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“Everybody Hurts” – REM

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Overview: What Makes This Song Great

• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Genre: Alternative Rock
• Guitar TAB: Available Here

One of the most successful bands emerging from the ‘80s was R.E.M., comprised of lead vocalist, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck (guitar), Mike Mills (bass) and percussionist Bill Berry. Thoughtful lyrics and gripping guitar licks helped propel the group to commercial and creative success, as well as the enigmatic personality and style of Michael Stipe. The group’s eighth album, Automatic for the People, reached #2 on the charts and all of the tracks rolled out as singles, including the sad and poignant, “Everybody Hurts.” The strings on the song, as well as on “Drive,” “The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite” and “Nightswimming,” were played by the former bassist for rock group, Led Zeppelin, John Paul Jones.

The song resonates with lyrical fatalism, but reaches out to those in dire straits that there is always a community of humanity and hope and urges those on the brink of self-destruction to “hold on” and that they are “not alone.” The song, released as a single in 1993, rose up the Billboard Hot 100 chart to #29, and in Europe hit #7 in the U.K. and #3 on the French singles chart.

The video for “Everybody Hurts” shows the group and a cross-section of humanity stuck in traffic. Stipe gets out of the car and begins to walk on cars, looking ahead. When the track reaches the lyrics, “Hold on…” everyone else gets out of their own cars to become a herd of people unstuck and moving forward, on their journeys. The video was ranked as #5 of the Top 40 Most Memorable Music Videos in 2007, by the Canadian cable television channel MuchMore (formally, MuchMoreMusic).

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