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'''Eponymous''' is the first greatest hits album by the band R.E.M., released in 1988. It was their last authorized release on I.R.S. Records, to whom they had been contracted since 1982, having just signed with Warner Bros. Records.
''Eponymous'' is notable for its inclusion of several rare or alternate versions of known tracks. Spanning from the ''Chronic Town'' EP to the previous year's breakthrough hit album ''Document'', ''Eponymous'' provides a fair overview of R.E.M.'s pioneering early work.
Released in October 1988, just a month before R.E.M.'s Warner Bros. debut ''Green'' appeared, ''Eponymous'' reached #44 in the US and #69 in the UK.

Contents

Track listing

Notes

Charts

External links

Track listing

All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe.
# "Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone Single)" – 3:47
# "Gardening at Night (Different Vocal Mix)"¹ – 3:30
# "Talk About the Passion" (from ''Murmur'', 1983) – 3:20
# "So. Central Rain" (from ''Reckoning'', 1984) – 3:15
# "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" (from ''Reckoning'', 1984) – 4:32
# "Cant Get There from Here" (from ''Fables of the Reconstruction'', 1985) – 3:39
# "Driver 8" (from ''Fables of the Reconstruction'', 1985) – 3:23
# "Romance"² – 3:25
# "Fall on Me" (from ''Lifes Rich Pageant'', 1986) – 2:50
# "The One I Love" (from ''Document'', 1987) – 3:16
# "Finest Worksong (Mutual Drum Horn Mix)"³ – 3:50
# "Its the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)"⁴ (from ''Document'', 1987) – 4:05

Notes

¹ Alternate mix from version on ''Chronic Town''.

² Taken from soundtrack to the 1987 film ''Made In Heaven''.

³ Remix of version found on ''Document''.

⁴ File under grain.

Charts

'Album'

Year	Chart	Position
1988	The Billboard 200	44 (19 weeks on chart)
1988	UK Albums Chart	69 (3 weeks on chart)

External links

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