Pop Song 89

"Pop Song 89"
Single by R.E.M.
from the album Green
B-side "Pop Song 89" (acoustic version)
Released May 1989
Format
Recorded 1988
Genre Bubblegum pop[1][2][3]
Length 3:03
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
R.E.M. singles chronology
"Stand"
(1989)		 "Pop Song 89"
(1989)		 "Get Up"
(1989)

"Stand"
(1989)		 "Pop Song 89"
(1989)		 "Get Up"
(1989)

"Pop Song 89" is the opening track and third single released from R.E.M.'s sixth studio album Green. It peaked at number 86 on the Hot 100, and in the UK "Stand" was re-released instead.

The video was directed by band frontman Michael Stipe[4] and features him and three women, all of them topless, dancing to the song.[5] When MTV asked Stipe to put censor bars on the three women in the video, he superimposed black bars on the chests of all four dancers, himself included, later stating, "a nipple is a nipple."

The acoustic version that was used as the single's B-side was also included on disc 4 of the 1993 box set The Automatic Box, along with the other Green B-sides, and the bonus disc of the limited two-disc edition of In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 in 2003.

Charts

Chart (1989) Peak
position
Canadian Hot 100 94
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 86
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 14
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 16

Track listing

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

  1. "Pop Song 89" – 3:03
  2. "Pop Song 89" (acoustic) – 2:58

Cover versions

Motion City Soundtrack covered the song on the Punk Goes 80's compilation album, released on Fearless Records in 2005.

References

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  4. ↑ "mvdbase.com - R.E.M. - "Pop song 89"". Mvdbase.com. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Most NSFW Music Videos". Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
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