REM, GREEN
R.E.M.GREEN.
Green marked R.E.M.'s move to Warner Bros. and found the band expanding its instrumental palette while keeping the four-member writing partnership intact.
Album artwork shown for commentary and historical reference. Cover image source: Cover Art Archive or the linked archival source.
SEVEN THINGS
WORTH KNOWING.
Recording stories, personnel, physical details and numbers worth keeping with the record.
Green was released in 1988 and contains 11 tracks.
R.E.M. produced the album with Scott Litt.
The record was made at Ardent Studios in Memphis and mixed at Bearsville Studios in New York.
The lineup was Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry.
The album includes "Stand," "Orange Crush" and "Pop Song 89."
MusicBrainz credits all four members as writers on "Pop Song 89."
Green was R.E.M.'s first studio album released by Warner Bros.
WHY THIS
ALBUM MATTERS.
Green captures a band becoming bigger without abandoning its oddness, moving from college-rock scale toward pop accessibility while still experimenting with arrangement and instrumentation.
THE
NUMBERS.
TRACKS
Green contains eleven tracks.
WRITERS
The core band continued writing collectively.
RELEASE
Green opened R.E.M.'s Warner Bros. studio era.
THE
PHYSICAL OBJECT.
The orange cover with its small green lettering reverses the obvious color expectation built into the title, a typically understated R.E.M. visual joke.
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DIGGING.
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