Document

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Document
Studio album by REM

Publication
(s)

August 31, 1987

admission

April 30, 1987 - May 2, 1987

Label (s) IRS Records

Format (s)

LP , CD , MC , DVD-A

Genre (s)

Alternative rock

Title (number)

11

running time

38:10

occupation

production

REM, Scott Litt

chronology
Lifes Rich Pageant
(1986) 		Document Green
(1988)
Single releases
August 1987 The One I Love
November 1987 It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
March 1988 Finest Worksong

Document is the fifth studio album by the American rock band R.EM and was released in August 1987. It was the band's last album to be released by the indie label IRS Records. In 1988, REM switched to the major label Warner Bros. Records .

The album

Document was released in 1987 a few months after their rarity compilation Dead Letter Office and is the last album to be released with new songs on the IRS Records label. Document is the fifth regular studio album by REM, which is indicated again on the record sleeve. With the album began the collaboration with Scott Litt, who produced all of the band's studio albums until 1996.

What is significant about Document is that it contains the band's first US Top 10 hit ( The One I Love reached number 9 on the US charts ) and is the first album of their career to go platinum . The album reached 10th place in the US charts, also number 76 in the annual hit parade of the US Billboard charts in 1987 and came up to chart position 29 in Great Britain. The single It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) turned out to be a huge commercial success.

At the time, the band was on its way to becoming a major rock band with international fame - but not always to the delight of their fans, who at the time often consisted of college students. But REM signed a new record deal with the major label Warner Bros. Records the following year and their commercial success should continue to grow in the next few years.

Track list

With the exception of Strange , all songs are penned by Bill Berry , Peter Buck , Mike Mills and Michael Stipe .

page 1
  1. Finest Worksong - 3:48
  2. Welcome to the Occupation - 2:46
  3. Exhuming McCarthy - 3:19
  4. Disturbance at the Heron House - 3:32
  5. Strange ( Bruce Gilbert, Graham Lewis, Colin Newman, Robert Gotobed ) - 2:31
Page 2
  2. It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - 4:05
  3. The One I Love - 3:17
  4. Fireplace - 3:22
  5. Lightnin 'Hopkins - 3:20
  6. King of Birds - 4:09
  7. Oddfellows Local 151 - 5:21
Bonus tracks from the new edition from 1993

In 1993, IR S Records released a new edition of Document . This included bonus tracks that were previously only found on the B-sides of the singles The One I Love , It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) and Finest Worksong .

  1. Finest Worksong (Other Mix) - 3:47
  2. Last Date ( Floyd Cramer ) - 2:16
  3. The One I Love (Live) - 4:06
  4. Time After Time, Etc. (Live) - 8:22
  5. Disturbance at the Heron House (Live) - 3:26
  6. Finest Worksong (Lengthy Club Mix) - 5:52

reception

source rating
Allmusic
Rolling Stone
Pitchfork

The music magazine Rolling Stone leads Document ranked 462 of the 500 best albums of all time and ranked 41 of the 100 best albums of the 1980s.

In the selection of the 300 best albums from 1985 to 2014 by Spin, it ranks 227.

The website Pitchfork voted Document 48th of the 100 best albums of the decade.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine on Allmusic (accessed March 16, 2020)
  2. ↑ Review by David Fricke on Rolling Stone (archived) (accessed March 16, 2020)
  3. ↑ Review by Stephen M. Deusner on Pitchfork (accessed March 16, 2020)
  4. ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time on Rolling Stone (accessed March 16, 2020)
  5. ↑ 100 Best Albums of the 1980s on Rolling Stone (accessed March 16, 2020)
  6. ↑ The 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (1985-2014) on Spin (accessed March 16, 2020)
  7. ↑ The Top 100 Albums of the 1980s on Pitchfork (accessed March 16, 2020)