Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011

Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011
The top third of the cover is a white background with black icons that represent a cassette tape, 7" record, vinyl LP, Compact Disc, and audio waves with the word "R.E.M." underneath it in black. The bottom half is a black background with the words "PART LIES / PART HEART / PART TRUTH / PART GARBAGE 1982-2011" in white.
Greatest hits album by R.E.M.
Released November 11, 2011 (2011-11-11)
Recorded 1981–2011
Genre
Length 151:24
Language English
Label Warner Bros.
Producer
Compiler R.E.M.
R.E.M. chronology
Collapse into Now
(2011)		 Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011
(2011)		 Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions
(2014)
Singles from Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011
  1. "We All Go Back to Where We Belong"
    Released: October 18, 2011
R.E.M. compilations chronology
And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982–1987
(2006)		 Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011
(2011)

Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011 is a 2011 greatest hits album from alternative rock band R.E.M. Intended as a coda on their career, this is the first compilation album that features their early work on independent record label I.R.S. Records in addition to their 10 studio releases through Warner Bros. Records. The double-disc retrospective was released through Warner Bros. on November 11, 2011, and was compiled by the band members. The existence of the compilation was revealed simultaneously with the group's announcement that they were disbanding on September 21, 2011.[1]

Creation and compilation

In addition to previously recorded music that spans the band's entire career, three new songs are included. Their final studio album—Collapse into Now—fulfilled the band's contractual obligations to Warner Bros. and they began recording material without a contract a few months later with producer Jacknife Lee in Athens, Georgia[2] with the possible intention of self-releasing the work.[3] Rather than completing an album's worth of material, the band elected to take what they had completed from those sessions and release them on this compilation.[4] The new songs "Hallelujah" and "A Month of Saturdays" were demoed in the Collapse into Now sessions and the lead single "We All Go Back to Where We Belong" was recorded entirely after that album.[5]

The band compiled the contents themselves, attempting to capture different periods of their songwriting. Vocalist Michael Stipe has explained that the inspiration for his approach to compiling the songs was the David Bowie compilation Changesonebowie.[6] The title of the album comes from a quip that guitarist Peter Buck made about the band during an interview in 1988, "R.E.M is part lies, part heart, part truth and part garbage."[7]

Promotion

"We All Go Back to Where We Belong" was made available over the Internet on October 17, 2011.[8] Early reviews of the song considered it a "low-key, string-drenched ballad" (Stereogum)[9] and compared it to the pop styling of Burt Bacharach and R.E.M.'s 2001 album Reveal.[10]

In the weeks leading up to the release of the compilation, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe did a brief span of promotional appearances[11] in British media, ruling out the option of ever reuniting;[12] while Buck went on tour with John Wesley Harding and The Minus 5. The band previewed the new songs through NPR's web site starting November 6, 2011.[13]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic87/100[14]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[15]
Consequence of Sound[16]
Drowned in Sound8/10[17]
Entertainment WeeklyB[18]
The Independent[19]
The Phoenix[20]
Pitchfork Media9.4/10[21]
PopMatters[22]
Rolling Stone[23]
Slant Magazine[24]

Writing for BBC Music, Paul Whitelaw has called the retrospective "definitive", rendering all the band's other compilations "all but obsolete."[25] He goes on to say that the arc of the band's career shows them becoming increasingly mild and irrelevant, but this album captures that chronology. Andy Gill of The Independent disagreed and gave the album a perfect five-star rating, saying that the arc of the band's songwriting had "inspired creativity" including the "Bacharach-esque touches of the final unreleased tracks."[19]

Track listing

All tracks written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe unless otherwise noted.

Disc 1
  1. "Gardening at Night" – 3:29 (from Chronic Town, 1982)
  2. "Radio Free Europe" – 4:03 (from Murmur, 1983)
  3. "Talk About the Passion" – 3:21 (from Murmur)
  4. "Sitting Still" – 3:17 (from Murmur)
  5. "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" – 3:15 (from Reckoning, 1984)
  6. "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" (Edited version) – 4:32 (from Reckoning)
  7. "Driver 8" – 3:23 (from Fables of the Reconstruction, 1985)
  8. "Life and How to Live It" – 4:06 (from Fables of the Reconstruction)
  9. "Begin the Begin" – 3:28 (from Lifes Rich Pageant, 1986)
  10. "Fall on Me" – 2:50 (from Lifes Rich Pageant)
  11. "Finest Worksong" – 3:48 (from Document, 1987)
  12. "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" – 4:05 (from Document)
  13. "The One I Love" – 3:17 (from Document)
  14. "Stand" – 3:12 (from Green, 1988)
  15. "Pop Song 89" – 3:04 (from Green)
  16. "Get Up" – 2:39 (from Green)
  17. "Orange Crush" – 3:52 (from Green)
  18. "Losing My Religion" – 4:28 (from Out of Time, 1991)
  19. "Country Feedback" – 4:09 (from Out of Time)
  20. "Shiny Happy People" – 3:46 (from Out of Time)
  21. "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" – 4:07 (from Automatic for the People, 1992)
Disc 2
  1. "Everybody Hurts" – 5:17 (from Automatic for the People)
  2. "Man on the Moon" – 5:13 (from Automatic for the People)
  3. "Nightswimming" – 4:16 (from Automatic for the People)
  4. "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" – 4:00 (from Monster, 1994)
  5. "New Test Leper" – 5:26 (from New Adventures in Hi-Fi, 1996)
  6. "Electrolite" – 4:05 (from New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
  7. "At My Most Beautiful" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 3:35 (from Up, 1998)
  8. "The Great Beyond" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 5:06 (from Man on the Moon, 1999)
  9. "Imitation of Life" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 3:57 (from Reveal, 2001)
  10. "Bad Day" – 4:05 (from In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003, 2003)
  11. "Leaving New York" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 4:49 (from Around the Sun, 2004)
  12. "Living Well Is the Best Revenge" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 3:11 (from Accelerate, 2008)
  13. "Supernatural Superserious" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 3:23 (from Accelerate)
  14. "Überlin" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 4:15 (from Collapse into Now, 2011)
  15. "Oh My Heart" (Buck, Mills, Stipe, Scott McCaughey) – 3:21 (from Collapse into Now)
  16. "Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 2:45 (from Collapse into Now)
  17. "A Month of Saturdays" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 1:40 (previously unreleased)
  18. "We All Go Back to Where We Belong" (Buck, Mills, Stipe)  – 3:35 (previously unreleased)
  19. "Hallelujah" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 3:42 (previously unreleased)
iTunes Store bonus music videos
  1. "Radio Free Europe" – 3:11
  2. "Talk About the Passion" – 3:21
  3. "Fall On Me" – 2:59
  4. "The One I Love" – 3:17
  5. "Orange Crush" – 3:50
  6. "Losing My Religion" – 4:45
  7. "Man on the Moon" – 4:46
  8. "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" – 4:01
  9. "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)" – 4:22
  10. "Leaving New York" – 4:43
  11. "Supernatural Superserious" – 3:39
  12. "Überlin" – 3:53

Personnel

R.E.M.
Additional musicians
Technical personnel

Sales charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Charts (2011) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[26] 71
Austria (Ö3)[27] 20
Belgium (Flanders) (Ultratop 50)[28] 8
Belgium (Wallonia) (Ultratop)[29] 20
Canada (CANOE)[30] 79
Czech Republic (IFPI)[31] 31
Denmark (Tracklisten)[32] 13
France (SNEP)[33] 114
Germany (Media Control)[34] 15
Ireland (IRMA)[35] 16
Italy (FIMI)[36] 7
Netherlands (MegaCharts)[37] 14
Norway (VG-Lista)[38] 25
Poland (ZPAV)[39] 37
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[40] 18
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[41] 39
Switzerland (Hitparade)[42] 17
United Kingdom (OCC)[43] 19

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
Ireland (IRMA)[44] Gold 7,500^
Italy (FIMI)[45] Gold 30,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[46] Gold 100,000^

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

References

  1. ↑ McKinley, Jr., James C. (2011-09-21). "The End of R.E.M., and They Feel Fine". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-09-21.
  2. ↑ "REM to release three brand new songs". NME. 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
  3. ↑ Perpetua, Matt (2011-07-08). "R.E.M. Begin Work on New Album". Rolling Stone. Straight Arrow Publishers Company, LP. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
  4. ↑ Perpetua, Matt (2011-09-23). "R.E.M. to Release Career-Spanning Hits Set in November". Rolling Stone. Straight Arrow Publishers Company, LP. Retrieved 2011-09-23.
  5. ↑ Fricke, David (2011-09-29). "Exclusive: Mike Mills on Why R.E.M. Are Calling It Quits". Rolling Stone. Straight Arrow Publishers Company, LP. Retrieved 2011-09-26.
  6. ↑ Rogers, Jude (2011-11-09). "Michael Stipe's Last Stand – An R.E.M. Exit Interview". The Quietus. Retrieved 2011-11-09.
  7. ↑ Gray, Marcus (1992), It Crawled from the South (1 ed.), Da Capo Press, p. Back cover
  8. ↑ Roffman, Michael (2011-10-17). "Check Out: R.E.M. – 'We All Go Back To Where We Belong'". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
  9. ↑ Breihan, Tom (2011-10-18). "R.E.M. – "We All Go Back To Where We Belong"". Stereogum. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  10. ↑ Perpetua, Matthew (2011-10-18). "Exclusive Stream: R.E.M.'s Final Single, 'We All Go Back to Where We Belong'". Rolling Stone. Straight Arrow Publishers Company, LP. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  11. ↑ Hogan, Mike (2011-11-03). "R.E.M. Won't Reunite, Michael Stipe Says on U.K. TV". Spin. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  12. ↑ "REM rule out any possibility that they will ever reunite". NME. 2011-11-03. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  13. ↑ Moon, Tom (2011-11-06). "First Listen: R.E.M., 'Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982–2011'". NPR. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
  14. ↑ Metacritic reviews
  15. ↑ Allmusic review
  16. ↑ Consequence of Sound review
  17. ↑ Drowned in Sound review
  18. ↑ Marez, Melissa (2011-11-09). "Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage (1982-2011) (2011)". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2011-11-09.
  19. 1 2 Gill, Andy (2011-11-11). "Album: R.E.M, Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part Garbage 1982–2011 (Warner Bros.)". The Independent. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
  20. ↑ The Phoenix review
  21. ↑ Pitchfork review
  22. ↑ PopMatters review
  23. ↑ Rolling Stone review
  24. ↑ Slant Magazine review
  25. ↑ Whitelaw, Paul (2011-11-09). "R.E.M. Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982-2011 Review". BBC Music. Retrieved 2011-11-09.
  26. ↑ "Chartifacts – Week Commencing: 28th November 2011". ARIA. Archived from the original on November 29, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2011.
  27. ↑ "Austrian charts". austriancharts.at. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  28. ↑ "Belgian Flanders charts". ultratop.be. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  29. ↑ "Belgian Wallonia charts". ultratop.be. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  30. ↑ "CANOE – JAM! Music SoundScan Charts". Jam.canoe.ca. Archived from the original on February 21, 2011. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
  31. ↑ "Czech album charts". IFPI Czech Republic. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  32. ↑ "Danish charts". danishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  33. ↑ "French charts". lescharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  34. ↑ "Chartverfolgung / R.E.M. / Longplay". musicline.de (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved November 26, 2009.
  35. ↑ "Irish albums chart for the week of November 17, 2011". acharts.us. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  36. ↑ "Italian charts". italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  37. ↑ "Dutch charts". dutchcharts.nl. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  38. ↑ "Norwegian charts". norwegiancharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  39. ↑ "Oficjalna lista sprzedaży :: OLIS – Official Retail Sales Chart". Polish Albums Chart. OLiS. 2011-11-28. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
  40. ↑ "Spanish charts". spanishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  41. ↑ "Swedish charts". swedishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  42. ↑ "Swiss charts". hitparade.ch. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  43. ↑ "R.E.M. - The Official Charts Company" (select "Albums" tab). The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  44. ↑ "Irish album certifications – REM – Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part". Irish Recorded Music Association. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
  45. ↑ "Italian album certifications – R.E.M. – Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved January 21, 2014. Select Album e Compilation in the field Sezione. Enter R.E.M. in the field Filtra. Select 2013 in the field Anno. The certification will load automatically
  46. ↑ "British album certifications – REM – Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved August 25, 2012. Enter Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Gold in the field By Award. Click Search
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