An anthology of REM's early releases via IRS Records is to be released via EMI Catalog Music Marketing on 12 Sep, as both a single-disc CD package and as a double-disc set featuring rarities, live tracks and previously unreleased material. Entitled 'And I Feel Fine' the CD will comprise tracks from REM's first five years, including the likes of 'Begin The Begin' and 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It'. A DVD release, 'When the Light Is Mine', will feature music videos and live TV performances.
The band were involved in creating the new releases, says band manager Bertis Downs, who adds: "This is a good history lesson on the days of yore when the band first started out and were writing sometimes 2-3 songs a day, many of which became classics, and some of which were lost in the mists of tape and time and vault."
And now it's time for tracklisting heaven. Take it away, REM.
CD: 'And I Feel Fine':
Begin the Begin
Radio Free Europe
Pretty Persuasion
Talk About the Passion
(Don't Go Back to) Rockville
Sitting Still
Gardening at Night
7 Chinese Bros.
So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
Driver 8
Can't Get There From Here
Finest Worksong
Feeling Gravity's Pull
I Believe
Life and How To Live It
Cuyahoga
The One I Love
Welcome to the Occupation
Fall on Me
Perfect Circle
It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Bonus disc:
Pilgrimage (Mike's pick)
These Days (Bill's pick)
Gardening at Night (slower electric demo; previously unreleased)
Radio Free Europe (Hib-tone version)
Sitting Still (Hib-tone version)
Life and How to Live It (Live at the Muziekcentrum, Utrecht, Holland 9/14/87; previously unreleased)
Ages of You (Live at the Paradise, Boston 7/13/83; previously unreleased)
We Walk (Live at the Paradise, Boston 7/13/83; previously unreleased)
1,000,000 (Live at the Paradise, Boston 7/13/83; previously unreleased)
Finest Worksong (other mix)
Hyena (demo; previously unreleased)
Theme From Two Steps Onward (previously unreleased)
Superman
All the Right Friends (previously unreleased)
Mystery to Me (demo; previously unreleased)
Just A Touch (live in-studio version; previously unreleased)
Bad Day (previously unreleased)
King of Birds
Swan Swan H (live acoustic version)
Disturbance at the Heron House (Peter's pick)
Time After Time (Annelise) (Michael's pick)
DVD: 'When the Light Is Mine':
Wolves, Lower
Radio Free Europe
Talk About the Passion
Radio Free Europe (Live, The Tube, 11/18/83)
Talk About the Passion (Live, The Tube, 11/18/83)
So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
James Herbert's Left of Reckoning
Pretty Persuasion (Live, The Old Grey Whistle Test, 11/20/84)
Can't Get There From Here
Driver 8
Life and How To Live It
Feeling Gravity's Pull
Can't Get There From Here (Live, The Tube, 10/25/85)
Fall On Me
Swan Swan H (Inside/Out)
The One I Love
It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Finest Worksong