but many of the demos on theAutomaticbonus disc have never been circulated. “What leaks out is usually the stuff we did outside of [longtime associate] John Keane’s studio,” Buck says. “That stuff sat in his house and then we moved ...
“rock around the clock” and david essex’s glam-era hit “rock on,” but stipe’s stern, menacing delivery seems to mock their calls for carefree kicks in a time of national turmoil. automatic for the people came out a month before bill clinton won his first presidency, but it bears...
Pearl Jam vocalist and songwriter Eddie Vedder encouraged his bandmates to get more involved in the writing process forYield. Guitarist Mike McCready toldGuitar Worldthat the band felt they were emerging from the "tornado" effect of their success. Led by hit songs like “Given to Fly,”Yieldev...
15) Man On the Moon – 1/13/01 Rock in Rio, Rio De Janiero, Brazil I would be hard-pressed to omit Man on the Moon for it has become one of my son’s favorite songs. For a two year old who likes to use the word “No”, it is refreshing to hear him sing along “Yeah Yea...
15) Man On the Moon – 1/13/01 Rock in Rio, Rio De Janiero, Brazil I would be hard-pressed to omit Man on the Moon for it has become one of my son’s favorite songs. For a two year old who likes to use the word “No”, it is refreshing to hear him sing along “Yeah Yea...
Molten liquid hit me in the face, but I felt no pain. I vividly remember standing there in a state of calm. I thought I was in a dream, but however hard I struggled to swim to the surface of consciousness, I couldn’t wake up. I didn’t understand how terrifying it was until I...
“Find the River” closes out Automatic for the People and it was the last single from R.E.M.’s eighth album. Released more than a year after its parent record had hit stores, the sixth single from Automatic came out on Oct. 21, 1993. It proved to be the least successful, commerci...
But fans, particularly R.E.M.’s more rock-inclined audience, gravitated to the song – a buzzsaw in a land of nail clippers. Even though the band didn’t release “Ignoreland” as a single, the track got picked up by DJs at rock stations and ended up on the charts. It hit No. ...
Not a drop hit the ground. It was dark but roads seemed ok except for Emigrant Pass which was foggy with swirling snow; it looked like the contents of a cauldron on the road in front of us. Bob, as always, drove like a pro. We stopped at The Griddle in Winnemucca for a quick ...
Overall, Buck was a bit surprised by the success of the album, which included the hit singles “Man on the Moon” and “Everybody Hurts.”“My feeling was — not in a negative way — is that it was kind of a down record with a lot of minor keys, and we were at the a...