Finest Worksong

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"Finest Worksong"
Single by R.E.M.
from the album Document
B-side(s)	Time After Time, Etc. (Live)
Released	March 1988 (US/CAN) April 1988 (UK/Holland)
Format	12" Single/7" Single/3" CD Single/CD Single
Recorded	1987
Genre	Rock
Length	3:48
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer(s)	Scott Litt & R.E.M.
Chart positions
#50 (UK)
R.E.M. singles chronology
"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" (1987)	"Finest Worksong" (1988)	"Stand" (1989)

"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 Charts, at the time the highest chart the band had ever had in Britain.

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.

[edit] Track listing

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

7" single

1. "Finest Worksong" – 3:50
2. "Time After Time, Etc." (live)¹ – 8:22

12" single and 3" CD single

1. "Finest Worksong" – 3:50
2. "Time After Time, Etc." (live)¹ – 8:22
3. "Finest Worksong" (Lengthy Club Mix) – 5:52
4. "Finest Worksong" (Other Mix) – 3:47

UK CD single

1. "Finest Worksong"
2. "Time After Time, Etc." (live)¹
3. "It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"

[edit] Notes

¹ Recorded at the Muzikcentrum, Utrecht, Holland; September 14, 1987.

[edit] External links

• Video Clip at REMhq.com

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 • Jefferson Holt • Scott Litt Joe Boyd • Don Dixon • Mitch Easter • Don Gehman
Discography
Albums and EPs: Chronic Town • 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: See here
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 album: R.E.M.IX
Soundtrack: 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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