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Imitation of Life

Certain Songs #1756: R.E.M. – “Imitation of Life”

February 21, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Reveal
Year: 2001

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File Under Sugarcane

It’s probably a bad sign that “Imitation of Life” almost didn’t make it on to Reveal: it wasn’t until the mixing stage that they realized they needed an uptempo song to offset all of the slower material on the record.

And while it was much-lauded because you could actually hear some Peter Buck trademark jangly guitar, especially on the chorus, “Imitation of Life” was still very much a post-Up song, and in fact the take that they ended up using didn’t even have real drums on it, but a drum machine.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Imitation of Life, R.E.M., Reveal

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