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Finest Worksong

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Recorded
  
1987

Length
  
3:48

B-side
  
"Time After Time, Etc." (Live)

Released
  
March 1988 (US/CAN) April 1988 (UK/NL)

Format
  
12" single/7" single/3" CD single/CD single

Genre
  
Alternative rock funk metal

"Finest Worksong" was the third and final single released from R.E.M.'s fifth studio album Document. It peaked at number 50 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1988, at the time the group's highest-charting single in the UK.

Contents

The single version of the song (also known as Mutual Drum Horn mix), featuring a new horn section by The Uptown Horns, was placed on R.E.M.'s I.R.S. Records compilation Eponymous. This was the last original single the band released on I.R.S. Records.

Track listing

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

7" single

  1. "Finest Worksong" – 3:50
  2. "Time After Time, Etc." (Live)1 – 8:22

12" single and 3" CD single

  1. "Finest Worksong" – 3:50
  2. "Time After Time, Etc." (Live)1 – 8:22
  3. "Finest Worksong" (Lengthy Club mix) – 5:52
  4. "Finest Worksong" (Other mix) – 3:47

UK CD single

  1. "Finest Worksong"
  2. "Time After Time, Etc." (Live)1
  3. "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"

Notes

1 Recorded at the Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands; September 14, 1987, this live medley included "Time After Time (AnnElise)", a snippet of Peter Gabriel's "Red Rain" and "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)"

References

Finest Worksong Wikipedia
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