Shiny Happy People

That was then

This is now

Collapse Into Now to be released next Tuesday, March 8th.

In 1996, R.E.M. signed a five-album, $80 million contract with Warner Bros. Records - at the time, the largest recording contract ever awarded. "Collapse Into Now" is the band's fifth - and last - on that contract, and Mills says that's an interesting place to be. At the time of signing, five albums seemed a pretty long way off. ( read the rest of a long piece in the Athens Banner Herald )

• Murmur (1983)
• Reckoning (1984)
• Fables of the Reconstruction (1985)
• Lifes Rich Pageant (1986)
• Document (1987)
• Green (1988)
• Out of Time (1991)
• Automatic for the People (1992)
• Monster (1994)
• New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996)
• Up (1998)
• Reveal (2001)
• Around the Sun (2004)
• Accelerate (2008)
• Collapse into Now (scheduled for release in 2011)