Eponymous (album)

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Eponymous
Eponymous cover
Compilation album by R.E.M.
Released 17 October 1988 (UK)
18 October 1988 (US)
Recorded 1981–1987
Genre Alternative rock
Length 43:06
Label IRS
Producer Mitch Easter, Don Dixon, Joe Boyd, Don Gehman and Scott Litt
Professional reviews
R.E.M. chronology
Document
(1987)		 Eponymous
(1988)		 Green
(1988)

Eponymous is the first greatest hits album by the band R.E.M., released in 1988. It was their last authorized release on I.R.S. Records, to whom they had been contracted since 1982, having just signed with Warner Bros. Records.

Eponymous is notable for its inclusion of several rare or alternate versions of known tracks. Spanning from the Chronic Town EP to the previous year's breakthrough hit album Document, Eponymous provides a fair overview of R.E.M.'s pioneering early work.

The album features the words "File Under Grain", a reference to the cover photograph. A previous album, Document, featured the words "File Under Fire". Inside the album a photograph of singer Michael Stipe with the words "They Airbrushed My Face" across his eyes.

Released in October 1988, just a month before R.E.M.'s Warner Bros. debut Green appeared, Eponymous reached #44 in the US and #69 in the UK.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe.

[edit] Side one

  1. "Radio Free Europe" (Original Hib-Tone Single) – 3:47
  2. "Gardening at Night" (Different Vocal Mix) 1 – 3:30
  3. "Talk About the Passion" (from Murmur, 1983) – 3:20
  4. "So. Central Rain" (from Reckoning, 1984) – 3:15
  5. "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" (from Reckoning, 1984) – 4:32
  6. "Cant Get There from Here" (from Fables of the Reconstruction, 1985) – 3:39

[edit] Side two

  1. "Driver 8" (from Fables of the Reconstruction, 1985) – 3:23
  2. "Romance"2 – 3:25
  3. "Fall on Me" (from Lifes Rich Pageant, 1986) – 2:50
  4. "The One I Love" (from Document, 1987) – 3:16
  5. "Finest Worksong" (Mutual Drum Horn Mix) 3 – 3:50
  6. "Its the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)" (from Document, 1987) – 4:05

Track listing note: On the vinyl release, R.E.M. labeled side one (tracks 1-6) as the "Early side" and side two (tracks 7-12) as the "Late side."

[edit] Notes

1 Alternate mix from version on Chronic Town.
2 Taken from soundtrack to the 1987 film Made in Heaven.
3 Remix of version found on Document.

[edit] Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1988 The Billboard 200 44 (19 weeks on chart)
1988 UK Albums Chart 69 (3 weeks on chart)

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