R.E.M.'s Definitive Hits Album Due for 11/15 Release

R.E.M. shocked the world with the news that they had decided to "call it a day as a band" via a statement on their website, and the beloved band announced that they will release their final album, R.E.M., Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982 - 2011, on Warner Bros. Records on November 15th, 2011.

The album is a 40-song career-spanning retrospective that for the first time ever collects songs from R.E.M.'s entire back catalog, including the band's early years on the IRS label in addition to their Warner Bros. Records catalog, and is currently available for pre-order on Amazon here.

The greatest hits album trailer premiered today on the official R.E.M. website and can be seen here. R.E.M. have led the way musically for nearly 30 years, and with this final release they also usher in a new era of album artwork by releasing an animated GIF album cover for their greatest hits collection.

View it below:

 

R.E.M. formed in 1980 when singer Michael Stipe met guitarist Peter Buck in an Athens, GA, record store where Buck worked. After recruiting bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry, R.E.M. released its first single, "Radio Free Europe," in 1981, followed by 1982's Chronic Town EP. Widely credited with inventing the college-rock genre, R.E.M. became the most influential American alternative rock band in history -- inspiring such artists as Sonic Youth, Pavement, Nirvana, and Radiohead -- for achieving multi-platinum mainstream success while maintaining their distinct identity. Over the course of its career, the band has released 15 studio albums and has sold more than 85 million albums worldwide.

R.E.M., Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982 - 2011 features three new songs that R.E.M. finished after they completed their last album, Collapse Into Now: the single "We All Go Back To Where We Belong," which goes to radio and will be available for sale on October 18th, "A Month of Saturdays," and "Hallelujah." All three songs were recorded over the summer in Athens with Accelerate and Collapse Into Now producer, the estimable Jacknife Lee. The band came roaring back with those two albums in the last two years, achieving some of the best reviews of their career and enabling them to go out at the top of their game. 

The track-listing for R.E.M., Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982 - 2011 is as follows:

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

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A Month of Saturdays

We All Go Back To Where We Belong

Hallelujah

 

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