Superman (R.E.M. song)

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"Superman"
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Single by R.E.M.
From the album Lifes Rich Pageant
Single Released 1986
Single Format 7" Vinyl
Recorded 1986
Genre Alternative Rock
Song Length 2:54
Record label I.R.S. Records
Producer Don Gehman
Chart positions N/A
R.E.M. single chronology
"Fall on Me"
1986		 "Superman"
1986		 "The One I Love"
1987

"Superman" is a song recorded by R.E.M. from their fourth album, 1986's Lifes Rich Pageant. It was the last of two singles released from that LP.

This song is a cover of a 1969 minor hit by The Clique, and was also popularized by Moby Grape.

Though "Superman" has received a fair amount of radio play over the years, it did not chart on the main U.S. singles chart (although it did reach #17 on Billboard Magazine's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart). [1]

The song appeared in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman's episode named "Tempus Anyone?" (1996).

In early 1999, IBM began a television advertisement campaign for its Lotus Notes software product that included the chorus of "Superman," sung by a female vocalist. This upset some R.E.M. fans, apparently unaware that the song was a cover.

The B-side to this single is a surf rock instrumental entitled "White Tornado", recorded in 1981.

In a 2006 episode of The Simpsons, "Million Dollar Abie", this song played during a montage of fun things Abe Simpson does after reconsidering euthanasia.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe unless otherwise indicated.

[edit] 7": IRS / IRM 128 (UK)

  1. "Superman" (The Clique) - 2:52
  2. "White Tornado" - 1:56

[edit] 12": IRS / IRT 128 (UK)

  1. "Superman" (The Clique) - 2:52
  2. "White Tornado" - 1:56
  3. "Femme Fatale" (The Velvet Underground) - 2:50

[edit] 12": IRS / ILS 65025 5 6 (Holland)

  1. "Superman" (The Clique) - 2:52
  2. "White Tornado" - 1:56
  3. "Perfect Circle" - 3:30


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
Related articles
Alternative rock | Hindu Love Gods | I.R.S. Records | Warner Bros. Records
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