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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.
List of R.E.M. songs, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name Title Year Peak chart positions Album US Air. [130] US Alt. [78] US Main. Rock [79] CAN [131] NOR [9] UK [132] "Pretty Persuasion" 1984 — — 44 — — — Reckoning "Ages of You" 1987 — — 39 — — — Dead Letter Office "Turn You Inside-Out" 1989 ...
[26] [27] The song reached number six in the UK, becoming their second consecutive top 10 hit there. [27] However, the single stalled at number 83 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold only 15,000 copies in the US. [28] [27] It fared better on the Adult Alternative Songs chart, where it had a three-week stay at the top. [28]
It is the first track on and the lead single from their eighth studio album, Automatic for the People (1992), and was the first song lead singer Michael Stipe wrote on a computer. [2] "Drive" peaked at number 28 on the US Billboard Hot 100, number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, and number two on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks ...
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 ...
"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.
[1] [3] [4] Despite the grim themes, according to R.E.M. biographer David Buckley, the lyrics are "words of optimism, partnership and community, set against an age of individualism." [3] R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck said of the song that it "is a metaphor for America and its lost promises. This is where the Indians were and now look at it.