REM, Out of Time

Album Fun Facts / R.E.M.
R.E.M. / 1991 / Warner Bros.

R.E.M.OUT OF TIME.

Out of Time expanded R.E.M.'s audience while shrinking the role of conventional rock guitar, using mandolin, strings, guest vocals and carefully layered arrangements.

Released March 12, 1991 11 Tracks Warner Bros. R.E.M. and Scott Litt
R.E.M. Out of Time album cover

Album artwork shown for commentary and historical reference. Cover image source: Cover Art Archive or the linked archival source.

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SEVEN THINGS
WORTH KNOWING.

Recording stories, personnel, physical details and numbers worth keeping with the record.

01

Out of Time was released in 1991 and contains 11 tracks.

02

R.E.M. produced the album with Scott Litt.

03

The album includes "Losing My Religion," "Shiny Happy People," "Radio Song" and "Near Wild Heaven."

04

Kate Pierson of the B-52's contributes prominent guest vocals on "Shiny Happy People" and other material.

05

"Losing My Religion" put Peter Buck's mandolin at the center of one of R.E.M.'s biggest songs.

06

The album won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.

07

The record's arrangements helped R.E.M. reach a much larger mainstream audience without sounding like a conventional arena-rock album.

WHY THIS
ALBUM MATTERS.

Out of Time matters because R.E.M.'s commercial expansion came through unusual instrumentation and quieter textures rather than a bigger, heavier version of the band's earlier sound.

THE
NUMBERS.

11

TRACKS

The album contains eleven songs.

1

GRAMMY

Out of Time won Best Alternative Music Album.

1991

RELEASE

The record arrived in March 1991.

THE
PHYSICAL OBJECT.

The cover uses abstract type and objects rather than a band portrait, continuing R.E.M.'s tendency to make packaging that refuses obvious rock-star imagery.

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DIGGING.

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