R.E.M. details posthumous retrospective

Shortly after announcing their split last week, R.E.M. has detailed the "greatest hits" collection mentioned in their statement. The band, who were together for three decades, was involved in the selection of the 40 song collection which includes music from their both their Warner Music Group (1988 to 2011) and IRS Records (1982 to 1987) output.

In addition to liner notes written by band members Berry, Buck, Mills, and Stipe, the album also features three new songs that R.E.M. finished after they completed their last album, Collapse Into Now: "A Month of Saturdays," "We All Go Back To Where We Belong," and "Hallelujah," which were recorded over the summer in Athens with Accelerate and Collapse Into Now producer Jacknife Lee. The compilation is titled Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage (1982 - 2011) and is due out November 15, 2011 via Warner Music Group

R.E.M. was a seminal and influential part of the alternative and college rock scenes of the 1980s and 1990s, and helped lead the way for many others to break through to the mainstream. Their fifteenth and final album, Collapse Into Now, was released earlier this year.

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Disc 1:

  • Gardening At Night
  • Radio Free Europe
  • Talk About The Passion
  • Sitting Still
  • So. Central Rain
  • (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
  • Driver 8
  • Life And How To Live It
  • Begin The Begin
  • Fall On Me
  • Finest Worksong
  • It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
  • The One I Love
  • Stand
  • Pop Song 89
  • Get Up
  • Orange Crush
  • Losing My Religion
  • Country Feedback
  • Shiny Happy People

    • Disc 2:

  • The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
  • Everybody Hurts
  • Man On The Moon
  • Nightswimming
  • What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
  • New Test Leper
  • Electrolite
  • At My Most Beautiful
  • The Great Beyond
  • Imitation Of Life
  • Bad Day
  • Leaving New York
  • Living Well Is The Best Revenge
  • Supernatural Superserious
  • ÜBerlin
  • Oh My Heart
  • Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter
  • A Month of Saturdays
  • We All Go Back To Where We Belong
  • Hallelujah