Get Up (R.E.M. song)

Infobox Single |
Name = Get Up


Artist = R.E.M.
from Album = Green
Released = September 1989
Format = 7" single
Recorded = 1988
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 3:03
Label = Warner Bros.
Producer = Scott Litt & R.E.M.
Chart position =

• did not chart

Last single = "Pop Song 89"
(1989)
This single = "Get Up"
(1989)
Next single = "Losing My Religion"
(1991)

"Get Up" was the fourth and final single to be released by R.E.M. from the band's sixth studio album "Green". It was included in the limited edition "Singleactiongreen" box set released in November 1989. The song was released as a single only in the US but failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song was written by Michael Stipe about Mike Mills. Mills always seemed to sleep late during their recording sessions for "Green". This was Stipe's call for Mills to get up and work. However, Mills did not find this out until a concert in the late 1990s, when Michael Stipe introduced the song as being about him. [Black, Johnny (2004). Reveal: The Story of R.E.M.. Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-776-5.]

The video for the song was created by a young filmmaker named Eric Darnell, who had recently graduated from the CalArts program in experimental animation and who went on to co-direct the mainstream computer animated features "Antz" and "Madagascar".

In the film "Tourfilm", which features live footage from R.E.M.'s live tour in 1989, Michael Stipe introduces this song as his favorite song.

A music box can be heard during the bridge.

Track listing

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

# "Get Up" – 2:35
# "Funtime" (David Bowie, Iggy Pop) – 2:16

External links

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

References