{"id":364,"date":"2020-12-04T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/?p=364"},"modified":"2024-04-17T10:41:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T09:41:50","slug":"morning-songr-e-meverybody-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/2020\/12\/04\/morning-songr-e-meverybody-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning song#R.E.M #Everybody Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u2018Everybody Hurts\u2019 was originally written by drummer Bill Berry. With only an acoustic guitar and a drum machine, Berry showed his bandmates the early draft of the song with a deliberate lack of polish. Berry wanted to make sure that the song straddled the line between natural playing and more synthetic sonic textures. \u201cMike (Stipe) and I cut it live with this dumb drum machine which is just as wooden as you can get,\u201d Berry told Pulse <\/em>in 1992. \u201cWe wanted to get this flow around that: human and non-human at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBill brought it in, and it was a one-minute long country-and-western song,\u201d Peter Buck observed in the liner notes to Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982-2011<\/em>. \u201cIt didn\u2019t have a chorus or a bridge. It had the verse\u2026 it kind of went around and around, and he was strumming it. We went through about four different ideas and how to approach it and eventually came to that Stax, Otis Redding, \u2018Pain in My Heart\u2019 kind of vibe. I\u2019m not sure if Michael would have copped that reference, but to a lot of our fans, it was a Staxxy-type thing. It took us forever to figure out the arrangement and who was going to play what, and then Bill ended up not playing on the original track. It was me and Mike and a drum machine. And then we all overdubbed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berry eventually got his live acoustic drums on the final album version<\/a>. \u2018Everybody Hurts\u2019 was a critical and commercial success when it was first released as a single in 1993, but once the internet came into its own, the song quickly became a shorthand for a more comedic take on depression and sadness. Still, \u2018Everybody Hurts\u2019 remained pure for R.E.M., especially as they received responses from fans who connected with the song\u2019s hopeful message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt saved a few. People have told me. And I love hearing that,\u201d Stipe later told Mojo.<\/em> \u201cThat\u2019s for me, that\u2019s my Oscar, that\u2019s my gold on a shelf right there\u2026 that something we did impacted someone\u2019s life in such a profound way. That\u2019s a beautiful thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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