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Eponymous (album)




  Name Eponymous
  Type Compilation Album
  Artist REM
  Cover Eponymousjpg
  Background darkseagreen
  Released October 1988
  Recorded Spring 1981 – <br />Spring 1987
  Genre College Rock
  Length 43:06
  Label IRS Records
  Producer Mitch Easter , Don Dixon , Joe Boyd , Don Gehman and Scott Litt
  Last Album '' Document ''<br />(1987)
  This Album ''Eponymous''<br />(1988)
  Next Album '' Green ''<br />(1988)


''Eponymous'' is the first official "greatest hits" album by the band R.E.M. , issued in 1988 . It was their last authorized release on I.R.S. Records , where they had been contracted since 1982 , having just signed with Warner Bros. Records .

''Eponymous'' is notable for its inclusion of rare or alternate versions of known tracks. Spanning from the '' Chronic Town '' EP to the previous year's breakthrough hit album '' Document '', ''Eponymous'' provides a fair overview of R.E.M.'s pioneering early work.

Released in October 1988, just a month before R.E.M.'s anticipated Warner Bros. debut '' Green '' appeared, ''Eponymous'' reached #44 in the US and #69 in the UK.


TRACK LISTING

All songs written by Bill Berry , Peter Buck , Mike Mills and Michael Stipe .

#" Radio Free Europe " – 3:47
  • ''R.E.M.'s 1981 debut single on indie label Hib-Tone''

  • #"Gardening at Night" – 3:30


#" So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) " – 3:15
#" (Don't Go Back To) Rockville " – 4:32
#" Cant Get There From Here " – 3:39
#" Driver 8 " – 3:23
#"Romance" – 3:25
  • ''Originally introduced in the 1987 film Made In Heaven''

  • #" Fall On Me " – 2:50

#" The One I Love " – 3:16
#" Finest Worksong " – 3:50


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