The R.E.M. song “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” sounds like it’d be difficult to record, fast with a lot of words! They didn’t really know what they were doing with it, they just did it.It was on the album Document in 1987 written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe Guitarist Peter Buck addresses how difficult it was for Michael Stipe and the band to record.
“His part was hard, but it wasn’t that hard to do. Getting it right was hard, because we didn’t know what we wanted to do arrangement-wise. It’s kind of an odd little song constructed in a kind of weird way. I mean, it changes keys and there’s passing chords that are kind of weird, but it rocks. The subtlety’s a little easier dealing with with slower things. We had no idea what we were doing, we just did it and it was done.”
