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"Leaving New York" is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was released as the lead single from the band's 13th studio album, Around the Sun (2004). Although it was not as heavily promoted as earlier singles, it reached number five on the UK Singles Chart , becoming their 11th and final top-10 hit there.
"Driver 8" is the second single from American musical group R.E.M.'s third album, Fables of the Reconstruction, released in September 1985. The song peaked at number 22 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
A live version of the song was released as the B-side to "Leaving New York" in 2004 and on R.E.M. Live in 2007. Twelve years after originally written, alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs included a cover version as the fourth track on their 1992 single "Candy Everybody Wants".
"R.E.M" received mixed reception from music critics. In 2018, Complex 's Mallorie List ranked "R.E.M" number two on her list of "The Best Ariana Grande Songs". [13] Christopher Rosa of Glamour called the song's lyrics "a tad generic". [14] Out 's Dennis Hinzmann said the track "feels like a throwback and a fresh pick all at the same time". [15]
Eponymous is the first greatest hits album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1988.It was their last authorized release on I.R.S. Records, [6] to whom they had been contracted since 1982, having just signed with Warner Bros. Records.
The following month, during outside listening parties in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, preview showings were projected onto buildings three stories high. In 2001, to coincide with the release of Reveal , a three-video box set comprising Tourfilm , Parallel and Road Movie was released in the UK.
This release is notable for a (live in) studio version of "Permanent Vacation", a song that dates from R.E.M.'s earliest days (pre-Murmur), but a recording of which was never released before (a low quality rehearsal version and live versions from 1980 and 1981 did appear on bootlegs however). The band rediscovered the song in the early 2000s ...
"Texarkana" is a song from R.E.M.'s studio album Out of Time. Though not released as an official single, it managed to chart at number 4 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 6 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.