REM, Out of Time
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.
Album artwork shown for commentary and historical reference.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.
Out of Time was released in 1991 and contains 11 tracks.
R.E.M. produced the album with Scott Litt.
The album includes "Losing My Religion," "Shiny Happy People," "Radio Song" and "Near Wild Heaven."
Kate Pierson of the B-52's contributes prominent guest vocals on "Shiny Happy People" and other material.
"Losing My Religion" put Peter Buck's mandolin at the center of one of R.E.M.'s biggest songs.
The album won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.
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.
TRACKS
The album contains eleven songs.
GRAMMY
Out of Time won Best Alternative Music Album.
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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