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R.E.M. to Reissue “Murmur” For 25th Anniversary
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The full-length debut from Athens rock icons R.E.M., “Murmur,” is being reissued in a two-CD 25th anniversary deluxe edition Nov. 25.
The bonus disc is of a previously unreleased concert at Larry’s Hideaway in Toronto three months after “Murmur” hit stores in April 1983.
“R.E.M. was a product of the record store, the library, and the college classroom colliding with the ultimate counter-culture, nerd, dance, ambiguous sex party,” “Murmur” co-producer Don Dixon writes in an essay in the deluxe edition. “They were a band in the most classic sense of the word. The perfect amalgam of The Velvet Underground and The Doors.”
Also in the package, former I.R.S. exec Jay Boberg remembers his initial reaction to Murmur: “The first crystallization of the R.E.M. sound, a beautiful noise that will never be duplicated.”
Do you remember what you thought the first time you heard “Murmur”? Happen to be at that Larry’s Hideaway show? Have a Top 5, all-time R.E.M. albums list you’d like to share?
Oh - and if you’re curious, here’s the track listing from the anniversary set:
R.E.M. Murmur deluxe edition
Disc One The Album
- Radio Free Europe
- Pilgrimage
- Laughing
- Talk About The Passion
- Moral Kiosk
- Perfect Circle
- Catapult
- Sitting Still
- 9-9
- Shaking Through
- We Walk
West Of The Fields
Disc Two Live at Larry’s Hideaway
Laughing
- Pilgrimage
- There She Goes Again
- 7 Chinese Brothers
- Talk About The Passion
- Sitting Still
- Harborcoat
- Catapult
- Gardening At Night
- 9-9
- Just A Touch
- West Of The Fields
- Radio Free Europe
- We Walk
- 1,000,000
- Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars)
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