Matt and Andrew's CD a Day project

A few years ago, to celebrate their 100th anniversary, EMI Records cleaned out the vaults and put out a bunch of rarities discs. By this point, EMI had acquired the entire IRS catalog, and so had the rights to REM's '80s output. Problem was, IRS had already put out an REM B-sides album. So EMI put this out, which is sort of C-sides. Most of them are available on the European reissues of the IRS albums. I think the only two that are exclusive to this album are the radio edit of "Can't Get There from Here" and a live medley of "Time After Time" and "South Central Rain" with Peter Gabriel's "Red Rain," taken from Dutch radio on the Document tour. Pretty inessential, but it made a nice stopgap between New Adventures and Up for the huge fan like me.