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In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003
Compilation album by R.E.M.
Released	27 October 2003 (UK) 28 October 2003 (U.S.)
Recorded	1988–2003
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	76:15 61:20 (limited edition disc 2)
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Scott Litt, Pat McCarthy & R.E.M.
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link musicOMH.com (Favorable) link NME (6/10) link Pitchfork Media (7.5/10) link Rolling Stone link Stylus Magazine (Favorable) link Chart Positions UK Single Charts #1 Billboard Hot 200 #8
R.E.M. chronology
Reveal (2001) In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 (2003) Around the Sun (2004)

In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003 is the second official compilation album released by R.E.M. Issued in 2003, it includes tracks from their Warner Bros. Records era, from 1988's Green to 2001's Reveal, as well as two new recordings and two songs from movie soundtracks.

Contents 1 Background 2 Track listing 2.1 Bonus disc 3 Charts 4 Certifications 5 External links 6 References

"Bad Day" was started in 1986, when Bill Berry was still in the band, and was finally finished for this compilation. "Animal" was a recent song written for their upcoming studio album. Similarly, "All the Right Friends", originally written in the early 1980s, had been re-recorded by the band for use in Cameron Crowe's 2001 film Vanilla Sky. Finally, "The Great Beyond" was initially issued in 1999 as part of Miloš Forman's film on Andy Kaufman, Man on the Moon. It ended up becoming the band's biggest UK hit, with a #3 peak, in early 2000. This, the third inclusion of the song on an official release, is the only unedited version. On the Man on the Moon soundtrack, there is some dialogue from the movie at the end of the track; meanwhile, the single version is a radio edit, with the bridge omitted.

In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988–2003 was also issued in a limited two-disc edition that included a "Rarities and B-Sides" disc from the same era. The single-disc edition of the album reached #1 in the UK, while going gold in the U.S. and peaking at #8. The limited-edition two-disc release managed to reach #16 in the U.S. and #37 in the UK.

A notable omission from the album is the song "Shiny Happy People" which was deliberately left out by the band despite it being one of their biggest hits.^[1]

A companion DVD, entitled In View: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003, was released at the same time. In 2005, Warner Bros. Records issued an expanded two-disc edition of the compilation which included a CD, a DVD-Audio disc containing a 5.1-channel surround sound mix of the album done by Elliot Scheiner, and the original CD booklet with expanded liner notes. The "Rarities and B-Sides" bonus disc from the limited edition is not included in this package. The CD (as with all in this series) was not remastered.

All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe except as indicated.

1. "Man on the Moon" (from Automatic for the People, 1992) – 5:14
2. "The Great Beyond" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) (from the Man on the Moon soundtrack, 1999) – 5:05
3. "Bad Day" – 4:06
4. "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" (from Monster, 1994) – 4:00
5. "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) (from Reveal, 2001) – 4:44
6. "Losing My Religion" (from Out of Time, 1991) – 4:28
7. "E-Bow the Letter" (from New Adventures in Hi-Fi, 1996) – 5:24
8. "Orange Crush" (from Green, 1988) – 3:51
9. "Imitation of Life" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) (from Reveal, 2001) – 3:57
10. "Daysleeper" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) (from Up, 1998) – 3:40
11. "Animal" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 4:01
12. "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" (from Automatic for the People, 1992) – 4:07
13. "Stand" (from Green, 1988) – 3:11
14. "Electrolite" (from New Adventures in Hi-Fi, 1996) – 4:06
15. "All the Right Friends" (from the Vanilla Sky soundtrack, 2001) – 2:46
16. "Everybody Hurts" (from Automatic for the People, 1992) – 5:18
17. "At My Most Beautiful" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) (from Up, 1998) – 3:34
18. "Nightswimming" (from Automatic for the People, 1992) – 4:18

1. "Pop Song 89" (Acoustic) (b-side) – 2:57
2. "Turn You Inside-Out" (Live) – 4:17
3. "Fretless" (from the Until the End of the World soundtrack, 1991) – 4:50
4. "Chance (dub)" (b-side) – 2:34
5. "It's a Free World Baby" (from the Coneheads soundtrack, 1993) – 5:12
6. "Drive" (Live, November 19, 1992) – 4:00
7. "Star Me Kitten" (featuring William S. Burroughs) – 3:31
8. "Revolution" (from the Batman & Robin soundtrack, 1997) – 3:05
9. "Leave" (Alternate version from the A Life Less Ordinary soundtrack, 1997) – 4:42
10. "Why Not Smile" (Oxford American version) (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 3:01
11. "The Lifting" (Demo) (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 5:20
12. "Beat a Drum" (Demo) (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 4:27
13. "2JN" (b-side) Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 3:26
14. "The One I Love" (Live, June 8, 2001) (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 3:24
15. "Country Feedback" (Live) – 6:16

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2003	The Billboard 200	8 (13 weeks on chart) Regular Edition 16 (4 weeks on chart) Limited Edition
2003	UK album chart	1 (41 weeks on chart) Regular Edition 36 (1 week on chart) Limited Edition

Single

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2003	"Bad Day"	Billboard Canadian Singles Chart	17
2003	"Bad Day"	UK Singles Chart	8
2004	"Animal"	UK Singles Chart	33

Organization	Level	Date
BPI – UK	Gold	October 24, 2003
BPI – UK	Platinum	October 24, 2003
BPI – UK	2X Platinum	November 28, 2003
BPI – UK	3X Platinum	December 12, 2003
RIAA – U.S.	Gold	February 17, 2004

• In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 (disc 2) at MusicBrainz

1. ^ 2003 interview with R.E.M. explaining the omission.

v • d • e R.E.M.
Peter Buck · Mike Mills · Michael Stipe Bill Berry
Accompaniment	Scott McCaughey · Bill Rieflin · Ken Stringfellow · Amanda Brown · Nathan December · Buren Fowler · Peter Holsapple · Barrett Martin · Joey Waronker
Management and producers	Bertis Downs, IV · Jacknife Lee · Joe Boyd · Don Dixon · Mitch Easter · Don Gehman · Jefferson Holt · Scott Litt · Pat McCarthy
Studio albums and EPs	Chronic Town · Murmur · Reckoning · Fables of the Reconstruction · Lifes Rich Pageant · Document · Green · Out of Time · Automatic for the People · Monster · New Adventures in Hi-Fi · Up · Reveal · Around the Sun · Upcoming studio album #14
Compilations	Dead Letter Office · Eponymous · The Best of R.E.M. · Singles Collected · In the Attic · In Time · And I Feel Fine
Other albums	Athens Andover · Man on the Moon · Not Bad for No Tour · r.e.m.IX · R.E.M. Live
Singles	List of singles
Videos	Succumbs · Tourfilm · Pop Screen · This Film Is On · Parallel · Road Movie · In View · Perfect Square · When the Light Is Mine
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