R.E.M - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

He aquí el primer vinilo de R.E.M en el blog, la primera edición del sencillo It's The End Of The World As We Know It, 2° single (el primero es The One I Love y el tercero es Finest Worksong) del quinto álbum de la banda, Documents de 1987. Digo primera edición porque la canción fue re-lanzada en 1991 para el mercado ingles, editando una nueva versión del vinilo, ahora acompañado en el lado B por Radio Free Europe, el primer sencillo de la historia de banda.

Respecto a los vinilo de este sencillo, existen tres en tamaño 7'' y dos en 12'', todos con lados B distintos, siempre muy sabrosos para los fans.

Referente a la canción It's The End.., esta es la evolución de un antiguo tema previamente no lanzado llamado PSA (Public Service Announcement). Posteriormente la versión original fue re-grabada bajo el titulo Bad Day y lanzada el 2003 en la compilación In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003, así es interesante saber que podemos conocer las dos versiones de un mismo tema y ver su evolución.

Por último, el arte del disco no reviste mayor análisis,. Nos encontramos con una portada fome (obviamente mi apreciación personal que puede ser despreciada por algún fan de la banda... je je je) que sólo cumple con el objetivo de mencionar el nombre del artista y tema, siempre con letras grandes como es la tónica de los singles de R.E.M y las etiquetas también son sencillas y traen los típicos créditos de las canciones.

En resumen, un disco con un gran tema, con un valioso lado B, pero con un arte fome.


Información de Disco:
Formato: Disco de 7''. Caja simple tipo sobre.
Serial: IRS 53220
Sello: I.R.S. (International Records Syndicate)
Lanzamiento: Noviembre de 1987
Presente edición: Noviembre de 1978
País: USA

Canciones:

Lado A:
1. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Lado B:
1. Last Date


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Letra It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine):

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes,
an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn,
world serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs.
Feed it off an aux speak,, grunt, no, strength,
The ladder starts to clatter with fear fight down height.
Wire in a fire, representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site.
Left of west and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck.
Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
Look at that low playing!
Fine, then.
Uh oh, overflow, population, common food, but it'll do.
Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and the revered and the right - right.
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign towers.
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn.
Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood letting.
Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed. Uh-oh, this means no fear cavalier.
Renegade steer clear! A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone) and I feel fine.
(I feel fine)

The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide. Mountains sit in a line
Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev. Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.

It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone) and I feel fine.