"We All Go Back To Where We Belong" - Rolling Stone Review

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#61 Joni Smeke

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Posted 20 October 2011 - 12:50 PM

Driver Nate, on 20 October 2011 - 12:12 PM, said:

What if the real "goodbye" song is being reserved for the last holiday single, what will folks make of "Blue" and "We All Go Back To Where We Belong" then?

They will say that there are clear and obvious signs in both of them that they are the penultimate and the antepenultimate songs in the R.E.M. catalogue.

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#62 stipeeyes

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Posted 21 October 2011 - 06:07 AM

I need to rant about this:

Here is an article from Time Magazine about the song. One thing Time magazine is known for is not getting facts correct. Especially about R.E.M. and Michael.

Now this woman obviously didn't do any research on the new song or she would know that Michael didn't write the lyrics. I could freelance way better than this. Also I wish people who are not fans wouldn't try and write a review of someone's song.

This is what Claire Suddath says,

Luckily, the show’s not over yet. R.E.M. just released its final single. “We All Go Back to Where We Belong.” It will appear on the compilation album Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage (out Nov. 15) and is a somber reflection on the end of a life-changing experience. “Is this really what you want?” Stipe asks over and over again in the chorus. He never receives an answer. In any other context, I would assume he had written a song about a failed romance. Actually, maybe he has.
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#63 Stoffel

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Posted 21 October 2011 - 06:14 AM

stipeeyes, on 21 October 2011 - 06:07 AM, said:

he didn't? who wrote them then?

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#64 Sweden

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Posted 21 October 2011 - 06:22 AM

stipeeyes, on 21 October 2011 - 06:07 AM, said:

Now this woman obviously didn't do any research on the new song or she would know that Michael didn't write the lyrics.

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#65 Driver Nate

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Posted 21 October 2011 - 08:53 AM

Stipeeyes said in another thread that it's a cover. I'm not sure if that's what she's alluding to here or not.

"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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#66 Driver Eight

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Posted 21 October 2011 - 11:33 AM

I think it's very pretty and somewhat interesting musically. Michael is earnest and his voice is rough - which has its appeal and at the same time its shortcomings.

I don't think it sets out to shatter the earth or to reveal enormous truths, so I think that yes, the lyrics are simple and might have been expanded on in another verse or two, but I don't think the song loses much for not having done so.

I'd say a reasonably good, simple REM song about love and lament with an earnest, direct charm.

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Congratulate me. ...

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I can't even rhyme ...

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#67 chrome3d

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Posted 22 October 2011 - 08:49 AM

Quite okay pretty one. It's another goodbye song but I think I've had enough R.E.M. goodbye songs this year. It has been quite emotional and all but enough is enough. With all these goodbye songs they better stay retired and don't announce a comeback too soon (like 2015).

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