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"Maps and Legends" Fables of the Reconstruction: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe: Joe Boyd: 1985 "Me in Honey" Out of Time: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe: Scott Litt and R.E.M. 1991 "Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I" Collapse into Now: Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe: Jacknife Lee and R.E.M ...
[1] The song opens with the lines "Let's put our heads together and start a new country up," which R.E.M. biographer Tony Fletcher describes as sounding like a "call to arms." [5] On the other hand, music writer Craig Rosen feels that the line adds to the song's optimism. [1] Another line in the song states that "we'll burn the river down."
"The One I Love" is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was released on the band's fifth full-length studio album, Document , and also as a 7" vinyl single in 1987. The song was their first hit single, reaching No. 9 on the US Billboard Hot 100 , No. 14 in Canada, and later reached No. 16 on the UK Singles Chart in its 1991 re ...
The song's lyrics reference artist Man Ray and include imagery relating to lucid dreaming. [8] [12] The dreary tone of the song is augmented by the use of a string trio; in a review for Rolling Stone, Parke Puterbaugh described the song's cello part as "seem[ing] to drag down and halt time" and adding to its "unnerving" and "dirgelike" feel. [4]
The music video shows Chessie System trains running around Clifton Forge, Virginia. [citation needed] Guitarist Peter Buck admitted in the liner notes for the band's 2003 compilation album In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003 that the verse chords for the song "Imitation of Life" were unintentionally taken from the verse chords of "Driver 8."
"Radio Free Europe" is the debut single by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1981 on the short-lived independent record label Hib-Tone. The song features "what were to become the trademark unintelligible lyrics which have distinguished R.E.M.'s work ever since."
A 10-song live album, with all songs recorded live in Dublin, was made available by UK newspaper The Times as a reader download through the iTunes Store during October 2009. The first five tracks were originally released on R.E.M. Live (recorded on February 26–27, 2005); tracks 6–10 would later gain an official release on the then-upcoming ...
"Pop Song 89" is the opening track and third single released from R.E.M.'s sixth studio album Green. It peaked at number 86 on the Hot 100 , and in the UK " Stand " was re-released instead. Cash Box called it a "cynical parody of pop" but said that "it turns out they’ve created a pop hit despite themselves."