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6938 - R.E.M. - Complete Rarities - I.R.S. 1982-1987, Disc One (2014)

R.E.M.
''COMPLETE RARITIES I.R.S. 1982-1987, DISC ONE''
MAY 19 2014
165:43

DISC ONE
1 /Radio Free Europe [Original Hib-Tone Single]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe3:48
2 /Sitting Still [Original Hib-Tone Single]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/3:16
3 /White Tornado
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/1:56
4 /Gardening at Night [Different Vocal Mix]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/3:30
5 /Gardening at Night [Acoustic]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/3:54
6 /All the Right Friends [Live in Studio]
Michael Stipe/3:54
7 /Moon River [Live in Studio]
Henry Mancini / Johnny Mercer/2:21
8 /Pretty Persuasion [Live in Studio]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/4:02
9 /There She Goes Again [Live in Studio]
Lou Reed/2:50
10 /Tighten Up [Live in Studio]
Archie Bell / Billy Buttier/4:09
11 /Ages of You [Live]
Michael Stipe/3:49
12 /We Walk [Live]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/3:18
13 /1,000,000 [Live]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/3:26
14 /Gardening at Night [Electric Demo]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/4:44
15 /Just a Touch [Live in Studio]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/2:39
16 /King of the Road [Live in Studio]
Roger Miller/3:14
17 /Pale Blue Eyes [Live in Studio]
Lou Reed/2:54
18 /Voice of Harold
Michael Stipe/4:25
19 /Walter's Theme [Live in Studio]
Jan Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/1:32
20 /White Tornado [Live in Studio]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/1:52
21 /Windout
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/1:59
22 /Wind Out [With Friends] [Live in Studio]
Kevin Ayers / Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/2:01
23 /9-9 [Live]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/3:06
24 /Gardening at Night [Live]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/3:49
25 /Catapult [Live]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/4:04

DISC TWO
1 /Ages of You
Michael Stipe/3:43
2 /Bandwagon
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/2:17
3 /Burning Down
Michael Stipe/4:13
4 /Burning Hell
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/3:49
5 /Crazy
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/3:03
6 /Driver 8 [Live]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/3:30
7 /Bad Day
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/3:03
8 /Femme Fatale [Live in Studio]
Lou Reed/2:50
9 /Hyena [Demo]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/2:49
10 /Mystery to Me [Demo]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/2:02
11 /Rotary Ten
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/2:01
12 /Theme from Two Steps Onward [Demo]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/4:37
13 /Tired of Singing Trouble
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/1:00
14 /Toys in the Attic
Joe Perry / Steven Tyler/2:28
15 /Romance
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/3:27
16 /Last Date
Floyd Cramer/2:17
17 /Finest Worksong [Lengthy Club Mix]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/5:52
18 /Finest Worksong [Mutual Drum Horn Mix]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/3:51
19 /Finest Worksong [Other Mix]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/3:46
20 /Maps and Legends [Live]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/3:16
21 /Disturbance at the Heron House [Live]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/3:26
22 /The One I Love [Live]
William Thomas Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/4:07
23 /Swan Swan H [Acoustic]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/2:43
24 /(All I Have to Do Is) Dream
Boudleoux Bryant/2:38
25 /Time After Time Etc. [Live]
Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Peter Gabriel / Mike Mills / Michael Stipe/8:23

Review
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
A digital-only release arriving in May of 2014, Complete Rarities I.R.S. 1982-1987 offers 50 stray tracks that have come out on various reissues, B-sides, and even the 1987 compilation Dead Letter Office, which was the first time R.E.M. attempted to tie up loose ends. The CD of Dead Letter Office contained Chronic Town, but that debut EP is absent on this collection (it hasn't appeared on any of the deluxe reissues of I.R.S. titles either). It's an unfortunate omission -- Chronic Town is a pivotal part of American indie rock -- but even with its absence, Complete Rarities I.R.S. 1982-1987 is a worthwhile clearinghouse of oddities, demos, outtakes, and live cuts from R.E.M.'s golden era. There are no new excavations here. The bulk of the collection is based on Dead Letter Office and the bonus disc included with the two-CD version of the 2006 compilation And I Feel Fine...: The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987, with the rest rounded out with bonus tracks available either on expanded European editions from the '90s or various other reissues. There is plenty to love here -- the original Hib-Tone single of "Radio Free Europe"/"Sitting Still"; exuberant early versions of "All the Right Friends" and "Bad Day," songs they'd later revive; a nervy demo of "Just a Touch"; a live medley of "Time After Time," "Red Rain," and "So. Central Rain"; the entirety of Dead Letter Office -- and hardcore fans who have somehow managed to not get this music into their R.E.M. collections should consider picking up this useful digital set.

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