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 College rock
Length 43:06
Label I.R.S. Records
Producer(s) 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.

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

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

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

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.
4 File under grain.

Album

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

R.E.M.
Peter Buck • Mike Mills • Michael Stipe • Bill Berry
Other musicians: Scott McCaughey • Bill Rieflin • Ken Stringfellow • Nathan December • Buren Fowler • Peter Holsapple • Barrett Martin • Joey Waronker
Management and producers: Bertis Downs, IV • Pat McCarthy • Jefferson Holt • Scott Litt
Joe Boyd • Don Dixon • Mitch Easter • Don Gehman
Discography
Albums and EPs: Chronic Town • Murmur • Reckoning • Fables of the Reconstruction • Lifes Rich Pageant • Document • Green • Out of Time • Automatic for the People • Monster • New Adventures in Hi-Fi • Up • Reveal • Around the Sun
Singles: See here
Compilations: Dead Letter Office • Eponymous • In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 • And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987
Remix album: R.E.M.IX
Soundtrack: Man on the Moon
Videos: Succumbs • Tourfilm • Pop Screen • This Film Is On • Parallel • Road Movie • In View: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 • Perfect Square • When the Light Is Mine: The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987
Related articles
Alternative rock • Hindu Love Gods • I.R.S. Records • Warner Bros. Records
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