cover [cover collaboration] Ann Kinney
cover [cover collaboration] Carl Grasso
cover [cover collaboration] Sandra Lee Phipps
mastered by, lacquer cut by [runout etching ⚾︎] Greg Calbi
performer Bill Berry
performer Michael Stipe
performer Mike Mills
performer Peter Buck
performer [other r.e.m.] Bertis Downs IV
performer [other r.e.m.] Jefferson Holt
photography by [r.e.m. and tressel photographs] Sandra Lee Phipps
producer, engineer Don Dixon
producer, engineer Mitch Easter
songwriter [all songs] Bill Berry
songwriter [all songs] Michael Stipe
songwriter [all songs] Mike Mills
songwriter [all songs] Peter Buck
tracks b6 words by [additional] Neil Bogan
Record Company International Record Syndicate, Inc.
Copyright (c) International Record Syndicate, Inc.
Copyright (c) I.R.S., Inc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) I.R.S., Inc.
Manufactured By A&M Records, Inc.
Distributed By A&M Records, Inc.
Recorded At Reflection Sound Studios
Engineered At Reflection Sound Studios
Mastered At Sterling Sound
Lacquer Cut At Sterling Sound
Pressed By RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis
Published By Night Garden Music
Published By Unichappell Music, Inc.
(R) plant code under copyrights on labels and serifed I stamped in runouts denote RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis, pressing. Remainder of runouts mostly etched, mastering and plating letters stamped.

Issued with printed inner sleeve with credits and tracklist.

Catalog number SP 70604 on back cover.
Catalog number SP-70604 on labels.
Catalog number SP70604 on spine, inner sleeve.

Hype sticker, with catalog number SP70604:
R.E.M.
contains: Radio Free Europe & Talk About The Passion
$6.98 list
© 1983 I.R.S., Inc. Printed in USA

Recorded January 83
Production, Engineering at: Reflection, Charlotte, NC
Mastered: At Sterling Sound
All selections published by Night Garden Music (BMI). Administered throughout the Universe by Unichappell Music, Inc. (BMI)
℗ 1983 I.R.S., Inc. © 1983 I.R.S., Inc. © 1983 International Records Syndicate Inc.

Rights Society: BMI
Pressing Plant ID: R (On labels)
Matrix / Runout: SP-070604-A (Side A label)
Matrix / Runout: SP-070604-B (Side B label)
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Matrix / Runout: SP0-70604-A-RCA 2 STERLING ⚾︎ Ʌ1 A (Side A runout, variant 6)
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