Finest Worksong

Infobox Single |
Name = Finest Worksong


Artist = R.E.M.
from Album = Document
B-side = Time After Time, Etc. (Live)
Released = March 1988 (US/CAN)
April 1988 (UK/Holland)
Format = 12" Single/7" Single/3" CD Single/CD Single
Recorded = 1987
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 3:48
Label = Warner Bros.
Producer = Scott Litt & R.E.M.
Last single = "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"
(1987)
This single = "Finest Worksong"
(1988)
Next single = "Orange Crush"
(1988)

"Finest Worksong" was the third and final single released from R.E.M.'s fifth studio album "Document". It peaked at #50 on the UK Singles Charts, at the time the highest chart the band had ever had in Britain.

The single version of the song (also known as Mutual Drum Horn Mix), featuring a new horn section by The Uptown Horns, was placed on R.E.M.'s I.R.S. Records compilation "Eponymous". This was the last original single the band released on I.R.S. Records.

Track listing

All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe.

7" single
# "Finest Worksong" – 3:50
# "Time After Time, Etc." (live)¹ – 8:22

12" single and 3" CD single
# "Finest Worksong" – 3:50
# "Time After Time, Etc." (live)¹ – 8:22
# "Finest Worksong" (Lengthy Club Mix) – 5:52
# "Finest Worksong" (Other Mix) – 3:47

UK CD single
# "Finest Worksong"
# "Time After Time, Etc." (live)¹
# "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"

Notes

¹ Recorded at the Muziekcentrum, Utrecht, The Netherlands; September 14, 1987, this live medley included "Time After Time", a snippet of Peter Gabriel's "Red Rain" and "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)"

Charts

External links

* [http://www.remhq.com/shared_assets/videography/videos/theFinest.html Video Clip at REMhq.com]