Near Wild Heaven

Near Wild Heaven
"Near Wild Heaven"
Single by R.E.M.
from the album Out of Time
B-side "Pop Song '89" (live acoustic version)
Released 5 August 1991
Format CD (UK / Germany)
7" (UK / Germany / France)
12" (UK / Germany)
Cassette (UK)
Recorded September–October 1990
Genre Rock
Length 3:18
Label Warner Bros.
W0055 (UK, 7")
W0055C (UK, cassette)
W0055CDX (UK, CD)
W0055T (UK, 12")
5439-19179-7 (France / Germany, 7")
9362-40195-2 (Germany, CD)
9362-40171-0 (Germany, 12")
Producer Scott Litt & R.E.M.
R.E.M. singles chronology
"Shiny Happy People"
(1991)		 "Near Wild Heaven"
(1991)		 "Radio Song"
(1991)

"Near Wild Heaven" was the third single released from R.E.M.'s seventh studio album Out of Time in 1991. The song was the first single released by the band to have had its lyrics both co-written and sung by bassist Mike Mills. According to a quotation from Peter Buck in R.E.M. Inside Out: The Stories Behind Every Song by Craig Rosen, the lyrics are a collaboration between Mills and lead singer Michael Stipe. It managed to peak at #27 on the UK Singles Chart but the single was not released in the United States.

Mike Mills had previously written the lyrics to the single "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" and he had sung the cover song "Superman", but he had not previously sung his own work on a released recording.

Contents

Music video

The music video for this song features the band playing the song in a crowded café.

Track listing

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

7" / cassette

  1. "Near Wild Heaven"
  2. "Pop Song '89" (live)1

12"

  1. "Near Wild Heaven"
  2. "Pop Song '89" (live)1
  3. "Half a World Away" (live)2

CD

  1. "Near Wild Heaven" – 3:18
  2. "Tom's Diner" (Suzanne Vega) (live)1 – 2:04
  3. "Low" (live)1 – 4:59
  4. "Endgame" (live)1 – 3:28

Notes

1 Recorded at The Borderline Club, London, England; March 15, 1991.
2 Recorded on Rockline, Los Angeles, California; April 1, 1991.

Charts

Chart (1991) Peak
position
Dutch Singles Chart 51
German Singles Chart 46
Irish Singles Chart 3
UK Singles Chart 27

Personnel

With

External links

v · d · eR.E.M.
Bill Berry • Peter Buck • Mike Mills • Michael Stipe
Personnel
Managers
Bertis Downs IV • Jefferson Holt
Studio albums
Compilations
Dead Letter Office • Eponymous • The Best of R.E.M. • The Automatic Box • Singles Collected • In the Attic • In Time • iTunes Originals • And I Feel Fine • Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011
EPs
Chronic Town • Not Bad for No Tour • Vancouver Rehearsal Tapes • Live from London • Reckoning Songs from The Olympia
Other albums
Man on the Moon • r.e.m.IX • R.E.M. Live • Live at The Olympia
Singles
"Radio Free Europe" • "Talk About the Passion" • "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" • "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" • "Cant Get There from Here" • "Driver 8" • "Wendell Gee" • "Fall on Me" • "Superman" • "The One I Love" • "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" • "Finest Worksong" • "Orange Crush" • "Stand" • "Pop Song 89" • "Get Up" • "Losing My Religion" • "Shiny Happy People" • "Near Wild Heaven" • "Radio Song" • "Drive" • "Man on the Moon" • "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" • "Everybody Hurts" • "Nightswimming" • "Find the River" • "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" • "Bang and Blame" • "Strange Currencies" • "Crush with Eyeliner" • "Tongue" • "E-Bow the Letter" • "Bittersweet Me" • "Electrolite" • "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us" • "Daysleeper" • "Lotus" • "At My Most Beautiful" • "Suspicion" • "The Great Beyond" • "Imitation of Life" • "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)" • "I'll Take the Rain" • "Bad Day" • "Animal" • "Leaving New York" • "Aftermath" • "Electron Blue" • "Wanderlust" • "#9 Dream" • "Supernatural Superserious" • "Hollow Man" • "Man-Sized Wreath" • "Until the Day Is Done" • "Mine Smell Like Honey" • "Überlin" • "Oh My Heart" • "We All Go Back to Where We Belong"
Other songs
"Gardening at Night" • "Perfect Circle" • "Begin the Begin" • "Ages of You" • "World Leader Pretend" • "Turn You Inside-Out" • "Texarkana" • "Country Feedback" • "First We Take Manhattan" • "Ignoreland" • "Star 69" • "New Test Leper" • "All the Right Friends"
Videos
Succumbs • Tourfilm • Pop Screen • This Film Is On • Parallel • Road Movie • In View • Perfect Square • When the Light Is Mine • R.E.M. Live • This Is Not a Show • R.E.M. Live from Austin, TX
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