lp, album, vinyl, record, 1980s, 80s, R.E.M., Document, It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine), The One I Love, No. 5, Michael Stipe

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All of our used records are play-graded and come in a protective outer-sleeve. Catalog Number: IRS-42059

CONDITION DETAILS Import from Canada. Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). Cover looks great; a few creases near edges; light-scuffing and surface impressions (front/back). Inner-sleeve is generic white. Spine is easy-to-read with very mild-wear. Some shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use. (Not a cut-out.)

ABOUT THE RECORD Document, by REM, was the first album by the band to be produced by Scott Litt; this was a collaboration that continued through the productions of Green, Out of Time, Automatic for the People, Monster, and New Adventures in Hi-Fi. The album's clear production and muscular rock riffs both helped to move the band toward mainstream success and built on the work done by Don Gehman, who had produced their previous album Lifes Rich Pageant. This release not only launched The One I Love — R.E.M.'s first Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 9 — but also gave them their first platinum album. The original sleeve for the album featured the message File under Fire, a reference to what Michael Stipe considered to be the central lyrical theme of the album, and also references the chorus to The One I Love. A similar message (File under water) could be found on the cover of the band's second album, Reckoning, as well as on the compilation album Eponymous (File under grain) referring to the idea behind Talk About the Passion, which was about hunger. Two rejected suggestions for the title of the album—R.E.M. No. 5 and Table of Content—also appear on the sleeve artwork. Other possible album titles included Mr. Evil Breakfast, Skin Up with R.E.M., and Last Train to Disneyland (the last one having been suggested by Peter Buck, who felt that America under the presidency of Ronald Reagan was beginning to feel a lot like the famed amusement park). It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) was released as a single, reaching No. 69 in the US Billboard Hot 100 and later reaching No. 39 on the UK Singles Chart on its re-release in December 1991.
Portions of our "About the Record" section are taken from information gathered from Wikipedia and AllMusic.

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