Considering Lifes Rich Pageant is such a fresh, vital addition to R.E.M.’s discography you wouldn’t think so given the track list and the songs that were being demoed for the album. It’s almost as if ideas were few and far between in 1985/1986 hence their early ideas which were deemed unworthy back in 1982 were being re-considered this time round.
Mystery To Me, along with Wait, All The Right Friends, Just A Touch and Get On Their Way were the five pre-Chronic Town compositions demoed for Lifes Rich Pageant but only the last two made the album.
I have nothing against Mystery For Me but I would have been more interested in hearing a 1986 demo of Body Count or Scheherezade.
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