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REM announce split
Topic Started: Sep 21 2011, 07:19 PM (171 Views)
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REM have announced that they are to split after 31 years together.

The band made the revelation in a statement on their official website today.

"To our Fans and Friends: As REM, and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band," the group wrote.

"We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening."

Band members Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills also shared their own thoughts on the split.

"A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave,'" said Stipe.

"We built something extraordinary together. We did this thing. And now we're going to walk away from it. I hope our fans realise this wasn't an easy decision; but all things must end, and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way.

"We have to thank all the people who helped us be REM for these 31 years; our deepest gratitude to those who allowed us to do this. It's been amazing."
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Tis sad alright. They're one of those bands who have just "always been there" somehow. I know they had some dodgy albums, but Accelerate was a blinder and that was pretty recent. Oh well.
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Sad Face.
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yeah, you just sort of expect the world to always have REM in it.. :(
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REM confirm new greatest hits tracklisting - featuring three new songs

REM have announced the full tracklisting of their farewell greatest hits compilation.

The band announced their split last week. They had released 15 studio albums, from 1983's Murmur to this year's Collapse Into Now.

REM's 40-track double CD compilation is called Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011 and will be released via Warner Bros on November 15.

It follows previous hits collections Eponymous, The Best of REM, REM: Singles Collected, In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 and And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987

The compilation is the band's first to feature tracks from their time at IRS (1982-1987) and Warner Bros (1988-2011). It also boasts three new tracks - 'A Month of Saturdays', 'We All Go Back to Where We Belong' and 'Hallelujah' - recorded with producer Jacknife Lee.

'We All Go Back To Where We Belong' will be released to radio and made available as a download from October 18.

"Working through our music and memories from over three decades was a hell of a journey," said bassist Mike Mills.

"We realised that these songs seemed to draw a natural line under the last 31 years of our working together."

The full tracklisting of Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011 is as follows:

Disc 1:
1. 'Gardening at Night'
2. 'Radio Free Europe'
3. 'Talk About the Passion'
4. 'Sitting Still'
5. 'So. Central Rain'
6. '(Don't Go Back to) Rockville'
7. 'Driver 8'
8. 'Life and How to Live It'
9. 'Begin the Begin'
10. 'Fall on Me'
11. 'Finest Worksong'
12. 'It's the End of the World as We Know it (and I Feel Fine)'
13. 'The One I Love'
14. 'Stand'
15. 'Pop Song 89'
16. 'Get Up'
17. 'Orange Crush'
18. 'Losing My Religion'
19. 'Country Feedback'
20. 'Shiny Happy People'

Disc 2
1. 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite'
2. 'Everybody Hurts'
3. 'Man on the Moon'
4. 'Nightswimming'
5. 'What's the Frequency, Kenneth?'
6. 'New Test Leper'
7. 'Electrolite'
8. 'At My Most Beautiful'
9. 'The Great Beyond'
10. 'Imitation of Life'
11. 'Bad Day'
12. 'Leaving New York'
13. 'Living Well Is the Best Revenge'
14. 'Supernatural Superserious'
15. 'Überlin'
16. 'Oh My Heart'
17. 'Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter'
18. 'A Month of Saturdays'
19. 'We All Go Back to Where We Belong'
20. 'Hallelujah'

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Sorry, but where is Drive, Crush With Eyeliner, E Bow The Letter, Daysleeper etc?

Hardly a thorough retrospective.
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