R.E.M. Announce Reissue of Album Green For 25th Anniversary Set for May 2013 Release

A remarkable 25 years have passed for R.E.M. following the release of Green, their sixth studio album, as well as their major label album debut for Warner Bros. Records. To celebrate the anniversary, the band has announced they are releasing a remastered package that includes live recordings from their late ’80s Green World Tour.

The reissue will be released May 14, via Rhino Records, and will be available both as a 2-CD box set and a 180-gram vinyl. Disc one will contain the entire original album, while disc two features songs from R.E.M.’s stop in Greensboro, North Carolina during the Green World Tour.

Adding to the anniversary excitement will be the release of the Live In Greensboro EP on Record Store Day, April 20, which includes 5 tracks that didn’t make the reissue edition. Read below for a complete track listing of the upcoming releases.

GREEN: 25TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION

Disc One – Original Album
01. Pop Song 89
02. Get Up
03. You Are The Everything
04. Stand
05. World Leader Pretend
06. The Wrong Child
07. Orange Crush
08. Turn You Inside Out
09. Hairshirt
10. I Remember California
11. Untitled

Disc Two – Live In Greensboro 1989
01. Stand
02. The One I Love
03. Turn You Inside Out
04. Belong
05. Exhuming McCarthy
06. Good Advices
07. Orange Crush
08. Cuyahoga
09. These Days
10. World Leader Pretend
11. I Believe
12. Get Up
13. Life And How To Live It
14. Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
15. Pop Song 89
16. Fall On Me
17. You Are The Everything
18. Begin The Begin
19. Low
20. Finest Worksong
21. Perfect Circle

LIVE IN GREENSBORO EP – Record Store Day Exclusive
01. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
02. Feeling Gravitys Pull
03. Strange
04. King of Birds
05. I Remember California