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"Near Wild Heaven"

Single by R.E.M.

from the album Out of Time

Released

5 August 1991

Format

CD (UK / Germany)
7" (UK / Germany / France)
12" (UK / Germany)
Cassette (UK)

Recorded

September–October 1990

Genre

Rock

Length

3:18

Label

Warner Bros.
W0055 (UK, 7")
W0055C (UK, cassette)
W0055CDX (UK, CD)
W0055T (UK, 12")
5439-19179-7 (France / Germany, 7")
9362-40195-2 (Germany, CD)
9362-40171-0 (Germany, 12")

Producer

Scott Litt & R.E.M.

R.E.M. singles chronology

"Shiny Happy People"
(1991)

"Near Wild Heaven"
(1991)

"Radio Song"
(1991)

"Near Wild Heaven" was the third single released from R.E.M.'s seventh studio album Out of Time in 1991. The song was the first single released by the band to have had its lyrics both co-written and sung by bassist Mike Mills. According to a quotation from Peter Buck in R.E.M. Inside Out: The Stories Behind Every Song by Craig Rosen, the lyrics are a collaboration between Mills and leader singer Michael Stipe. It managed to peak at #27 on the UK Singles Charts but the single was not released in the United States.

Mike Mills had previously written the lyrics to the single "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" and he had sung the cover song "Superman," but he had not previously sung his own work on a released recording.

1 Music video
2 Track listing
3 Notes
4 Charts
5 External links

Music video

The music video for this song features the band playing the song in a crowded café.

Track listing

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

7" / cassette

"Near Wild Heaven"
"Pop Song '89" (live)¹

12"

"Near Wild Heaven"
"Pop Song '89" (live)¹
"Half a World Away" (live)²

CD

"Near Wild Heaven" – 3:18
"Tom's Diner" (Suzanne Vega) (live)¹ – 2:04
"Low" (live)¹ – 4:59
"Endgame" (live)¹ – 3:28

Notes

¹ Recorded at The Borderline Club, London, England; March 15, 1991.
² Recorded on Rockline, Los Angeles, California; April 1, 1991.

Charts

Chart (1991)	Peak position
Irish Singles Chart	3
UK Singles Chart	27

External links

v • d • e R.E.M.

Peter Buck · Mike Mills · Michael Stipe Bill Berry

Accompaniment	Nathan December · Buren Fowler · Peter Holsapple · Barrett Martin · Scott McCaughey · Bill Rieflin · Ken Stringfellow · Joey Waronker

Managers	Bertis Downs, IV · Jefferson Holt

Studio albums	Murmur · Reckoning · Fables of the Reconstruction · Lifes Rich Pageant · Document · Green · Out of Time · Automatic for the People · Monster · New Adventures in Hi-Fi · Up · Reveal · Around the Sun · Accelerate

Compilations	Dead Letter Office · Eponymous · The Best of R.E.M. · The Automatic Box · Singles Collected · In the Attic · In Time · iTunes Originals · And I Feel Fine

EPs	Chronic Town · Not Bad for No Tour · Vancouver Rehearsal Tapes · Live from London · Reckoning Songs from The Olympia

Other albums	Man on the Moon · r.e.m.IX · R.E.M. Live · Live at The Olympia

Singles	"Radio Free Europe" · "Talk About the Passion" · "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" · "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" · "Cant Get There from Here" · "Driver 8" · "Wendell Gee" · "Fall on Me" · "Superman" · "The One I Love" · "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" · "Finest Worksong" · "Orange Crush" · "Stand" · "Pop Song 89" · "Get Up" · "Losing My Religion" · "Shiny Happy People" · "Near Wild Heaven" · "Radio Song" · "Drive" · "Man on the Moon" · "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" · "Everybody Hurts" · "Nightswimming" · "Find the River" · "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" · "Bang and Blame" · "Strange Currencies" · "Crush with Eyeliner" · "Tongue" · "E-Bow the Letter" · "Bittersweet Me" · "Electrolite" · "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us" · "Daysleeper" · "Lotus" · "At My Most Beautiful" · "Suspicion" · "The Great Beyond" · "Imitation of Life" · "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)" · "I'll Take the Rain" · "Bad Day" · "Animal" · "Leaving New York" · "Aftermath" · "Electron Blue" · "Wanderlust" · "Supernatural Superserious" · "Hollow Man" · "Man-Sized Wreath" •

Videos	Succumbs · Tourfilm · Pop Screen · This Film Is On · Parallel · Road Movie · In View · Perfect Square · When the Light Is Mine · R.E.M. Live · Live at The Olympia

Related articles	Discography · Tours · Athens, Georgia · Automatic Baby · College radio · The Baseball Project · Hindu Love Gods · Athens Andover · "I Belong to You" · I.R.S. Records · Warner Bros. Records · Hib-Tone · Surprise Your Pig: A Tribute to R.E.M. · Drive XV: a tribute to "Automatic for the People" · "Homer the Moe"

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