Top 20 Favorite R.E.M. Songs: Finest Worksong (#20)

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Happy Monday, such as it is. It's cool and overcast here, perfect weather to augment the first day of the work week. But there's a ray of sunshine: the first day of my countdown of favorite R.E.M. songs! I didn't plan it this way, but today's song is appropriate for a Monday. #20: Finest Worksong If you gotta go to work on Monday, you might as well have a good work song to listen to. No, the finest work song!! The opening track to R.E.M.'s "breakthrough" album Document, this was the era where they left "cult status" behind and became a "star" group. (They'd go to "superstar" status by 1991's Out of Time.) And wow, what an opening track. With everyone doing what they do best (killer drum work from Bill Berry, that cool bass riff from Mike Mills, and the melodic one-note guitar lead from Peter Buck), it kicked butt -- and still does. Favorite line from the song: "What we want, and what we need, has been confused." No kidding! Finest Worksong Written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe From Document, 1987 I'm talking here to me alone: