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Reckoning (alternatively titled File Under Water) [4] is the second studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on April 9, 1984, by I.R.S. Records. ...
This is a comprehensive list of songs recorded by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. that were officially released. The list includes songs performed by the entire band only (Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe 1980 to 1997; Buck, Mills and Stipe 1998 to 2011).
"Man-Sized Wreath" is the second track and third single from R.E.M.'s fourteenth album Accelerate, released on August 11, 2008 in the UK. The single was announced after the band's Madison Square Garden show on June 19, 2008, where footage of the upcoming music video was shown. [1]
"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 [ sic ] have distinguished R.E.M.'s work ever since."
The lyrics are famously easy to mishear. A 2010 survey found that the chorus line "Call me when you try to wake her up" was the most misheard lyric in the UK, beating second-place "Purple Haze", with the most common mishearing according to the survey being "calling Jamaica".
[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." [1] [6] This line comes from the fact that as early as the 1910s the river was so polluted that one method of cleaning the river was to throw a torch in it and thus burn the ...
To promote the album, R.E.M.'s Dublin website had full streaming clips of "Driver 8", "I've Been High" and "Harborcoat", along with videos for "Living Well Is the Best Revenge" and clips from the Reckoning EP, while the video for "Drive" was made available on R.E.M.'s Myspace page.
Stipe sang the liner notes to that album to the music of "7 Chinese Bros.", which inspired him to record a usable vocal performance of the lyrics to "7 Chinese Bros." [1] [7] The recording of the liner notes to The Joy of Knowing Jesus was issued as a b-side to the 12" single of "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" under the title "Voice of Harold".