Eponymous:R.E.M.

Eponymous is the first greatest hits and the second compilation album by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1988. It was their last authorized[citation needed]  release on I.R.S. Records, to whom they had been contracted since 1982, having just signed with Warner Bros. Records.

Eponymous is notable for its inclusion of several rare or alternative versions of known tracks, most notably the soundtrack contribution "Romance", which had not previously appeared on an R.E.M. record. 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 early work.

The album features the alternate title "File Under Grain", a reference to the cover photograph. A previous album, Document, had "File Under Fire" inscribed on it and Reckoning, featured the words "File Under Water". Inside the album was a photograph of singer Michael Stipe with the words "They Airbrushed My Face" above his head.

Released in October 1988, just a month before R.E.M.'s Warner Bros. debut Green appeared, Eponymous reached #44 in the US[4]  and #69 in the UK.[5]



Contents
[hide]  *1 Track listing  ==Track listing[ edit] == All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe:
 * 1.1 Notes
 * 2 Chart performance
 * 3 References
 * 4 External links

Track listing note: On the vinyl and cassette releases, R.E.M. labeled side one (tracks 1–6) as the "Early side" and side two (tracks 7–12) as the "Late side." ===Notes[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"><sup style="line-height:1;">1  Different mix from version on Chronic Town. ==Chart performance<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Side one – "Early"
 * 1) "Radio Free Europe" (Original Hib-Tone Single) (1981) – 3:47
 * 2) "Gardening at Night" (Different Vocal Mix)<sup style="line-height:1;">1  – 3:30
 * 3) "Talk About the Passion" (from Murmur, 1983) – 3:20
 * 4) "So. Central Rain" (from Reckoning, 1984) – 3:15
 * 5) "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" (from Reckoning, 1984) – 4:32
 * 6) "Cant Get There from Here" (from Fables of the Reconstruction, 1985) – 3:39
 * Side two – "Late"
 * 1) "Driver 8" (from Fables of the Reconstruction, 1985) – 3:23
 * 2) "Romance" (from soundtrack album to the 1987 film Made in Heaven) – 3:25
 * 3) "Fall on Me" (from Lifes Rich Pageant, 1986) – 2:50
 * 4) "The One I Love" (from Document, 1987) – 3:16
 * 5) "Finest Worksong" (Mutual Drum Horn Mix) (from "Finest Worksong" single) – 3:50
 * 6) "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" (from Document, 1987) – 4:05
 * Album