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Document [25th Anniversary Edition] [Box] by R.E.M. (CD, 1987)

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Product Identifiers

ProducerR.E.M.; Scott Litt

Record LabelCapitol

UPC5099997200628

eBay Product ID (ePID)22050144070

Product Key Features

Release Year1987

FormatCD

GenreAlternative, Rock

Run Time119 Mins 14 Seconds

TypeBox Set

ArtistR.E.M.

Release TitleDocument [25th Anniversary Edition] [Box]

Additional Product Features

DistributionEMI

Country/Region of ManufactureUSA

Number of Discs2

EngineerSteve Catania; Gary Laney; R.E.M.

ReviewsRolling Stone (11/89) - Ranked #41 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The Eighties" survey. Q (7/99, p.136) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...makes interesting archival listening. It shows a group cresting the cusp between art-rock alternative-ism and chart friendliness....the general impression is of a band freed from constraints, rocking with a vengeance..." Blender (Magazine) (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "On album five, R.E.M. went platinum for the first time..."

Additional informationR.E.M.: Michael Stipe (vocals); Peter Buck (guitar); Mike Mills (bass, keyboards, background vocals); Bill Berry (drums). Additional personnel: Steve Berlin (horns); Carl Marsh (synthesizer). Recorded at Sound Emporium, Nashville, Tennessee. Personnel: Steve Berlin (horns). Liner Note Author: David Daley. Recording information: Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, Holland (09/14/1987); Sound Emproium, Nashville (09/14/1987). Photographer: Karekin Goekjian. R.E.M.'s final album for IRS Records, 1987's DOCUMENT was the Georgia quartet's commercial breakthrough. The initial single, the spookily obsessive "The One I Love," was an unexpected Top 10 hit, and its follow-up, the "Subterranean Homesick Blues"-style rant "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)," became one of R.E.M.'s most renowned songs. The first R.E.M. album produced by Scott Litt (soon to be a frequent collaborator) DOCUMENT skillfully blends the commercial gloss of LIFE'S RICH PAGEANT and the mysterioso murk of FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION, combining the best elements of both for what would soon become R.E.M.'s signature sound. (Note the thumping rhythm section on the opening "Finest Worksong" and the oddly buoyant melody of "Exhuming McCarthy.") The band even manages to salute one of its favorite predecessors by romping through a loose, fun cover of Wire's "Strange."