Green (R.E.M. album)
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Green is the 1988 major label debut album by R.E.M.. After several years with I.R.S. Records, the band signed with Warner Bros. Records (where they remain presently) and delivered Green on Election Day, 1988.
Featuring a slick production (which guitarist Peter Buck has publicly regretted), Green transformed R.E.M. from a college radio band to a major league group. It is also notable for Peter Buck's first use of mandolin, which can be heard in three of its tracks. Green's featured hits are "Orange Crush" and the US Top 10 smash "Stand". "Pop Song 89" also received a measure of success.
With warm critical reaction and the conversion of many new fans, Green ultimately went double-platinum in the US, reaching #12, and peaked at #27 in the UK. The band would tour extensively in support of the album throughout 1989, before beginning work on what would prove their worldwide commercial breakthrough, 1991's Out of Time.
In 2005, Warner Bros. Records issued an expanded two-disc edition of Green which includes a CD and a DVD, as well as the original CD booklet with expanded liner notes.
Track listing
All songs by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe.
- "Pop Song 89" - 3:04
- "Get Up" - 2:39
- "You Are the Everything" - 3:41
- "Stand" - 3:10
- "World Leader Pretend" - 4:17
- A commentary on the state of U.S. politics by Michael Stipe, "World Leader Pretend" was the first R.E.M. song to have its lyrics presented in one of their albums
- "The Wrong Child" - 3:36
- "Orange Crush" - 3:51
- "Turn You Inside-Out"- 4:16
- "Hairshirt" - 3:55
- "I Remember California" - 4:59
- Untitled hidden track - 3:10
- Published in 1988 by Night Garden Music and administered the world over by Unichappell Music, Inc.
