Eponymous (album)

Eponymous is the first greatest hits album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1988.

Spanning from the initial single release of "Radio Free Europe" to the previous year's breakthrough hit album Document, Eponymous provides a fair overview of R.E.M.

The album features the alternate title "File Under Grain", a reference to the cover photograph.

On the reverse of the LP cover is a photograph of singer Michael Stipe with the words "They Airbrushed My Face" above his head.

He asked Tom Laune, the engineer at Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, to photocopy them and make them larger.