Find The River

I decided to cover this while I was working on Drive and started this straight after Drive was complete. Instrumentally it's fairly similar with its acoustic guitars and accordion. If one beautiful song starts Automatic For The People then another finishes it.

Find The River is an R.E.M. song quite like no other, it's incredible to think the next song in sequence that people would hear would be What's The Frequency Kenneth?

Understandably this one required a bit more work than most covers do but, like Drive, it was worth the extra effort in the end.

Drive

Drive contains some of the most graceful use of strings in their career. The song kind of soars along with an effortless beauty, the strings and accordion weaving in and around the bass and light percussion. If the opinion stands that 1992's Automatic For The People captures R.E.M. at their creative best then Drive sees the band in full "can do no wrong" flow - beautiful songs like this pouring out of them. A brave choice for opening single from the album but a fan favourite nonetheless and a song that usually finds its way into their live set.