Description

Rare 1998 Japan release on The Polar Bear Records

On the 26th of October 1998, R.E.M. Released their eleventh studio album. It was the band’s first album without original drummer Bill Berry, who retired from the group a year earlier. 24 hrs before the album was released the band performed at the BBC’s Broadcasting House in front of an intimate audience of 200 invited fan club members and friends. The show was broadcast live on BBC Radio 1 – this would be most listeners first taste of R.E.M. without Bill Berry. This radio session is featured on this album. Here you have BJ Cole playing slide guitar on Daysleeper and one of the highlights on here is a beautiful rendition of Perfect Circle.

Track list:
1. Losing My Religion
2. New Test Leper
3. Lotus
4. Parakeet
5. Electrolite
6. Perfect Circle
7. The Apologist
8. Daysleeper
9. Country Feedback
10. At My Most Beautiful
11. Walk Unafraid
12. Man On The Moon