Document is the fifth studio album by the American
alternative rockAlternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s...
band
R.E.M.R.E.M. is an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by Michael Stipe , Peter Buck , Mike Mills , and Bill Berry . R.E.M. was one of the first popular alternative rock bands, and gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's unclear vocals. R.E.M...
It was released in 1987 a few months after their rarities collection
Dead Letter OfficeDead Letter Office is a rarities and B-sides collection by R.E.M., released in 1987. The album essentially a collection of many additional recordings R.E.M. made pre-Murmur to Lifes Rich Pageant that were outtakes or released as flip sides to their singles internationally...
appeared and is the last album of new material by the band released on the
I.R.S. RecordsI.R.S. Records was a record label, started in the United States in 1979 by Miles Copeland III along with Jay Boberg and Carl Grasso. Miles was also the manager of Wishbone Ash, The Police, and later, Sting, as well as other bands. I.R.S. was the sister label of Copeland's Illegal Records .I.R.S...
label. It is the first album the band worked with
producerIn the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes...
Scott LittScott Litt is an American record producer who mostly works with artists in the alternative rock genre and is best known for producing six R.E.M. albums.-Biography:Litt began in the late 1970s, engineering recordings by Ian Hunter and Carly Simon...
.
Document was R.E.M.'s first album co-produced by
Scott LittScott Litt is an American record producer who mostly works with artists in the alternative rock genre and is best known for producing six R.E.M. albums.-Biography:Litt began in the late 1970s, engineering recordings by Ian Hunter and Carly Simon...
and the band, a collaboration that continued through
Green,
Out of TimeOut of Time is the seventh album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on Warner Bros. Records in 1991. With Out of Time R.E.M.'s status grew from that of a cult band to a massive international act. The record topped the album sales charts in both the U.S...
,
Automatic for the PeopleAutomatic for the People is the eighth album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1992 on Warner Bros. Records. While R.E.M...
,
Monster, and
New Adventures in Hi-FiNew Adventures in Hi-Fi is the tenth studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was their fifth major label release for Warner Bros. Records, released on September 9, 1996 in Europe and Australia and the following day in the United States...
.
Document is the fifth studio album by the American
alternative rockAlternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s...
band
R.E.M.R.E.M. is an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by Michael Stipe , Peter Buck , Mike Mills , and Bill Berry . R.E.M. was one of the first popular alternative rock bands, and gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's unclear vocals. R.E.M...
It was released in 1987 a few months after their rarities collection
Dead Letter OfficeDead Letter Office is a rarities and B-sides collection by R.E.M., released in 1987. The album essentially a collection of many additional recordings R.E.M. made pre-Murmur to Lifes Rich Pageant that were outtakes or released as flip sides to their singles internationally...
appeared and is the last album of new material by the band released on the
I.R.S. RecordsI.R.S. Records was a record label, started in the United States in 1979 by Miles Copeland III along with Jay Boberg and Carl Grasso. Miles was also the manager of Wishbone Ash, The Police, and later, Sting, as well as other bands. I.R.S. was the sister label of Copeland's Illegal Records .I.R.S...
label. It is the first album the band worked with
producerIn the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes...
Scott LittScott Litt is an American record producer who mostly works with artists in the alternative rock genre and is best known for producing six R.E.M. albums.-Biography:Litt began in the late 1970s, engineering recordings by Ian Hunter and Carly Simon...
.
Composition
Document was R.E.M.'s first album co-produced by
Scott LittScott Litt is an American record producer who mostly works with artists in the alternative rock genre and is best known for producing six R.E.M. albums.-Biography:Litt began in the late 1970s, engineering recordings by Ian Hunter and Carly Simon...
and the band, a collaboration that continued through
Green,
Out of TimeOut of Time is the seventh album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on Warner Bros. Records in 1991. With Out of Time R.E.M.'s status grew from that of a cult band to a massive international act. The record topped the album sales charts in both the U.S...
,
Automatic for the PeopleAutomatic for the People is the eighth album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1992 on Warner Bros. Records. While R.E.M...
,
Monster, and
New Adventures in Hi-FiNew Adventures in Hi-Fi is the tenth studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was their fifth major label release for Warner Bros. Records, released on September 9, 1996 in Europe and Australia and the following day in the United States...
. The album's clear production and muscular rock riffs helped to move the band towards mainstream success and built on the work done by
Don GehmanDon Gehman is an American record producer, best known for his work in the 1980s with John Mellencamp.Gehman grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and played bass in a local rock band...
, who had produced their previous album
Lifes Rich PageantLifes Rich Pageant is the fourth album by the American band R.E.M. and was released in 1986. Intended as an upbeat reaction to the sobering and historical Fables of the Reconstruction, R.E.M. chose Don Gehman to produce the album at his Belmont Mall Studios in Belmont, Indiana.-Details:The source...
. This release not only launched "The One I Love," R.E.M.'s first Top 10 hit on the
Billboard 200The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling new music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
(it reached number nine), but also gave them their first platinum album.
"Exhuming McCarthy" makes an explicit parallel between the red-baiting of Joe McCarthy's time and the strengthening of the sense of
American exceptionalismAmerican exceptionalism refers to the theory that the United States occupies a special niche among the nations of the world in terms of its national credo, historical evolution, political and religious institutions and unique origins...
during the
Reagan eraRonald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California .Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s...
, especially the
Iran-Contra affairThe Iran–Contra affair was a political scandal in the United States which came to light in November 1986, during the Reagan administration, in which senior US figures agreed to facilitate the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo, to secure the release of hostages and to fund...
. Starting with the click-clack of a typewriter, it also includes a sound clip of
Joseph WelchJoseph Nye Welch was the head counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation by Joseph McCarthy's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for Communist activities...
's rebuke of McCarthy from the
Army-McCarthy HearingsThe Army-McCarthy Hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between March 1954 and June 1954. The hearings were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy...
: "Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator.... You've done enough.
Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
The song "Strange" was originally recorded by the
post-punkPost-punk is a popular musical movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...
band
WireWire are an English rock band formed in London in October 1976, by Colin Newman , Graham Lewis , Bruce Gilbert , and Robert Gotobed .c) Despite little attention in the beginning, Wire's first three albums are among the most influential on the postpunk era, cited by Michael Stipe of...
. This version has slightly altered lyrics, such as "
MichaelJohn Michael Stipe is an American singer who is the lead vocalist for the alternative rock band R.E.M. Stipe has become well-known for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, as well as his social and political activism...
's nervous and the lights are bright."
R.E.M. expanded their instrumentation somewhat on the album, adding dulcimer to "King of Birds" and saxophone to "Fireplace". This experimentation would lead to their adoption of the mandolin, which featured prominently on their subsequent albums
Green and
Out of Time. Furthermore, the band's musicians began swapping instruments both in concert and in the studio in an effort to create new sounds (and avoid stagnation).
Design
The original sleeve for the album featured the message "File under Fire", a reference to what Michael Stipe considered to be the central lyrical theme of the album, and also references the chorus to "The One I Love". A similar message ("File under water") could be found on the cover of the band's second album,
ReckoningReckoning is the second album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1984 by I.R.S. Records. Produced by Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, the album was recorded at Reflection Sound Studio in Charlotte, North Carolina over 16 days in December 1983 and January 1984...
, as well as on the compilation album
Eponymous ("File under grain") referring to the idea behind "Talk About the Passion", which was about hunger. Two rejected suggestions for the title of the album—
R.E.M. No. 5 and
Table of Content—also appear on the sleeve artwork.. Other possible album titles included
Mr. Evil Breakfast,
Skin Up with R.E.M., and
Last Train to Disneyland (the last one having been suggested by Peter Buck, who felt that America under the presidency of former actor
Ronald ReaganRonald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California .Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s...
was beginning to feel a lot like the famed amusement park).
Reception
In 1989, the album was ranked #41 on
Rolling StoneRolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J. Gleason.The magazine was named after the 1948 Muddy Waters song of the same...
magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. In 2003, the album was ranked number 470 on
Rolling StoneRolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J. Gleason.The magazine was named after the 1948 Muddy Waters song of the same...
magazine's list of
the 500 greatest albums of all timeThe 500 Greatest Albums of All Time is the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2003.Related news articles: The list was based on the votes of 273 rock musicians, critics and industry figures, each of whom submitted a weighted list of 50 albums...
.
Track listing
All songs were written by
Bill BerryWilliam "Bill" Thomas Berry is an American former musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer in alternative rock band R.E.M. for 17 years, before retiring from the group and becoming a farmer...
,
Peter BuckPeter Lawrence Buck is the guitarist and co-founder, along with Bill Berry, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe, of the alternative rock band R.E.M....
,
Mike MillsMichael Edward Mills is the bass player of the band R.E.M. Though known primarily as a bassist, piano player and background singer, his musical repertoire includes many other keyboard, guitar, string, wind and percussion instruments...
and
Michael StipeJohn Michael Stipe is an American singer who is the lead vocalist for the alternative rock band R.E.M. Stipe has become well-known for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, as well as his social and political activism...
, except as indicated.
Side one – "Page side"
- "Finest Worksong
"Finest Worksong" was the third and final single released from R.E.M.'s fifth studio album Document. It peaked at #50 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1988, at the time the group's highest-charting single in the UK....
" – 3:48
- "Welcome to the Occupation" – 2:46
- "Exhuming McCarthy" – 3:19
- "Disturbance at the Heron House" – 3:32
- "Strange" (Bruce Gilbert
Bruce Gilbert is an English musician, one of the founding members of the influential and experimental art-punk band Wire, and a pioneer in the experimental noise scene....
, Colin NewmanColin Newman is an English musician, record producer and record label owner.-Biography:Newman is a member of the rock band, Wire. When the band temporarily split in 1980, Newman pursued a solo career. His first solo LP, A-Z, was released in 1980 on the Beggar's Banquet label...
) – 2:31
- "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
"It's the End of the World as We Know It " is a song by the rock band R.E.M., found on their 1987 album Document and the 1988 compilation Eponymous. It was also released as a single in 1988, reaching #69 US Billboard Hot 100 and later reaching #39 in the UK singles chart on its re-release in...
" – 4:05
Side two – "Leaf side"
- "The One I Love" – 3:17
- "Fireplace" – 3:22
- "Lightnin' Hopkins" – 3:20
- "King of Birds" – 4:09
- "Oddfellows Local 151" – 5:21
1993
I.R.S. Vintage Years reissue bonus tracks
- "Finest Worksong (Other Mix)" – 3:47
- B-side of "Finest Worksong
"Finest Worksong" was the third and final single released from R.E.M.'s fifth studio album Document. It peaked at #50 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1988, at the time the group's highest-charting single in the UK....
" 12" single
- "Last Date" (Floyd Cramer
Floyd Cramer was an American Hall of Fame pianist who was one of the architects of the "Nashville Sound." He popularized the 'slip note' piano style where one note slides effortlessly into the next...
) – 2:16
- B-side of "The One I Love" American 12" single and "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
"It's the End of the World as We Know It " is a song by the rock band R.E.M., found on their 1987 album Document and the 1988 compilation Eponymous. It was also released as a single in 1988, reaching #69 US Billboard Hot 100 and later reaching #39 in the UK singles chart on its re-release in...
" American 7" single
- "The One I Love" (Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop
McCabe's Guitar Shop is a musical instrument store and live music venue on Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, California. Opened in 1958, McCabe's specializes in acoustic and folk instruments, including guitars, banjos, mandolins, dulcimers, fiddles, psaltries, bouzoukis, sitars, ouds, and ethnic...
) – 4:06
- B-side of "The One I Love" American 12" single and "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
"It's the End of the World as We Know It " is a song by the rock band R.E.M., found on their 1987 album Document and the 1988 compilation Eponymous. It was also released as a single in 1988, reaching #69 US Billboard Hot 100 and later reaching #39 in the UK singles chart on its re-release in...
" British 7" and 12" singles
- "Time After Time, Etc." (Live) – 8:22
- B-side of "Finest Worksong
"Finest Worksong" was the third and final single released from R.E.M.'s fifth studio album Document. It peaked at #50 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1988, at the time the group's highest-charting single in the UK....
" 7 & 12 Inch & "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"It's the End of the World as We Know It " is a song by the rock band R.E.M., found on their 1987 album Document and the 1988 compilation Eponymous. It was also released as a single in 1988, reaching #69 US Billboard Hot 100 and later reaching #39 in the UK singles chart on its re-release in...
" 12 Inch UK
- "Disturbance at the Heron House" (Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop) – 3:26
- B-side of "The One I Love" British 12" single
- "Finest Worksong" (Lengthy Club Mix) – 5:52
- B-side of "Finest Worksong
"Finest Worksong" was the third and final single released from R.E.M.'s fifth studio album Document. It peaked at #50 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1988, at the time the group's highest-charting single in the UK....
" 12" single
- Note: Although sometimes referred to as such, the first release of this edition does not have the original tracks remastered. They follow the first print of the album and only add the extra tracks.
Personnel
R.E.M.
- Bill Berry
William "Bill" Thomas Berry is an American former musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer in alternative rock band R.E.M. for 17 years, before retiring from the group and becoming a farmer...
– drumsA drum set is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person . The term "drum kit" first became used in the 1700s in Britain...
, backing vocalsA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
- Peter Buck
Peter Lawrence Buck is the guitarist and co-founder, along with Bill Berry, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe, of the alternative rock band R.E.M....
– guitarThe guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...
, dulcimerDulcimer may refer to two types of musical instruments:* Appalachian dulcimer, a fretted, plucked musical instrument which is also referred to as a "mountain dulcimer," "lap dulcimer" "hog fiddle," or just a "dulcimer"...
on "King of Birds"
- Mike Mills
Michael Edward Mills is the bass player of the band R.E.M. Though known primarily as a bassist, piano player and background singer, his musical repertoire includes many other keyboard, guitar, string, wind and percussion instruments...
– bass guitarThe electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum....
, backing vocals
- Michael Stipe
John Michael Stipe is an American singer who is the lead vocalist for the alternative rock band R.E.M. Stipe has become well-known for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, as well as his social and political activism...
– lead vocals
Additional musicians
- Steve Berlin
Steve Berlin is an American saxophonist, keyboardist and record producer, best known as a member of the rock group Los Lobos and, before that, The Blasters and The Flesh Eaters...
– hornsIn music, a horn section refers to two separate groups of musicians. It can refer to the musicians in a symphony orchestra who play the horn . In popular music, it can also refer to a small group of wind instrumentalists who augment a band...
on "Fireplace"
- Carl Marsh – Fairlight CMI
The Fairlight CMI was the first polyphonic digital sampling synthesizer. It was designed in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, and based on a dual-6800 microprocessor computer designed by Tony Furse in Sydney, Australia...
synthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument that is capable of producing a variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies...
on "Fireplace"
Production
- Bill Berry – production
In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes...
- Peter Buck – production
- Steve Catania – engineering
Audio engineering is a part of audio science dealing with the recording and reproduction of sound through mechanical and electronic means. The field draws on many disciplines, including electrical engineering, acoustics, psychoacoustics, and music. Unlike acoustical engineering, audio...
- Tom Der – engineering
- Toni Greene – engineering
- Gary Laney – engineering
- Scott Litt
Scott Litt is an American record producer who mostly works with artists in the alternative rock genre and is best known for producing six R.E.M. albums.-Biography:Litt began in the late 1970s, engineering recordings by Ian Hunter and Carly Simon...
– production
- Bob Ludwig
Bob Ludwig is an American mastering engineer.He is a well known and respected figure within the music industry. Ludwig's craftsmanship is appreciated widely within the music profession, as testified by his extensive credits and demand for his work...
– masteringMastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
at Masterdisk, New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
, New YorkNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
; remastered at Gateway Mastering, PortlandPortland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2007 estimated city population was 62,875. Portland is Maine's cultural, social and economic capital. It is also the principal city of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area, with...
, MaineThe State of Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, New Hampshire to the southwest, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is the northernmost portion of...
, United States in June 1999
- Jim McKay
James Kenneth McManus , better known by his professional name of Jim McKay, was an American television sports journalist....
– photography
- Michael Meister – photography
- Mike Mills – production
- Ted Pattison – engineering
- Sandra-Lee Phipps – photography
- Ron Scarselli – packaging
- Elliot Scheiner
Elliot Scheiner is a record producer and record engineer. Scheiner has received 23 Grammy Award nominations, 6 of which he won, and he has been awarded four Emmy nominations, one Emmy award for his work with the Eagles on their farewell tour broadcast, three TEC Awards nominations, a TEC Hall of...
– mixing on 2005 re-release
- Todd Scholar – engineering
- Michael Stipe – production
Release history
In 1999, the album was remastered by Bob Ludwig and re-released on
Compact DiscA Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store sound recordings exclusively, but later it also allowed the preservation of other types of data. Audio CDs have been commercially available since October 1982...
by
I.R.S. RecordsI.R.S. Records was a record label, started in the United States in 1979 by Miles Copeland III along with Jay Boberg and Carl Grasso. Miles was also the manager of Wishbone Ash, The Police, and later, Sting, as well as other bands. I.R.S. was the sister label of Copeland's Illegal Records .I.R.S...
in the United States. This version came in a replica of the record sleeve made of cardboard. In 2005,
Capitol RecordsCapitol Records is a major United States-based record label owned by EMI and located in Los Angeles and New York City as part of Capitol Music Group...
(whose parent company
EMIThe EMI Group is a British music company. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major publishing arm- EMI Music Publishing- based in New York City...
now own I.R.S. Records' catalog) issued an expanded
DualDiscDualDisc is a type of double-sided optical disc product developed by a group of record companies including EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and 5.1 Entertainment Group and now under the aegis of the Recording Industry Association of America...
edition of
Document which includes a
digitally remasteredRemaster is a word marketed mostly in the digital audio age, although the remastering process has existed since recording began...
version of the album on the CD side, a
DVD-AudioDVD-Audio is a digital format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD. DVD-Audio is not intended to be a video delivery format and is not the same as video DVDs containing concert films or music videos. The first discs entered the marketplace in 2000...
, DTS and
Dolby DigitalDolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of data/audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories.- Versions :Dolby Digital includes several similar technologies, which include Dolby Digital EX, Dolby Digital Live, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Digital Surround EX, Dolby...
5.1-channel surround sound mix of the album done by
Elliot ScheinerElliot Scheiner is a record producer and record engineer. Scheiner has received 23 Grammy Award nominations, 6 of which he won, and he has been awarded four Emmy nominations, one Emmy award for his work with the Eagles on their farewell tour broadcast, three TEC Awards nominations, a TEC Hall of...
on the DVD side, and the original CD booklet.
| Region |
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Catalog |
| United States |
|
I.R.S. I.R.S. Records was a record label, started in the United States in 1979 by Miles Copeland III along with Jay Boberg and Carl Grasso. Miles was also the manager of Wishbone Ash, The Police, and later, Sting, as well as other bands. I.R.S. was the sister label of Copeland's Illegal Records .I.R.S...
|
vinyl LPA gramophone record, commonly known as phonograph record, vinyl record, or simply record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc...
|
IRS-42059 |
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|
IRSD-42059 |
|
cassette tape>
IRSC-42059 |
| United Kingdom |
| I.R.S. |
LP |
IRLD 19144/MIRG1025 |
| Australia |
| I.R.S. |
LP |
460105 1 |
| Brazil |
| EpicEpic Records is an American record label. It is owned and operated by Sony Music Entertainment. The label was founded in 1953 as a jazz label, and was eventually expanded to several genres of music. The label manages several imprints as well.-History:...
|
LP |
231111 |
| Greece |
| I.R.S./CBSCBS Records is a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties owned by CBS Television Studios. The initial label roster consisted of only three artists; rock band Señor Happy and singer/songwriters Will Dailey and P.J...
|
LP |
ILP-460105 1 |
| Japan |
| I.R.S. |
LP |
28AP-3382 |
| The Netherlands |
| I.R.S. |
LP |
ILP-460105 1 |
| Zimbabwe |
| CBS |
LP |
ASF-3174 |
| Worldwide |
|
MCAMCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part...
|
Compact Disc |
42059 |
| I.R.S. |
cassette tape |
IRSC-42059 |
| Worldwide |
| UniversalUniversal Music Group is the largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry. It is the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...
|
Compact Disc |
19144 |
| The Netherlands |
| I.R.S. |
Compact Disc |
7 13200 2 6† |
| Brazil |
| Warner Bros.Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as Warners or the Bunny, based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros. Pictures.-History:...
/EMIThe EMI Group is a British music company. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major publishing arm- EMI Music Publishing- based in New York City...
|
Compact Disc |
7 13200-2 |
| Worldwide |
| EMI |
Compact Disc |
1508 |
| United Kingdom |
| I.R.S. |
LP |
0777/CTMCD 337† |
| Worldwide |
| EMI |
Compact Disc |
337 |
| Worldwide |
| CapitolCapitol Records is a major United States-based record label owned by EMI and located in Los Angeles and New York City as part of Capitol Music Group...
|
Compact Disc |
93480 |
| Worldwide |
| Capitol |
Compact Disc |
21276 |
| United States |
|
I.R.S. |
LP |
724349946613-4 |
| Compact Disc |
72435-21276-2-7‡ |
| Europe |
| EMI |
Compact Disc |
13200† |
| United States |
| EMI |
LP |
499466 |
| United States |
| Capitol |
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|
90149• |
| United States |
| Capitol |
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|
99398• |
| United States |
| Capitol |
LP |
220591 |
†I.R.S. Vintage Years edition, with bonus tracks
‡Compact Disc remastered edition
•DualDisc remastered edition
A truncated edition of
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Chart performance
Album
| Year |
Chart |
Position |
| 1987 |
The Billboard 200 |
10 (33 weeks on chart) |
| 1987 |
UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website ; the full Top 200 is published exclusively in ChartsPlus.To qualify for the UK albums...
|
28 (5 weeks on chart) |
Singles
| Year |
Song |
Chart |
Position |
| 1987 |
"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" |
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks |
16 |
| 1987 |
"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" |
UK Singles Chart |
39 |
| 1987 |
"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" |
Billboard Hot 100 |
69 |
| 1987 |
"The One I Love" |
Billboard Hot 100 |
9 |
| 1988 |
"The One I Love" |
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks |
2 |
| 1988 |
"Finest Worksong" |
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks |
28 |
| 1988 |
"Finest Worksong" |
UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The full chart contains the top 200 singles based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 of this list...
|
50 |
| 1991 |
"The One I Love" |
UK Singles Chart |
16 |
Sales certifications
| Organization |
Level |
Date |
| RIAA – U.S. |
Gold |
November 2, 1987 |
| RIAA – U.S. |
Platinum |
January 25, 1988 |
External links
- R.E.M.HQ on Document (I.R.S. Vintage Years edition) (DualDisc edition) (I.R.S. Vintage Years edition)