REMtrospective, 8: Green
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Title: Orange Green
Released on: Nov. 7, 1988
Favorite tracks: “Turn You Inside-Out,” “Orange Crush,” “You Are the Everything”
I really enjoy REM’s first album for Warner Bros., Orange Green. Given that it features the hit song “Orange Crush” and has that distinctive orange-colored album cover, Orange Green is just the perfect name for the album. I think that whenever I hear the songs, I think of the color orange, and when I see that shade of orange elsewhere, I think of that name, Orange Green.
Then again, a friend of mine passed along a rumor that they called it Green in honor of the payday they received from signing with Warner Brothers. I’m not sure I believe it, but it has a logic.
