

These 3 variables combine to tell you how long a note should be held for. There was nothing I could add to it.When learning how to read sheet music you need to ask yourself 3 questions about a note’s appearance in order to work out its length…. Stipe: The music on it, it was too perfect and complete. Q: What about “Man on the Moon” made it difficult? That song and “Man on the Moon” (from 1992’s “Automatic for the People”) are two of the most difficult I wrote.

I can remember the couch I sat on when it hit me, and when I wrote that story down on a notebook. I wrote seven completely different drafts and narrative arcs and through all seven I landed on one after watching a daytime TV talk show and someone we would have referred to then as a transvestite was presenting their idea about why they felt compelled to express themselves. Stipe: I would agree with “New Test Leper.” It’s a song that I worked very, very hard on. It’s rare and exciting and when something happens that fast – it’s usually pretty good. Bill started playing the drum line, the piano just fell out of me, and in about three minutes we had a framework of the song. It was an incredibly organically created song. records for pleasure, but “How the West Was Won and Where it Got Us” is so eerie and spooky. What still resonates with you from the album? Q: Peter Buck has said “New Test Leper” is his favorite R.E.M. Rock Hall inductions: The Go-Go's talk girl power, legacy

I don’t know of anyone else who has made a record on the road like that. It’s not like any other record or part of any other series of records we did, other than it being done on the Monster tour. How do you feel about it when reflecting on the band’s catalog? Q: A lot of fans consider this album peak R.E.M.
