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Certain Songs #1738: R.E.M. – “Nightswimming”

January 29, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Automatic For The People
Year: 1992

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File Under Recklessness

The final three songs on Automatic For The People — “Man on the Moon,” “Nightswimming,” and “Find The River” — represent if not the the peak of R.E.M.’s music, then for sure a peak of their music: a trio of pretty and poignant songs that would have never occurred to the band at any previous point in their existence.

Or any other band, for that matter. That was one of the joys of Automatic For The People: just how out of step, how out of time it felt in the autumn of 1992. After this, every R.E.M. album felt like a reaction to something: their stardom, their drummer, their sophistication, their break-up.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Automatic For The People, Nightswimming, R.E.M.

Certain Songs #1737: R.E.M. – “Man on the Moon”

January 28, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Automatic for the People
Year: 1992

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File Under Andy

“Man on the Moon” just might be my favorite R.E.M song.

Andy Kaufman was only on this planet for 35 years, but he made a helluva impression, to the point where there are people who firmly believe that he’s actually been on this planet for 71 years, having faked his 1984 death.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Man on the Moon, Nightswimming, R.E.M

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