Stand (R.E.M. song)

Infobox Single |
Name = Stand


Artist = R.E.M.
from Album = Green
Released = January 1989
Format = 7" Single/12" Single/3" CD Single
Recorded = 1988
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 3:10
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = Scott Litt & R.E.M.
Last single = "Orange Crush" (1988)
This single = "Stand" (1989)
Next single = "Pop Song 89" (1989)

"Stand" is a song by R.E.M. released as the second single from "Green" in 1989. The song quickly rose up the charts, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming R.E.M.'s second top 10 hit in the United States. The song reached #48 on the UK Singles Charts. The song reached #16 in Canada.

"Weird Al" Yankovic parodied "Stand" for his 1989 album, "UHF", as "Spam".

Stand was used as the opening theme to the early 1990s Fox comedy, "Get a Life", starring Chris Elliott.

The song was placed on R.E.M.'s Warner Bros. Records "best of" album "In Time - The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003" in 2003.

The song is an example of "truck driver's gear change", as the last two rounds of the chorus are each one whole step higher than the one previouscite episode
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Track listing

All songs written by Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe except where indicated.

1st issue

7"
# "Stand" – 3:10
# "Memphis Train Blues" – 1:38

12" vinly & 3" cd single

# "Stand" - 3:09
# "Memphis Train Blues" - 1:37
# "The Eleventh Untitled Song" - 3:56

Notes:The UK 3" cd single with the catalogue number W7577 CDX came in a leaf-shaped sleeve.

"The Eleventh Untitled Song" is an extended instrumental version of the closing (eleventh) unlisted (untitled) track from the album Green.

2nd issue - released later in 1989 with different cover art (a picture of the band on stage) in the UK instead of "Pop Song 89."

# "Stand" - 3:09
# "Pop Song 89 - acoustic" 2:56
# "Skin Tight - live" (Ohio Players cover, written by Jones, Pierce, Bonner, Middlebrooks) - 2:03

Note: live track recorded in Orlando, Florida 30 April 1989

Charts

References

External links

* [http://www.remhq.com/shared_assets/videography/videos/stand.html Video clip at REMhq]