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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.
Other singles charted higher overseas: "Everybody Hurts" charted in the top ten on the United Kingdom singles chart, Canada, and Australia. [ 37 ] A live, harder, version of "Drive" appears on the Alternative NRG , recorded at Athens' 40 Watt Club on November 19, 1992, during an invitation-only concert supporting Greenpeace Action.
"Everybody Hurts" single: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe: Scott Litt and R.E.M. 1993 "Man-Sized Wreath" Accelerate: Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe: Jacknife Lee and R.E.M. 2008 "Maps and Legends" Fables of the Reconstruction: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe: Joe Boyd: 1985 "Me in Honey" Out of Time
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".
"This track just really got hold of me — took hold of me,” recalls director Jake Scott, who at age 27 was still trying to make "that one video when you knock it out of the park."
[11]: 39 R.E.M. is well known as an abbreviation for rapid eye movement, the dream stage of sleep; however, sleep researcher Rafael Pelayo reports that when his colleague William Dement, the sleep scientist who coined the term REM, reached out to the band, Dement was told that the band was named "not after REM sleep". [15]
[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 ]
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