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"The One I Love" is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was released on the band's fifth full-length studio album, Document , and also as a 7" vinyl single in 1987. The song was their first hit single, reaching No. 9 on the US Billboard Hot 100 , No. 14 in Canada, and later reached No. 16 on the UK Singles Chart in its 1991 re ...
The counter-melody in the second verse is actually the song's original tune and features the original acid rain inspired lyrics. [3] In an interview with David Fricke, singer Michael Stipe commented that the finished version of the song "is not about acid rain. It's a general oppression song about the fact that there are a lot of causes out ...
"Stand" is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released as the second single from the album Green in 1989. The song peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming R.E.M.'s second top 10 hit in the United States, and topped both the Mainstream Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks charts.
The One I Love may refer to: The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else), a 1920s song "The One I Love" (Allan Jones song), a song from the 1938 movie Everybody Sing "Dedicated to the One I Love", a 1957 song by The Shirelles "The One I Love" (R.E.M. song), a 1987 song and a top ten hit in the US.
"Radio Song" is a song by American rock band R.E.M., released as the fourth single from their seventh album, Out of Time (1991), where it appears as the opening track.
The song's title was inspired by the film Imitation of Life, directed by German filmmaker Douglas Sirk (pictured).. In the booklet for R.E.M.'s 2003 "best of" album, In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003, the band states that the song's title comes from Douglas Sirk's 1959 film of the same name, which none of the band members had ever watched, and that the title is a metaphor for adolescence ...
The title itself is derived from Stipe and R.E.M.'s support for what would eventually become the "Motor Voter Bill" and the lyric "Hey, kids, rock 'n' roll" is an homage to the song "Stop It" by fellow Athens, Georgia, group Pylon; Stipe has also said the song is an "obvious homage to 'Rock On' by David Essex," which features a similar line.
The video, made in 1988 and featured on the compilations Pop Screen and When the Light Is Mine, made this meaning of the song more explicit by showing images of homeless people and images of an aircraft carrier, ending with the caption, "in 1987 the cost of one destroyer-class warship was 910 million dollars."