{"id":29228,"date":"2024-04-09T18:02:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T18:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-9-1984-r-e-m-released-their-second-studio-album-reckoning\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T18:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T18:02:48","slug":"on-this-day-april-9-1984-r-e-m-released-their-second-studio-album-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-9-1984-r-e-m-released-their-second-studio-album-reckoning\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, April 9, 1984: R.E.M. released their second studio album, &#8216;Reckoning&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-09\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, April 9, 1984\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>R.E.M.<\/strong> released their second studio album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Reckoning,\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">which, like their 1983 debut,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Murmur<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, was produced by <strong>Mitch Easter\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Don Dixon<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album, which was first released in the U.K. and then the U.S., was recorded at Reflection Sound in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the producers attempting to capture the energy and sound of the band\u2019s live performances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Reckoning<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0was a hit with critics and peaked at #27 in the U.S., although it topped college radio airplay charts. Its first single,\u00a0\u201cSo. Central Rain (I\u2019m Sorry),&#8221; peaked at #86 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Hot 100, while its second single,\u00a0 \u201c(Don\u2019t Go Back to) Rockville,&#8221; did not chart. Both went on to become R.E.M. fan favorites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album has been\u00a0certified Gold by the RIAA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, April 9, 1984\u2026 R.E.M. released their second studio album, Reckoning,\u00a0which, like their 1983 debut,\u00a0Murmur, was produced by Mitch Easter\u00a0and Don Dixon. The album, which was first released in the U.K. and then the U.S., was recorded at Reflection Sound in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the producers attempting<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-9-1984-r-e-m-released-their-second-studio-album-reckoning\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}