Bad Day (R.E.M. song)
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Bad Day is a single released by R.E.M.. It was a new song for R.E.M.'s Warner Brothers Records "best of" album, In Time - The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003, and was released as a single in support of the album.
It started life in 1986, around the time of Life's Rich Pageant, with the title "PSA" (public service announcement). An anti-media rant inspired by a day Michael Stipe found a camcorder lens in his face when he answered the front door, the song was said to have been prototype of "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)". When revamped in 2003, Stipe saw it could be updated for contemporary resonance. #redirect [[Template:Fact]]
The music video, directed by Tim Hope and shot in Vancouver, is a spoof of media news and was produced by Pressure Pictures. It appears on In View, the DVD companion of In Time, and is also found on the bonus CD in the limited edition of In Time. In the video, Stipe appears as the Morning Team's news anchor Cliff Harris; Mills doubles as roving reporter Ed Colbert and meteorologist Rick Jennings; and Buck as climate expert Geoff Sayers and the reporter Eric Nelson.
Track listing
- 'Bad Day'
- 'Favorite Writer'
- 'Out in the Country'
- 'Adagio'
External links
| R.E.M. |
| Peter Buck - Mike Mills - Michael Stipe |
| Bill Berry |
| Other musicians: Nathan December - Buren Fowler - Peter Holsapple - Barrett Martin - Scott McCaughey - Bill Rieflin - Ken Stringfellow - Joey Waronker |
| Management and producers: Joe Boyd - Don Dixon - Bertis Downs, IV - Mitch Easter - Don Gehman - Jefferson Holt - Scott Litt - Pat McCarthy |
| Discography |
| Albums: Chronic Town (EP) - Murmur - Reckoning - Fables of the Reconstruction - Lifes Rich Pageant - Document - Green - Out of Time - Automatic for the People - Monster - New Adventures in Hi-Fi - Up - Reveal - Around the Sun |
| Compilations: Dead Letter Office - Eponymous - [[R.E.M.: Singles Collected]] - The Best of R.E.M. - In the Attic - In Time |
| Soundtracks: ''Man on the Moon |
| Videos: Succumbs - Pop Screen - Tourfilm - This Film Is On - Parallel - Road Movie - Perfect Square - In View |
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