REM - STARING DOWN THE BARREL OF THE MIDDLE DISTANCE

[TheFrank39144]

Brilliant raw song should of easily made Accelarate really funky bass line as well

[MartianStories]

This is actually a really cool song (unlike something like "Mine smell like...")

"Collapse" is the only REM I can actually say I don't want to listen to. I will never like it.

And I will never be okay with their breakup.

(Unless they have actually just gone underground and it's all a ruse...

If they keep putting out songs like this, I will suspect that. And they will firmly cement their place in my heart as the most respectable band in history. But right now that's pretty mangled. I want REM!)

[Ultimomonodelanasa]

Por qué no la incluyeron en Accelerate? Si es genial! Accelerate es un gran disco, pero al pensar que descartaron esta canción, parece imcompleto...

[Boomkap08]

Oh that´s amazing, fantastic great song of the greatest Band of the World. :-) R.E.M. is a Legend. :-) Michael Stipe´s Voice is great an fantastic.. :-)

[EveAngela]

thnx 4 sending this my way Jason. sooo luv it!

[rstbe]

Silly me. This IS on a live album: Live at the Olympia. How did I miss this before?!?! Blistering stuff.

[rstbe]

What a great song. Hope it shows up on an album one day .... maybe the live album we've been waiting for

[rstbe]

What a great song. Hope it shows up on an album one day .... maybe the livew album we've been waiting for

[gillart]

Too bad he doesn't SING anymore. He just talks. Remember the pre-'95 melodies? Songs like this are embarrassing for them. Anyone could write this crap.  Listen to the music for God's sake.

[lafup1976]

@gillart

unfortunately you're absolutely right. last acceptable album was "new adventures in hi-fi". after that there were just a couple of good songs - like "daysleeper", "at my most beautiful", "imitation of live", their reissued "bad day" and eventually "supernatural superserious". they once were just great - but i totally gave up on them.

[ll44t]

this is an outtake from Accelerate needs another verse though

[nnncnoel]

The lyric to this essentiale song is absolutly beautiful, I am only wondering now if it is possible to find this recond on an album somewhere, somehow and for good reason

"Now the hope for the future took a pounding in the parking lot

And the answer for today is all I got

When your name is called the lights went down

The time is the essence excuse me

And I'm blinking at the vanishing point of what I thought"

[wellspout]

punch

[Snakey3164]

This song so should have been on Accelerate. Like Fascinating should have been on Reveal. I adore REM but question their judgment sometimes!!!

[MikeBarnesKumite]

Why on earth hasn't this been on Accelerate or the new one?

[buretehudesi]

I cant stop listening. Superb song.

[MrBoswell18]

I agree, don't know why it didn't make Accelerate. I saw them perform it at Dublin and thought it was a standout track. But what do I know!!

[Fizzycasey]

@MrBoswell18 me too me too me too. sunday and thursday rocked the olympia, strange choice eh?

[JJRemone]

This is such a great tune! It definitely should've been on Accelerate. The album would still be short and concise with this song.

[StoneTechnologies]

shame its not on collapse into now

[Fizzycasey]

@StoneTechnologies very surprising?? and on the fly???

[kimoxxx]

@StoneTechnologies accelerate you mean

[oddfellowsrem]

I totally agree!! This is straight up R.E.M. at their best!!!

[helennremfan]

Oh Michael Stipe is in great voice in this:)

[bluebru]

Outstanding audio quality of an "instant classic" R.E.M. song; the verse's guitar riff sounds like Eric Clapton's "Cocaine" and the chorus David Bowie's "Rebel Rebel", but the Peter Buck makes them his own and the lyrics are pure Michael Stipe. Why this cool song wasn't on their rockin' Accelerate CD is beyond me.

[Fizzycasey]

i totally agree.fantastic song. i was at 2 of the 5 "rehearsals" in the olympia theatre in dublin in 2007 when they were recording accelerate. this was the best song both nights. im puzzled it didn't make accelerate or collapse into now. i guess it might make a reappearance in a few years like "bad day" did in 2003. "on the fly" is a very good tune too and didnt make either album..... im gonna dj was around for a while too before it made it onto an album, they make strange decisions at times