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As the glow of the 30th anniversary celebration wore off, we got news from REM HQ that the band had headed back into the studio<\/a> to work on the next album. They had started work last year on some demos, but now that we know they have re-convened with producer Jacknife Lee, speculation can begin on when we will see something new.<\/p>\n

I would be that the next album will be a 2011 release. I know they espoused a philosophy of working in shorter bursts with \u201cAccelerate,\u201d but for some reason I just have a feeling that we\u2019ll have to wait even if they do manage to finish recording by the end of summer.<\/p>\n

That wouldn\u2019t kill me. The re-mastered version of Fables will be coming out later this year. We haven\u2019t heard what the second disc will be yet, but the radio station at the University of Georgia played one song from it so we got a clue. It wasn\u2019t a live track, but instead the demo of an unreleased song.<\/p>\n

The Youtube link below has a live version of this song. For years, it was believed to be called \u201cWhen I Was Young.\u201d The lyrics sounded like the rough draft of \u201cI Believe.\u201d Now we know that it\u2019s called \u2026 or at least they are calling it now \u201cThrow Those Trolls Away.\u201d<\/p>\n

I have heard the version they played on the radio, and it\u2019s pretty clean and fun. It does include Michael talking to the engineers during one of the instrumental parts so I wonder if it\u2019s a whole set of demos or what. I read somewhere (I forget where) that the recording WUOG played was from a set of demos that isn\u2019t in wide circulation so that could be it. Regardless, I hope it has more than a few surprises. To get a taste, however, here\u2019s \u201cWhen I Was Young\u201d live from 1985.<\/p>\n