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R.E.M., one of the first and most important band for the Alternative-Rock movement, was formed in Athens, Georgia USA, in 1980, by frontman vocalist Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry.

The quartet made their debut a year later with the single "Radio Free Europe", which was followed by the 1982's 5-track EP, "Chronic Town".

The group's first full-length disc, "Murmur", was eventually issued in 1983, it was acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, cracking the top 40 of The U.S. Pop Albums chart. It included a re-recorded version of "Radio Free Europe" which reached #25 on The Mainstream Rock chart.

One year later, R.E.M., a short form for Rapid Eye Movement, issued its sophomore album, "Reckoning"; it peaked at #27 on The Billboard 200 but had managed only one minor hit, "So. Central Rain".

In June of 1985, arrived "Fables Of The Reconstruction" and the band debuted not only at #28 on the U.S. Albums chart but also inched into the top 40 in U.K. and Canada. The first single, "Can't Get There From Here", hit #14 on The Mainstream Rock list and "Driver 8" grabbed a #22 spot on the same chart.

Their next offering, "Lifes Rich Pageant", followed exactly a year later peaking at #21 on The Billboard Top 200 Albums chart; the disc yielded two singles: "Fall On Me" crested at #5 on the Active Rock chart and "Superman" was also picked up by Rock radio netting the group their third Billboard's Mainstream Rock top 20 hit.

A collection of rarities and B-sides entitled "Dead Letter Office" was released in 1987; the set reached #52 on The Billboard 200.

In late summer of that same year, R.E.M. unleashed a new single, "The One I Love", which rocketed to #2 on The Mainstream Rock chart, to #9 on The Billboard Hot 100 and also hit the top 20 in Canada and U.K. setting the stage for their hugely successful "Document", this album became their best chart-placing to date, reaching #10 in U.S. and #12 in Canada and the band's first U.K. top 30. Second single, "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)", peaked at #16 on the Active Rock chart and "Finest Worksong" managed to crack the top 30.

Michael Stipe and company continued to diversify their sound and in November 1988 released their sixth album, "Green", it stalled at #12 on The Billboard 200 but went on to sell 2 million copies in U.S. alone and achieved platinum status in Canada and Great Britain. The powerful first single, "Orange Crush", shot to #1 on both Billboard's Modern and Mainstream Rock charts; the second single, "Stand", not only hit #1 on the U.S. Rock charts but rose to #6 on The Billboard Hot 100. In the spring of the next year, "Pop Song 89", took the group once againg into the top 20 of The Modern and Mainstream Rock charts while another single, "Turn You Inside-Out" was perched at #7 on the Active Rock chart.

In the summer 1991, the foursome released the explosive "Out Of Time" which went straight to #1 on both The Billboard 200 and the Official U.K. Albums charts; the leadoff single "Losing My Religion" smashed at #1 on both The Modern and Mainstream Rock charts, peaked at #4 on The Billboard Hot 100, achieving enormous success all over the globe; two more singles climbed into the top 5 of The Modern Rock Tracks: "Texarkana" and "Shiny Happy People" the latter of which, performed with Kate Pierson of The B-52's, also peaked at #8 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks and became the band's first U.K. top 10 hit.
At the 34th Annual Grammy Awards, "Losing My Religion" won for Best Pop Performance and "Out Of Time" for Best Alternative Music Album.

1992's "Automatic For The People", entered the top 3 of the charts in many countries and matched the platinum-selling performance of its predecessor. The album's first single, "Drive", rode the #1 spot on The Modern Rock chart for 5 weeks and hit #2 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks; the two follow-up singles, "Ignoreland" and "Man On The Moon", quickly bulleted into the top 5 on both the same charts. "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" received good airplay and made it into the 30 of the Billboard's Rock charts. Another single, "Everybody Hurts", climbed toward the top 10 in the U.K. and was one place short of cracking the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks.

Two years later R.E.M. released "Monster", it climbed The Billboard 200 Albums chart to the #1 spot and was later certified platinum four times, backed up by a stream of hit singles: "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?" debuted at #1 on The Modern Rock chart, at #2 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks and hit the top 10 in U.K. and Canada; "Bang And Blame" practically equaled the acclaim of its predecessor, "Star 69" rose to #8 on The Modern Rock Tracks and to #15 on the Active Rock airplay chart; "Strange Currencies" was another U.K. top 10 entrant and peaked at #8 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart. The final single off the CD was the Active Rock top 20 hit "Crush With Eyeliner".
The band began a tour in early 1995, but after two months Bill Berry, in Switzerland, collapsed from a brain aneurysm, the group was forced to rest.

In September of 1996 R.E.M. resurfaced with their tenth studio effort; "New Adventures In Hi-Fi" rose to the #2 position in U.S. and hit #1 in Canada, Australia, U.K. and several other countries. The record included "E-Bow The Letter" and "Bittersweet Me" which peaked at #2 and #6, respectively, on The Modern Rock Tracks.
In October 1997, the band shocked the music scene with the announcement that Berry amicably left the group to retire to life on his farm.

The remaining members continued replacing Berry with a drum machine; Beck's drummer Joey Waronker and ex-Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin contributed to sessions for 1998's "Up", playing on some tracks. The album quickly ascended into the top 3 in the States, Canada and U.K. but failed to hit #1. Its main single, "Daysleeper", was a top 10 hit in Britain while in U.S. climbed into the top 20 of The Modern Rock chart. The second single, "Lotus", reached #31 on both Billboard's Modern and Mainstream Rock charts.

The following year they provided the soundtrack "Man On The Moon", which included the British top 3 hit "The Great Beyond", in U.S. this single peaked at #11 on The Modern Rock chart.

2001's "Reveal" took the band at #1 in England. In U.S. the disc reached the #6 position on The Billboard 200 and the single "Imitation Of Life" charted just outside the top 20 of The Modern Rock Tracks.

In late 2003 R.E.M. released a retrospective collection entitled "In Time The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003" which featured two new tracks including the the U.K. top 10 hit "Bad Day". The 18-song set went on to sell over one million units in U.S. and debuted at #1 in Great Britain.

Almost a year later the band returned with an album of all new material, "Around The Sun". The disc debuted at #1 in the U.K. and some other European countries; in America it reached #13 on The Billboard 200. The lead single, "Leaving New York", which missed the U.S. charts completely, rose to #5 in England.

"Accelerate", the first studio album in four years from R.E.M., found the band returning to the stripped-down, guitar-driven power that first enraptured fans. The 11-song set was released in April 2008 and went straight into the top 3 in several countries, including United States, U.K. and Canada; it contained the single "Supernatural Superserious" which peaked at #21 on The Hot Modern Rock chart.

R.E.M. has announced a March 8, 2011 release date for its fifteenth effort, "Collapse Into Now".

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Radio Free Europe
[single]

(1981)

1. Radio Free Europe
2. Sitting Still

 

Chronic Town
[EP]

(1982)

1. 1,000,000
2. Stumble
3. Wolves, Lower
4. Gardening At Night
5. Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars)

 

Murmur

(1983)

1. Radio Free Europe
2. Pilgrimage
3. Laughing
4. Talk About The Passion
5. Moral Kiosk
6. Perfect Circle
7. Catapult
8. Sitting Still
9. 9-9
10. Shaking Through
11. We Walk
12. West Of The Fields

 

Reckoning

(1984)

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

 

Fables Of The Reconstruction

(1985)

1. Feeling Gravitys Pull
2. Maps And Legends
3. Driver 8
4. Life And How To Live It
5. Old Man Kensey
6. Can't Get There From Here
7. Green Grow The Rushes
8. Kohoutek
9. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
10. Good Advices
11. Wendell Gee

 

Lifes Rich Pageant

(1986)

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

 

Dead Letter Office

(1987)

1. Crazy
2. There She Goes Again
3. Burning Down
4. Voice Of Harold
5. Burning Hell
6. White Tornado
7. Toys In The Attic
8. Windout
9. Ages Of You
10. Pale Blue Eyes
11. Rotary Ten
12. Bandwagon
13. Femme Fatale
14. Walter's Theme
15. King Of The Road

 

Document

(1987)

1. Finest Worksong
2. Welcome To The Occupation
3. Exhuming McCarthy
4. Disturbance At The Heron House
5. Strange
6. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
7. The One I Love
8. Fireplace
9. Lightnin' Hopkins
10. King Of Birds
11. Oddfellows Local 151

 

Green

(1988)

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

 

Out Of Time

(1991)

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

 

Automatic For The People

(1992)

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

 

Monster

(1994)

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

 

New Adventures In Hi-Fi

(1996)

1. How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us
2. The Wake-Up Bomb
3. New Test Leper
4. Undertow
5. E-Bow The Letter
6. Leave
7. Departure
8. Bittersweet Me
9. Be Mine
10. Binky The Doormat
11. Zither
12. So Fast, So Numb
13. Low Desert
14. Electrolite

 

Up

(1998)

1. Airportman
2. Lotus
3. Suspicion
4. Hope
5. At My Most Beautiful
6. The Apologist
7. Sad Professor
8. You're In The Air
9. Walk Unafraid
10. Why Not Smile
11. Daysleeper
12. Diminished
13. Parakeet
14. Falls To Climb

 

Man On The Moon
[soundtrack]

(1999)

INCLUDES:

- The Great Beyond
- Tony Thrown Out
- Man On The Moon
- This Friendly World
- Miracle
- Lynne And Andy
- Andy Gets Fired
- Milk And Cookies

 

Reveal

(2001)

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
7. Beat A Drum
8. Imitation Of Life
9. Summer Turns To High
10. Chorus And The Ring
11. I'll Take The Rain
12. Beachball

 

Vanilla Sky
[soundtrack]

(2001)

INCLUDES:

- All The Right Friends
- Sweetness Follows

 

In Time
The Best Of R.E.M.
1988-2003

(2003)

1. Man On The Moon
2. The Great Beyond
3. Bad Day [NEW TRACK]
4. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
5. All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star)
6. Losing My Religion
7. E-Bow The Letter
8. Orange Crush
9. Imitation Of Life
10. Daysleeper
11. Animal [NEW TRACK]
12. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
13. Stand
14. Electrolite
15. All The Right Friends
16. Everybody Hurts
17. At My Most Beautiful
18. Nightswimming

 

Around The Sun

(2004)

1. Leaving New York
2. Electron Blue
3. The Outsiders
4. Make It All Okay
5. Final Straw
6. I Wanted To Be Wrong
7. Wanderlust
8. Boy In The Well
9. Aftermath
10. High Speed Train
11. The Worst Joke Ever
12. The Ascent Of Man
13. Around The Sun

 

Accelerate

(2008)

1. Living Well Is The Best Revenge
2. Man-Sized Wreath
3. Supernatural Superserious
4. Hollow Man
5. Houston
6. Accelerate
7. Until The Day Is Done
8. Mr. Richards
9. Sing For The Submarine
10. Horse To Water
11. I'm Gonna DJ

 

Cover-Art posted on remhq.com

Collapse Into Now

(2011)

Tracklisting posted on remhq.com

1. Discoverer
2. All The Best
3. Überlin
4. Oh My Heart
5. It Happened Today
6. Every Day Is Yours To Win
7. Mine Smell Like Honey
8. Walk It Back
9. Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter
10. That Someone Is You
11. Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando And I
12. Blue

 

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