Covered in Folk: R.E.M. (Redbird, Great Big Sea, Rosie Thomas, Grant Lee Phillips and more!)
I enjoy a good challenge. So when a recent and otherwise well-written treatise on the socio-economic function of cover songs past and present declared the R.E.M. catalog "too cryptic to survive being covered", I set out to amass a collection of songs which would prove the author wrong. My dubious pursuit was confounded a bit by a long-time personal apathy for R.E.M.'s particularly angsty, often melodramatic performance style, as filtered through frontman Michael Stipe's voice and phrasing, which just aren't to taste. Sure, there's a few songs I wouldn't change the station [...]
- Cry Cry Cry - Fall on Me (R.E.M. cover)
- Cry Cry Cry - Fall On Me (R.E.M. cover)
- Ferraby Lionheart - Man On The Moon (R.E.M. cover)
- Frida Hyvönen - Everybody Hurts (R.E.M. cover)
- Glen Hansard - Hairshirt (R.E.M. cover)
- Grant Lee Phillips - So. Central Rain (R.E.M. cover)
- Great Big Sea - It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (R.E.M. cover)
- R. E. M. - Gentle On My Mind (John Hartford cover)
- R.E.M. - First We Take Manhattan (Leonard Cohen cover)
- R.E.M. - Wall of Death (Richard Thompson cover)
- Redbird - You Are the Everything (R.E.M. Cover)
- Rosie Thomas - The One I Love (R.E.M. cover)
- The Coors - Everybody Hurts (R.E.M.)
- Tori Amos - Losing My Religion (R.E.M. cover)




















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