Forty Second Song

Not much to add here. Forty Second Song was one of the first R.E.M. songs I'd heard prior to discovering them via Automatic For The People. I'd got hold of the cassette single of Shiny Happy People and this was the B-side and I remember timing it to see if it was actually forty seconds long! I've always had a fondness for it. Despite being a throwaway song it captures where the band were at in 1991 and listening to it, for me, conjures up that rural, pastoral feeling in a lot of songs, and the packaging, from Out Of Time.