Lifes Rich Pageant | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Label:    I.R.S. Records – B0024823-01, UMe – B0024823-01
Format:    Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country:    US
Released:    Jul 29, 2016
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Alternative Rock

Dinner Side    
A1        Begin The Begin    3:24
A2        These Days    3:21
A3        Fall On Me    2:49
A4        Cuyahoga    4:17
A5        Hyena    2:48
A6        Underneath The Bunker    1:24
Supper Side    
B7        The Flowers Of Guatemala    3:53
B8        I Believe    3:32
B9        What If We Give It Away?    3:31
B10        Just A Touch    2:56
B11        Swan Swan H    2:39
B12        Superman
Written-By – G. Zekley*, M. Bottler*
2:50

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – I.R.S. Records
Copyright © – I.R.S. Records
Distributed By – Universal Music Distribution
Mastered At – Masterdisk
Recorded At – Belmont Mall Studio
Mixed At – Can-Am Recorders
Published By – Night Garden Music
Published By – Unichappell Music, Inc.
Published By – Teeny Bopper Music
Pressed By – United Record Pressing
Artwork [Colossal Packaging Assistance] – R.O. Scarselli*
Engineer [Additional Engineering] – Ross Hogarth
Engineer [Assistant Engineer] – Rick Fetig*
Engineer [Assistant Engineers, Mixing] – Jim Dineen, Stan Katayama
Illustration [Blink Drawings] – B. Slay
Illustration [Stick Drawing] – M. Bird
Mastered By – Bob Ludwig
Other [Ambassador] – J.W. Holt
Other [Liason] – Curtis Goodman
Other [Motivation] – B.E. Downs I V
Other [Plus] – The Righteous S.L. Phipps E.M. Hammond
Other [Roving Councilor] – G.P. Trump
Other [String Keeper] – Microwave
Painting [Back Cover Painting] – Juanita Rogers (2)
Photography By [Band Photo] – S.L. Phipps*
Producer – Don Gehman
Recorded By, Mixed By – Don Gehman, Greg Edward
Songwriter [All Songs] – Berry* (tracks: A1 to B5), Stipe* (tracks: A1 to B5), Mills* (tracks: A1 to B5), Buck* (tracks: A1 to B5)
Includes a printed inner sleeve.

Mastered [...] at Masterdisc, New York
Recorded at the Belmont Mall, Belmont, Indiana
Mixed at Can-Am Recorders, L.A. Calif
Additional Image Recorders, L.A. Calif.

Published by Night Garden Music
Administered: Many worlds inclusive by Unichappell Music, Inc. (BMI)

'Superman' Teeny Bopper Music (ASCAP)

℗ 1986 © 2016 I.R.S. Records, 2220 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90404 - U.S.A.
Barcode (Text): 6 02547 85140 6
Barcode (Scanned): 602547851406

The songs on LIFE'S RICH PAGEANT are listed out of order on the packaging. Two songs on the record, "Underneath The Bunker" and a cover of the Clique's "Superman," aren't listed at all. R.E.M.: Michael Stipe (vocals); Peter Buck (guitar); Mike Mills (bass); Bill Berry (drums). Recorded at The Belmont Mall, Belmont, Indiana. Coming after the dark and arty FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION, 1986's LIFE'S RICH PAGEANT was R.E.M.'s first tentative step towards the rock & roll mainstream. At the time, Don Gehman's production sounded shockingly bright and commercial, but, in hindsight, the album is clearly a dry run for the impending commercial pinnacle of GREEN, OUT OF TIME, and AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE. The gorgeous "Fall on Me" (an ecological meditation featuring a spectacularly pretty chorus sung in counterpoint by Michael Stipe and Mike Mills) remains the record's best-known track. However, it is a quartet of harder-rocking songs--"Begin the Begin," "Cuyahoga," "Just a Touch" (which quotes Patti Smith's 1975 deconstruction of "My Generation") and a giddy cover of the Clique's psych-pop obscurity "Superman" sung by Mills--that points towards the Georgia band's more emotionally direct and musically loose future. LIFE'S RICH PAGEANT has been largely overshadowed by its more commercially successful follow-ups, but it remains one of R.E.M.'s strongest albums.

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: ALTERNATIVE
• Format Type: LP
• Released: 07/29/2016