Details
The classic REM album re-mastered with a Bonus Disc
“The Athens Demos” including 19 demos previously unreleased, recorded in Athens, Georgia 1986. “The Athens Demos” include drafts of Pageant’s 12 songs, plus additional demos of songs that were later recorded for other releases.
The Packaging: CDs will be housed in a lift top clamshell box (same style as Fables Of The Reconstruction Deluxe Edition) including poster, 4 postcards and 12pg booklet containing liner notes by music journalist and author Parke Puterbaugh. Includes early versions of “Bad Day,” “Rotary Ten,” “Two Steps Onward,” “Mystery To Me,” “All The Right Friends,” and “March Song (King Of Birds),” an early instrumental version of "King Of Birds" from Document.
One track, “Wait”, has never before been officially released by R.E.M. in any form, but it has shown up on bootlegs over the years. R.E.M.’s fourth studio album, Lifes Rich Pageant was recorded by vocalist Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and drummer Bill Berry at John Mellencamp’s Belmont Mall Studios in Indiana. Produced by Don Gehman.
CD One
1. Begin The begin 2. These Days 3. Fall on Me 4. Cuyahoga 5. Hyena 6. Underneath The Bunker 7. The Flowers of Guatemala 8. I Believe 9. What If We Give It Away? 10. Just a Touch 11. Swan Swan H 12. Superman
CD Two
The Athens Demos & Previously Unreleased 1. Fall on Me (demo) 2. Hyena (demo) 3. March Song (King of Birds) (demo) 4. These Days (demo) 5. Bad Day (demo) 6. Salsa (Underneath the Bunker) (demo) 7. Swan Swan H (demo) 8. Flowers of Guatemala (demo) 9. Begin the Begin (demo) 10. Cuyahoga (demo) 11. I Believe (demo) 12. Out of Tune (demo) 13. Rotary Ten (demo) 14. Two Steps Onward (demo) 15. Just a Touch (demo) 16. Mystery to Me (demo) 17. Wait (demo) 18. All the Right Friends (demo) 19. Get on Their Way (What if We Give It Away?) (demo)
