Strange Currencies

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"Strange Currencies"
"Strange Currencies" cover
Single by R.E.M.
from the album Monster
Released April 18, 1995 (US)
Format CD single, 7" single, 12" single, Cassette
Recorded 1994
Genre Rock
Length 3:32
Label Warner Bros.
Producer(s) Scott Litt & R.E.M.
Chart positions
R.E.M. singles chronology
"Crush with Eyeliner"
(1995)		 "Strange Currencies"
(1995)		 "Tongue"
(1995)

"Strange Currencies" is a song by R.E.M.. It was included on the album Monster and was also released as a single in 1995. The single hit #9 in the UK singles chart and peaked at #47 in the USA.

The video, directed by Mark Romanek, was shot on the first anniversary of the death of Michael Stipe's close friend River Phoenix.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Berry, Buck, Mills, and Stipe unless otherwise indicated.

[edit] 12" and CD Maxi-Single

  1. "Strange Currencies" – 3:32
  2. "Drive" (live)1 – 4:17
  3. "Funtime" (D. Jones/Osterberg) (live)1 – 2:16
  4. "Radio Free Europe" (live)1 – 4:43

[edit] 7", Cassette and CD Single

  1. "Strange Currencies" (album version) – 3:32
  2. "Strange Currencies" (instrumental version) – 3:32

[edit] Notes

1 Recorded at the 40 Watt Club, Athens, Georgia; November 19, 1992. The performance, a benefit for Greenpeace, was recorded on a solar-powered mobile studio.


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R.E.M.
Peter Buck | Mike Mills | Michael Stipe | Bill Berry
Other musicians: Scott McCaughey | Bill Rieflin | Ken Stringfellow | Nathan December | Buren Fowler | Peter Holsapple | Barrett Martin | Joey Waronker
Management and producers: Bertis Downs, IV | Pat McCarthy | Joe Boyd | Don Dixon | Mitch Easter | Don Gehman | Jefferson Holt | Scott Litt
Discography
EPs: Chronic Town
Albums: 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
Singles: Radio Free Europe | Talk About the Passion | So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) | (Don't Go Back to) Rockville | Can't Get There From Here | Driver 8 | Wendell Gee | Fall On Me | Superman | The One I Love | It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) | Finest Worksong | Stand | Orange Crush | Pop Song 89 | Get Up | Losing My Religion | Shiny Happy People | Near Wild Heaven | Radio Song | Drive | Man on the Moon | The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite | Everybody Hurts | Nightswimming | Find the River | What's the Frequency, Kenneth? | Bang and Blame | Star 69 | Strange Currencies | Crush With Eyeliner | Tongue | E-Bow the Letter | Bittersweet Me | Electrolite | How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us | Daysleeper | Lotus | At My Most Beautiful | Suspicion | The Great Beyond | Imitation of Life | All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star) | I'll Take the Rain | Bad Day | Animal | Leaving New York | Aftermath | Electron Blue | Wanderlust
Compilations: Dead Letter Office | Eponymous | In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 | And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987
Remix Albums: R.E.M.IX
Soundtracks: Man on the Moon
Videos: Succumbs | Tourfilm | Pop Screen | This Film Is On | Parallel | Road Movie | In View: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 | Perfect Square | When the Light Is Mine: The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987
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