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[Spoken] This is a song that means a huge amount to me because I wrote it when I came out of a very bad, very dark period
How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
Feels good!
How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
Feels good
To be in R.E.M
How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
I love it!
Fuckin' stoked!
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How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
Feels good!
How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
Feels good
To be in R.E.M
How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
I love it!
Fuckin' stoked!
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How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
Feels good!
How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
Feels good
To be in R.E.M
How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
I love it!
Fuckin' stoked!
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How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
Feels good!
How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
Feels good
To be in R.E.M
How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
I love it!
Fuckin' stoked!
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How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
Feels good!
How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
Feels good
To be in R.E.M
How does it feel when you're in R.E.M.?
Feels good!
I love it!
Fuckin' stoked!
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Finally available for purchase, the hit song featured on R U Talkin' R.E.M. RE: ME?, along with bonus alternate versions dug up from the R.E.M. vaults!
About the song:
Michael Stipe: "We wrote this after finally seeing some success as a band. Honestly, it felt good to be in R.E.M."
Peter Buck: "I was having a low point, hanging out in a bar in Athens we used to go to all the time. Me and my girlfriend were fighting. Michael came up to me, maybe a little drunk, patted me on the back and asked me how does it feel to be in R.E.M. I surprised myself by admitting it felt good. I can't speak for Michael or interpret his lyrics for him, but I think Michael may have hid a little of that in the song."
Mike Mills: "Every time we were in the studio working on a new album, we tried to get this one on there but it never quite fit. That's why there are so many versions. But it remained a live favorite, one of my favorite bass lines to play, and notably, our shortest song."
Bill Berry: "Weird thing about this song, there's no hi-hat or cymbals or anything. I just forgot to play them. So it has an almost war-like, caveman kind of heavy hitting beat, even though it's such a light, positive song. Those kinds of contradictions were what made R.E.M. R.E.M."
released October 21, 2023
All instruments by Jordan Cooper
Featuring vocal samples of Scott Aukerman and Adam Scott from the Earwolf podcast R U Talkin' R.E.M. RE: ME?
Track 01 features a sample of Michael Stipe concert banter from R.E.M. - Live At The Olympia 2009, disc 1, track 20. Copyright Warner Bros.
Track 06 performed live in 2019 at Clusterfest by Dead Letter Office, recorded by the Earwolf podcast R U Talkin' R.E.M. RE: ME?
Dead Letter Office is:
Paul Ceppaglia, guitar and vocals
Chuck Eaton, bass
Scott Ryan, drums and vocals
Chris Sanchirico, vocals
David Shahin, mandolin and vocals
Album art by Kristen Gudsnuk and Jordan Cooper
Special thank you to Dead Letter Office for the kind permission in including their performance. Check them out here:
remtribute.net
Special thank you to Earwolf and Warner Bros. if you do not enact legal action upon me for selling music with these samples.
