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"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."
on YouTube " Shiny Happy People " is a song by the American rock band R.E.M. , released as the second single from their seventh studio album, Out of Time (1991). It features guest vocals by Kate Pierson of the B-52's , who also appears in the music video.
According to Buck in 2003, "Nightswimming" was the only R.E.M. song for which the lyrics were written before the music. [6] However, in a 2019 interview, Stipe recalled that "E-Bow the Letter" was the only time this had happened.
[7] The song's complete title is not featured in the lyrics, but there is the line "the sidewinder sleeps in a coil" as well as the later line "the sidewinder sleeps on its back". A sidewinder is a species of rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes), and also an antique style of telephone, with a winding handle on the side. [8]
"The record's biggest surprise, however, is its one surefire pop hit, "Everybody Hurts", an almost unbearably passionate argument against suicide. It sounds like a gigantic arena transfiguration of a '50s rock ballad, with Stipe's voice pleading over triplets and massed strings, and surely will be played on radio for generations to come, right next to unforgettable anthems like "Bridge Over ...
It was released on the band's fifth full-length studio album, Document, and also as a 7" vinyl single in 1987. The song was their first hit single, reaching No. 9 on the US Billboard Hot 100, No. 14 in Canada, and later reached No. 16 on the UK Singles Chart in its 1991 re-release. The accompanying video's director was artist Robert Longo.
on YouTube " Man on the Moon " is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M. , released in November 1992 as the second single from their eighth album, Automatic for the People (1992). The lyrics were written by lead singer Michael Stipe , and the music by drummer Bill Berry and guitarist Peter Buck .
"Stand" is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released as the second single from the album Green in 1989. The song peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming R.E.M.'s second top 10 hit in the United States, and topped both the Mainstream Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks charts.