It's often been said by fans that It's A Free World Baby (alongside another unreleased song, Fretless) should have been included on Out Of Time. While I agree that both are superior to a song like Texarkana or Me In Honey, for example, I feel they wouldn't have suited the mood or flow of the album. So, it's probably best that these two songs stand alone as individual B-sides.
It's A Free World Baby is a really fun song with its quirky verse and a catchy, relatively mainsteam (by R.E.M. standards) bridge/chorus, it comes across as a real gem of a song that didn't see official release only due to the fact it's not like anything else the band were doing at that time.
Instrumentally, the verse was quite hard to recreate, because there is very little going on in terms of melody. But the bridge and chorus were relatively straightforward.
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