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"Everybody Hurts" is a song by American rock band R.E.M. from their eighth studio album, Automatic for the People (1992), and released as a single in April 1993 by Warner Bros. Records. It peaked at number 29 on the US Billboard Hot 100 , but fared much better on the US Cash Box Top 100 , where it peaked at number 18.
Automatic for the People is R.E.M. at the very top of their form." [ 53 ] Ann Powers , reviewing the album for The New York Times , noted that only three of the songs on the album went beyond mid- tempo and said, "Only 'Man on the Moon' shines with a wit that balances R.E.M.'s somber tendencies."
[81] Howard Hampton of Spin felt it was better than its "emotive predecessor" "Everybody Hurts", describing it as a "tremulous, promising-your-soul" track. [82] For "Tongue" critics praised Stipe's falsetto, Paul Evans of Rolling Stone felt that "Stipe's Chi-Lites falsetto is a revelation; elsewhere he declaims with clear authority. [ 83 ]
According to Buck in 2003, "Nightswimming" was the only R.E.M. song for which the lyrics were written before the music. [5] However, in a 2019 interview, Stipe recalled that "E-Bow the Letter" was the only time this had happened. [6] The basic track of "Nightswimming" was performed by Stipe on vocals and Mills on piano.
And, everything was all right — except for the lyrics that you got totally wrong. The song isn’t about giving directions, it’s about giving a warning: “There’s a bad moon on the rise.”
Reviewer Christopher Connelly wrote that in comparison to Murmur the "overall sound is crisper, the lyrics far more comprehensible. And while the album may not mark any major strides forward for the band, R.E.M.'s considerable strengths – Buck's ceaselessly inventive strumming, Mike Mills' exceptional bass playing and Stipe's evocatively ...
Dead Letter Office is a rarities and B-sides collection by R.E.M., released in April 1987.The album is essentially a collection of many additional recordings R.E.M. made from before Murmur to Lifes Rich Pageant that were outtakes or released as B-sides to their singles internationally.
"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 ...