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Music : GreenIn association with Amazon.comby: R.E.M.  List Price: $11.98 Amazon.com's Price: $8.97 You Save: $3.01 (25%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 3 weeks
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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0007599257952 Label: Warner Bros / Wea Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea Release Date: October 25, 1990 Studio: Warner Bros / Wea Sales Rank: 3487 MPN: 25795 Disc 1:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Green catapulted R.E.M. from campus cult favorites to rock stars of the highest order. The album contains three of the Athens, Georgia, quartet's most popular radio hits ("Pop Song 89," "Stand," and "Orange Crush"), punching up the big rock hooks and letting the spooky independent production slip away. Some diehard fans cried "Sellout!" but that's a strange attitude given singer Michael Stipe's environmental activism. "I'm very scared of this world," he sings above jangling mandolins on "You Are the Everything." It's still unclear what he's trying to say, but at least we can understand the words this time. --Steve Knopper Average Rating:
 Rating: - GreenR.E.M.-Green ***1/2 First off, Green is not that bad of an album. Though it isn't that great of an album either, especially for a group like R.E.M. Now I am not going to get into the whole sellout thing. Whether R.E.M. sold out with the release of Green is neither here nor there. Good tunes is good tunes, and if a album has good tunes does it really matter if they sold or not? No. The issue is that R.E.M. doesn't do mainstream very well. At least in the 1980's they didn't because they ... Read More Rating: - R.E.M. begins to rise from the undergroundThe 1990s music landscape saw Alternative Rock begin to basically become part of the mainstream music fold. Alternative Rock actually had its roots in the 1980s. Alternative Rock really ties itself to the "Indie Rock" (Independent Rock) movement. It is a style of music that often covers a wide variety of genres, often working on independent record labels, but most importantly the artist maintains complete control of the music and their careers. With 1980s Rock dominated by "Hit Radio" ... Read More Rating:  - Great Major Label DebutOnly four stars for this album? Green is absolutely amazing. I've read reviews where people say this album is more mainstream than their earlier work. I wouldn't agree with those statements. It is different from anything they had released before, but I don't agree that they sold out. For me it doesn't sound like a "commercial" record at all. It's just a natural progression for the band. Orange Crush is definitely one of the greatest songs this band ever produced. My favorite track off this album is ... Read More Rating: - Truly SpectacularThis is personally my favorite album (and I own all R.E.M.'s albums)as it is the album that got me into this group. This is an excellent album to start out with if you are not too familiar with R.E.M. Songs like Stand, Orange Crush, and Pop Song 89 make this album utterly amazing. Not to mention a great untitled hidden track (which I am still waiting to hear live). This is a must for anyone who likes R.E.M. the slightest bit. Rating: - Great!!Great album from REM, my favorite songs are Orange Crush, Wrong Child, World Leader Pretend, Pop Song 89 and the best of all, I remember California; Peter Buck guitar style makes me feel out of this planet on that song, the chorus sang by Michael gives me goose bumps.. Browse for similar items by category:
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