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Release Date
7 November 1988
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Length
11 tracks
Green is defined by the tweaks R.E.M. made to their creative process, by the restlessness that destroys many bands but somehow revitalized these four musicians. For that reason, this reissue of Green is incomplete: it lacks those original demos R.E.M. made in Athens, when they were still figuring out that they could shuffle the deck, exchange instruments and roles, redefine the band without changing its membership. On the other hand, the concert disc provides some valuable insight into the afterlives of these songs: how the band lived with them, how they played them, mutated them. On these live tracks, you can hear the old bar band that cut its teeth covering “Stepping Stone” and “Hippy Hippy Shake” on cramped stages in tiny clubs around Athens. In other words, R.E.M. at their greenest.
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