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"Turn You Inside-Out" is a song by American rock band R.E.M. from their sixth studio album Green. Like all tracks on the album, it was written by group members Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry. The song's main guitar riff is an inversion of that used in "Finest Worksong". [3]
from the documentary Athens, GA: Inside/Out. Felice and Boudleaux Bryant: 1986 "All the Best" Collapse into Now: Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe: Jacknife Lee and R.E.M. 2011 "All the Right Friends" (first version) Dead Letter Office I.R.S. Vintage Years reissue: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe: Don Dixon, Mitch Easter: 1987
In a RTÉ review of the 25th anniversary edition of the album, R.E.M. stated the album was full of "big dumb bubblegum pop songs." [ 7 ] Green was envisioned as an album where one side would feature electric songs and the other, acoustic material, with the plan failing to come to fruition due to a lack of acoustic songs deemed fit for release.
Rolling Stone ' s Will Hermes gave the album four out of five stars remarking, "No band but Nirvana made more breathtakingly transformative use of MTV Unplugged than R.E.M." [10] Mike Diver of Clash considers the album inessential in R.E.M.'s catalogue but still welcome and a "fan-pleasing release". [7]
Rolling Stone gave Reckoning a four-out-of-five star rating. 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 ...
"Begin the Begin" is the first song on R.E.M.'s fourth album, Lifes Rich Pageant. Lead singer Michael Stipe has called it "a song of personal, political activism." [2] Though never released as a single, it appeared frequently in the band's live performances as a song early in the set.
[1] The song opens with the lines "Let's put our heads together and start a new country up," which R.E.M. biographer Tony Fletcher describes as sounding like a "call to arms." [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."
On March 1, 1995, drummer Bill Berry had to leave the stage during a performance of this song complaining of a serious headache, which turned out to be caused by a brain aneurysm; it is the likely reason for his leaving the band in October 1997. On subsequent dates Berry admitted that it gave him an eerie feeling every time the band performed ...