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Reckoning [Deluxe Edition]
R.E.M.:  Reckoning [Deluxe Edition]

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Released: 1984
Label: A&M
Selection #: 223882
Jangly rock & Southern twang. Second disc features full-length live performance. Hits So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) and (Don't Go Back To) Rockville, etc.
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1 Harborcoat
2 7 Chinese Bros.
3 So. Central Rain
4 Pretty Persuasion
5 Time After Time (Annelise)
6 Second Guessing
7 Letter Never Sent
8 Camera
9 (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
10 Little America
11 Femme Fatale [Live][#]
12 Radio Free Europe [Live][#]
13 Gardening at Night [Live][#]
14 9-9 [Live][#]
15 Windout [Live][#]
16 Letter Never Sent [Live][#]
17 Sitting Still [Live][#]
18 Driver 8 [Live][#]
19 So. Central Rain [Live][#]
20 7 Chinese Bros. [Live][#]
21 Harborcoat [Live][#]
22 Hyena [Live][#]
23 Pretty Persuasion [Live][#]
24 Little America [Live][#]
25 Second Guessing [Live][#]
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Like the deluxe edition of "Murmur", the 2009 expansion of "Reckoning" contains none of the scattered B-sides and outtakes rounded up the 1992 U.K. reissue. Most of these stray songs wound up on "Dead Letter Office" or the bonus disc of "And I Feel Fine" anyway, so this no great loss, and the live show from the Aragon Ballroom in 1984 that takes up the second disc is a great gain, particularly as it contains early versions of "Driver 8" and "Hyena," the latter performed two years prior to its appearance on "Lifes Rich Pageant". As a whole, this concert doesn't crackle like the Toronto show added to the 25th Anniversary edition of "Murmur": the band is a bit tighter and the sound is bit more open, so it winds up lacking the furious rush of that highly adrenalized Toronto concert. Nevertheless, the Aragon show shares much of the same ragged spirit, the band playing with a joyful abandon, a spirit that straightens out the ethereal elements of their earliest work and provides one hell of a good time. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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