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REM to release special edition greatest hits album

Warner Bros are releasing a special edition of REM's greatest hits collection.

In Time: The Best of REM 1988-2003 is due out on October 27, with a bonus disc and a DVD of videos and live footage.

The 18-track collection contains two new songs - Bad Day, which is released as a single on October 6, and Animal.

It includes some of the band's biggest hits like Losing My Religion, Everybody Hurts and What's the Frequency, Kenneth.

The 15-track rarities disc includes alternative versions and live recordings of album tracks as well as unreleased demos.

The DVD will feature 16 videos including Losing My Religion and Everybody Hurts, plus footage of the band performing at the South Africa Freedom Day concert in Trafalgar Square in 2001.

Meanwhile, the band's bass player Michael Mills has told the New York Post the departure in 1998 of founding member drummer Bill Berry "totally upset the dynamic" of the band.

Mills told The Post. "We had to find a way to make it work. Most intelligent people would have taken a year off to work it out. Not us.

"We went into the studio to make an album and forge ahead. We tried to redesign the band as we made Up in 1998. That was asking an awful lot, and it stressed us all. Now, we're having the time of our lives."


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Personally being a die-hard REM fan of old I prefered their stuff when they were with IRS!

I will still be waiting outside the record shops on 27th of October money in hand though!



Whoops the above came from ananova btw!

if you are an rem fan wouldnt you have most of the stuff already?
so why buy this album?

these days "best of's", usually include "unreleased tracks" or
outtakes, to sucker in the completist.

it's nearly xmas....hence all the "best of's " hitting the shops.

Ade it is not nearly Christmas!

jingle bells - jingle bells....

*runs out screaming*

why not just down load in from the net? its free you know

music that is .... NOT christmas

......i wouldn't let Lars Ulrich, hear you say that.

He didn't say anything about Kazaa or Soulseek tho

The 18-track collection contains two new songs - Bad Day, which is released as a single on October 6, and Animal.


TO SUPPORT A BAND IVE SUPPORTED FOR YEARS!!!

so you are spending ( what is it these days! ) 15 quid to buy 2 songs?
oh a question about "supporting the band" .... who do u think gets most of the money from an album? the artist or the record company ?

Hey Obo..I like REM.....used to have a right laugh though trying to make out some of the words....best one was 'talk about the passion' there was a bit that said 'call me in....call me in..call me in to talk'
I told my mate it was French and he was saying 'combien..combien.combien tou taaaa'
You had to be there I suppose and you had to be stoned

I getcha Obo, almost the same thing, but I support an author, and collect everything he writes, I spent a lot on a chapbook that contained most of the works I already have plus a few extras.

Plus you cant beat having the real thing in your hands rather than a disc you have burned from the web.

And its the retailers that get the biggest wack from record sales closely followed by the song writer and then the distribution company.