R.E.M.’S Murmur gets expanded and reissued
October 20th, 2008 by Chad Radford in Music news
Even people who cannot stand R.E.M. (for the most part) will admit that Murmur was and still is a great album. Twenty five years after its release the album is arguably R.E.M.’s finest hour…
A quarter century after its initial release in April of 1983 the album is a cultural icon that forever changed the evolution of new wave, alternative and indie rock for generations.
To celebrate the album’s impact, Murmur is receiving the deluxe, remaster/reissue treatment via I.R.S./UMe and is due out Nov. 25th.
In addition to the remastered album, the 2xCD set includes a previously unreleased live show recorded at Larry’s Hideaway in Toronto just three months after Murmur first dropped.
The live show spans the group’s brightest moments at the time, including songs from the Chronic Town EP and 1984’s Reckoning. The live show also includes a cover of the Velvet Underground’s “There She Goes Again,” which was later recorded in the studio for the b-side of R.E.M.’s “Radio Free Europe” single.
The reissued Murmur also includes liner notes and essays penned by producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, and several others insiders and record execs who witnessed the album’s creation.
Murmur deluxe edition
Disc One
1. Radio Free Europe
2. Pilgrimage
3. Laughing
4. Talk About The Passion
5. Moral Kiosk
6. Perfect Circle
7. Catapult
8. Sitting Still
9. 9-9
10. Shaking Through
11. We Walk
12. West Of The Fields
Disc Two
Live at Larry’s Hideaway
1. Laughing
2. Pilgrimage
3. There She Goes Again
4. 7 Chinese Brothers
5. Talk About The Passion
6. Sitting Still
7. Harborcoat
8. Catapult
9. Gardening At Night
10. 9-9
11. Just A Touch
12. West Of The Fields
13. Radio Free Europe
14. We Walk
15. 1,000,000
16. Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars)
October 20th, 2008 at 11:19 am
“Reckoning” is R.E.M.’s finest hour.
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
I beg to differ…REM’s finest hour strikes me as side two of Fables of the Reconstruction. This remastering of Murmur, however, sounds great and the music remains wonderful.