R.E.M. – Green – Remastered CD

From R.E.M. comes Green, a pop and rock album on Concord Records. This is the Remastered CD edition. This edition was released on July 1, 2016.

R.E.M. -"Green" Concord Records; 1988's Green, R.E.M.'s sixth studio album, was a milestone of sorts for the band: Green marked the group's departure from longtime label I.R.S. Records; it was R.E.M's first LP to be certified double platinum, and it was the album that broadened and solidified the band's success across the Atlantic. An eclectic album, Green featured singles "Stand" and "Orange Crush" and was certified double platinum in the US, platinum in the UK, and peaked at #12 on the Billboard 200. "Green" has now been released on R.E.M.'s new label Concord. Green catapulted R.E.M. from campus cult favourites to rock stars of the highest order. The album contains three of the Athens, Georgia, quartet's most popular radio hits ("Pop Song 89", "Stand", and "Orange Crush"), punching up the big rock hooks and letting the spooky independent production slip away. Some diehard fans cried "Sellout!" but that's a strange attitude given singer Michael Stipe's environmental activism. "I'm very scared of this world," he sings above jangling mandolins on "You Are the Everything". It's still unclear what he's trying to say, but at least we can understand the words this time. --Steve Knopper