Ye Olde R.E.M. Discography (Text Only) - Promo Samplers

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Full Length Promo Samplers


AN AOR Radio Staple

Label:IRS
Catalog:IRS IRSD-seven
Country:US
Format:Full Length Promo Sampler
Date:August 1987
Notes:It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine/The One I Love/Fall On Me/I Believe/Pretty Persuasion/So. Central Rain/Superman/Driver 8/Can't Get There From Here/Talk About The Passion/Radio Free Europe) (3 different inserts are available.)
473


Documenting R.E.M. 1983-1987

Label:IRS
Catalog:IRS 14U
Country:Canada
Format:Full Length Promo Sampler
Date:August 1987
Notes:Finest Worksong / Welcome to the Occupation / Exhuming McCarthy / Disturbance at the Heron House / Strange / It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) / The One I Love / Fireplace / Lightnin' Hopkins / King of Birds / Oddfellows Local 151 / Radio Free Europe / Pretty Persuasion / Central Rain / Life Aand How to Live It / Can't Get There From Here / Driver 8 / Fall On Me / Superman / Cuyahoga / (All I've Got To Do Is) Dream
474


R.E.M. Singles Collection

Label:WB
Catalog:PTS 2039
Country:Japan
Format:Full Length Promo Sampler
Date:March 1992
Notes:Losing My Religion / Stand (Live) / Turn You Inside-Out (Live) / World Leader Pretend (Live) / Radio Song / You Are the Everything (Live) / Orange Crush (Live) / Belong (Live) / Shiny Happy People / I Remember California (Live) / Get Up (Live) / Pop Song '89 (Live) / Near Wild Heaven / Tom's Diner (Live) / Low (Live) / Endgame (Live) (These are the same tracks available on the 4 Out of Time Collectors Edition CD singles.)
475


Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe

Label:WB
Catalog:PCS-105
Country:Japan
Format:Full Length Promo Sampler
Date:November 1992
Notes:Drive/The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite/Everybody Hurts/Man on the Moon/Find The River/Losing My Religion/Shiny Happy People/Radio Song/Near Wild Heaven/ Orange Crush/Stand/Pop Song '89/Drive
476


The Alternative Radio Sampler

Label:IRS
Catalog:CDREM 92
Country:UK
Format:Full Length Promo Sampler
Date:November 1992
Notes:1,000,000/Talk About The Passion/Pretty Persuasion/Driver 8/ Cuyahoga/It's The End Of The World As We Know It(And I Feel Fine)/Gardening At Night (Live to two-track) (Note: This version of Gardening at Night is different from the one on the Dead Letter Office Dutch re-issue.)
477


Pop Songs 89-95

Label:WB
Catalog:SAM 1558
Country:UK
Format:Full Length Promo Sampler
Date:
Notes:Stand / Orange Crush / You Are the Everything / Losing My Religion / Near Wild Heaven / Radio Song/Drive / The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite / Man on the Moon / Everybody Hurts / Nightswimming / Find the River / What's the Frequency, Kenneth? / Bang and Blame / Crush With Eyeliner / Strange Currencies / Tongue.
478


Music Between Tours

Label:WB
Catalog:PRO 986
Country:Germany
Format:Full Length Promo Sampler
Date:
Notes:Stand / Pop Song 89 / Orange Crush / Losing My Religion / Near Wild Heaven / Radio Song / Drive / Man on the Moon / Everybody Hurts / What's the Frequency, Kenneth?/ Bang and Blame / Strange Currencies.
479


The Wake-Up Bomb and the Chronicle

Label:WB
Catalog:PCS-231
Country:Japan
Format:Full Length Promo Sampler
Date:September 1996
Notes:The Wake Up Bomb / Pop Song '89 / Stand / Orange Crush / Radio Song / Losing My Religion / Shiny Happy People / Drive / Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite / Everybody Hurts / Man on the Moon / What's the Frequency, Kenneth? / Bang and Blame / Crush with Eyeliner / Strange Currencies / The Wake-Up Bomb
480


Pop Songs 89-99

Label:WB
Catalog:SAM00132
Country:UK
Format:Full Length Promo Sampler
Date:June 1999
Notes:Pop Song 89 / Stand / Orange Crush / Losing My Religion / Near Wild Heaven / Man on the Moon / The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite / Everybody Hurts / What's the Frequency, Kenneth? / Bang and Blame / Strange Currencies / E-bow the Letter / Bittersweet Me / Electrolyte / Daysleeper / Lotus / At My Most Beautiful / Suspicion
481


Man On The Moon (Advance Promo Soundtrack)

Label:WB / Jersey
Catalog:9 47483-AB
Country:US
Format:Full Length Promo Sampler
Date:October 1999
Notes:Same 15 Tracks as regular album. A crooked sticker on a black sleeve--the sticker almost looks home-computer-printed and is placed on crooked, but despite the almost bootleggish design, it is official. Disc has a red colored Jim Carrey / Andy Kaufman, unlike the usual album which is white colored.
892


R.E.M.20 - 20 Years Of R.E.M.

Label:WB
Catalog:PRO-CD-100596
Country:US
Format:Full Length Promo Sampler
Date:April 2001
Notes:Imitation Of Life / The Great Beyond / At My Most Beautiful / Electrolite / What's The Frequency Kenneth? / Man On The Moon / Everybody Hurts / Drive / Losing My Religion / Pop Song 89 / Orange Crush / It's The End Of The World As We Know It / The One I Love / Finest Worksong / Fall On Me / Driver 8 / So. Central Rain / Talk About The Passion / Gardening At Night / Radio Free Europe
792


R.E.M.20 - 20 Years Of R.E.M.

Label:WB
Catalog:PRO-CD-100596
Country:US
Format:Full Length Promo Sampler
Date: 2001
Notes:Early copy with no artwork
804


Not Bad For No Tour

Label:WB
Catalog:PRO-CD-100727
Country:US
Format:Full Length Promo Sampler
Date: 2001
Notes:Very nice promo radio station contest give-away packaged in a colorful picture sleeve. 6 Audio Tracks - All The Way To Reno (edit) / All The Way To Reno (live) / She Just Wants To Be (live) / The One I Love (live) / So. Central Rain (live) / Beat A Drum (live) - And 6 quicktime videos - All The Way To Reno (video) / Imitation of Life (live video) / Losing My Religion (live video) / Find The River (live video) / I've Been High (live video) / The Lifting (live video)
841


The Songs of R.E.M.

Label:WB
Catalog:RA 012-2
Country:?
Format:Full Length Promo Sampler
Date: 2010
Notes:2 CD Gate Fold Slip Case
1009