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Dead Letter Office is a rarities and B-sides collection by R.E.M., released in April 1987.The album is essentially a collection of many additional recordings R.E.M. made from before Murmur to Lifes Rich Pageant that were outtakes or released as B-sides to their singles internationally.
Dead Letter Office I.R.S. Vintage Years reissue: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe: Don Dixon, Mitch Easter: 1987 "All the Right Friends" Vanilla Sky soundtrack: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe: Pat McCarthy and R.E.M. 2001 "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)" Reveal: Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe
Like all R.E.M. songs, its composition is credited to all members. The song was recorded for Murmur in 1983, but was left off the album. In January 1993, the European reissue of Dead Letter Office, a B-side album compilation, included that recording, along with an acoustic version of "Gardening at Night".
The song was re-recorded during sessions for the band's 1984 album Reckoning, but was left off the album and later relegated to B-side status, appearing on the 7- and 12-inch versions of the single "Wendell Gee" in 1985, remixed by engineer Steve Fjelstad (as noted on the Dead Letter Office liner notes.)
List of R.E.M. songs, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name Title Year Peak chart positions Album US Air. [130] US Alt. [78] US Main. Rock [79] CAN [131] NOR [9] UK [132] "Pretty Persuasion" 1984 — — 44 — — — Reckoning "Ages of You" 1987 — — 39 — — — Dead Letter Office "Turn You Inside-Out" 1989 ...
Three days after an anonymous songwriters group named the Pact called for artists to stop demanding credit for songs they did not write, the group has followed with a letter signed by Emily Warren ...
Four different studio recordings of the song have been officially released. The original Chronic Town version can be found on the CD edition of Dead Letter Office, on the 2006 R.E.M. compilation And I Feel Fine: The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 and more recently in the band's 2011 career-spanning greatest hits compilation Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011.
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