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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. – Losing My Religion
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“Losing My Religion” was released as a single in February 1991, in advance of R.E.M.’s album, Out of Time, where it appeared as the second track.
It became R.E.M’s biggest hit
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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. – (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. – 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. – Stand
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“Stand” was REM’s second single from Green and second consecutive #1 on the then-new US Alternative Songs Chart. It was also their second top 10 US Pop Chart hit (after 1987’s “The
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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. – 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. – 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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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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nothing,nowhere. (Ft. Lil West) – REM
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This song is about a girl nothing,nowhere. never sees anymore and the only place he can is at night in his dreams. REM stands for rapid eye movement which is the stage of sleep
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¡MAYDAY! – R.E.M
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Album: “Take me to your leader”
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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. – 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. (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. – 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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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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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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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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R.E.M. – The Great Beyond
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“The Great Beyond” was written for the 1999 film Man on the Moon starring Jim Carrey, and was released as a single from the film’s soundtrack album. The film took its name from R.E
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R.E.M. – Hope
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The song is very close to being a cover. “Hope” borrows its melody and chord progression from a Leonard Cohen song “Suzanne”, except decked out in the style of “UP” with an
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R.E.M. – Radio Free Europe
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Originally released in 1981 as R.E.M.’s debut single on Hib-Tone, was later re-recorded and released in 1983 on their debut album, Murmur with IRS.
Radio Free Europe is a radio
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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. – 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. – Country Feedback
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Stipe has said at concerts that this is his favorite R.E.M. song.
This and “Losing My Religion” are both songs about the band struggling to maintain their identity and integrity
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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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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. – 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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