Green (REM album)
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Publication |
1988 |
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| Label (s) | Warner | |||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
41:01 min |
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Studio (s) |
Ardent Studios, Memphis (first recording session) and Bearsville Studios, Woodstock, NY (later recording session) |
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Green is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band REM and the first album they recorded for the major label Warner .
After the album was released, the group went on an eleven month world tour - their last major tour for several years. In the course of this tour, REM gave five concerts in the FRG in the summer of 1989.
After 25 years, the album was re-released , supplemented by recordings of a concert on November 10, 1989 in Greensboro , North Carolina.
Cover
The message of the album is already visible on the cover, wrote Robert Dimery. It shows leaves, tree rings and telegraph poles, the background is orange, an allusion to the herbicide Agent Orange , with which the US Army destroyed a third of the tree population in Vietnam. This suggestion is lyrically taken up in the song Orange Crush . Ecological themes can also be found in the "ghostly" song I Remember California , in Stand there is the line: "If wishes were trees, the trees would be falling."
Track list
All songs by Bill Berry , Peter Buck , Mike Mills and Michael Stipe .
- Pop song 89 - 3:04
- Get Up - 2:39
- You Are the Everything - 3:41
- Stand - 3:10
- World Leader Pretend - 4:17
- The Wrong Child - 3:36
- Orange Crush - 3:51
- Turn You Inside-Out - 4:16
- Hairshirt - 3:55
- I Remember California - 4:59
- Untitled - 3:10
success
Green is REM's first major commercial success. Awarded double platinum , it is the album with which REM achieved superstar status.
Like the previous REM albums, Green did not reach the top 100 positions in the German album charts . The two singles from the album ( Pop Song 89 and Stand ) also did not make it into the German single charts. Only with their next album Out of Time (1991) REM achieved their worldwide breakthrough. The music magazine Musikexpress / Sounds considered the album in their list of the "100 best records in rock history" at number 78.
reception
The rock magazine Eclipsed found the album to be "mixed". The sub line said it was "unstructured". The Musikexpress , however, said it was "defiantly brittle" in a positive sense. The New Musical Express gave it 9 out of 10 points.
The Sub Line went on to say that I Remember California is a ballad , Orange Crush is an “energetic dance number”, but the album is characterized by “stupid pop songs like Stand and Pop Song 89. ” Peter Buck's reply read: “Many fans literally hate our stupid moments. I think they are fine because we felt like firstly to try something and could meet the prejudice secondly, we were prevented academics with continuous intellectual demand. " Stand come disguised as anthemic and exultant Sesame Street sing-song, therefore, but is in reality a weird state report of the nation, said the New Musical Express . And Orange Crush seems rather threatening with its propelling melody, which is peppered with Stipe's breaking voice. In the Eclipsed it was pointed out that "songs like Orange Crush , World Leader Pretend and Stand are even more critical and radical" than on the previous document . The Musikexpress described the piece World Leader Pretends as a “jewel” .
Sales figures and awards
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
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| Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
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 Canada (MC)
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 2 × platinum
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200,000 |
 New Zealand (RMNZ)
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 gold
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7,500 |
 Spain (Promusicae)
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gold
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50,000 |
 United States (RIAA)
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2 × platinum
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2,000,000 |
 United Kingdom (BPI)
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platinum
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300,000 |
| All in all |
2 × gold 5 × platinum |
2,557,500 |
Main article: REM / Awards for Music Sales
Web links
- Jennie Rothenberg Gritz: Green: REM's Greatest Album. In: The Atlantic , November 8, 2013
- Sid Smith: REM Green Review , BBC Music , 2007
- Mark Lore: REM: Green 25th Anniversary Reissue. In: Paste Magazine , May 15, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kyle McGovern: REM Stuff 'Green' Anniversary Reissue With Classic 1989 Live Tracks . In: Spin , March 6, 2013
- ↑ Robert Dimery: 1001 albums you must hear before you die. Hachette, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-84403-714-8 , p. 1659; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ Steve Malins: REM In: Zillo . Music magazine. Independent / individual. November 1992, p. 20th ff .
- ↑ a b c Stephen Dalton: Taking the Michael . In: New Musical Express . October 25, 2003, The Reviews. Albums. The Week's Disc Get Put through the NME Grinder, p. 55 .
- ↑ a b Marcel Anders: REM looking back ahead . In: Eclipsed . Rock magazine. No. 87 , November 2006, p. 44 ff .
- ↑ a b c Werner Theurich: REM Green (1988) . In: Musikexpress / Sounds . No. 453 , October 1993, The 100 Masterworks, p. 123 .
- ↑ Sascha Seiler: SEM “9 Reissues” (DVD-Audio) . In: Eclipsed . Rock magazine. No. 70 , March 2005, DVD Reviews, pp. 62 .
- ↑ a b Thomas Weiland: REM Mainstream with a brain . In: Sub Line . Indie-Progressive Rock & Pop Magazine. November 1992, p. 14th f .
Studio albums: Murmur (1983) | Reckoning (1984) | Fables of the Reconstruction (1985) | Lifes Rich Pageant (1986) | Document (1987) | Green (1988) | Out of Time (1991) | Automatic for the People (1992) | Monster (1994) | New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996) | Up (1998) | Reveal (2001) | Around the Sun (2004) | Accelerate (2008) | Collapse into Now (2011)
Singles (selection): The One I Love (1987) | It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (1987) | Stand (1989) | Losing My Religion (1991) | Shiny Happy People (1991) | Man on the Moon (1992) | Bang and Blame (1994) | Imitation of Life (2001)