Where does Peter Buck Sleep?

REM's guitarist Peter Buck was in Albuquerque recently and stayed at the Hotel Monte Vista. He found a room close to his heart...

He's standing outside the door of the Michael Stipe room at the hotel!

The picture on the door looks to be from the Automatic for the People period.

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Font me! R.E.M. release a font selection

Font me! R.E.M. have released not a new single.. but a font selection

They do cost more than an itunes single though...

In the past, R.E.M. have had countless unique logos and typography. From Ed Rogers’ handwriting on Out Of Time to the many hand-drawn song titles of Reckoning, typography has been an important part of R.E.M.’s artwork. Until recently, individual letterforms were made as needed, but for the last five years, Michael Stipe and Chris Bilheimer have been creating entire alphabets and turning them into fonts to use for the band’s artwork.

Joining forces with the type foundry TypeTrust and its Athens-based co-owner Neil Summerour, we have turned these fonts into digital files available for download. We are proud to offer these three typefaces for sale:

ACCELERATE: This font was created for the album Accelerate and used on many projects such singles, tour advertising, merchsndise, and the supernatural superserious.com website.

TOURFONT: Tourfont was created in 2003 for In Time: The Best of R.E.M. packaging and the 2003 tour.

ORANGE: Based on a stencil made of orange plastic, this typeface was made for the album Around The Sun and used frequently on tour merchandise.

Thanks to Neil, these fonts are available in the TrueType and OpenType PS format and compatible with Mac and PC. Please visit the TypeTrust site to check them out.

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How many Number #1s has R.E.M had?

R.E.M.'s Billboard 100 chart placings. These are the one's that made it onto the Billboard 100. Let's face it, no one cares if you make the Rock 100 or the Country 100, the real top of the pops is where the real recognition is!

How many American Number #1s has R.E.M had?

None!

2008   Supernatural Superserious                 85       

2000   The Great Beyond                               57       

1998    Daysleeper                                            57      

1997    Electrolite                                              96       

1996    Bittersweet Me                                    46       

1995    Strange Currencies                              47       

1993    Everybody Hurts                                 29       

1992    Drive                                                      28       

1991    Losing My Religion                              4         

1991    Shiny Happy People                            10       

1989    Pop Song 89                                         86       

1989    Stand                                                    6         

1987    The One I Love                                   9

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Reckoning to be reissued by R.E.M.

R.E.M. will release a deluxe version of their second album Reckoning to celebrate (cash in on) the 25th anniversary of it's release.

On June 23, 2009, Universal Music will release Reckoning - Deluxe Edition (I.R.S./A&M/UMe), a two-CD set, featuring the original album remastered, plus a bonus disc of a previously unreleased concert recorded during the band’s "Little America" tour at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom on July 7, 1984 (broadcast on WXRT) (see the clip just below the news from 6-9-84 for a glimpse of R.E.M. Live circa Reckoning). In addition, Reckoning and R.E.M’s 1983 debut album Murmur will be simultaneously reissued on audiophile quality 180 gram vinyl in their complete original packaging.  On the Deluxe Edition’s bonus disc, the band performs eight of Reckoning’s ten songs at the Aragon as well as “Gardening At Night” from 1982’s Chronic Town EP and “Radio Free Europe,” “9-9” and “Sitting Still” from Murmur. The band also plays two new songs that had yet to make it onto tape: “Driver 8” which would later appear on Fables of the Reconstruction and “Hyena," later on 1986's Lifes Rich Pageant.  According to the press release for the reissue, "Inclusion of the live concert is particularly appropriate for the Reckoning - Deluxe Edition. Whereas Murmur had been complex and painstakingly deliberate, the band’s Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, along with producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, saw Reckoning as a "chance to turn up the volume, tear up the rule book, and capture instead R.E.M.’s on-stage mojo."  Liner notes for the Deluxe Edition are by Tony Fletcher, author of Remarks: The Story of R.E.M. 

Reckoning peaked on the charts at #27, nine spots higher than Murmur (Rolling Stone’s 1983 "Album of the Year") and was eventually certified gold. 

Source: REMHQ

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Every R.E.M. album reviewed

Here's one dude's reviews of every R.E.M. album... some good thoughts in there...\

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Murmur is 25!

R.E.M.s first album Murmur is 25. Jeez that means I was five when it came out...

The band is celebrating "The Murmur Deluxe Edition CD release party at the 40 Watt in Athens tonight promises to be a fantastic time for a great cause, so, if you're in the area, please be sure to stop by and check out the following bands who will be playing songs from Murmur in celebration of the record's 25th anniversary"

The 25th anniversary of R.E.M.'s Murmur package features two discs and liner notes with essays from producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, among others. The first disc is a remastered version of the original album and the second contains a previously unreleased concert R.E.M. played at Larry's Hideaway in Toronto a few months after the release of the album. 

 

Pitchfork Media said

There's a historical component to Murmur that often gets lost: In 1983, R.E.M. sounded unique. No bands were combining these particular influences in this particular way, which made this debut sound not only new but even subversive: a sharp reimagining of rock tropes. Twenty-five years and 14 albums later, our familiarity with R.E.M. means that Murmur has lost some of what made it revolutionary upon release. Fortunately, rather than collecting obligatory bonus tracks and outtakes-- most of which would have overlapped with Dead Letter Office-- the set includes a second disc documenting a show in Toronto from July 1983, just after the album's release. It marks the first time a full R.E.M. show has been released on CD (LIVE, from 2007, was culled from two nights in Dublin), and judging by the intensity with which the band run through old and then-new songs, it could have held its own as a separate release. 

 

Even the Huffington Post gets in on the Murmur celebration:

Wisely resisting regurgitating B-sides and rarities that have been recycled to death on previous reissues and Capitol's The Best Of The I.R.S. Years 1982-1987, this deluxe edition's second CD features a live set from July 9, 1983, recorded in Toronto, Canada, at Larry's Hideaway. Previously unreleased officially (though it's been booted a few times), the concert's track list foreshadows the band's next record, Reckoning, by including an early version of "7 Chinese Bros," and it interprets Lou Reed's "There She Goes Again." The set also reaches back to Chronic Town's emphasis track, "Gardening At Night," as well as "1,000,000" and "Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars)" as Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry youthfully rock their way through much of Murmur's material. During this set, R.E.M.'s music is as captivating as the crazy kudzu plant featured on Murmur's cover, a vine that's been alleged to entwine itself quickly and effectively around the unsuspecting. With heartfelt liner notes by producers Mitch Easter, Don Dixon, label dude Jay Boberg, designer Carlos Grasso, promo guy Michael Plen and big fan Sig Sigworth, plus gorgeous packaging, beautiful mastering by Greg Calbi and expert project supervision by compilation producer Dana G. Smart, this Deluxe Edition is your best bet for the most-appreciated gift of music this season.

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R.E.M. CONCERT SET LIST MEXICO CITY, MEXICO

R.E.M. Concert Set List Mexico City, MeXiCo

19th nOVEMBER 2008

R.E.M. Mexico Set List

1. Living Well Is The Best Revenge  2. I Took Your Name  3. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?  4. Fall On Me  5. Drive  6. Man-Sized Wreath  7. Ignoreland  8. Disturbance At The Heron House  9. Hollowman  10. Imitation Of Life  11. Electrolite  12. The Great Beyond  13. Everybody Hurts  14. The One I Love  15. Find The River  16. Let Me In  17. Bad Day  18. Horse To Water  19. Orange Crush  20. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)  21. Supernatural Superserious  22. Losing My Religion  23. I Believe  24. Country Feedback  25. Life And How To Live It  26. Man On The Moon 

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