REMurmur

What's your favourite REM era?

2023-09-19T01:28:00.000-07:00

This article reflects on R.EM's first few albums - what's your favourite REM era? Early Days, the Days of World Domination or the 'quiet' post Bill Berry era or or The Accelerated Period?

By Graeme Reid

When R.E.M sneaked up in the early 80s with their debut album Murmur, few could have anticipated what the band meant - and would become.

Just as Talking Heads had become the banner-waver for emotionally distant New York art-rock a few years previously, R.E.M were the band which announced college rock radio could be as influential as mainstream stations. And that "alternative rock" in the age of Michael Jackson's Thriller, Bowie's Let's Dance and stadium fillers like ZZ Top, Bruce Springsteen and Tina Turner was a genre in itself.

Murmur in '83 came with an appropriate title: few could clearly decipher Michael Stipe's words in many songs but his weary delivery was seductive, especially against the gentle jangle of Peter Buck's guitar.

Critics would reference the Byrds on songs like Sitting Still and Shaking Through, but for R.E.M's audience that late 60s band was either ancient history or unfamiliar. R.E.M - out of Athens, Georgia - existed in a world of their own.

In a music environment cluttered with synth-rock - Duran Duran, the Thompson Twins - R.E.M's stripped back, frill-free guitar sound was distinctive, and even now Murmur, with its tired ballads (the sleepyPerfect Circle) and pure pop (We Walk) sounds timeless, never part of the world into which it had arrived.

It feels slightly strange (Stipe's lyrics were oblique) and even the cover - of the notoriously fast-growing kudzu grass - looks eerie and otherworldly. They also had a track listing on the cover which didn't match the record's running order. R.E.M were willfully mysterious at a time when people were being handed music in ready-to-use servings. You had to take your time with them.

By Reckoning the following year, R.E.M were honing their sound: Don't Go Back to Rockville and Pretty Persuasion could have slotted on to mainstream radio, although it didn't. Reviews were even more favourable than Murmur's, but by 80s standards the album remained a small seller - which worked for R.E.M's reputation as not being acceptable to mainstream listeners.

That status was enhanced by "outsider" artist Howard Finster's cover (from a drawing by Stipe) and the general moodiness of the music.

By the time of the more lyrically obscure but fascinating Fables of the Reconstruction the following year, R.E.M were college-rock favourites, leading the way for indie bands such as the Replacements and Buffalo Tom, artists like Peter Case, and paving a path for Flying Nun into US college radio.

By the end of the 80s R.E.M had been widely embraced, were signed to the major label Warners and their albums were topping the charts. They were not convinced about the merits of using a ph meter for testing their home brew however. Shame, as ph Levels are really important, especially for testing kombucha brews.

Just ask Darth Vader for his best Star Wars quote.

But R.E.M's first three albums were arguably their best, and have been reissued in beautifully expanded editions: Murmur with an extra disc of a taut, urgent gig recorded in a small Canadian club shortly after the album's release; Reckoning has an extra disc of a previously unreleased radio broadcast of a Chicago concert (opening with the Velvet Underground's Femme Fatale); and Fables of the Reconstruction (in a box) includes a disc of their excellent, spare demos in Athens before the London recording sessions and although you can hear the words ...

"To give away everything is never good," Stipe once said. A little mystery always works.

Your Capricious Soul” lyrics by Micheal Stipe

2019-10-07T17:50:00.003-07:00

The one and only Michael Stipe has released his first single, many years since R.E.M. retired from the business as a group.

"Your Capricious Soul” lyrics by Micheal Stipe

Honey's got got got a good feeling

Honey peeled herself off the ceiling

Because God God God is revealing

How to serve your body

How to serve your mind

Searching your capricious soul

Say you post, post, post on the weekend

And you pretend you are a seeker

When they all come loving and looking

You are writing a tell-all

Tell-all, sugar

You are leaving nothing out

Godspeed baby, blessings

Gob-smacked, baby

And this party’s in your honour

Pass

Your mother's worried

Is this in your favor

And your pastor's crying

And the birds are dying

Or they might as well be

They might as well be

Now the papers calling

And the photos flashing

And the fashion’s changing

Fast

Yeah, the papers calling

And the photos flashing

And the fashion's changing

Fast

Check out the lyrics to Facinating, a recent release REM made.

"Fascinating" lyrics by R.E.M.

2019-09-14T22:14:00.001-07:00

"Fascinating" lyrics by R.E.M.

A song cut from the final track list of Reveal, Fascinating was released by R.E.M. as part of a charity drive to support the people of the Bahamas after it was wrecked by the 2019 hurricane.

Fascinating was produced by Pat McCarthy and engineered by Jamie Candiloro

Lyrics.

I've latched on, I've been wrong
No one told me what to wear, no one sent me home
Space age party, fascinating, I just don't fit in
Someone throw me anything, the oxygen is thin

[Chorus]
If you just can't speak to me, just throw me a line
Give me just a little nod, I could fascinate you

[Verse 2]
But I am out of place, float in outer space
No one wants to pull me in its awful saving face
I could fascinate, I could serenade
I'm opinionated, I'll have Vodka Lemonade

[Chorus]
If you just can't speak to me, just throw me a line
Give me just a little nod, you are fascinated

[Bridge]
I could serenade
We could throw this party and take off on our own
Find our own higher place, an odyssey back home

[Verse 3]
I could not be less included, you could not have known
In my darkest rose and pennant, I am so alone

[Chorus]
If you just can't speak to me, just throw me a line
Give me just a little nod, you are fascinated

[Outro]
I could serenade
I could fascinate you
I could resonate

Previously Unreleased R.E.M. Song "Fascinating" to Raise Funds for Mercy Corps’ Hurricane Relief Efforts in the Bahamas

2019-09-14T22:08:00.004-07:00

The band is sharing previously unreleased song “Fascinating” to benefit global organization Mercy Corps’ Hurricane Dorian relief and recovery efforts in the Bahamas. Peter, Mike, and Michael recorded the song in 2004 at Nassau’s Compass Point Studios.

It's now available for download for the first time via Bandcamp.com.

You can stream the song for free on Bandcamp and download it for a minimum donation of $2 or an amount of your choosing. Proceeds will go directly to Mercy Corps’ emergency response and recovery efforts in the Bahamas.

About the Song:
“Fascinating” first appeared on the original master of 2001’s Reveal before being cut last minute. It was Michael’s favorite song from the Reveal sessions according to Peter’s recollection, as chronicled in David Buckley’s R.E.M. biography, Fiction.

“It’s really beautiful,” Mike told Buckley. “It has a flute, oboe arrangement, but it made the record too long… and something had to go.” The track was re-recorded in Nassau for 2004’s Around the Sun, but the lush ballad ultimately didn’t jibe with that album. Now this poignant outtake finally finds its fitting moment, as a means to aid the country where the band enjoyed over two months of creative retreat.

“I have been fortunate to spend many weeks working and playing in the Bahamas, making friends and lots of music there,” reflects Mike. “It breaks my heart to see the damage wrought by Hurricane Dorian. Please help us and Mercy Corps do what we can to alleviate the suffering caused by this catastrophe.”

Hurricane Dorian hammered the Bahamas’ northwest islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco for 48 hours in early September 2019, causing widespread destruction and leaving 76,000 people homeless and in need of lifesaving assistance. Mercy Corps mobilized immediately and are committed to reaching 3,000 families with emergency kits including mosquito nets, tarps, jerrycans, water-purifying tablets and rope.

“The Bahamas faces a long road to recovery after this devastating hurricane,” says Neal Keny-Guyer, CEO of Mercy Corps. “We’re grateful to have R.E.M. in our global community of humanitarians, sharing their song with the world to help the people of the Bahamas recover and build back even stronger.”

In 2005, following a visit to Mercy Corps’ Hurricane Katrina recovery program in New Orleans, Michael released a six-song EP that raised nearly $100K for Mercy Corps’ relief efforts along the United States Gulf Coast. The band also generously supported Mercy Corps’ Katrina relief efforts.

Download "Fascinating" here.

In their own words - R.E.M's break up

2011-09-21T20:08:00.000-07:00

In their own words: R.E.M. share some thoughts about the break up

MIKE

"During our last tour, and while making Collapse Into Now and putting together this greatest hits retrospective, we started asking ourselves, 'what next'? Working through our music and memories from over three decades was a hell of a journey. We realized that these songs seemed to draw a natural line under the last 31 years of our working together.

"We have always been a band in the truest sense of the word. Brothers who truly love, and respect, each other. We feel kind of like pioneers in this--there's no disharmony here, no falling-outs, no lawyers squaring-off. We've made this decision together, amicably and with each other's best interests at heart. The time just feels right."

MICHAEL

"A wise man once said--'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.' We built something extraordinary together. We did this thing. And now we're going to walk away from it.

"I hope our fans realize this wasn't an easy decision; but all things must end, and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way.

"We have to thank all the people who helped us be R.E.M. for these 31 years; our deepest gratitude to those who allowed us to do this. It's been amazing."

PETER

"One of the things that was always so great about being in R.E.M. was the fact that the records and the songs we wrote meant as much to our fans as they did to us. It was, and still is, important to us to do right by you. Being a part of your lives has been an unbelievable gift. Thank you.

"Mike, Michael, Bill, Bertis, and I walk away as great friends. I know I will be seeing them in the future, just as I know I will be seeing everyone who has followed us and supported us through the years. Even if it's only in the vinyl aisle of your local record store, or standing at the back of the club: watching a group of 19 year olds trying to change the world."

JAMES

I need to think about this some more. I think I should brew beer with a great wort chiller. Then I will consider my options.

Did they burn out or fade away?

2011-09-21T18:45:00.000-07:00

REM, the alternative rock group that shook up the music world with its experimental, edgy sound and then earned multiplatinum success and a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, announced on its website that it has "decided to call it a day as a band."

"A wise man once said — 'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.' We built something extraordinary together. We did this thing. And now we're going to walk away from it," frontman Michael Stipe said in a statement on the website.

"I hope our fans realise this wasn't an easy decision; but all things must end, and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way."

The Grammy-winning group, now composed of Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike Mills, released its debut album Murmur in 1983; at the time it was a quartet, with drummer Bill Berry. He left the group in 1997, two years after he suffered symptoms of an aneurysm onstage.

The group got its start in Athens, Georgia, coming out of the region's flourishing indie-rock scene. The band was credited for helping launch college radio with songs such as Radio Free Europe.

Later, the mainstream caught on, and REM became chart-topping rockers, selling millions of albums with hits like It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine), Losing My Religion and Everybody Hurts.

Stipe, the band's chief songwriter, crafted songs that were atypical of the standard rock fare. Man on the Moon was about the late comic Andy Kaufman. Losing My Religion was not about religion at all, but about trying to relay the feelings of a crush.

The band's videos also became staples on MTV in the 1990s, including the eye-catching Losing My Religion and the stark Everybody Hurts, which had Stipe walking through a highway traffic jam.

REM became one of the more forceful voices of 1990s rock, and came along around the same time as another rock quartet — U2. But whereas U2 managed to maintain (and even increase) its popularity over the years, REM stumbled commercially in recent years, and their hits dwindled.

The band continued to create music that resonated with critics and their core group of fans; the group's last album, Collapse into Now, was released in March and a greatest hits retrospective is in the works.

But Mills said the band was running out of ideas.

"During our last tour, and while making Collapse Into Now and putting together this greatest hits retrospective, we started asking ourselves, 'What next?'" he said. "Working through our music and memories from over three decades was a hell of a journey. We realised that these songs seemed to draw a natural line under the last 31 years of our working together."

Buck said the band parts as "great friends" and thanked fans for their support.

"One of the things that was always so great about being in REM was the fact that the records and the songs we wrote meant as much to our fans as they did to us," said Buck. "It was, and still is, important to us to do right by you. Being a part of your lives has been an unbelievable gift. Thank you."

Warner Bros Records chairman and producer Rob Cavallo said, "To call REM one of the greatest bands in contemporary music is an understatement. They leave behind a body of work whose breadth, honesty, creativity and power has not only inspired millions of fans around the world, but also has influenced — and will continue to influence — generations of songwriters and performers for years to come."

REM's Break Up Message

2011-09-21T14:24:00.001-07:00

"To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening. R.E.M"

REM Breakup SAD FACE

2011-09-21T14:23:00.000-07:00

R.E.M. have broken up after 31 years of making music together.

The alternative rock band announced yesterday that they were going their separate ways after decades of touring and releasing hits.

Lead singer Michael Stipe, 51, guitarist Peter Buck, 54, and bassist Mike Mills, 52, have released 15 albums as a group including Murmur, Reckoning, Document, Out of Time, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Up and Automatic For The People.

"As lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band," the group said in a statement on their official website.

"We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality and of astonishment at all we have accomplished."

Bill Berry, 53, who was the band's original drummer, retired in 1997 after 17 years rocking out with the band.

He went on to become a farmer in Georgia but has come back with the group from time to time for special events.

The band's last album, Collapse Into Now, was released in March of this year.

Rolling Stone reported that the band worked on some new material together in Greece this past northern hemisphere summer but it is unknown if the tunes will be released.

New Album Soon?

2011-07-10T15:22:00.000-07:00

Michael Stipe has announced in a message posted to xoJane.com that he is at an Athens, Georgia recording studio working on a new R.E.M. album as a quick follow up to Collapse Into Now. Stipe, who is friends with site founder Jane Pratt – the woman behind the late, lamented Sassy magazine – has been sending real-time updates to her phone that have been shared on the site.

No details have been confirmed as yet.

REM Lyrics: It Happened Today

2010-12-21T00:04:00.000-08:00

It Happened Today Lyrics by REM Collapse Into Now

Featuring Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder on vocals with Micheal, It Happened Today is from R.E.M.'s album Collapse Into Now. It was the first single released off the album.

Collapse Into Now also features another guest vocalist with Patti Smith appearing on Blue. The song itself is a classic jangly guitar effort from Peter Buck and sees the return of some Mandolin.

It Happened Today Lyrics:

This is not a parable
This is a terrible
This is a terrible thing

Yes I will rhyme that, after, after all I've done today
I have earned my wings

It happened today. Hooray! Hooray!
It happened. Hip, hip, hooray!

We'll leave the allegory to a different Bible story
Out of deference, defiance, the choice
Closing on a promise, after, after all I've done today
I have earned my voice

It happened today.

Hooray! Hooray!
It happened.

Hip, hip, hooray!

Check out the lyrics to Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I or why not smile as you check out the lyrics to Everyday is yours to Win.

Check out the lyrics to Lightning Bolt by Pearl Jam. Do you like Pink Floyd? Check out the Louder than Words lyrics.

Discoverer Lyrics R.E.M.

2010-12-16T13:49:00.001-08:00

Discoverer Lyrics R.E.M.

Discoverer Lyrics from R.E.M's album Collapse Into Now. Released world wide for free as an MP3 download from REMHQ, Discoverer is the first song on Collapse Into Now. It's a classic uptempo REM song.

Lyrics:

Hey baby

This is not a challenge

It just means that I don't love you as much as I always said I did

I was wrong

I have been laughable wrong

Sandpaper, paper maché stock, cobweb

Oh, the city

We are scared now

But nanananana…

Well, I didn't have to be afraid

I didn't have to feel so stupid

I can see myself

I can feel...

With just the slightest bit of finesse

I might have made a little less mess

But it was what it was

Let's all get on with it now

Discoverer! x four

We're laughing…

Discoverer!

Floating across Houston

It's where I am

I see the city rise up tall

The opportunities

The possibilities

Well, I have never felt so calm

Remember, the vodka special night of discovery

Remember that

Laughing, discovery

Oh how I look back and reflect

How I felt it, how I said

I don't have to feel so wrong

Now, why don't you take a few steps back and grasp…

Repeat Chorus

Happy to take any corrections or thoughts on the song in the comments!

Check out the lyrics to It Happened Today which features Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam.

Album Art for 'Collapse Into Now' Revealed

2010-12-15T20:56:00.000-08:00

On the same day that Discoverer was released as a free download, the album cover art for Collapse Into Now was err... revealed:

What do you think? The colour kind of reminds me of Green. Kinda.

Collapse Into Now Track Listing

Track Listing 'Collapse Into Now' revealed by REM

2010-11-27T17:21:00.000-08:00

Guitar God and Man with a Foot Fetish

The final track listing for R.E.M.'s new album Collapse Into Now, has been revealed to restless fans in the latest R.E.M. Fan Club newsletter, released in late November:

Collapse Into Now Track Listing

Click on the links will take you to the song's lyrics....

Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I Lyrics REM

2010-11-27T17:07:00.000-08:00

Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I Lyrics REM

Taken from the Collapse Into Now album, this is perhaps one of R.E.M.'s most blatant lyrics, directly referring to a famous figure in the title and lyric of the song. For those born in a cave, Marlon Brando was considered one of the greatest actors to grace the silver screen.

Lyrics:

We live and dream about the future
Please ask me up I need to count well now
Sit through the annals of our favorite times
Our heroes and all their fade out thoughts
Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I say

Lay me down, down, down, down
Lay me down, down, down, down, down
Help me off to sleep
Or take me deep again

We live and dream about our heroes
I listened closely and I said
I'm not sure where to place myself here friend
I might wanna go on wings instead
The winners write the rule books
The histories are never [right]

Lay me down, down, down, down
Lay me down, down, down, down, down
Help me off to sleep (down down down)
Or take me deep again (down down down)
I heard what you said (down down down)
I picture brass rings in your head
What golden [Brahms] in my mind
Our brass is mixed with red

Check out more lyrics from Collapse Into Now, It Happened Today and the sure to be a classic Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter

That Someone Is You Lyrics R.E.M.

2010-11-27T17:06:00.000-08:00

That Someone Is You Lyrics R.E.M.

This song is from R.E.M.'s album Collapse Into Now.

Lyrics:

With the restraint of New Order covers, young marble giants
I sat quietly waiting
For someone else to make the first move
Someone has to make the first move...

That someone is you
That someone is you
That someone has pulled me up and out of cartoon quicksand
Pulled me up and out of me!

And with the fury lock of Sharon Stone Casino
Scarface, Al Pacino
'74 Torino

Waiting for someone else to make the first move
Someone has to make the first move

That someone is you
That someone is you
That someone has pulled me up and out of cartoon quicksand
Pulled me up and out of me!

Pulled me up and out of cartoon quicksand
Pulled me up and out of me!

Check out the lyrics to Walk it Back, another song off R.E.M.'s Collapse Into Now. Or maybe the lyrics of Blue. Oh, who am I kidding? We both know you have a secret crush on Lady Gaga's Born this Way song!

Mine Smell Like Honey Lyrics R.E.M.

2010-11-27T17:05:00.000-08:00

Mine Smell Like Honey Lyrics R.E.M.

Mine Smells like Honey is a track from the REM album Collapse Into Now. Out of context, the song name possibly conjures up images of sexual innuendo, but a quick read or listen of the lyrics assures us that the song is refering to - anything!

Mine Smells Like Honey Lyrics:

I would dare you, but I know I don’t need to
You’re going to do just what you want to
You’re going to take the leavings here at the fairground
You’re going to sing the praises of your fruit

Mine smell like honey, uh!
Mine smell like honey, uh!
Mine smell like hu, hu, hu, hu, honey, uh!

Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Climb a mountain, climb it steeper, steeper!
Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Track a trail of honey through it all

If the end comes faster than we had expected
And predictions lead us to the final fall
If the flowers crack the grave (grain?) and leave the patterns of the pavement
I can hear you shouting over it all

Mine smell like honey, uh!
Mine smell like honey, uh!
Mine smell like hu, hu, hu, hu, honey, uh!

Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Climb a mountain, climb it steeper, steeper!
Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Track a trail of honey through it all

Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Climb a mountain, climb it steeper, steeper!
Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Track a trail of honey through it all

You track a trail of honey through it all
You track a trail of honey

While you are visiting this fine REM website, why don't you kick off your shoes and have a look around? We have all the Collapse Into Now lyrics for your reading pleasure. Why don't you figure out what Michael Stipe meant when he wrote the lyrics to Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter or what the Discoverer lyrics are really trying to tell the listener?

Do you like Pink Floyd? Check out the lyrics to The Endless Summer.

Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter Lyrics REM

2010-11-27T17:04:00.000-08:00

Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter Lyrics R.E.M.

R.E.M's title sounds like something that a 1000 monkeys typing would eventually come up with! The lyrics of Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter were actually written by R.E.M's Michael Stipe for the Collapse Into Now album. The song features an extra two 'featuring famous' vocalists (which I think is a first for REM), namely Peaches and Lenny Kaye.

Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter Lyrics:

I feel like an alligator
Climbing up the escalator
Climbing up the escalator
I feel strong

I feel like an aviator pilot
Thinks you wouldn't buy it
I'm feeling violent
Beat your bleeding eye in
Hey, hey, alligator, you've got a lot to learn
I have, have got a lot to learn

I feel like an autopilot
I'm the world's strongest island
I feel like a rage coming under my hood
I feel good and calm like a robot would

I feel like an autopilot
I feel like an autopilot
I am not a hater, hater, hater, hater, hater
Hey, hey, alligator, you've got a lot to learn
I have, have got a lot to learn

I feel like a contradiction
I'm a walking science-fiction
I don't know which way to turn
I've got a lot to learn
I've got a lot of lot to learn

If I didn't like the way you stared at me
If I didn't like the way you stared at me
I could sideways, I could knock you blind
I could show you found to the lost and find

I am not an agitator
I feel like an agitator
Climbing up the escalator...
Hey, hey, alligator, you've got a lot to learn
I have got, have got a lot to learn

You've got so much to learn
You got a lot to learn...

Check out the lyrics to Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I or why not smile as you check out the lyrics to Everyday is yours to Win.

It's fair to say this song doesn't suffer from Vertigo by u2 at all.

Oh My Heart Lyrics REM Collapse Into Now

2010-11-27T17:03:00.000-08:00

Oh My Heart Lyrics REM

This song is from R.E.M's album, Collapse Into Now. It's a pretty genius lyric from lead singer Michael Stipe with its references to singing buildings and the cross pollination of the concept of tyrannic government with the tryanny of love. Or something. Actually Mike Mills the song is "a hymn of love to the Crescent City with deep-blue brass by the local band Bonerama"

Oh My Heart Lyrics:

The kids have a new take
A new take on faith
Pick up the pieces
Get carried away

I came home to a city half-erased
I came home to face
What we faced
This place needs me here to start
This place is the beat of my heart

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

The storm didn't kill me
The government changed
Hear the answer and call, hear this song re-arranged
Hear the trees, the ghosts and the buildings sing
With the wisdom to reconcile this thing

It's sweet
And it's sad
And it's true
How it doesn't look bitter on you

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Mother and father
I stand beside you
The good of this world might help see me through
This place needs me here to start
This place is the beat of my heart

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

While you are visiting this fine REM lyrics website, why don't you chill out, smoke a peace pipe and have a look around? We have all the Collapse Into Now lyrics for your reading entertainment. Why don't you digest out what Michael Stipe meant when he scribbled together the lyrics to Oh My Heart or what the Discoverer lyrics are really trying to tell the listener?

Here's the official R.E.M. lyrics video:

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Uberlin Lyrics REM

2010-11-27T16:53:00.000-08:00

Uberlin Lyrics R.E.M.

Uberlin is from R.E.M.'s new album, Collapse Into Now. A nice acoustic number from R.E.M. with Micheal Stipe in fine sing voice.

Producer Jacknife Lee (Who produces U2) said "Michael had a lyrical idea that was so complex that I didn't understand what he was getting at even after he explained it to me. He has pages and pages of lyrics and ideas with backstories for characters that don't figure in the song."

Mike Mills was actually explain the meaning behind the song: the "character is in trouble but doing his best to get through it. He's gonna make it. But it wasn't easy"
Uberlin Lyrics:

uberlin

hey now
take your pills
and
hey now
make your breakfast
hey now
comb your hair and off to work

crash land
no illusions
no collision
no intrusion
my imagination run away

i know, i know, i know what I am chasing
i know, i know, i know that this is changing me

I am flying on a star into a meteor tonight
I am flying on a star, a star, a star
I will make it through the day
and then the day becomes the night
I will make it through the night

ah hey now
take the u-bahn
five stops, change the station
hey now
don't forget: the change will save you

hey now
count a thousand milion people
that's astounding
chasing through the city with their stars so bright

i know, i know, i know what I am chasing
i know, i know, i know that this is changing me

I am flying on a star into a meteor tonight
I am flying on a star, a star, a star
I will make it through the day
and then the day becomes the night
I will make it through the night

Well I don't mind repeating
I am not complete
I have never been the gifted type

well hey man
tell me something
are you off to somewhere?
do you want to go with me tonight?

I know, I know that this is changing
we walk the streets to feel the ground
I'm chasing through Berlin

I am flying on a star into a meteor tonight
I am flying on a star, a star, a star
I will make it through the day
and then the day becomes the night
I will make it through the night

Listen to Uberlin here.

Check out the lyrics to Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I or why not smile as you check out the lyrics to Everyday is yours to Win.

Discoverer Lyrics REM Collapse Into Now

2010-11-27T15:58:00.000-08:00

Discoverer Lyrics R.E.M.

Discoverer Lyrics from R.E.M.'s album Collapse Into Now. Released world wide for free as an MP3 download from REMHQ, Discoverer is the first song on Collapse Into Now. It's a classic uptempo R.E.M. song.

Lyrics:

Hey baby
This is not a challenge
It just means that I don't love you as much as I always said I did
I was wrong
I have been laughable wrong
Sandpaper, paper maché stock, cobweb

Oh, the city
We are scared now
But nanananana…

Well, I didn't have to be afraid
I didn't have to feel so stupid
I can see myself
I can feel...

With just the slightest bit of finesse
I might have made a little less mess
But it was what it was
Let's all get on with it now

Discoverer! x four
We're laughing…
Discoverer!

Floating across Houston
It's where I am
I see the city rise up tall

The opportunities
The possibilities
Well, I have never felt so calm

Remember, the vodka special night of discovery
Remember that
Laughing, discovery
Oh how I look back and reflect
How I felt it, how I said
I don't have to feel so wrong
Now, why don't you take a few steps back and grasp…

Repeat Chorus

Happy to take any corrections or thoughts on the song in the comments!

Check out the lyrics to It Happened Today which features Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam. Or why don't you stop being a Sad Professor for half a second and check out the lyrics to All the Best. Oh, who am I kidding? We both know you have a secret crush on Lady Gaga's Born this Way song!

Everyday Is Yours To Win Lyrics Collapse Into Now R.E.M.

2010-11-14T22:17:00.000-08:00

Everyday Is Yours To Win Lyrics Collapse Into Now R.E.M.

Described by Mike Mills as "slow, beautiful song built around a guitar riff." Everyday Is Yours To Win is a classic REM tune.

Everyday is yours to win lyrics:

With the walk
and the talk
and the tic-tac clock

With the rock
and the roll
and tht bridge
and the told

With the brilliance
and the light
with the sting
and the hide
and the road ahead of you.

I can not tell a lie
It's not all cherry pie
But it's all there waiting for you
Yeah you

Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
I know

With the walk
And the woods
And the southern fudge
There's an old look better and now

While I'm nothing but confused
with nothing left to lose
and if you buy that
I've got a bridge for you

Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
I know

Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
I know

Oh...

Every day is never good
Every day is yours to win
And that's how heroes are made

I wanted to win
so I've said it again:
That's how heroes are made

Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
I know

Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
I know

Ah...

Check out the lyrics to All the Best, another great song from Collapse Into Now.

All The Best Lyrics R.E.M. Collapse Into Now

2010-11-14T22:13:00.000-08:00

All The Best Lyrics R.E.M. Collapse Into Now

A fast paced song that features Mike Mills sharing lead vocal duties with Michael Stipe.

All The Best Lyrics:

So over me
so pie in my face
So talk to me
To me when you trace these in my aquatic moto hard
There's where I sleep and throw away
the chourch bells in my ears bleed red flood cells

I think I'll sing it a rhyme
I'll give it one more time
I'll show the kids how to do it fine, fine, fine, fine

I hold the mirror off
You tell me what is what
You tell me which part of my story baby stuck, stuck, stuck
I'm in a part of your trees
That you don't even understand
It's just like need to overstain my welcome men

Let's sing it a rhyme
Let's give it one more time
Let's show the kids how to do it fine, fine, fine, fine

Oh...

I just have to get that off my chest
Now It's time to give on with the best
All the best
All the best
All the best
All the best, best, best

It's just like need to overstain my welcome bless

Let's sing it a rhyme
Let's give it one more time
Let's show the kids how to do it fine, fine, fine, fine
Let's sing it a rhyme
Let's give it one more time
Let's show the kids how to do it fine, fine, fine, fine

Check out the lyrics to Walk it Back, another song off Collapse Into Now.

Walk It Back lyrics REM Collapse Into Now

2010-11-14T22:07:00.000-08:00

Walk It Back lyrics REM Collapse Into Now

Walk it Back is from REM's album Collapse Into Now. Other songs from the album include Blue and It Happened Today.

Walk it Back Lyrics:

Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
What, what would you
Have had me say
Instead of what I said

Where, where would I go
How could I follow that
Except to do what I did

Which it's to
Walk it back
Walk it back
Hmmm... Walk it back

Time reversing me why
erasing me vice
and tried to start again

You, don't you turn this around
I have not touch the ground in
I don't know how long

You say to
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Hmmm... Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back

Time, time, time it cannot revive
You, you can't turn away
You asked me to stay
but something needs to change

Why can't you
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Hmmm... Walk it back

Check out the lyrics to Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter, a classic, zany R.E.M. song or try Until the End of the World Lyrics by U2 from Achtung Baby, a classic gem of a song.

It Happened Today Lyrics REM Collapse Into Now

2010-11-14T22:05:00.000-08:00

It Happened Today Lyrics by REM Collapse Into Now

Featuring Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder on vocals with Micheal, It Happened Today is from R.E.M.'s album Collapse Into Now. It was the first single released off the album.

Collapse Into Now also features another guest vocalist with Patti Smith appearing on Blue. The song itself is a classic jangly guitar effort from Peter Buck and sees the return of some Mandolin.

It Happened Today Lyrics:

This is not a parable
This is a terrible
This is a terrible thing

Yes I will rhyme that, after, after all I've done today
I have earned my wings

It happened today. Hooray! Hooray!
It happened. Hip, hip, hooray!

We'll leave the allegory to a different Bible story
Out of deference, defiance, and choice
Closing on a promise, after, after all I've done today
I have earned my voice

It happened today.
Hooray! Hooray!
It happened.
Hip, hip, hooray!

Check out the lyrics to Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I or why not smile as you check out the lyrics to Everyday is yours to Win.

Blue lyrics REM Collapse Into Now

2010-11-14T22:01:00.000-08:00

Blue Lyrics

Blue is from R.E.M's album Collapse Into Now. Recorded with long time R.E.M. favourite Patti Smith who notably had a hit with R.E.M.'s Ebow The Letter from the New Adventures in Hi Fi album.

Blue Lyrics

Yellow circus left the stakes a broken ropes world's useless mug
The ties that bind, ha ha
I can be bad poet
Street poet
Shit poet
Kind poet too

Subway
Almost 4AM
Halloween night
Had enough to drink to make my own party
All my fellow writers in half costume, half asleep
Half silly, gone to seed

I don't mark my time with dates, holidays, faded wisdom, locked karma holders
Convenient

I am made by my times
I am a creation of now
Shaken with the cracks and crevices
I'm not giving up easy
I will not fold
I don't have much
But what I have is gold

I saw your face...

I sing in platinum
I dress in brass
I eat in zinc
Let it pass

Compare a toast
I like that
I understand courage
I still roll with the shout of a character I was married to today
I try to see outside myself
I understand the eyes
Excuse all the highs
Sorry
I am sorry
Ha ha

I like you, love you, every coast of you.
I've seen your eddies and tides and hurricanes and cyclones.
Low ebb tide and high, full moon.
Up close and distant.
I read you.
Look, the sky, the sea, the ocean, the sun, the moon.
Blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue blue, blue, blue, blue, blue.
Naked and blue.

Breathing with you. Touch. Change. Shift. Allow air. Window open. Drift. Drift away. Into now.

I want Whitman proud. Patti Lee proud. My brothers proud. My sisters proud. I want me. I want it all. I want sensational. Irresistible.

This is my time and I am thrilled to be alive.

Living. Blessed. I understand.

20th century, collapse into now.
Check out the lyrics to Walk it Back, another song off R.E.M.'s Collapse Into Now. Oh, who am I kidding? We both know you have a secret crush on Lady Gaga's Born this Way song!

Do you think Peter Buck would be interested in brewing with Cryo Hops instead of pellets?