Electron Blue

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“Electron Blue”
“Electron Blue” cover
Single by R.E.M.
from the album Around the Sun
Released 28 February 2005 (UK)
Format CD, 7" vinyl record, downloadable MP3
Recorded 2004
Genre Rock
Length 4:12
Label Warner Bros. Records
W665 / W665CD1 / W665CD2
Producer R.E.M. and Pat McCarthy
R.E.M. singles chronology
"Aftermath"
(2004)		 "Electron Blue"
(2005)		 "Wanderlust"
(2005)

"Electron Blue" is a song by R.E.M. from their thirteenth studio album, Around the Sun. It was also released as a single, the album's third, reaching #26 on the UK Singles Chart. The song is almost entirely composed of rhyming couplets.

Lead singer and lyricist Michael Stipe claimed at concerts that the song was inspired by a dream he had about an electric hallucinogenic drug made of light, and this idea is implied by the song's lyrics. Stipe has also said the this song is his personal favorite from the Around the Sun album. It also inspired his stage appearance for the subsequent tour: a blue band painted across his eyes.[citation needed]

The song is included on R.E.M. Live, and is referenced in the R.E.M. song "Sing for the Submarine", included on their Accelerate (2008) album.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks by Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe unless otherwise stated.

[edit] CD1 / 7"

  1. "Electron Blue"
  2. "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (live)

[edit] CD2

  1. "Electron Blue"
  2. "Sweetness Follows" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (live)
  3. "Leaving New York" (live video)
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