Leaving New York

Leaving New York

Infobox Single |
Name = Leaving New York


Artist = R.E.M.
from Album = Around the Sun
Released = 27 September 2004 (UK)
Format = 2 CDs, downloadable MP3
Recorded = 2004
Genre = Rock
Length = 4:49
Label = Warner Bros. Records
W654CD1 / W654CD2
Producer = R.E.M. and Pat McCarthy
Last single = "Animal"
(2004)
This single = "Leaving New York"
(2004)
Next single = "Aftermath"
(2005)

"Leaving New York" was the first single from R.E.M's 2004 album "Around the Sun". Although it was not as heavily promoted as earlier singles, it reached as high as #5 on the UK Singles Chart. However, the song failed to chart on the "Billboard Hot 100", becoming the only lead single from an R.E.M. studio album not to chart on the U.S. Hot 100 besides "Cant Get There From Here" from "Fables of the Reconstruction" in 1985.

In early live performances of the song (September 2006), the band would play Michael Stipe's "It's pulling me apart. Change." album backing vocal during the chorus and bridge of live performances. Around September 2004, however, they worked up an alternative whereby the backing vocals would be shared amongst Mike Mills, Scott McCaughey and Ken Stringfellow in order to make the song flow more smoothly.

According to "Q magazine",Specify|date=July 2008 the song was recorded with the piano used in "Layla" by Derek and the Dominos.

The song is included on "R.E.M. Live".

Background to the song

As Stipe stated in interviews, the tune is a love song to the city. Stipe regards New York as his second hometown. Once, flying out of the city and seeing it from above, Stipe was overwhelmed by its beauty and wrote the song right there on the plane.Fact|date=February 2007

The music video was shot with real friends of the band members, throwing a party, and snapshots of Stipe in different places of the city, giving the video a spontaneous and private atmosphere.

Track listing

All tracks by Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe unless otherwise stated.

CD1

#"Leaving New York"
#"(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (live in Oslo 25 October 2003)

CD2

#"Leaving New York"
#"You Are the Everything" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (live)
#"These Days" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (live)

Charts

External links

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