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Ariana Grande – R.E.M.
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On “R.E.M.” Ariana Grande sings over a dreamy Pharrell-produced instrumental. She talks about how she does not want to wake up from a dream in which she fell in love with someone.
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R.E.M. – Everybody Hurts
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“Everybody Hurts” seems kind of saccharine and overly heartfelt because it was meant to be. In an interview, Michael Stipe mentioned that the song was meant to be a genuine message
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R.E.M. – Bad Day
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The song was originally known as PSA and was first played live in early 1986. But it was not released until 2003, on the collection In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003
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R.E.M. – Shiny Happy People
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“Shiny Happy People” was the second single from REM’s Out Of Time album. It was inspired by a Chinese propaganda poster that the government there released after the infamous bloody
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R.E.M. – (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
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This song was written in 1980 by Mike Mills to convince his then-girlfriend Ingrid Schorr, a student at UGA, not to return to her hometown of Rockville, Maryland for the summer
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R.E.M. – Orange Crush
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The lead single of R.E.M.’s Green is politically-charged. The lead singer, Michael Stipe, explained that the song is about a young man from America who played football, leaving to
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R.E.M. – Daysleeper
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Released as the first single from 1998’s Up, “Daysleeper” chronicles the disorientation and despair of a night shift worker. The 2001 song “The Lifting” serves as a prequel of
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¡MAYDAY! – R.E.M
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Album: “Take me to your leader”
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R.E.M. – Swan Swan H
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Technically the Second to last song (though it is listed as the last) on R.E.M.’s fourth studio album.
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R.E.M. – Nightswimming
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This song is a nostalgic look back by Stipe to a childhood spent on the secluded shores of lakes and ponds. For many American teens, these secluded shores serve as one of the few
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R.E.M. – Accelerate
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[Verse 1] / Sinking fast, the weights chained to my feet / No time to argue with belief / I'm not alone, a thousand others dropping / Faster than me / What put me here? Nothing to
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R.E.M. – Laughing
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[Verse 1] / Laocoön and her two sons / Pressured storm, try to move / No other more emotion bound / Martyred, misconstrued / [Chorus] / Lighted / In a room / Lanky room / Lighted
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R.E.M. – The One I Love
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The first hit single (reached #9) of the American alternative rock group. The title and the beginning of the lyrics imply that it is a love song; however, it’s anything but…
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R.E.M. – Drive
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R.E.M.’s classic Automatic For the People opens with one of their finest songs. Like most R.E.M songs, the lyrics are cryptic. Mike Mills said that Drive is “telling kids to take
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Big K.R.I.T. – REM
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[Hook] / I don't know about my dreams / I don't know about my dreams / All that I know is / I'm falling, falling falling, falling / Might as well fall in / I don't know about my
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JOHNNASCUS – REM
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[Intro] / Mr. Chambers / [Verse 1] / My limbs are chained, they are paralyzed / I can only move my eyes / And, I just see the shadow figures lurking in my room / Transform and
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MOTHICA – R.E.M.
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[Verse 1] / Think I'm gonna sabotage with no warning / Crash and burn, say something I'll regret / Know I shouldn't fall back into old patterns / Compared myself to every girl you'
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R.E.M. – Cuyahoga
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[Verse 1] / Let's put our heads together / And start a new country up / Our father's father's father tried / Erased the parts he didn't like / Let's try to fill it in / Bank the
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R.E.M. (Ft. Natalie Merchant) – Photograph
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[Verse 1: Michael Stipe and Natalie Merchant] / I found this photograph / Underneath broken picture glass / Tender face of black and white / Beautiful, a haunting sight / Looked
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R.E.M. – Fall on Me
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According to Michael Stipe, “Fall on Me” “…is not about acid rain. It’s a general oppression song about the fact that there are a lot of causes out there that need a song that says
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R.E.M. – So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
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This is the third track from R.E.M.’s second album, Reckoning. It was the first single from the album, released in May 15, 1984, and reached 85 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart.
The
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Sammy J & Randy – R.E.M. (Lullaby)
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[Sammy J] / Goodnight Randy / Rest your sleepy head / [Randy] / Goodnight Sammy / Climb into your bed / [Both] / And you'll float away / Like a marshmallow cloud in the sky / Watch
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Russ – R.E.M.
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[Intro: The Chordettes & Russ] / Mr. Sandman / Yes? / Bring us a dream / Give him a pair of eyes / With a come-hither gleam / Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci / And lots of
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R.E.M. – The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
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“The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite” explains that the singer lives on a floor with a payphone at the end of a hall. it’s broken to the extent you cannot call out so someone has to keep
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R.E.M. – Ignoreland
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This song is pretty explicitly about the band’s anger at the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Multiple references are made to Republican politics (“trickle
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R.E.M. – Exhuming McCarthy
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McCarthy refers to Joseph McCarthy, an US senator in the face of a period in the fifties. This was in the Cold War. He made claims that there were a lot of Communists and Soviet
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R.E.M. – Camera
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This song is about Carol Levy, the band’s frequent photographer and girlfriend at the time of Michael Stipe’s, who died in a car accident while the band was touring.
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R.E.M. – What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
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“What’s the Frequency Kenneth?” is an alternative rock hit by R.E.M. Released on September 5, 1994, it was the first single from the band’s ninth album Monster and signaled a
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R.E.M. – Talk About the Passion
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“Talk About the Passion” is the fourth song on R.E.M.’s debut album Murmur and its second single.
Michael Stipe has described the song as being about hunger, but its message was
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