Wednesday 13 January 2021

R.E.M. - Chronic Town (Expanded)

 













Originally released on I.R.S. Records 1982 (Fan made expansion 2020)

01 Wolves, Lower
02 Gardening at Night
03 Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)
04 1,000,000
05 Stumble
06 Wolves, Lower (Fast Version)
07 Gardening at Night (Acoustic Version)
08 1,000,000 (Demo)
09 Stumble (Demo)
10 Wolves, Lower (Demo)
11 Carnival of Sorts (Demo)
12 Catapult (Demo)
13 Romance (Demo)
14 Just a Touch  (Demo)

Disappointingly, the debut E.P. by R.E.M. wasn't included in the re-issues of the bands back catalogue. A shame; it is one of their finest releases and has the same mysterious sound as their other early releases.

The tracks can be found on the b-sides and rarities compilation 'Dead Letter Office', but other than that you will need an original 12" to hear these tracks.

I've expanded it by including some outtakes and demos.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

https://www.mediafire.com/file/x57qvxvehetdcb4/ilif332-RM-ChrncTwnxpnd.zip/file

Microflora said...

Have been coming back to this early REM of late but did not have this one. Thank you from NYC.

Unknown said...

thank you very much for sharing your recordings... I put this original release in my top 10 of all times.