This is a very nice album. I bought one in green and liked ...
931475
This is a very nice album.  I bought one in green and liked it so much I bought another in red.
1014789
Green isn't my favorite album in the R.E.M. discography, but it will always hold a special place in my heart because it was my introduction to my favorite band. In the spring of 1990, when I was 15 years old, I bought Green on a whim for $2 at a flea market and a whole new world opened up for me.

Green was a new beginning for R.E.M. as well -- their first major label release after a solid career at I.R.S. records that netted them one gold album (Lifes Rich Pageant), one platinum album (Document), one Top 10 hit ("The One I Love") and, courtesy of Rolling Stone, the title of "America's Best Rock and Roll Band." Expectations were high for the band, and they met those expectations with Green and the massive world tour that followed. Warner Brothers, to their credit, let R.E.M. be R.E.M. and didn't place a lot of demands on the band for big chart-topping singles. Given that freedom, the band was able to produce a big diverse rock album that was both an artistic and a commercial success.

Green has a little bit of everything -- from the bubblegum pop of songs like "Stand," "Get Up," and "Pop Song 89" to bombastic rockers like "Orange Crush" and "Turn You Inside-Out" to moody, reflective songs like "You Are The Everything," "World Leader Pretend," "Hairshirt," and "The Wrong Child." It's a remarkable display of the band's talent. There simply aren't that many bands (if any) that could pull off something as diverse as Green.

Having said that, the album, as a whole, really doesn't grab me as much as some of their other albums do (like Automatic For The People) although several of my favorite R.E.M. songs are here, including the stunning and powerful "World Leader Pretend," which may be my all-time favorite. I also love the swagger of "Turn You Inside-Out" and the emotion of "The Wrong Child," which is told from the point of view of a handicapped child. The furious "Orange Crush" is an all out assault, with Peter Buck doing his best impression of The Edge. And few bands can write pop songs like R.E.M., when the mood hits them -- "Pop Song 89" is all bounce, "Stand" just makes me smile, and Bill Berry's idea to play music boxes in the middle of "Get Up" was just inspired.

R.E.M. really came through with their major label debut. Green is a great album. Still, the best was really yet to come with the commercial success of Out of Time and their masterpiece, Automatic For The People.
2838391
Was a gift for a friend remai s one of my favoritw albums
3992113
All albums are great of course some more than others. But it is a matter of opinion on some tracks. Non-the less ,I was impressed with most of the acquisitions that I made. Very good quality and styles.
4611574
I love this album.  This was the first album that I have purchased by Norman Brown.
I think this was a good one to start with!  Very happy.
3156714
This is a wonderful album by a very talented artist.
2440211
Album totally intact and clear. I was surprised to find that this album is becoming somewhat scarce. I bought two more to back up the one I had owned for a year and had played so much I worried that it might wear out.
3872202
I am surprised by this find, I like this album a great deal.
4683318
This is an amazing album. The new record I received skips in a few places, hence the 4 star rating, but is otherwise a very good item. The clear with black smoke coloring of this pressing is also very cool.
141688
A very enjoyable album, from the beginnig to the end. All songs are very well crafted and very polished. They are Pop/Rock with a bit of Dance and Motown (like on "When we are Together"). The vocals are also very nice and Soulful.
I think all songs are Very Good and Catchy, so it's hard to pick my favorite. But if I picked my favorites, they would be:
"In Our Lifetime"
"Summer Son"
"Saint"
"Sunday Afternoon"
"The day Before I went Away"
"Zero Zero" - a great synthy electronic tune.
All others are also very nice.
A Great album to have in you collection.
Thank You
3758472
Very nice album.  I used it for a 50th wedding anniversary album for my mom and dad.  They loved it, and so did everyone at the party. It's a great size, as they have downsized their possessions considerably in the last few years.
1804017
I absolutely love 3 songs from this album:  (1)  Good Intentions  (2)  Lieing in Bed  (3)  Horses Run.  Very good songs.  They are a little on the slow side though, but they are sung very well and the tune is gorgeous.  I recommend them!
1594126
I really like this album. I only give it 4 stars out of five because it seems there is little to much crackle from factory on my side A (also vinyl have some rough edges on few spots) and heart beat like noise when its on the silent place between track (only on dide A). This might happend durring shipping because I am from Slovakia (center Europe) and it took about 20 days to get here, but the package was not damage and the sleaves were in perfect condition, so its a little mystery.

All in all I am satisified with my purchase.
1363868
A great album with some nice mixes.  For some reason iTunes doesn't let you buy the whole album - at least not on 5/29/09.  Keep 'em coming!
269607
This was one of those albums that I heard one song off while driving late at night and had to dig around for a pen while driving to write down her name so I could go and buy the album the next day.

It is a quiet and beautiful album that is really touching, great to listen to loud with the lights turned down low. Check out the background sound at the start of the album which is the sound of a boat creaking against a dock. It has a real live sound to it as if you are just sitting in the room with her, a guitarist and an accordion player.

It reminds me a lot of Nick Drake's Pink Moon but without the depressing angle to it.

I find it to be a far superior album to her earlier Love In The Time Of Science as I think the earlier album suffers from trying to fill out her sound with a bit electronica backing with crappy beats which tends to make her sound like so many B-Grade emo-girl-pop types like Dido, it comes off sounding like a bad version of Hooverphonic&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/The-Magnificent-Tree/dp/B00004YC1I/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The Magnificent Tree</a>. It also sounds like her endearing quirky voice was flattened out to sound like a generic female American vocalist.

So if you want a really relaxing, stripped back, acoustic, honest, revealing, haunting, quirky album and bares many a re-listen this is it, it goes up there next to Nick Drake's Pink Moon.<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Pink-Moon/dp/B000025XKM/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Pink Moon</a>
4610661
Im giving this album 3.5 stars. This is where my passionate relationship with REM (which sustained me through my miserable high School existence) came to a crashing end. After giving us works of art (yes, art) such as Murmur, Fables of the Reconstruction, Reckoning, Life's Rich Pagent and Document, REM gives us.......this. "Green" is not a bad album, it has its fair share of quality songs and the production is flawless (you can tell when they become more mianstream by listening to the production on each of their albums). By the time "Green" was dropped, Michael Stipe's voice was loud and clear on all their albums. No more straining to hear his lyrics. But they started to be heard on the radio waaaaay too much with this album. "Green" is also the album that had the REM song that I hated more than any other song they ever produced......."Stand." I hate that song. It's so commercial its disquesting. However......"Green" also has what I consider to be ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL REM songs ever written...."You Are The Everything." This is a simple song about taking a road trip. It's so right on target about laying in the back seat and watching the telephone wires go by and the scenery. Everytime I listen to this song, I reminisce about all the road trips I took as a child with my parents....laying in the back seat for HOURS upon HOURS watching the up and down motion on the telephone wires and the scenerey flood by. It's a really beautiful song. Another great song on this album is "World Leader Pretend" which can be applied today to that moron George W. Bush when Stipe states "It's amazing what devices you can sympathize, this is my mistake, let me make it good." Or more fitting "This is my world and I am, world leader pretend. This is my life, this is my time. I have been given the freedom to do as i see fit." However, in this song the world leader pretend sees the error of his ways and the power he commands and rectifies the situation by "razing the walls that he constructed." Great political song. Anyway....I also dislike the songs 'Pop Song 89' 'Get Up' and 'Turn You Inside Out.' Compared to their other albums, the quality of songs on "Green" fall short. Way Short. To anyone new to REM, please please please start with "Life's Rich Pagent" or "Document" before you move on to this album. I wouldnt want someones first impression of this fantastic group to be this album.
1269314
This is a fun album.  It made me go buy "Heaven", their second album, even though I do not speak Korean.  It has some very catchy songs even with the very thick accented English.