R.E.M.—“Nightswimming”

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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4.7 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Rob explores alternative rock band R.E.M.’s piano ballad “Nightswimming” by discussing the band’s musical journey and their songs’ frequent lack of lyrical coherence. This episode was originally produced as a Music and Talk show available exclusively on Spotify. Find the full song on Spotify or wherever you get your music. Host: Rob Harvilla Guest: Jay Caspian Kang Producers: Isaac Lee and Justin Sayles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.4	My own personal Everybody Harts moment was the time I tried to play Everybody Harts by REM at an open mic night at a coffee house on a Midwestern state college campus in the mid-90s, but my guitar was out of tune the entire time.
0:54.6	Like for the whole song, five-minute song, everybody hurts.
0:55.7	Seven or eight-minute song, if your personal
0:57.9	rendition is extra lugubrious.
1:01.5	Legitimately one of the worst moments of my life
1:03.9	up to that point, and in all likelihood in the lives
1:06.3	of everyone unfortunate enough to have been present.
1:19.6	When your day is long... unfortunate enough to have been present. This is an aspect of my personal life you don't need to know much about as opposed to all
1:24.4	the other crucial aspects.
1:26.5	But yeah, I had an open mic night guy phase in college.
1:29.8	I lucked into a Takamini acoustic guitar far nicer than I deserved.
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