The Great Beyond

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"The Great Beyond"
"The Great Beyond" cover
Single by R.E.M.
from the album Man on the Moon OST
A-side(s) "The Great Beyond" (Edit)
B-side(s) "The One I Love" (Live), "Everybody Hurts" (Live), "Man On The Moon" (Live)
Released November 1999 (US)

January 24, 2000 (UK)
Format CD, Cassette
Genre Rock
Length 5:06
Label Warner Brothers
Jersey Records
Producer(s) Pat McCarthy
Chart positions
  • #3 (UK)
  • #57 (USA)
R.E.M. singles chronology
"Suspicion"
1999		 "The Great Beyond"
2000		 "Imitation of Life"
2001

"The Great Beyond" is a song by R.E.M. It is not featured on an original studio album as it was written specifically for the 1999 movie Man on the Moon but was released as a single the following year, in support of the film's soundtrack album. The single reached #3 in the UK singles chart. It is also included in R.E.M.'s 2003 compilation album, In Time.

At 4:09 and at 4:26, you can hear in the background the following lines: "Here's a little agit for the never-believer, here's a little ghost for the offering". Both lines were taken from the 1992 R.E.M. song "Man on the Moon", also about Andy Kaufman, from which the movie took its title.

The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.

The song's video was directed by Liz Friedlander. It originally featured footage of Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman, yet for the In View DVD (which accompanied In Time and collected R.E.M.'s major videos from 1988 to 2003) the video was remixed to feature archived footage of Kaufman himself (similar to the video for "Man on the Moon").

[edit] Track listing

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

Cassette

  1. "The Great Beyond" (radio edit) - 4:14
  2. "Man On The Moon"1 - 5:24

UK CD

  1. "The Great Beyond" (radio edit) - 4:14
  2. "Everybody Hurts" (live)1 - 6:20
  3. "The One I Love" (live)1 - 3:10

Maxi-CD

  1. "The Great Beyond" (radio edit) - 4:14
  2. "The One I Love" (live)1 - 3:10
  3. "Everybody Hurts" (live)1 - 6:20
  4. "Man On The Moon" (live)1 - 5:24

[edit] Notes

1 Recorded at the Glastonbury Festival, Somerset, England; June 25, 1999.

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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 • 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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Alternative rock • Hindu Love Gods • I.R.S. Records • Warner Bros. Records • Homer the Moe
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