![]() – I Walked with a Zombie (Roky Erickson cover) ![]() Yes, that includes Peter Buck, in a rare vocal turn. They covered “I Walked with a Zombie,” with every member taking turns on lead vocals. The band’s first (of many) high-profile tribute album appearances came on 1990’s Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson. ![]() – Good King Wenceslas (Traditional cover) As would quickly become a tradition, they included a cover, this time of Television’s “See No Evil.” The songs were usually non-thematic, but a few times they covered seasonal tunes, like “Good King Wenceslas” the following year. In 1988, the band released the first of their annual Christmas fan club singles. The following year, they did it again, covering Wire’s “Strange” on Document. earned themselves a minor hit with it and earned the original songwriters a sudden boon in royalty payments 20 years after they wrote it. The first cover they released on a regular album was the Clique’s barely-remembered “Superman” on 1986’s Lifes Rich Pageant. – After Hours (The Velvet Underground cover) – Femme Fatale (The Velvet Underground cover) – Pale Blue Eyes (The Velvet Underground cover) – There She Goes Again (The Velvet Underground cover) And throughout the ‘80s, they covered “After Hours.” Once the band started covering the Velvets, they couldn’t seem to stop. Central Rain”), they did “Pale Blue Eyes.” Three years later, they released “Femme Fatale” on the Dead Letter Office compilation. Their first album single (1983’s “Radio Free Europe”) featured “There She Goes Again” on the flip. In their earliest days, the band covered Velvet Underground. To remember the beloved band, we look back chronologically at some of their most important and best-known covers. Through a combination of smart selections (no novelty rap covers here) and a rare ability to extract the essence of a lyric or melody, they made just about every song they tackled sound like an R.E.M. From the very beginning, they seemingly relished every opportunity to pay tribute to their influences, tacking covers onto singles, compilations, and their annual Christmas fan club records. Over the course of their career, the band performed countless covers. changed my life” exclamations in the ‘80s and ‘90s. The quartet-turned-trio performed together for 31 years, 15 albums, and countless “R.E.M. Just as it began, the entire enterprise ended not with a bang, but with a murmur. ![]() broke up yesterday via an understated note on their website. ![]()
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