E.M.'s tenth studio album, New Adventures in Hi-Fi. This special pressing-replicating the original gatefold package-offers the newly remastered album with lacquers cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio. The platinum-selling album features the singles "Bittersweet Me," "Electrolite," and "E-Bow the Letter."

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us
• 2 The Wake-Up Bomb
• 3 New Test Leper
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Undertow
• 2 E-Bow the Letter
• 3 Leave
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Departure
• 2 Bittersweet Me
• 3 Be Mine
• 4 Binky the Doormat
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Zither
• 2 So Fast, So Numb
• 3 Low Desert
• 4 Electrolite

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing including booklet and digital download. Digitally remastered 25th Anniversary edition of this 1991 album by the alt-rock outfit. Out Of Time was the album that catapulted R.E.M. from an indie favorite to one of the biggest bands in the world. Topping charts in the US, UK and beyond, this three-time Grammy Award-winning album remains an iconic title in modern rock history, with hits like "Losing My Religion" and "Shiny Happy People." For the record, the album won three Grammy Awards in 1992: one as Best Alternative Music Album, and two for the first single, "Losing My Religion." The album has sold over four and a half million copies in the U.S. and over 18 million copies worldwide.

Tracks

1. Radio Song
2. Losing My Religion
3. Low
4. Near Wild Heaven
5. Endgame
6. Shiny Happy People
7. Belong
8. Half a World Away
9. Texarkana
10. Country Feedback
11. Me in Honey

R.E.M. Reckoning on 180g Vinyl LP

Influential 1984 Classic Available For the First Time on Vinyl in Decades

Remastered from the Original Master Tapes

Whereas 1983's Murmur had been complex and painstakingly deliberate, the band’s Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, along with producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, saw Reckoning as a chance to turn up the volume, tear up the rule book, and capture instead R.E.M.’s on-stage mojo. Features the chart hit "So. Central Rain" and the college radio anthems "Pretty Persuasion," "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" and "Time After Time (Annelise)."

Reissued here on audiophile quality 180g vinyl with original packaging, this epic album has never sounded better.

R.E.M. Reckoning Track Listing:

1. Harborcoat
2. 7 Chinese Bros.
3. So. Central Rain
4. Pretty Persuasion
5. Time After Time (Annelise)
6. Second Guessing
7. Letter Never Sent
8. Camera
9. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
10. Little America

R.E.M. - "Reveal" / Released in 2001, Reveal was co-produced with long-time collaborator Patrick McCarthy. The album sees R.E.M. experiment with synthesized sound, but also make "a conscious return to their classic sound" (Allmusic). The record features hits "Imitation of Life" and "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star). This edition is pressed on 180-gram vinyl with a printed insert.

• Disc 1 -
• 1 The Lifting
• 2 I've Been High
• 3 All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)
• 4 She Just Wants to Be
• 5 Disappear
• 6 Saturn Return
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Beat a Drum
• 2 Imitation of Life
• 3 Summer Turns to High
• 4 Chorus and the Ring
• 5 I'll Take the Rain
• 6 Beachball