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The list consists mostly of studio recordings. Remix and live recordings are not listed separately unless the song was only released in that form. [1] Album singles are listed as released on their respective album. Only one release is listed per song, except for a couple of re-recordings, like their first Hib-Tone single.
Second Guessing (R.E.M. song) She Just Wants to Be; Shiny Happy People; The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite; Sing for the Submarine; Sitting Still; So Fast, So Numb; So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) Stand (R.E.M. song) Star 69 (R.E.M. song) Star Me Kitten; Strange Currencies; Summer Turns to High; Superman (The Clique song) Supernatural Superserious ...
List of R.E.M. music videos, showing year released and directors Title Year Director(s) "Wolves, Lower" 1982 Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris [149] "Radio Free Europe" 1983 Arthur Pierson [149] "Pretty Persuasion" 1984 "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" Howard Libov [149] Left of Reckoning [H] James Herbert [149] "Cant Get There from Here" 1985
The title itself is derived from Stipe and R.E.M.'s support for what would eventually become the "Motor Voter Bill" and the lyric "Hey, kids, rock 'n' roll" is an homage to the song "Stop It" by fellow Athens, Georgia, group Pylon; Stipe has also said the song is an "obvious homage to 'Rock On' by David Essex," which features a similar line.
"Man on the Moon" is a mid-tempo country-rock song following a verse-chorus structure with an added pre-chorus and an instrumental bridge following the second and third choruses. The song has six lines in the first verse but only four in the second and third verses. [5] An early instrumental demo of the song was known to the band as "C to D ...
In 2003, Stipe saw that the song still had contemporary resonance due to the policies of George W. Bush, and the band finally recorded it for In Time, with only slightly updated lyrics and under the new title "Bad Day". [3] In the liner notes for In Time, Peter Buck wrote: "We started writing this song in 1986 [sic]. We finished writing it in 2003.
Like all R.E.M. songs, its composition is credited to all members. The song was recorded for Murmur in 1983, but was left off the album. In January 1993, the European reissue of Dead Letter Office, a B-side album compilation, included that recording, along with an acoustic version of "Gardening at Night".
The song is named after the access number for the last-call return feature of telephones in North America, as indicated by its chorus: "I know you called I know you called I know you hung up my line. Star 69" Of all of the songs on Monster, "Star 69" is the one that evolved most from its initial demo. It started out at six minutes long before ...