This article is about the R.E.M. song. For the ionic solution, see electrolyte.
"Electrolite"
Single by R.E.M.
from the album New Adventures in Hi-Fi
B-side
"The Wake-Up Bomb" (Live), "Binky the Doormat" (Live), "King of Comedy" (808 State remix)
Released
December 2, 1996 (1996-12-02)
Recorded
Soundcheck at the Desert Sky Mall in Phoenix, United States on November 4, 1995
Genre
Folk pop
jangle pop
Length
4:05
Label
Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)
Bill Berry
Peter Buck
Mike Mills
Michael Stipe
Producer(s)
Scott Litt
R.E.M.
R.E.M. singles chronology
"Bittersweet Me" (1996)
"Electrolite" (1996)
"How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us" (1997)
Music video
"Electrolite" on YouTube
"Electrolite" is a song by American rock band R.E.M., released as their third single and closing track from their tenth studio album, New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996). The song is a piano-based ballad to Los Angeles, Hollywood icons and the closing 20th century. Initially, Michael Stipe objected to including the song on the album, but was won over by Peter Buck and Mike Mills. It has since become one of his favorite R.E.M. songs as well as one of Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke's;[1] Radiohead has covered the song.[2]
The single was released by Warner Bros. on December 2, 1996, in the United Kingdom and on February 2, 1997, in the United States. Commercially, "Electrolite" reached the top 40 in Canada, Finland, Iceland and the United Kingdom but stalled at number 96 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The single's music video, directed by Peter Care and Spike Jonze, "involved dune buggies, crazy costumes, and rubber reindeer."[3]
^"R.E.M. interview". The Big Takedown. June 2008.
^Craig Rosen (August 26, 2008). "Concert review: Radiohead casts hypnotic spell". Edmonton Journal. Archived from the original on May 31, 2009. Retrieved August 28, 2008.
^Craig Rosen. (1997). R.E.M. Inside Out: The Stories Behind Every Song. Da Capo Press. ISBN 1-56025-177-8.
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