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Statistics
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Artists:
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6,825
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Albums:
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34,379
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Lyrics:
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288,632
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Song Views:
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43,940,701
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Reviews:
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10,300
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Comments:
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155,539
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Total Users:
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20,076
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Online Users:
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177
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Usage Statistics
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Driver 8
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song refers to the Southern Crescent, a passenger train operated by the Southern Railroad until 1979, and continues today (with fewer stops) as the Amtrak Crescent. The music video shows Chessie System trains running around Huntington, West Virginia.
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Driver 8
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Submitted By: Big D
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Nascar driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. borrowed the title of this song for his autobiography. (Until 2007, Earnhardt drove a #8 car.)
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Fall On Me
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Submitted By: Big D
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Though Stipe described the song once as "pretty much a song about oppression," the song is about acid rain and its effects on the environment, hence the first line of the chorus, "Don't fall on me."
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Fall On Me
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song is something of a duet between Stipe and Mike Mills, with the two of them sharing vocals prominently during the bridge and chorus. Mills takes lead vocals for the bridge.
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Finest Worksong
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Submitted By: Big D
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The single version of the song (also known as Mutual Drum Horn Mix), featuring a new horn section by The Uptown Horns, was placed on R.E.M.'s I.R.S. Records compilation Eponymous. This was the last original single the band released on I.R.S. Records.
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Gardening At Night
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Submitted By: Big D
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In the booklet of the 2006 And I Feel Fine: The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 Bill Berry wrote the following of "Gardening at Night":
"We were driving at night after a show (I don't remember where), and I was at the wheel of our old car, with a rental trailer in tow. One of my three passengers aimed a directive at me. Rather than inform me of his desire to evacuate his bladder, he instead suggested that I pull over so that he might engage in the task of roadside 'night gardening.' To four guys in their early twenties this was a glaring catalyst for a new song."
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It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song originated from a previous, unreleased, R.E.M. song called "PSA", which was short for "Public Service Announcement". The two songs are very similar in melody and tempo. "PSA" was itself later released as a single in 2003, under the title "Bad Day". In an interview with Guitar World magazine in the early 1990s, R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck indicated that one of the primary inspirations of "End of the World" was Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues."
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Radio Free Europe
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Submitted By: Big D
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In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine listed the song at #379 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
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Radio Free Europe
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Submitted By: Big D
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Shortly after its formation, Johnny Hibbert (Hib-Tone records) expressed an interest in releasing a single by the then-one-year-old R.E.M. in exchange for the publishing rights to their songs "Radio Free Europe" and "Sitting Still", which they had just recorded at the Drive-In Studio in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with Mitch Easter. The band, desperate to release something and attracted by the fact that Hib-Tone would become an Athens label, agreed. Despite the reservations of the band's friend, Bertis Downs, who was acting as their lawyer, the songs were initially published by Hibbert's Dorothy Jane Music. Downs partially renegotiated the deal, shortening it to six months with no options, but the other parts of the deal - the publishing and the remixing - stood.
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Shaking Through
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Submitted By: Big D
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Includes a brief untitled instrumental after the song's conclusion.
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So. Central Rain
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Submitted By: Big D
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As mentioned in the liner notes of the 1988 I.R.S. Records greatest hits album Eponymous, the song was performed on Late Night with David Letterman in 1983 before it even had a title.
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So. Central Rain
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Submitted By: Big D
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Depending on where one looks, this song is titled
"So. Central Rain" (the back of both Reckoning and Eponymous), "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" (on the single), "S. Central Rain" (both on the Reckoning album cover and the liner notes on Eponymous), and "Southern Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" (inside the Reckoning sleeve).
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Supernatural Superserious
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Submitted By: Big D
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Like most of the songs on Accelerate, it made its debut during the band's "working rehearsals" at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin between June 30 and July 5, 2007, in an unfinished form with the name "Disguised."
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Supernatural Superserious
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song itself has already proven an early success, entering the UK Singles Chart at #54 on downloads, before its official physical release, and has become R.E.M.'s first song since 2001's "Imitation of Life" to enter more than two charts and to chart on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks, with an entry position of #36.
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Talk About The Passion
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Submitted By: Big D
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"Talk About The Passion" is a "hunger song", although the only direct reference in the song is to "empty mouths". Michael Stipe has stated, "Talk About the Passion" was a song about hunger but the lyrics weren't clear enough.
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The One I Love
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Submitted By: Big D
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The accompanying video's director was artist Robert Longo. The director of photography was Alton Brown, who later became a Food Network celebrity chef.
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The One I Love
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Submitted By: Big D
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In March 2005, Q magazine placed "The One I Love" at number 57 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.
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The One I Love
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Submitted By: Big D
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In the ensuing months, listeners who misunderstood the song's meaning made the song a popular radio dedication to loved ones, relying on the main lyric, "This one goes out to the one I love." However, they missed an ensuing line: "A simple prop to occupy my time"; the song was not particularly a love song. Stipe related to Rolling Stone, "I've always left myself pretty open to interpretation. It's probably better that they just think it's a love song at this point."
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What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
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Submitted By: Big D
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"What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" was originally what William Tager asked when he and his assailant attacked (now former) CBS anchorman Dan Rather back in October of 1986.
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