R.E.M - Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part Garbage 1982-2011[2011] [only1joe] 320kbsMP3
Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011
is a 2011 greatest hits album from alternative rock band R.E.M. Intended as a coda on their career, this is the first compilation album that features their early work on independent record label I.R.S. Records in addition to their 10 studio releases through Warner Bros. Records. The double-disc retrospective was released through Warner Bros. on November 11, 2011, and was compiled by the band members. The existence of the compilation was revealed simultaneously with the group's announcement that they were disbanding on September 21, 2011.
In addition to previously-recorded music that spans the band's entire career, three new songs are included. Their final studio album—Collapse into Now—fulfilled the band's contractual obligations to Warner Bros. and they began recording material without a contract a few months later with producer Jacknife Lee in Athens, Georgia with the possible intention of self-releasing the work. Rather than completing an album's worth of material, the band elected to take what they had completed from those sessions and release them on this compilation. The new songs "Hallelujah" and "A Month of Saturdays" were demoed in the Collapse into Now sessions and the lead single "We All Go Back to Where We Belong" was recorded entirely after that album.
The band compiled the contents themselves, attempting to capture different periods of their songwriting. Stipe has explained that the inspiration for his approach to compiling the songs was the David Bowie compilation Changesonebowie. The title of the album comes from a quip that guitarist Peter Buck made about the band during an interview in 1988, "R.E.M is part lies, part heart, part truth and part garbage."
"We All Go Back to Where We Belong" was made available over the Internet on October 17, 2011. Early reviews of the song considered it a "low-key, string-drenched ballad" (Stereogum) and compared it to the pop styling of Burt Bacharach and R.E.M's 2001 album Reveal.
In the weeks leading up to the release of the compilation, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe did a brief span of promotional appearances in British media, ruling out the option of ever reuniting; while Buck went on tour with John Wesley Harding and The Minus 5. The band previewed the new songs through NPR's web site starting November 6, 2011.
Writing for BBC Music, Paul Whitelaw has called the retrospective "definitive", rendering all the band's other compilations "all but obsolete." He goes on to say that the arc of the band's career shows them becoming increasingly mild and irrelevant, but this album captures that chronology. Andy Gill of The Independent disagreed and gave the album a perfect five-star rating, saying that the arc of the band's songwriting had "inspired creativity" including the "Bacharach-esque touches of the final unreleased tracks.".
CD-01 - Track Listings
[01] Gardening At Night
[02] Radio Free Europe
[03] Talk About The Passion
[04] Sitting Still
[05] So. Central Rain
[06] (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
[07] Driver 8
[08] Life And How To Live It
[09] Begin The Begin
[10] Fall On Me
[11] Finest Worksong
[12] It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
[13] The One I Love
[14] Stand
[15] Pop Song 89
[16] Get Up
[17] Orange Crush
[18] Losing My Religion
[19] Country Feedback
[20] Shiny Happy People - R.E.M Featuring Kate Pierson [21] The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
CD-01 Play Time - 01h:16m:16s
CD-02 Track Listings
[01] Everybody Hurts
[02] Man On The Moon
[03] Nightswimming
[04] What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
[05] New Test Leper
[06] Electrolite
[07] At My Most Beautiful
[08] The Great Beyond
[09] Imitation Of Life
[10] Bad Day
[11] Leaving New York
[12] Living Well Is The Best Revenge
[13] Supernatural Superserious
[14] ÜBerlin
[15] Oh My Heart
[16] Alligator-Aviator-Autopilot-Antimatter
[17] A Month Of Saturdays
[18] We All Go Back To Where We Belong
[19] Hallelujah
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