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Certain Songs #1766: R.E.M. – “Blue”

March 4, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Collapse Into Now
Year: 2011

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File Under Collapse

Of course it was right there on the album cover. Michael Stipe is waving goodbye on the only R.E.M. album cover to feature more than a single member of the band — Bill Berry was on Lifes Rich Pageant and Stipe is in triplicate on Around The Sun — which was probably a hint.

As one of the people that he was waving to, it went right past me when Collapse Into Now was released in March, 2011, though some fans sussed it out: on the RU Talking To Me? Re: R.E.M. famous superfan Adam Scott — who was at the beginning of his Parks & Recreation run — told the story of how he posted about it on an R.E.M. message board.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Blue, Collapse Into Now, R.E.M.

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