Discoverer

Without a shadow of a doubt Discoverer is the best, and most exciting, song on their final album Collapse Into Now. If the album had comprised of songs of this quality then they would have really gone out on a high. As it stands, there are only really 3 or 4 songs on the album that rank up there with their best material and the rest of the album remains a bit of a disappointment.

I'm actually really pleased with the way Discoverer turned out, it wasn't always my intention to cover it as I thought it might be too ambitious and I would fall flat on my face but I took it on through sheer admiration and love for the song and learnt the parts gradually and I'd say I'm 80% there. I'm not sure I've got the verse guitars sounding right, it almost sounds like there is some sort of keyboard sound on the album version and the guitars ring out a lot better than what I've managed.

On a side note, this is one of Stipe's final vocal masterpieces, a melody only he could come up with, one that sounds rough, unrehearsed and natural and yet somehow works. The live in studio version is also really good, Stipe clearly has a lot of energy for this song.