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There In The Spotlight: R.E.M. Expands “Out of Time” for Its 25th Anniversary

August 26, 2016 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

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Back in December, it was announced that Concord Bicycle Music had picked up the rights to R.E.M.’s Warner Bros. catalogue.  Now, the first major reissue project from that deal has been announced:  a remastered 25th anniversary deluxe edition of the band’s most successful album Out of Time to be released on November 18.  This new package will be released in several configurations:  a 3 CD/1 Blu-ray set, a 2-CD set, a 3-LP set, a single LP of the original album and as a digital download.

Out of Time was R.E.M.’s second Warner Bros. album, released in March of 1991.  As the band continued to expand their musical stylings, alternative music was also becoming mainstream.  “Losing My Religion” was released as a single preceding the album’s release and became R.E.M’s highest charting single reaching #4 on the Billboard charts.  Propelled by “Religion” and the second single, “Shiny Happy People,” the album would hit #1 on the charts in the US and UK and eventually be certified four times platinum by the RIAA for U.S. sales alone.  “Religion” would pick up Grammys for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Music Video, Short Form while Out of Time would win for Best Alternative Music Album, beating Nirvana’s Nevermind.

The new box set includes the original album on Disc 1 followed by nineteen demo tracks on Disc 2.  The third disc contains a concert from Capitol Plaza Theater in Charleston, West Virginia performed on April 28, 1991 and aired on NPR as an installment of their Mountain Stage program.  It was one of only a few shows R.E.M. performed that year as they were not touring to promote Out of Time.  The Blu-ray has the original album both in Hi-Resolution Stereo and Hi-Resolution 5.1 Surround.  It also contains 8 music videos and an 18-minute EPK which contains studio and performance footage.  The new liner notes by music journalist Annie Zaleski features interviews with the band members and producers of the album.  The 2-CD edition contains the first two discs of the deluxe edition and the 3-LP edition replicates those two discs as well.

Out of Time was first reissued back in 2005 as a CD/DVD-Audio edition.  That release premiered a 5.1 surround mix of the album by Elliot Scheiner.  It is currently unknown, but likely, that this is the same mix that will be heard on the Blu-ray of this new release.  Also, four singles were released back in 1991 to promote the album.  They contained several B-sides and live performances, none of which seem to be included here.  “Fretless” and “40 Second Song” are represented on the demo disc but there is no version of “Rotary Eleven” included.

If you’d like to travel back to the height of the alternative music era and revisit one of R.E.M.’s biggest albums, we’ve got the tracklisting and preorder links for you below.

R.E.M., Out of Time: 25th Anniversary Edition (Concord/Bicycle Music, 2016)

3-CD/1-BD Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
2-CD Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
1-CD Remaster: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
3-LP Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
1-LP Remaster: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

CD 1 – Original Album

  1. Radio Song
  2. Losing My Religion
  3. Low
  4. Near Wild Heaven
  5. Endgame
  6. Shiny Happy People
  7. Belong
  8. Half A World Away
  9. Texarkana
  10. Country Feedback
  11. Me In Honey

CD 2 – Out of Time Demos

  1. Losing My Religion 1 – Demo
  2. Near Wild Heaven 1 – Demo
  3. Shiny Happy People 1 – Demo
  4. Texarkana 1 – Demo
  5. Untitled Demo 2
  6. Radio – Acoustic – Radio Song 1 Demo
  7. Near Wild Heaven 2 – Demo
  8. Shiny Happy People 2 – Demo
  9. Slow Sad Rocker – Endgame Demo
  10. Radio – Band – Radio Song 3 Demo
  11. Losing My Religion 2 – Demo
  12. Belong – Demo
  13. Blackbirds – Half A World Away Demo
  14. Texarkana – Demo
  15. Country Feedback – Demo
  16. Me On Keyboard – Me In Honey Demo
  17. Low – Demo
  18. 40 Sec. – 40 Second Song Demo
  19. Fretless 1 Demo

CD 3 – Live At Mountain Stage

  1. Introduction
  2. World Leader Pretend
  3. Radio Song
  4. Fall On Me
  5. It’s the End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
  6. Half A World Away
  7. Belong
  8. Love Is All Around
  9. Losing My Religion
  10. Dallas
  11. Radio Song
  12. Disturbance At The Heron House”
  13. Low
  14. Sawn Swan H
  15. Pop Song 89

Blu-ray

  1. Out Of Time — Hi-Resolution Audio
  2. Out Of Time —5.1 Surround Sound
  3. Radio Song – Music video
  4. Losing My Religion – Music video
  5. Low – Music video
  6. Near Wild Heaven – Music video
  7. Shiny Happy People – Music video
  8. Belong – Music video
  9. Half A World Away – Music video
  10. Country Feedback – Music video
  11. Time Piece – EPK

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Randy Fairman

Entertainment historian and writer Randy Fairman is a graduate of Northwestern University. Randy has written for publications including University Reporter Chicago and co-authored the graphic novel Love Bytes. A native of Indiana, he currently resides in New Jersey.

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Comments

  1. William Keats says

    August 26, 2016 at 1:52 pm

    The Mountain Stage show, as nice as it is to have it, isn’t complete. Not very surprising, as REM’s expanded reissues have shortened most of the live material they’ve included by leaving out one or more tracks from the original sequences, presumably to keep the live content limited to a single CD.

    REM’s final encore at Mountain Stage, “Get Up”, is missing here, as well as a set of 6 songs played with guests Billy Bragg and Robyn Hitchcock.

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  2. EndlessNameless says

    August 30, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    The reason they don’t include the b-sides is because of the clearinghouse digital collections with all that material that came out a few years back, one for IRS records and the other for the Warner years. That was the right call to make as, otherwise, these reissued albums would have to have another disc or two tacked on to house all of that material.

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