Some fans accused the band of selling out by going with a major like Warner Bros. but the band defended the decision because Warners Bros. had promised them total creative control.
I wasn't a huge fan of the band before Green, and once I heard this album it was a game changer. The album contains my favourite R.E.M. song World Leader Pretend. It's still my favourite R.E.M. album and one that gets played on a regular basis.
A huge world tour was taken in support of the album and a film was made as a record of it - Watch Tourfilm Here.
Click on the links to enjoy further musical sounds from R.E.M.
Green - R.E.M.
Warner Bros.
Produced by Scott Lit and R.E.M.
Released 7th November 1988
UK Chart # 27
US Chart # 12
R.E.M.
Bill Berry – drums and backing vocals, bass guitar on "You Are the Everything", "The Wrong Child", and "Hairshirt"
Peter Buck – guitar, mandolin, drums on "Eleventh, Untitled Song"
Mike Mills – bass guitar, keyboards, accordion, backing vocals
Michael Stipe – vocals
Additional musicians
Bucky Baxter – pedal steel guitar on "World Leader Pretend"
Keith LeBlanc – percussion on "Turn You Inside-Out"
Jane Scarpantoni – cello on "World Leader Pretend"
Singles on Green
"Orange Crush"
Released: December 1988
Released: December 1988
UK Chart #28
"Stand"
Released: January 1989
US Chart #6
UK Chart #48
"Pop Song 89"
Released: May 1989
US Chart #89
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