“Shiny Happy People” was a smash hit for alternative rock band R.E.M. in 1991. In fact, the song was their first Top 10 hit in the UK, where it peaked at No. 6. The song was also popular across the ...
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 ...
When a band writes and records a song about a famous person, and it becomes one of their signature hits, do we really need them to record a second song about the same person? In the case of R.E.M. and ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But for alternative rock icon Michael Stipe, it wasn't the fuzzed-out rock anthems of "Powderfinger" or "Hey Hey, My My (Into The ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. R.E.M. — Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe, and Bill Berry — at the 2024 Songwriters Hall Of Fame induction ceremony. - Credit ...
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 ...
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 ...