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"The One I Love" is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M. 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 ...
The song's lyrics reference artist Man Ray and include imagery relating to lucid dreaming. [8] [12] The dreary tone of the song is augmented by the use of a string trio; in a review for Rolling Stone, Parke Puterbaugh described the song's cello part as "seem[ing] to drag down and halt time" and adding to its "unnerving" and "dirgelike" feel. [4]
The music video shows Chessie System trains running around Clifton Forge, Virginia. [citation needed] Guitarist Peter Buck admitted in the liner notes for the band's 2003 compilation album In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003 that the verse chords for the song "Imitation of Life" were unintentionally taken from the verse chords of "Driver 8."
Also, when the song was played live, Stipe improvised his own set of lyrics halfway through the song. [20] In a 1988 NME interview, Stipe denied the interviewer's claim that his lyrics on Murmur were "indecipherable", but acknowledged that "Radio Free Europe" was one of the few exceptions, describing it as "complete babbling". [21]
[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."
Chronic Town is the debut extended play (EP) by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on August 24, 1982, on I.R.S. Records.Containing five tracks, the EP was recorded at the Drive-In Studio in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in October 1981, eighteen months after the formation of the band.
A 10-song live album, with all songs recorded live in Dublin, was made available by UK newspaper The Times as a reader download through the iTunes Store during October 2009. The first five tracks were originally released on R.E.M. Live (recorded on February 26–27, 2005); tracks 6–10 would later gain an official release on the then-upcoming ...