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"Radio Free Europe" is the debut single by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1981 on the short-lived independent record label Hib-Tone. The song features "what were to become the trademark unintelligible lyrics which [ sic ] have distinguished R.E.M.'s work ever since."
on YouTube " Cant Get There from Here ", or " Can't Get There from Here ", is the first single released by R.E.M. from its third studio album Fables of the Reconstruction in 1985. The song peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles , equaling to a position of approximately 110 on the main Billboard Hot 100 chart.
"Sitting Still" was one of the first songs written by R.E.M., in late 1980, along with "Radio Free Europe" and "Shaking Through."[1] [3] Hib-Tone founder Jonny Hibbert agreed to release "Radio Free Europe" and "Sitting Still" as a single on his label in exchange for the publishing rights.
"Radio Free Europe" was re-recorded and released on the band's first full-length album, Murmur. "Sitting Still" was remixed by Mitch Easter and also included on Murmur. [2] The mix produced by Hibbert and engineered by Easter of the "Hib-Tone" version of "Radio Free Europe" was subsequently released on R.E.M.'s 1988 compilation album Eponymous.
When you’ve been in Radiohead together for nearly 40 years, what’s left for two childhood buddies to do but travel the world with a nasty jazz drummer, flexing chops on near half the ...
A re-recorded version of "Radio Free Europe" was the album's lead single and reached number 78 on the Billboard singles chart that year. Despite the acclaim awarded the album, by the end of 1983 Murmur had only sold about 200,000 copies, which I.R.S.'s Jay Boberg felt was below expectations. [ 36 ]
Their version was released on the download-only live album Radar Redux. [6] Indie rock band The Walkmen covered the song as a part of The A.V. Club's A.V. Undercover series in August 2010. Santa Cruz Bicycles produced a mountain bike model called Driver 8. It was first released in 2009. [7] Love Canon covered the song on their 2018 album Cover ...
"Radio Free Europe" (Hib-Tone version) "Radio Free Europe" (Hib-Tone single) Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe: Mitch Easter: 1981 "Radio Free Europe" Murmur: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe: Don Dixon, Mitch Easter: 1983 "Radio Song" Out of Time: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe: Scott Litt ...