ll four members of R.E.M. picked their 10 favorite tracks for a new playlist feature for NME.
The playlist was inspired by a few songs in their catalog getting used in season 2 of The Bear. Here are the songs they chose.
Michael Stipe:
- "World Leader Pretend" - Green
- "Country Feedback" - Out of Time
- "Stranger Currencies (Remix)" - Monster 25th Anniversary Edition
- "The Lifting" - Reveal
- "Electron Blue" - Around the Sun
- "Supernatural Superserious" - Accelerate
- "Oh My Heart" - Collapse Into Now
- "We All Go Back to Where We Belong" - Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011
- "Half a World Away" - Out of Time
Peter Buck:
- "Feeling Gravity's Pull" - Fables of the Reconstruction
- "So. Central Rain" - Reckoning
- "Walk Unafraid" - Up
- "You're in the Air" - Up
- "Discoverer" - Collapse Into Now
- "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)" - Reveal
- "Try Not to Breathe" - Automatic for the People
- "Undertow" - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
- "Electrolite" - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
- "Finest Worksong" - Document
Mike Mills:
- "Wolves, Lower" - Chronic Town
- "Pilgrimage" - Murmur
- "I Believe" - Life's Rich Pageant
- "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" - Document
- "You Are the Everything" - Green
- "Orange Crush" - Green
- "What's the Frequency Kenneth" - Monster
- "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us" - New Adventuires in Hi-Fi
- "Living Well Is the Best Revenge" - Accelerate
- "Every Day Is Yours to Win" - Collapse Into Now
Bill Berry:
- "Beachball" - Reveal
- "Daysleeper" - Up
- "Leaving New York" - Around the Sun
- "These Days" - Life's Rich Pageant
- "We Walk" - Murmur
- "I Remember California" - Green
- "I Don't Sleep, I Dream" - Monster
- "Rotary 10" - B-side of "Fall on Me"
- "Voice of Harold" - B-side of "So. Central Rain"
- "Find the River" - Automatic for the People