After 31 years together R.E.M. packed it in and called it a day in 2011. The band posted the following announcement on their official website on September 21st:
"To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening." R.E.M.
In November R.E.M. went on to release the double disc career retrospective R.E.M: Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982-2011 which featured three new songs. The also band made a couple of videos for one of the new songs, "We All Go Back To Where We Belong."
Goodbye R.E.M., your music will live on...
"Shaking Through"
"Harborcoat"
"Driver 8"
"Fall On Me"
"The One I Love"
"World Leader Pretend"
"Texarkana"
"Nightswimming"
"Strange Currencies"
"Electrolite"
"At My Most Beautiful"
"Imitation Of Life"
"Leaving New York"
"Supernatural Superserious"
"Blue" (with Patti Smith)
"To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening." R.E.M.
In November R.E.M. went on to release the double disc career retrospective R.E.M: Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982-2011 which featured three new songs. The also band made a couple of videos for one of the new songs, "We All Go Back To Where We Belong."
Goodbye R.E.M., your music will live on...
"Shaking Through"
"Harborcoat"
"Driver 8"
"Fall On Me"
"The One I Love"
"World Leader Pretend"
"Texarkana"
"Nightswimming"
"Strange Currencies"
"Electrolite"
"At My Most Beautiful"
"Imitation Of Life"
"Leaving New York"
"Supernatural Superserious"
"Blue" (with Patti Smith)
