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And I Feel Fine...: The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 by: R.E.M.


: And I Feel Fine...: The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0094636994222
Format: Extra tracks, Collector's Edition
Label: Capitol/I.R.S.
Manufacturer: Capitol/I.R.S.
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Capitol/I.R.S.
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Studio: Capitol/I.R.S.
Sales Rank: 6638
MPN: 69942



Disc 1:
  1. Begin The Begin
  2. Radio Free Europe
  3. Pretty Persuasion
  4. Talk About The Passion
  5. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
  6. Sitting Still
  7. Gardening At Night
  8. 7 Chinese Bros.
  9. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
  10. Driver 8
  11. Can't Get There From Here
  12. Finest Worksong
  13. Feeling Gravity's Pull
  14. I Believe
  15. Life And How To Live It
  16. Cuyahoga
  17. The One I Love
  18. Welcome To The Occupation
  19. Fall On Me
  20. Perfect Circle
  21. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Disc 2:
  1. Pilgrimage (Mike's pick)
  2. These Days (Bill's pick)
  3. Gardening at Night(slower electric demo; previously unreleased)
  4. Radio Free Europe (Hib-tone version)
  5. Sitting Still (Hib-tone version)
  6. Life and How to Live It (Live at the Muzik Centrum, Utrecht, Holland 9/14/87; previously unreleased)
  7. Ages of You (Live at the Paradise, Boston 7/13/83; previously unreleased)
  8. We Walk (Live at the Paradise, Boston 7/13/83; previously unreleased)
  9. 1,000,000 (Live at the Paradise, Boston 7/13/83; previously unreleased)
  10. Finest Worksong (other mix)
  11. Hyena (demo) (previously unreleased)
  12. Theme from Two Steps Onward (previously unreleased)
  13. Superman
  14. All the Right Friends (previously unreleased; later version released on Vanilla Sky soundtrack)
  15. Mystery to Me (demo; previously unreleased)
  16. Just A Touch (live in-studio version; previously unreleased)
  17. Bad Day (session outtake; previously unreleased)
  18. King of Birds (last song cut from the best of…)
  19. Swan Swan H (live, acoustic from “Athens, GA-Inside Out”)
  20. Disturbance At The Heron House (Peter's pick)
  21. Time After Time (annElise)(Michael's pick)
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Amazon.com:
The songs collected on And I Feel Fine... The Best of The I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 are just good enough to render the previous I.R.S. years collection, 1998's Eponymous, officially dead. The latter was likely the way the masses heard R.E.M.'s underground hits on CD the first time--after all, the band had just come off of their apocalyptic breakthrough single ("It's the end of the world...") and CD players were finally hitting below the $400 mark. It did the trick. We all got up to date and it paved the way for a more sonic R.E.M. to grow into the phenomena they've become. This new version is a welcome history re-write as it pulls more from Murmur and Reckoning days and does a far better job at telling the early story--owing a great deal to the photos and in-depth notes from Anthony DeCurtis.

For our money it's worth $2 to buy the "Collectors Edition" for the massive collection of rarities on disc 2. The DVD companion to this CD is a visual goldmine. --Peter Hilgendorf



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - It's the End of the World As We Know It... And This Sounds Fine!
I haven't heard all of R.E.M's material, but I was quite satisfied with this collection, especially when joined with the the '88-'03 years.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Non-stop greatness !!!
In their early days at IRS, before R.E.M. became one of the "untoucheables" like U2 - they were just a group that was largely unknown outside of angst-ridden college radio. It was also in my opinion, one of their more prolific periods - putting out gems such as "Radio Free Europe" and "Gardening at Night" that were hardly typical radio fare at the time. They were a group that put out music that felt right to them, not just hits that'd make Casey Kasem's Top 10 ( ironically - some of their stuff ended ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - The record business is killing itself
The IRS REM albums were some of the best released... and best sounding... of the 80's. This strips all of this and is shameful. Too much loudness compression, making it impossible and difficult to listen to. Technology is getting better all the time... yet the music industry is releasing albums as if we were all listening to cheap Chevy pick-up truck stereos. THIS IS TO BE AVOIDED. SHAMEFUL.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The best of early R.E.M.
THE BAND: Michael Stipe (vocals), Peter Buck (guitars). Mike Mills (bass, piano), Bill Berry (drums & percussion). Origin: Athens, GA.

THE DISC: (2006) 21 tracks clocking in at approximately 78 minutes. Included with the disc is a 6-page booklet containing song titles/credits, what songs came from which albums, year released, and a storied 5-page intro from Anthony DeCurtis (NY Times & Rolling Stone Magazine). As the title of the disc states, this release follows the band's beginning ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - And, oh, do I feel fine listening to this collection....
I'm not going to lie to you - I like the idea of "Best-Of" & "Greatest Hits" albums in general. This medium allows for bands to gaze backwards through the annals of history so that they might view & review their work, in hopes of gathering together their best songs from a given time period. All of this is done in the hope of providing a means for which their fans (whether old, new, or as-yet-discovered) can listen to those songs in a fairly simple format. With "Greatest Hits" albums, you don't ... Read More

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