Michael Stipe of REM on Rapido 1991 Losing My Religion Chords
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Then if their new album, Out of Time, is anything to go by.
For the boys, I've been tirelessly woodshedding in pastoral Athens,
along with the string section, several horn players,
rapper KRS-One and the lovely Kate Pearson of the B-52s,
experimenting with sounds, trying to come up with some exciting new combinations.
Michael Stipe came to our interview wearing a pair of these exciting new combinations over his trousers.
He thought they made him look like Superman, but we begged to differ.
The rest, easy story.
Or will be, after the imminent broadcast of this fabulous Rapido report on R.E..M. Rapido! [E] [F] Having built a name [Dm] as the messiahs of [G] the [Am] murmured vocal, the mandolin and the moody lyric, George's R.E.M. [F] have made an album which, according to singer Michael [Dm] Stipe, lives up [G] to its [Am] name, Out of Time. [G] [Am] Oh, life, sticker [Em] When I say that this record is going to alter the course of pop [A] history, I say it with [C] my tongue [Ab] pretty firmly in my cheek and a little snicker on my lips, [Em] but I think it really [Am] is, [E] for 1991, it's a pretty peculiar record in [Ab] context of pop music right now. I don't think a lot of people are doing what we've done with this record, and so in a sense it is out of time, it's out of place, it's not really fitting in [Em] with what's going on in music right now, and I like that. Oh no, I've said too [D] much [Dm] I [G] said it all Losing [Am] My Religion is the first single taken from the album. The band collaborated with other [Em] musicians on Out of Time, including rapper KRS-One and the B [Am]-52's Kate Pearson. In fact, according to drummer Bill Berry, the [Em] quartet all swapped instruments for its recording. We've always wanted to make a record this [Am] way, where we never really [Em] thought about having to replicate the [G] songs on stage, because you always have to tour after record, but this one we knew deep down inside we wouldn't have to. We've always wanted to have a 12-piece string ensemble on record. [B] I've always wanted a French horn, we got a flugelhorn, which is the next best thing, and [E] really the success of Green literally afforded us the [G] time, the three, six [D] months it [G] took to make the record. [E] Follow me, come follow me [G] Got my spine, [D] I've got my [E] orange cross Green, their 1988 album, [G] propelled them into the big league with its concerns for political and ecological [E] issues. Out of Time seems more intimate. There's [G] a lot of challenges for [E] us personally in this record. One challenge for me as a lyricist is that the subject matter of every song is not what it has been in the past. The last two records of ours have been fairly political albums. I wanted to move away from that so as not to pigeonhole myself as a political writer. In order to challenge [B] myself, I decided to write an album of love songs, which I've never done [A] before. She [D] lives my life Over at REM's [A] Athens headquarters, bassist Mike Mills and guitarist Peter [C] Buck [D] take time out for publicity photos. The fact that the band aren't [A] touring in support of this album means it may not repeat the [D] success of Green. That's a very distinct possibility [G] that [A] the fact that we don't tour means we won't sell as many. But [G] we [B] don't necessarily do the [G] things we do to sell records. [Abm] We [Bb] try to keep ourselves happy and I think going out on tour when we didn't want to would be a big thing towards breaking up the band a lot more than it would not sell any records. [A] [N] I think eventually it all washes out anyway. Every record that we've sold has pretty much sold as much eventually as the one before it except for the last two [Eb] which have been kind of monumentally [E] bigger. If this one sells less than the last one, I'm sure it'll catch up eventually. [A] [Abm] [B]
[E] Switching roles and instruments is not new to the band. [A] Earlier this year, with Warren Zevon taking over [B] vocal duties from Michael Stipe, [A] the band released an [E] album as the Hindu Love Gods. [B] The tracks were in fact recorded five years ago. [Ab] Warren had never really made a record with a band. He was a session musician and I think just for the fun of it, [Gb] the last day of the session was three hours, four hours, maybe five and cut like ten or twelve songs just totally live. Maybe we ran through them once, maybe not. And it was just a nice little thing we did for fun. We [F] thought we would use it as a B [G]-side and he was between contracts and labels and records and he decided to put it out which is fine with me but as [Em] long as people know that it's not a serious career move or This one goes [D] out to the one I [Em] love This one goes [D] out to the one [Em] I've left behind [G] So [Dm] I'll [G] [C] lock you by my side [Em] I think there's no question in any of our minds at [D] REM for [E] every reason I can think of is the mother load and it's what we always return to even if I go off and do a Golden Palomino thing or Peter goes off and produces or Bill and Mike go off and play with the band for a while we always come back because this is what we know and it's what we know the best [Am] and I think that that's clear from what we're putting out in our albums and our interviews hopefully.
For the boys, I've been tirelessly woodshedding in pastoral Athens,
along with the string section, several horn players,
rapper KRS-One and the lovely Kate Pearson of the B-52s,
experimenting with sounds, trying to come up with some exciting new combinations.
Michael Stipe came to our interview wearing a pair of these exciting new combinations over his trousers.
He thought they made him look like Superman, but we begged to differ.
The rest, easy story.
Or will be, after the imminent broadcast of this fabulous Rapido report on R.E..M. Rapido! [E] [F] Having built a name [Dm] as the messiahs of [G] the [Am] murmured vocal, the mandolin and the moody lyric, George's R.E.M. [F] have made an album which, according to singer Michael [Dm] Stipe, lives up [G] to its [Am] name, Out of Time. [G] [Am] Oh, life, sticker [Em] When I say that this record is going to alter the course of pop [A] history, I say it with [C] my tongue [Ab] pretty firmly in my cheek and a little snicker on my lips, [Em] but I think it really [Am] is, [E] for 1991, it's a pretty peculiar record in [Ab] context of pop music right now. I don't think a lot of people are doing what we've done with this record, and so in a sense it is out of time, it's out of place, it's not really fitting in [Em] with what's going on in music right now, and I like that. Oh no, I've said too [D] much [Dm] I [G] said it all Losing [Am] My Religion is the first single taken from the album. The band collaborated with other [Em] musicians on Out of Time, including rapper KRS-One and the B [Am]-52's Kate Pearson. In fact, according to drummer Bill Berry, the [Em] quartet all swapped instruments for its recording. We've always wanted to make a record this [Am] way, where we never really [Em] thought about having to replicate the [G] songs on stage, because you always have to tour after record, but this one we knew deep down inside we wouldn't have to. We've always wanted to have a 12-piece string ensemble on record. [B] I've always wanted a French horn, we got a flugelhorn, which is the next best thing, and [E] really the success of Green literally afforded us the [G] time, the three, six [D] months it [G] took to make the record. [E] Follow me, come follow me [G] Got my spine, [D] I've got my [E] orange cross Green, their 1988 album, [G] propelled them into the big league with its concerns for political and ecological [E] issues. Out of Time seems more intimate. There's [G] a lot of challenges for [E] us personally in this record. One challenge for me as a lyricist is that the subject matter of every song is not what it has been in the past. The last two records of ours have been fairly political albums. I wanted to move away from that so as not to pigeonhole myself as a political writer. In order to challenge [B] myself, I decided to write an album of love songs, which I've never done [A] before. She [D] lives my life Over at REM's [A] Athens headquarters, bassist Mike Mills and guitarist Peter [C] Buck [D] take time out for publicity photos. The fact that the band aren't [A] touring in support of this album means it may not repeat the [D] success of Green. That's a very distinct possibility [G] that [A] the fact that we don't tour means we won't sell as many. But [G] we [B] don't necessarily do the [G] things we do to sell records. [Abm] We [Bb] try to keep ourselves happy and I think going out on tour when we didn't want to would be a big thing towards breaking up the band a lot more than it would not sell any records. [A] [N] I think eventually it all washes out anyway. Every record that we've sold has pretty much sold as much eventually as the one before it except for the last two [Eb] which have been kind of monumentally [E] bigger. If this one sells less than the last one, I'm sure it'll catch up eventually. [A] [Abm] [B]
[E] Switching roles and instruments is not new to the band. [A] Earlier this year, with Warren Zevon taking over [B] vocal duties from Michael Stipe, [A] the band released an [E] album as the Hindu Love Gods. [B] The tracks were in fact recorded five years ago. [Ab] Warren had never really made a record with a band. He was a session musician and I think just for the fun of it, [Gb] the last day of the session was three hours, four hours, maybe five and cut like ten or twelve songs just totally live. Maybe we ran through them once, maybe not. And it was just a nice little thing we did for fun. We [F] thought we would use it as a B [G]-side and he was between contracts and labels and records and he decided to put it out which is fine with me but as [Em] long as people know that it's not a serious career move or This one goes [D] out to the one I [Em] love This one goes [D] out to the one [Em] I've left behind [G] So [Dm] I'll [G] [C] lock you by my side [Em] I think there's no question in any of our minds at [D] REM for [E] every reason I can think of is the mother load and it's what we always return to even if I go off and do a Golden Palomino thing or Peter goes off and produces or Bill and Mike go off and play with the band for a while we always come back because this is what we know and it's what we know the best [Am] and I think that that's clear from what we're putting out in our albums and our interviews hopefully.
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_ Then if their new album, Out of Time, is anything to go by.
For the boys, I've been tirelessly woodshedding in pastoral Athens,
along with the string section, several horn players,
rapper KRS-One and the lovely Kate Pearson of the B-52s,
experimenting with sounds, trying to come up with some exciting new combinations.
Michael Stipe came to our interview wearing a pair of these exciting new combinations over his trousers.
He thought they made him look like Superman, but we begged to differ.
The rest, easy story.
Or will be, after the imminent broadcast of this fabulous Rapido report on R.E..M. _ _ Rapido! _ _ [E] _ [F] _ _ Having built a name [Dm] as the messiahs of [G] the [Am] murmured vocal, the mandolin and the moody lyric, George's R.E.M. [F] have made an album which, according to singer Michael [Dm] Stipe, lives up [G] to its [Am] name, Out of Time. _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] Oh, life, _ _ sticker _ [Em] When I say that this record is going to alter the course of pop [A] history, I say it with [C] my tongue [Ab] pretty firmly in my cheek and a little snicker on my lips, [Em] but I think it really [Am] is, _ _ [E] for 1991, it's a pretty peculiar record _ in [Ab] context of pop music right now. I don't think a lot of people are doing what we've done with this record, and so in a sense it is out of time, it's out of place, it's not really fitting in [Em] with what's going on in music right now, and I like that. Oh no, I've said too [D] _ much [Dm] _ _ I [G] said it all _ _ _ Losing [Am] My Religion is the first single taken from the album. The band collaborated with other [Em] musicians on Out of Time, including rapper KRS-One and the B [Am]-52's Kate Pearson. In fact, according to drummer Bill Berry, the [Em] quartet all swapped instruments for its recording. _ We've always wanted to make a record this [Am] way, where we never really [Em] thought about having to replicate the [G] songs on stage, because you always have to tour after record, but this one we knew deep down inside we wouldn't have to. We've always wanted to have a 12-piece string ensemble on record. [B] I've always wanted a French horn, we got a flugelhorn, which is the next best thing, _ _ _ and _ _ [E] really the success of Green literally afforded us the [G] time, the three, six [D] months it [G] took to make the record. [E] _ Follow me, come follow me [G] Got my spine, [D] I've got my [E] orange cross _ Green, their 1988 album, [G] propelled them into the big league with its concerns for political and ecological [E] issues. Out of Time seems more intimate. _ There's [G] a lot of challenges _ for [E] us personally in this record. One challenge for me as a lyricist is that the subject matter of every song is not what it has been in the past. The last two records of ours have been fairly political albums. I wanted to move away from that so as not to pigeonhole myself as a political writer. _ _ _ _ In order to challenge [B] myself, I decided to write an album of love songs, which I've never done [A] before. _ _ _ She _ [D] lives my life _ Over at REM's [A] Athens headquarters, bassist Mike Mills and guitarist Peter [C] Buck [D] take time out for publicity photos. The fact that the band aren't [A] touring in support of this album means it may not repeat the [D] success of Green. That's a very distinct possibility [G] that [A] the fact that we don't tour means we won't sell as many. But _ _ [G] _ we [B] don't necessarily do the [G] things we do to sell records. [Abm] We _ _ [Bb] try to keep ourselves happy and I think going out on tour when we didn't want to _ would be a big thing towards breaking up the band a lot more than it would not sell any records. _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] I think eventually it all washes out anyway. Every record that we've sold has pretty much sold as much eventually as the one before it except for the last two [Eb] which have been kind of monumentally [E] bigger. If this one sells less than the last one, I'm sure it'll catch up eventually. _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ [B] _ _ _ _
[E] Switching roles and instruments is not new to the band. [A] Earlier this year, with Warren Zevon taking over [B] vocal duties from Michael Stipe, [A] the band released an [E] album as the Hindu Love Gods. [B] The tracks were in fact recorded five years ago. _ _ _ [Ab] Warren had never really made a record with a band. He was a session musician and I think just for the fun of it, [Gb] the last day of the session was three hours, four hours, maybe five and cut like ten or twelve songs just totally live. Maybe we ran through them once, maybe not. And it was just a nice little thing we did for fun. We [F] thought we would use it as a B [G]-side and he was between _ contracts and labels and records and he decided to put it out which is fine with me but as [Em] long as people know that it's not a serious career move _ or_ This one goes [D] out to the one I [Em] love _ _ This _ _ _ _ one goes [D] out to the one [Em] I've left _ _ _ behind _ [G] _ _ So [Dm] I'll [G] _ _ [C] lock you by my side _ [Em] I think there's no question in any of our minds at [D] REM for [E] every reason I can think of is the mother load and it's what we always return to even if I go off and do a Golden Palomino thing or Peter goes off and produces or Bill and Mike go off and play with the band for a while we always come back because this is what we know and it's what we know the best [Am] and I think that that's clear from what we're putting out in our albums and our interviews hopefully. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
For the boys, I've been tirelessly woodshedding in pastoral Athens,
along with the string section, several horn players,
rapper KRS-One and the lovely Kate Pearson of the B-52s,
experimenting with sounds, trying to come up with some exciting new combinations.
Michael Stipe came to our interview wearing a pair of these exciting new combinations over his trousers.
He thought they made him look like Superman, but we begged to differ.
The rest, easy story.
Or will be, after the imminent broadcast of this fabulous Rapido report on R.E..M. _ _ Rapido! _ _ [E] _ [F] _ _ Having built a name [Dm] as the messiahs of [G] the [Am] murmured vocal, the mandolin and the moody lyric, George's R.E.M. [F] have made an album which, according to singer Michael [Dm] Stipe, lives up [G] to its [Am] name, Out of Time. _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] Oh, life, _ _ sticker _ [Em] When I say that this record is going to alter the course of pop [A] history, I say it with [C] my tongue [Ab] pretty firmly in my cheek and a little snicker on my lips, [Em] but I think it really [Am] is, _ _ [E] for 1991, it's a pretty peculiar record _ in [Ab] context of pop music right now. I don't think a lot of people are doing what we've done with this record, and so in a sense it is out of time, it's out of place, it's not really fitting in [Em] with what's going on in music right now, and I like that. Oh no, I've said too [D] _ much [Dm] _ _ I [G] said it all _ _ _ Losing [Am] My Religion is the first single taken from the album. The band collaborated with other [Em] musicians on Out of Time, including rapper KRS-One and the B [Am]-52's Kate Pearson. In fact, according to drummer Bill Berry, the [Em] quartet all swapped instruments for its recording. _ We've always wanted to make a record this [Am] way, where we never really [Em] thought about having to replicate the [G] songs on stage, because you always have to tour after record, but this one we knew deep down inside we wouldn't have to. We've always wanted to have a 12-piece string ensemble on record. [B] I've always wanted a French horn, we got a flugelhorn, which is the next best thing, _ _ _ and _ _ [E] really the success of Green literally afforded us the [G] time, the three, six [D] months it [G] took to make the record. [E] _ Follow me, come follow me [G] Got my spine, [D] I've got my [E] orange cross _ Green, their 1988 album, [G] propelled them into the big league with its concerns for political and ecological [E] issues. Out of Time seems more intimate. _ There's [G] a lot of challenges _ for [E] us personally in this record. One challenge for me as a lyricist is that the subject matter of every song is not what it has been in the past. The last two records of ours have been fairly political albums. I wanted to move away from that so as not to pigeonhole myself as a political writer. _ _ _ _ In order to challenge [B] myself, I decided to write an album of love songs, which I've never done [A] before. _ _ _ She _ [D] lives my life _ Over at REM's [A] Athens headquarters, bassist Mike Mills and guitarist Peter [C] Buck [D] take time out for publicity photos. The fact that the band aren't [A] touring in support of this album means it may not repeat the [D] success of Green. That's a very distinct possibility [G] that [A] the fact that we don't tour means we won't sell as many. But _ _ [G] _ we [B] don't necessarily do the [G] things we do to sell records. [Abm] We _ _ [Bb] try to keep ourselves happy and I think going out on tour when we didn't want to _ would be a big thing towards breaking up the band a lot more than it would not sell any records. _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] I think eventually it all washes out anyway. Every record that we've sold has pretty much sold as much eventually as the one before it except for the last two [Eb] which have been kind of monumentally [E] bigger. If this one sells less than the last one, I'm sure it'll catch up eventually. _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ [B] _ _ _ _
[E] Switching roles and instruments is not new to the band. [A] Earlier this year, with Warren Zevon taking over [B] vocal duties from Michael Stipe, [A] the band released an [E] album as the Hindu Love Gods. [B] The tracks were in fact recorded five years ago. _ _ _ [Ab] Warren had never really made a record with a band. He was a session musician and I think just for the fun of it, [Gb] the last day of the session was three hours, four hours, maybe five and cut like ten or twelve songs just totally live. Maybe we ran through them once, maybe not. And it was just a nice little thing we did for fun. We [F] thought we would use it as a B [G]-side and he was between _ contracts and labels and records and he decided to put it out which is fine with me but as [Em] long as people know that it's not a serious career move _ or_ This one goes [D] out to the one I [Em] love _ _ This _ _ _ _ one goes [D] out to the one [Em] I've left _ _ _ behind _ [G] _ _ So [Dm] I'll [G] _ _ [C] lock you by my side _ [Em] I think there's no question in any of our minds at [D] REM for [E] every reason I can think of is the mother load and it's what we always return to even if I go off and do a Golden Palomino thing or Peter goes off and produces or Bill and Mike go off and play with the band for a while we always come back because this is what we know and it's what we know the best [Am] and I think that that's clear from what we're putting out in our albums and our interviews hopefully. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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