Losing My Religion
1991 song by R.E.M.
"Losing My Religion" is a 1991 rock song from R.E.M.. The song became R.E.M.'s highest charting song for the United States. It hit #4 on Billboard Hot 100. It was nominated for several Grammy Awards. It won two.
| "Losing My Religion" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Song by R.E.M. | ||||
| from the album Out of Time | ||||
| B-side | "Rotary Eleven" | |||
| Released | February 19, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | September–October 1990 | |||
| Studio | Bearsville, Woodstock, New York, United States; John Keane Studios, Athens, Georgia, United States (recording); Soundscape Studios, Atlanta, Georgia, United States (strings) | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 4:28 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe | |||
| Producer(s) | Scott Litt and R.E.M. | |||
| R.E.M. singles chronology | ||||
| ||||
The song was released on February 19, 1991.
R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck wrote the riff and chorus to the song on a mandolin while learning to play it. Buck had just bought the instrument and was recording the music as he practiced. Buck said that "when I listened back to it the next day, there was a bunch of stuff that was really just me learning how to play mandolin, and then there's what became 'Losing My Religion', and then a whole bunch more of me learning to play the mandolin."[1]
Further reading
change- Black, Johnny. Reveal: The Story of R.E.M. Backbeat Books, 2004. ISBN 978-0-87930-776-9
References
change- ↑ Black, p. 177
