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R.E.M. Announce Murmur Deluxe Edition

Dave Maher|Pitchfork Media

R.E.M. will give their classic debut album, 1983's Murmur, a deluxe reissue on November 25. The package, which comes courtesy of I.R.S./UMe, features two discs and liner notes with essays from producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, as well as several former I.R.S. executives.

The first disc of the reissue is a remastered version of the original album, and the second contains a previously unreleased concert the band played at Larry's Hideaway in Toronto just a few months after the album came out. In addition to Murmur songs, that set includes tunes from the Chronic Town EP, a Velvet Underground cover, and early versions of songs from 1984's Reckoning and 1986's Life's Rich Pageant (both arguably even better than the mighty Murmur).

R.E.M. still have quite a few tour dates on the horizon as well. Most of them are South American shows in November.

Murmur (Deluxe Edition):

Disc 1:

01 Radio Free Europe
02 Pilgrimage
03 Laughing
04 Talk About the Passion
05 Moral Kiosk
06 Perfect Circle
07 Catapult
08 Sitting Still
09 9-9
10 Shaking Through
11 We Walk
12 West of the Fields

Disc 2 (Live at Larry's Hideaway):

01 Laughing
02 Pilgrimage
03 There She Goes Again
04 7 Chinese Brothers
05 Talk About the Passion
06 Sitting Still
07 Harborcoat
08 Catapult
09 Gardening at Night
10 9-9
11 Just a Touch
12 West of the Fields
13 Radio Free Europe
14 We Walk
15 1,000,000
16 Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)

R.E.M.:

10-24 Dallas, TX - Nokia Theatre #
10-26 New Orleans, LA - Voodoo Music Experience
10-29 Bogota, Colombia - Parque Simón Bolívar
11-01 Buenos Aires, Argentina - Club Ciudad
11-03 Santiago, Chile - Movistar Arena
11-04 Santiago, Chile - Movistar Arena
11-06 Porto Alegre, Brazil - Zequinha Stadium
11-08 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Arena
11-10 São Paulo, Brazil - Via Funchai
11-11 São Paulo, Brazil - Via Funchai
11-14 Lima, Peru - Jockey Club del Peru
11-16 Caracas, Venezuela - Festival
11-18 Mexico City, Mexico - Auditorio Nacional

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that's awesome, any word of a vinyl reissue (judging that it's Universal, I think they will, since they've done deluxe vinyl editions for the U2's)? I have Document, Automatic For The People and Accelerate on vinyl and this is the one besides Out Of Time that I don't have yet and most want.

Not sure about vinyl reissues.

What I find weird is that this is Universal. I thought Capitol had the R.E.M. I.R.S. catalog.

Not sure about vinyl reissues.

What I find weird is that this is Universal. I thought Capitol had the R.E.M. I.R.S. catalog.
the IRS catalog is kind of tricky, the stuff they released up until around 1985, like the first two R.E.M. albums and the Go-Go's catalog that was originally distributed by A&M is still distributed by Universal, then they switched hands around that time and everything afterwards is Capitol owned.