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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.
Automatic for the People is the eighth studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on October 5, 1992, in the United Kingdom and Europe, and on the following day in the United States, by Warner Bros. Records.
Stipe referred to the lyrics in the chorus of "Sitting Still" from R.E.M.'s debut album, Murmur, "nonsense", saying in a 1994 online chat, "You all know there aren't words, per se, to a lot of the early stuff. I can't even remember them." In truth, Stipe carefully crafted the lyrics to many early R.E.M. songs.
The title itself is derived from Stipe and R.E.M.'s support for what would eventually become the "Motor Voter Bill" and the lyric "Hey, kids, rock 'n' roll" is an homage to the song "Stop It" by fellow Athens, Georgia, group Pylon; Stipe has also said the song is an "obvious homage to 'Rock On' by David Essex," which features a similar line.
After breaking a five-year hiatus from releasing music with a late 2023 cover of Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day,” soul icon Al Green is back today (Nov. 19) with his interpretation of the 1992 R.E ...
"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
Martin Aston from Music Week gave the song four out of five, writing that the sixth single to be lifted from Automatic for the People "will doubtless follow REM's five previous singles into the charts. Two new B-sides, including the MTV Music Awards version of "Everybody Hurts", are the tempters for the serious fans. Otherwise, the single's ...
Collapse into Now is the fifteenth and final studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on March 7, 2011, on Warner Bros. Produced by Jacknife Lee, who previously worked with the band on Accelerate (2008), the album was preceded by the singles "It Happened Today", "Mine Smell Like Honey", "Überlin" and "Oh My Heart".