Vancouver Rehearsal Tapes is an iTunes

ITunes

iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

-exclusive EP released by the American rock band R.E.M.

R.E.M.

R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...

 on October 14, 2003. The band recorded several songs in Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

 on May 10, 2003 as a warm-up for their tour promoting In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003. It was the first iTunes-exclusive release by the band, followed by iTunes Originals – R.E.M.

ITunes Originals – R.E.M.

iTunes Originals – R.E.M. is an iTunes-exclusive album of interviews and original and previously recorded music by R.E.M. released on December 28, 2004, to promote the album Around the Sun and the Around the World tour...

and Live from London

Live from London (R.E.M. album)

Live from London is an album from R.E.M. released exclusively on iTunes on March 26, 2008, at the Apple Store in London, United Kingdom. It is one of several exclusive releases in the Live from London series.-Track listing:...

.

Track listing

All songs written by Bill Berry

Bill Berry

William "Bill" Thomas Berry is a retired American musician, multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band R.E.M. In addition to his drumming duties, Berry played many other instruments including guitar, bass guitar, and piano, both for songwriting and on R.E.M....

, Peter Buck

Peter Buck

Peter Lawrence Buck , is an American rock guitarist who is best known for playing in and co-founding alternative rock band R.E.M....

, Mike Mills

Mike Mills

Michael Edward "Mike" Mills is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock group R.E.M.. Though known primarily as a bass guitarist, backing vocalist, and pianist, his musical repertoire includes also keyboards, guitar, and percussion instruments...

, and Michael Stipe

Michael Stipe

John Michael Stipe is an American singer and lyricist. He was the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band R.E.M.Stipe is noted and occasionally parodied for the "mumbling" style of his early career as well as his social and political activism. He was in charge of R.E.M.'s visual image; often...

 except where noted:

1. "Maps and Legends" – 3:18 (originally from Fables of the Reconstruction
   Fables of the Reconstruction
   Fables of the Reconstruction, also known as Reconstruction of the Fables, is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on the I.R.S...
   
   )
2. "Tongue
   Tongue (song)
   "Tongue" is a song by R.E.M., released as the fifth and final single from their ninth studio album Monster. It was only released in the UK. In the song, lead singer Michael Stipe performs in falsetto; he has stated several times he is in fact supposed to be a girl in the song...
   
   " – 3:51 (originally from Monster)
3. "Little America" – 2:59 (originally from Reckoning
   Reckoning (R.E.M. album)
   Reckoning is the second album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1984 by I.R.S. Records. Produced by Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, the album was recorded at Reflection Sound Studio in Charlotte, North Carolina over 16 days in December 1983 and January 1984...
   
   )
4. "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
   So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
   "So. Central Rain " is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M.. It was released in May 1984 as the first single from the group's second studio album Reckoning . "So. Central Rain " became the second R.E.M. single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 85.R.E.M...
   
   " – 3:28 (originally from Reckoning)
5. "Imitation of Life
   Imitation of Life (song)
   "Imitation of Life" is a song by R.E.M., the first single released from the band's 12th album, Reveal in 2001. The song peaked at #83 on the Billboard Hot 100 . It was the lowest chart of a lead single from an R.E.M. album in the United States since "Fall on Me" from Lifes Rich Pageant in 1986...
   
   " – 3:50 (originally from Reveal, written by Buck, Mills, and Stipe)

External links

• iTunes Music Store link