Which R.E.M. album sleeve carried the message 'File under Fire'?

Which R.E.M. album sleeve carried the message “File under Fire”? It was Document.

Document was R.E.M.’s fifth studio album, released by I.R.S. Records on August 31, 1987. Its original sleeve used the phrase “File under Fire” as a thematic label, reflecting the album’s recurring imagery and Michael Stipe’s view of fire as a central lyrical idea. The wording also echoes the chorus of “The One I Love,” the record’s best-known single.

The phrase belongs to a playful design tradition in R.E.M.’s early catalog. Reckoning carried “File Under Water,” while the later compilation Eponymous used “File Under Grain.” Those labels are easy to mix up because they appear as sleeve or spine text rather than as the principal album titles. Document’s artwork also included rejected working titles such as “R.E.M. No. 5” and “Table of Content.”

The album marked the band’s first collaboration with producer Scott Litt, who would work with R.E.M. for much of the next decade. It also produced “Finest Worksong,” “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” and “The One I Love.”