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Reckoning Deluxe Edition

Remastered original and live CD

The two-CD Reckoning - Deluxe Edition features the original album remastered plus a bonus disc of a previously unreleased concert recorded during the band’s Little America tour at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom on July 7, 1984 and broadcast on WXRT. In addition, Reckoning and R.E.M’s 1983 debut album Murmur will be simultaneously reissued on audiophile quality 180 gram vinyl in their complete original packaging.

On the Deluxe Edition’s bonus disc, the group not only performs eight of Reckoning’s ten songs, “Gardening At Night” from 1982’s Chronic Town EP and “Radio Free Europe,” “9-9” and “Sitting Still” from Murmur but also new songs that had yet to make it onto tape: “Driver 8” would later debut on R.E.M.’s third album and “Hyena” on its fourth.

Inclusion of the live concert is particularly appropriate for Reckoning - Deluxe Edition. Whereas Murmur had been complex and painstakingly deliberate, the band’s Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, along with producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, saw Reckoning as a “chance to turn up the volume, tear up the rule book, and capture instead R.E.M.’s on-stage mojo,” according to the Deluxe Edition liner notes by author Tony Fletcher.

DELUXE EDITION HIGHLIGHTS:

* Assembled in conjunction with the band
* 25th Anniversary Edition
* Features original album remastered + previously unreleased live show recorded at the Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL, July 7, 1984 / WXRT-FM broadcast
* Includes liner notes by noted author and R.E.M. biographer Tony Fletcher.

VINYL REISSUES HIGHLIGHTS

* 180 Gram audiophile vinyl and original packaging
* First time Reckoning and Murmur have been available on vinyl in decades!
* From the original audio masters

R.E.M. – Reckoning Deluxe Edition: DISC ONE

1. Harborcoat

2. 7 Chinese Bros.

3. So. Central Rain

4. Pretty Persuasion

5. Time After Time (Annelise)

6. Second Guessing

7. Letter Never Sent

8. Camera

9. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville

10. Little America

DISC TWO – Live at the Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL, July 7, 1984 / WXRT broadcast: Previously Unreleased

11. Femme Fatale

12. Radio Free Europe

13. Gardening at Night

14. 9-9

15. Windout

16. Letter Never Sent

17. Sitting Still

18. Driver 8

19. So. Central Rain

20. 7 Chinese Bros.

21. Harborcoat

22. Cushy Tush

23. Hyena

24. Pretty Persuasion

25. Little America

26. Second Guessing

27. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville

Source: REMHQ

By Craig - 25th June 2009

Headlines - Mar 2010