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R.E.M.'s 'Losing My Religion' Turns 35: The Lyric Change That Made It a Hit

Get ready to feel really, really old. Thirty-five years ago today, R.E.M. released "Losing My Religion," a song that defined the early '90s, at least in the alt rock genre. The song was the first ...
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R.E.M.’s First Top 10 Hit Was Quite Misunderstood and ‘Incredibly Violent,’ Says Michael Stipe

Back in the late 80s, R.E.M. landed their very first top 10 hit. The song was “The One I Love”, and even now, that chorus hook is starting to echo through your brain. Interestingly, the track is ...
Rolling Stone

R.E.M.’s Mike Mills Looks Back on ‘Up’: ‘There Were Some Very Dark Times’

There were few bands on the planet bigger than R.E.M. in the mid-Nineties. Their popularity grew every year in the Eighties before they went supernova the following decade thanks to hits like “Losing ...
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R.E.M. Premiered 'So. Central Rain' on David Letterman Before It Had a Title

It's hard to think of R.E.M.'s greatest songs without recalling "So. Central Rain." The first single from the 1984 album Reckoning became one of the band's signature songs, but it took a winding road ...
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The Alternative Number Ones: R.E.M.’s “Orange Crush”

In The Alternative Number Ones, I'm reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...
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R.E.M. reunites for the first time in 15 years, performs 'Losing My Religion'

It's been 15 years since R.E.M. performed live, and 13 since the band broke up. "The thing that makes a band a band is the chemistry that occurs between the three or four people when they're standing ...
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The Alternative Number Ones: R.E.M.’s “Stand”

In The Alternative Number Ones, I'm reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...