Radio Free Europe -
Pilgrimage -
Laughing -
Talk About the Passion -
Moral Kiosk -
Perfect Circle - Berry
Catapult -
Sitting Still -
9-9 -
Shaking Through -
We Walk -
West of the Fields -
I suspect a few of these may have Mills origins due to the bass influence.
Mills wrote at least the solo for Talk About the Passion…
Radio Free Europe - Buck
Pilgrimage - Mills
Laughing - got the impression that Berry wrote most of it.
Talk About the Passion - Buck (except for the Mills solo)
Moral Kiosk - ?
Perfect Circle - Berry
Catapult - Berry
Sitting Still - Buck
9-9 - ?
Shaking Through - Mills
We Walk - ?
West of the Fields - mostly Buck
I’ve enjoyed these threads. The thing that strikes me (and this is based on our speculation) is that the writing was more collaborative early on. I feel like the early albums were 3/4 guys in a room, working on ideas. Later on, as they became more proficient, they’d each bring fairly complete compositions in for Stipe to work on.
Seems like I was wrong about RFE - according to Mills - it was mostly him…
I was listening to Radio Free Europe the other day and wondered the same thing…the verses are driven by the bass.
Just guesses, no doubt wong.
9-9 is bass led, so I’ll take a punt on Mills.
We Walk - Sounds like Buck to my ears
New interview with Mike where he claims Radio Free Europe.
Very good interview, coincidence, I had just finished reading it. 
My replies never go where they belong. This post was a reply to the one above it
Yes I am hitting the arrow…
He made a couple of minor corrections on twitter.
“A couple of minor misquotes—the guitar in which I wrote RFE was unplugged, not plugged in. And the early Athens folks were a community, not a committee. But indeed minor stuff.”