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((For|its newer namesake|In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003))
((More citations needed|date=September 2014))
((Infobox album
| name       = The Best of R.E.M.
| type       = greatest
| artist     = [[R.E.M.]]
| cover      = R.E.M. - The Best of R.E.M..jpg
| alt        =
| released   = ((Start date|1991|09|30))
| recorded   = 1982–1987
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Alternative rock]]
| length     = ((Duration|m=59|s=17))
| language   = [[English language|English]]
| label      = [[I.R.S. Records|I.R.S.]]
| producer   = [[Mitch Easter]], [[Don Dixon (musician)|Don Dixon]], [[Joe Boyd]], [[Don Gehman]], [[Scott Litt]], [[R.E.M.]]
| prev_title = [[This Film Is On]]
| prev_year  = 1991
| next_title = [[Automatic for the People]]
| next_year  = 1992
| misc       = ((Extra chronology
 | artist     = R.E.M. compilations
 | type       = compilation
 | prev_title = [[Eponymous (album)|Eponymous]]
 | prev_year  = 1988
 | title      = The Best of R.E.M.
 | year       = 1991
 | next_title = [[The Automatic Box]]
 | next_year  = 1993
))
))

'''''The Best of R.E.M.''''' is a [[greatest hits album]] by [[R.E.M.]] released in [[1991]], shortly after the success of the band's seventh studio album, ''[[Out of Time (album)|Out of Time]]'', released by Warner Bros. ''The Best of R.E.M.'', however, was released by the band's previous record label, [[I.R.S. Records]], and only includes tracks from their first five albums while the group was with that label. As such, it covers their output from 1982 to 1987.

''The Best of R.E.M.'' was only issued in the [[United Kingdom]], [[New Zealand]], [[Australia]], [[Brazil]] and [[Chile]], complete with liner notes from ''Remarks: The Story of R.E.M.'' by [[Tony Fletcher]] (a domestic [[United States|American]] greatest hits album had been released prior with a very similar track list titled ''[[Eponymous (album)|Eponymous]]''). It has no alternate mixes (unlike ''Eponymous''); all the songs are the album versions.

Three songs were taken from each of the first five studio albums and one song was taken from ''[[Chronic Town]]'', the band's first [[Extended play|EP]], making a total of sixteen songs on the album.

==Critical reception==

((Album ratings
| rev1 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev1Score = ((Rating|5|5))<ref>((cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music))</ref>
))

"A considerable improvement on the useful but haphazard ''[[Eponymous (album)|Eponymous]]'' collection," wrote Dan Maier in a 5/5 review for ''[[Select (magazine)|Select]]''. "It'll be a few years before Warners release [[In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003|their own 'Best Of']]. In the meantime, this'll do very nicely indeed."<ref>''[[Select (magazine)|Select]]'', issue 17, November 1991</ref>

==Track listing==
All tracks written by [[Bill Berry]], [[Peter Buck]], [[Mike Mills]], [[Michael Stipe]].
# "Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)" (from ''[[Chronic Town]]'')&nbsp;– 3:51
# "[[Radio Free Europe (song)|Radio Free Europe]]" (from ''[[Murmur (album)|Murmur]]'')&nbsp;– 4:03
# "[[Perfect Circle (song)|Perfect Circle]]" (from ''Murmur'')&nbsp;– 3:23
# "[[Talk About the Passion]]" (from ''Murmur'')&nbsp;– 3:22
# "[[So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)]]" (from ''[[Reckoning (R.E.M. album)|Reckoning]]'')&nbsp;– 3:11
# "[[(Don't Go Back To) Rockville]]" (from ''Reckoning'')&nbsp;– 4:34
# "[[Pretty Persuasion (song)|Pretty Persuasion]]" (from ''Reckoning'')&nbsp;– 3:53
# "Green Grow the Rushes" (from ''[[Fables of the Reconstruction]]'')&nbsp;– 3:42
# "[[Cant Get There from Here]]" (from ''Fables of the Reconstruction'')&nbsp;– 4:10
# "[[Driver 8]]" (from ''Fables of the Reconstruction'')&nbsp;– 3:18
# "[[Fall on Me (R.E.M. song)|Fall On Me]]" (from ''[[Lifes Rich Pageant]]'')&nbsp;– 2:49
# "I Believe" (from ''Lifes Rich Pageant'')&nbsp;– 3:32
# "[[Cuyahoga (song)|Cuyahoga]]" (from ''Lifes Rich Pageant'')&nbsp;– 4:17
# "[[The One I Love (R.E.M. song)|The One I Love]]" (from ''[[Document (album)|Document]]'')&nbsp;– 3:17
# "[[Finest Worksong]]" (from ''Document'')&nbsp;– 3:48
# "[[It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)]]" (from ''Document'')&nbsp;– 4:07

==Certifications==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Country
! [[Music recording sales certification|Certification]]<br /><small>([[list of music recording sales certifications|sales thresholds]])</small>
|-
|[[Bundesverband Musikindustrie|Germany]]
|Gold
|-
|BPI – UK
|Gold<ref name=ukbpi>((cite web|title=Certified Awards|url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certified-awards.aspx|website=BPI|access-date=19 June 2014))</ref>
|}

==References==
((Reflist))

((R.E.M.))
((Authority control))

((DEFAULTSORT:Best Of R.E.M., The))
[[Category:Albums produced by Mitch Easter]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Don Dixon (musician)]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Joe Boyd]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Scott Litt]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Don Gehman]]
[[Category:R.E.M. compilation albums]]
[[Category:1991 greatest hits albums]]
[[Category:I.R.S. Records compilation albums]]

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