Country Feedback, by REM.
This song has been on my personal karaoke list ever since I read a story about live band karaoke and someone sang this and I just thought wow that sounds cathartic as heck I should belt this sucker out but also I am not Michael Stipe, a well established fact.
Out of Time was everybody’s REM record, even if you hadn’t been that into Green, except for getting told by condescending Georgian proto-alternakids at summer camp that “Orange Crush isn’t about the soda, man” but this one, it was unavoidable on MTV several months in a row, and definitely all that summer, with the B-52s and KRS-One mixed in a weird culture mash, but also it’s a really, really good album, and there a bunch of songs on here (Belong!!! Half a World Away! Me In Honey!!) that hold up wildly well 30 years later. (Typing that last part literally sent a chill up my spine.)
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Gotta have an overly distorted guitar futzing around on the second half, says so right there in the song title. I don’t make the rules, kids.
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