The album is a 40-song career-spanning retrospective that collects, for the first time ever, songs from R.E.M.'s entire back catalog, including the pioneering American band's years on both the IRS label (1982 to 1987) and Warner Bros. Records (1988 to 2011). In addition to liner notes written by band members Berry, Buck, Mills, and Stipe, the album also features three new songs that R.E.M. finished after they completed their last album, Collapse Into Now: "A Month of Saturdays," "We All Go Back To Where We Belong," and "Hallelujah," which were recorded over the summer in Athens with Accelerate and Collapse Into Now producer, the estimable Jacknife Lee.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Gardening At Night
2. Radio Free Europe
3. Talk About The Passion
4. Sitting Still
5. So. Central Rain
6. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
7. Driver 8
8. Life And How To Live It
9. Begin The Begin
10. Fall On Me
11. Finest Worksong
12. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
13. The One I Love
14. Stand
15. Pop Song 89
16. Get Up
17. Orange Crush
18. Losing My Religion
19. Country Feedback
20. Shiny Happy People
21. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite

Disc 2:

1. Everybody Hurts
2. Man On The Moon
3. Nightswimming
4. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
5. New Test Leper
6. Electrolite
7. At My Most Beautiful
8. The Great Beyond
9. Imitation Of Life
10. Bad Day
11. Leaving New York
12. Living Well Is The Best Revenge
13. Supernatural Superserious
14. Berlin
15. Oh My Heart
16. Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter
17. A Month Of Saturdays
18. We All Go Back To Where We Belong
19. Hallellujah