|
Green (CD + DVD-A) (Dig) | 
 enlarge
| Artist: R.e.m.
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
Buy New: $16.26
You Save: $8.72 (35%)
New (14) Used (7) from $13.97
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 141388
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.7 x 0.6
UPC: 081227394820
EAN: 0081227394820
ASIN: B0006IIPEY
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Tracks:
| • | Pop Song 89 | | • | Get Up | | • | You Are the Everything | | • | Stand | | • | World Leader Pretend | | • | Wrong Child | | • | Orange Crush | | • | Turn You Inside Out | | • | Hairshirt | | • | I Remember California |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Green catapulted R.E.M. from campus cult favorites to rock stars of the highest order. The album contains three of the Athens, Georgia, quartet's most popular radio hits ("Pop Song 89," "Stand," and "Orange Crush"), punching up the big rock hooks and letting the spooky independent production slip away. Some diehard fans cried "Sellout!" but that's a strange attitude given singer Michael Stipe's environmental activism. "I'm very scared of this world," he sings above jangling mandolins on "You Are the Everything." It's still unclear what he's trying to say, but at least we can understand the words this time. --Steve Knopper This new edition bolsters the album's reputation as one of the '80s best, combining a remastered edition of the album proper with a newly produced bonus DVD. That disc contains a new 5.1 surround mix that gratifyingly drops the listener into the midst of producer Scott Litt's masterful sonic aura, and also features a previously unreleased 20-minute-plus 1988 interview with all four band members, the impressionistic videos for "Orange Crush" and "Stand" and a collection of contemporary still photos.
Album Description
After putting Athens, GA, on the musical map in the early '80s, R.E.M. went on to become one of the world's biggest bands. Fusing folk, garage rock, pop sensibilities, and insightful lyrics delivered with Michael Stipe's inimitable lead vocals, these alt-rock forefathers built a massive indie following, and in 1988 unleashed their major-label debut, Warner Bros.' Green. This roots rock tour de force was followed in '91 by the Grammy-winning #1 blockbuster Out of Time, which led to an ongoing stream of masterpieces. These two classics, along with five more albums from R.E.M.'s extraordinary catalog-plus their retrospective Best Of-now each feature a Bonus DVD with Surround Sound audio and video extras.
|
| Customer Reviews:
 people on here on wrong February 22, 2008
mike ph. (nashville, tn United States)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
a lot of these reviews are wrong. all of these dvd+a's can be ripped to your ipod/zune. and the sound is not the same as the cd's you've been listening to all these years. the mix on monster is completely different and new. and this is from listening on the zune with earphones. i just wanted to let people who are on the fence about getting these.
as i was on the fence as well due to the fact that i don't have a dvd+a player and the only new feature added is worthless to me. not now. now i can have newly mixed and mastered sound for all the r.e.m. warner albums. which were needing it. and it's not the crappy loud remastering they're doing nowadays either.
 just ok for REM February 20, 2006
DKDC (Washington, DC USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Album: Not their best but still good
CD players: - Rex made all the right points - if all you have is a cd player - you might want to skip this rerelease. There is no upgraded sound version for you.
DVD players: You can get surround sound from your dvd player, but it won't be as high quality as a DVD-A player (of course some people say there isn't much difference - that it is all in the remastering of the disc and not so much in the better technology of the player.
DVD-Audio players: are not that expensive as of now (2006) but may soon go the way of the quadrophonic record player! If you have a DVD-A player this is worth getting, in my opinion (again as Rex spelled out).
MP3 players: I have not yet seen a computer drive that will record in surround sound or in DVD-A quality sound - so on the Ipod it won't do anything more for you than the cd you have had for years now, as Rex said. Maybe they will come out with new drives - or maybe they are already out - I haven't heard or seen them.
 new re-release package November 6, 2005
Thomas D. Ryan (New York)
Dating from 1989, Green is R.E.M.'s first album for Warner Brothers and therefore the oldest album in this series of releases. Green captures R.E.M. as they stretch out, expanding their sound for the broader audience that their affiliation with a `major' record label is expected to yield. Paradoxically, It also captures the band making relatively few compromises to their basic approach. Older fans were fearful that their signing with Warner Brothers might cause the band to `sell out' by giving in to the demands of radio and the new label. Instead, they deliver one of the most righteous and personally compelling albums of their career. "Pop Song `89" is subtly self-mocking and wry in the way that its title directly confronts the predicament, while the music skirts the issue entirely. "Stand" fills the role as the most commercial song released by the band to date, but it is so ridiculously over the top that it almost reeks of self-mockery, or at the least, sarcasm. "World Leader Pretend" follows, and it is virtually the polar opposite of "Stand" in that it conveys recognition of deeply personal (and perhaps regretful) motivations, as well as the human behavior necessary to right the situation - not bad for a pop song. All in all, Green is a diverse album that captures R.E.M. at their most playful, and also at their most compelling. A- Tom Ryan
Go Green May 6, 2005
Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
After the success of Document, R.E.M. moved from college radio giants to mainstream stars. They made the move from the independent IRS label to corporate rock giant Warner Brothers. Green is their debut release for Warner Brothers. While many diehard fans felt the band sold out, R.E.M. proved that you could work in the mainstream and still maintain your integrity. Green does have a more commercial sound than their previous efforts, most notably in the big hit "Stand". With the chance to reach a larger audience, the lyrics take on a more a socially active approach. The album's title is about trying to become environmentally friendly and many of the song's deal with the government's and big business' pollution of the environment and its people. "Orange Crush" is about the damage Agent Orange caused soldiers in Vietnam and "You Are The Everything" voices concerns about the ecology. "Get Up" is a call for activism. "Pop Song 89" is a sarcastic take on their new found chart success. "World Leader Pretend" is a great song and it also marked the first song the band ever printed lyrics to. It is the only song from the album to have the lyrics included, but it such as masterful song, that aspect only enhances the power of the words. Green was a big move forward for R.E.M. as they left behind their roots and started to grow towards bigger and greater commercial and critical successes. The DVD extras are okay, the interviews are interesting from the point that they are almost twenty years old. The "Orange Crush" video is a classic, but "Stand" doesn't require repeat viewings.
Rex is correct April 5, 2005
David B. Bennett (The Land of Enchantment, New Mexico, USA)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Of course Rex is absolutely correct about this disc, and it seems that Mark does not understand the functions of this disc at all.
|
|
|
Used CDs | |
