Finest Worksong
"Finest Worksong" | ||||
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File:R.E.M. - Finest Worksong.jpg | ||||
Single by R.E.M. | ||||
from the album Document | ||||
B-side | "Time After Time, Etc." (Live) | |||
Released | March 1988 (US/CAN) April 1988 (UK/NL) |
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Format | 12" Single/7" Single/3" CD Single/CD Single | |||
Recorded | 1987 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length | 3:48 | |||
Label | IRS Records | |||
Writer(s) | Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe[1] | |||
Producer(s) | Scott Litt & R.E.M. | |||
R.E.M. singles chronology | ||||
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"Finest Worksong" was the third and final single released from R.E.M.'s fifth studio album Document. It peaked at #50 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1988, at the time the group's highest-charting single in the UK.
The single version of the song (also known as Mutual Drum Horn mix), featuring a new horn section by The Uptown Horns, was placed on R.E.M.'s I.R.S. Records compilation Eponymous. This was the last original single the band released on I.R.S. Records.
Track listing
All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe.
7" single
- "Finest Worksong" – 3:50
- "Time After Time, Etc." (Live)1 – 8:22
12" single and 3" CD single
- "Finest Worksong" – 3:50
- "Time After Time, Etc." (Live)1 – 8:22
- "Finest Worksong" (Lengthy Club mix) – 5:52
- "Finest Worksong" (Other mix) – 3:47
UK CD single
- "Finest Worksong"
- "Time After Time, Etc." (Live)1
- "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"
Notes
1 Recorded at the Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands; September 14, 1987, this live medley included "Time After Time (AnnElise)", a snippet of Peter Gabriel's "Red Rain" and "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)"
Charts
Chart (1988) | Peak position |
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UK Singles Chart[2] | 50 |
U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks[3] | 28 |
References
External links
- Pages with broken file links
- R.E.M. songs
- 1988 singles
- Songs written by Bill Berry
- Songs written by Peter Buck
- Songs written by Mike Mills
- Songs written by Michael Stipe
- I.R.S. Records singles
- 1987 songs
- Song recordings produced by Scott Litt
- Song recordings produced by Michael Stipe
- Song recordings produced by Mike Mills
- Song recordings produced by Bill Berry
- Song recordings produced by Peter Buck