Out this week is the latest of R.E.M.’s reissues that have been released on a regular basis since the band officially called it a day in 2011. Green was released in 1988 and here at DS we rate this as our favourite R.E.M. LP with Automatic For The People pushing hard for the same honour. With a raft of singles that infiltrated international charts it saw the band finding a balance between their artier inclinations and the pure guitar pop melodies that permeate much of the record.

R.E.M., Green: 25th Anniversary Edition (Warner Bros./Rhino, 2013)

Disc 1: Remastered original LP (originally released as Warner Bros. 25795, 1988)

1. Pop Song 89
2. Get Up
3. You Are the Everything
4. Stand
5. World Leader Pretend
6. The Wrong Child
7. Orange Crush
8. Turn You Inside-Out
9. Hairshirt
10. I Remember California
11. 11/Unititled

Disc 2: Live at the Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC – 11/10/1989

1. Stand
2. The One I Love
3. Turn You Inside Out
4. Belong
5. Exhuming McCarthy
6. Good Advices
7. Orange Crush
8. Cuyahoga
9. These Days
10. World Leader Pretend
11. I Believe
12. Get Up
13. Life and How to Live It
14. Its the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
15. Pop Song 89
16. Fall on Me
17. You Are the Everything
18. Begin The Begin
19. Low
20. Finest Worksong
21. Perfect Circle

R.E.M., Live in Greensboro EP (Warner Bros./Rhino, 2013)

1. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
2. Feeling Gravitys Pull
3. Strange
4. King of Birds
5. I Remember California