Document (album) Article Index for
Document
Website Links For
Document
 

Information About

Document (album)




  Type Album
  Artist REM
  Cover Documentcoverjpg
  Background orange
  Released September 1 1987
  Recorded Sound Emporium , Nashville , 1987
  Genre Rock
  Length 39:51
  Label IRS Records
  Producer Scott Litt & REM
  Reviews All Music Guide link
  Last Album '' Dead Letter Office ''<br />(1987)
  This Album '''''Document'''''<br />(1987)
  Next Album '' Eponymous ''<br />(1988)


''Document'' is the fifth studio album by R.E.M. and their sixth overall. It was released in 1987 a few months after their rarities collection '' Dead Letter Office '' appeared and is the last album of new material by the band released on the I.R.S. Records label.

''Document'' was R.E.M.'s first album co-produced by Scott Litt and the band, a collaboration that continued through Green , Out Of Time , Automatic For The People , Monster and New Adventures In Hi-Fi , and may account for their success with this album as well as the following five. This album was significant not only in launching R.E.M.'s first US Top 10 hit in "The One I Love" (which reached #9), but also giving them their first platinum album.

With the band poised to become a major rock group—and perhaps to the dismay of their college rock fans—after ''Document'', their I.R.S. contract expired. R.E.M. signed a five-album deal the following year with major label Warner Bros. and saw their commercial fortunes grow exponentially.

In 2005 , Capitol Records (who now own I.R.S. Records' catalog) issued an expanded DualDisc edition of ''Document'' which includes a digitally remastered version of the album on the CD side, a DVD-Audio , DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1-channel surround sound mix of the album done by Elliot Scheiner on the DVD side, and the original CD booklet.


TRACK LISTING

All songs written by Berry , Buck , Mills and Stipe , except as indicated.

# " Finest Worksong " – 3:48
# "Welcome to the Occupation" – 2:46
# "Exhuming McCarthy" – 3:19
# "Disturbance at the Heron House" – 3:32
# "Strange" ( Gilbert / Lewis / Newman / Gotobed ) – 2:31
# " It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) " – 4:05
# " The One I Love " – 3:17
# "Fireplace" – 3:22
# "Lightnin' Hopkins" – 3:20
# "King of Birds" – 4:09
# "Oddfellows Local 151" – 5:21


PERSONNEL




CHARTS

Album
Singles


CERTIFICATIONS