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''Pop Screen'' is a video feature compiling all of R.E.M.'s ''
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'' and ''
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''-era promotional videos. It was released on VHS on July 1, 1990, and on
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format ( region 1 only) on August 22, 2000, both on the
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label. The 35-minute release features promotional videos to all of the band's singles and several album-only tracks from ''Document'' and ''Green''. It also includes the video for "
Talk About The Passion "Talk About the Passion" is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released as the second single released from its debut album ''Murmur (album), Murmur'' in 1983. It was released in Europe only, on 12" vinyl. This song failed to fol ...
" from '' Murmur''. This particular video was made to promote the compilation '' Eponymous'' which was released between ''Document'' and ''Green'', and this is the reason for its otherwise anachronistic inclusion. It includes the uncensored version of "Pop Song 89," which has three topless women dancing along with a topless Michael Stipe. In preparation for television airings,
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asked Stipe, who directed it himself, to censor the three topless women. Instead, Stipe superimposed black bars on the chests of all four dancers, himself included, and stated, "a nipple is a nipple." There are no bonus features on the DVD. Audio on the
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is PCM Stereo.


Track listing

All tracks written by
Bill Berry William Thomas Berry (born July 31, 1958) is an American musician who was the drummer for the alternative rock band R.E.M. Although best known for his economical drumming style, Berry also played other instruments, including guitar, bass guitar ...
, Peter Buck,
Mike Mills Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock band R.E.M. Though known primarily as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist of R.E.M., hi ...
and Michael Stipe. #" The One I Love" #" It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" #"
Finest Worksong "Finest Worksong" is the third and final single released from R.E.M.'s fifth studio album ''Document''. It peaked at number 50 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1988, at the time the group's highest-charting single in the UK. The single version o ...
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Talk About the Passion "Talk About the Passion" is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released as the second single released from its debut album ''Murmur (album), Murmur'' in 1983. It was released in Europe only, on 12" vinyl. This song failed to fol ...
" #" Orange Crush" #" Stand" #"
Turn You Inside-Out "Turn You Inside-Out" is a song by American rock band R.E.M. from their sixth studio album ''Green''. Like all tracks on the album, it was written by group members Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry. The song's main guitar riff ...
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Pop Song 89 "Pop Song 89" is the opening track and third single released from R.E.M.'s sixth studio album ''Green''. It peaked at number 86 on the Hot 100, and in the UK "Stand" was re-released instead. ''Cash Box'' called it a "cynical parody of pop: but ...
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References

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