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R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
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X-Axis
"Discoverer" – 3:31
"All the Best" – 2:48
"Überlin" – 4:15
"Oh My Heart" - 3:21
"It Happened Today" – 3:49
"Every Day Is Yours to Win" – 3:26
Y-Axis
"Mine Smell Like Honey" – 3:13
"Walk It Back" – 3:24
"Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter" – 2:45
"That Someone Is You" – 1:44
"Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I" – 3:03
"Blue" – 5:46
Amazon MP3 Downloads and iTunes bonus tracks
"Discoverer" (Live in the Studio) – 3:31
"Oh My Heart" (Live in the Studio) – 3:28
iTunes bonus track
"Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter" (Live in the Studio) – 2:44
REM Band Members / Musicians
Peter Buck – guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, production
Mike Mills – bass guitar, guitar, backing vocals, keyboards, production
Michael Stipe – lead vocals, production, packaging
Smith singing with a guitar and Kaye playing guitar onstage
Punk icon Patti Smith (left) and her long-term guitar player Lenny Kaye (right) contributed to Collapse into Now—they are pictured here in 2007
Shamarr Allen – trumpet on "Discoverer", "It Happened Today", and "Oh My Heart"
Greg Hicks – trombone
Craig Klein – trombone
Mark Mullins – trombone and horn arrangements
Joel Gibb – vocals on "It Happened Today"
Lenny Kaye – guitar solo on "Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter", guitar solo on "Blue"
Jacknife Lee – production, mixing, keyboards, guitar
Leroy Jones – trumpet on "Discoverer", "It Happened Today", and "Oh My Heart"
Kirk M. Joseph, Sr. – sousaphone on "Discoverer", "It Happened Today", and "Oh My Heart"
Scott McCaughey – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, accordion
Peaches – vocals on "Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter"
Bill Rieflin – drums, bouzouki, keyboards, guitar
Patti Smith – vocals on "Blue"
Eddie Vedder – vocals on "It Happened Today"
Sam Bell – engineering and mix engineering
Chris Bilheimer and Michael Stipe – packaging
Anton Corbijn – photography
Stephen Marcussen – mastering
Tom McFall – engineering
Collapse into Now is the 15th and final studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on March 7, 2011, on Warner Bros. Produced by Jacknife Lee, who previously worked with the band on Accelerate (2008), the album was preceded by the singles, "It Happened Today," "Mine Smell Like Honey", "Überlin" and "Oh My Heart".
Regarding the album's title, lead singer Michael Stipe noted, "It's the final thing I sing, the last song on the record before the record goes into a coda and reprises the first song. In my head, it's like I'm addressing a nine-year-old and I'm saying, 'I come from a faraway place called the 20th century. And these are the values and these are the mistakes we've made and these are the triumphs. These are the things that we held in the highest esteem. These are the things to learn from."
As of September 2011, the album had sold 142,000 copies in the United States. At the time of the band's breakup, bassist Mike Mills noted that the album's lyrical content contained "indications" that the band were planning to split. The band never played any of the songs in concert, though Michael Stipe did play "Every Day Is Yours to Win" without R.E.M. for the Tibethouse Annual Benefit Concert.
