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| Name = At My Most Beautiful |
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| Cover = AMMB_coverisms.jpg |
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| Artist = [[R.E.M.]] |
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| from Album = [[Up (R.E.M. album)|Up]] |
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| Released = [[March 8]], [[1999]] |
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| Format = CD, 3" CD |
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| Recorded = 1998 |
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| Genre = [[Rock (music)|Rock]]/[[Pop music|Pop]] |
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| Length = 3:35 |
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| Label = [[Warner Brothers]] |
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| Producer = [[Patrick McCarthy (record producer)|Pat McCarthy]] |
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| Last single = "[[Lotus (song)|Lotus]]"<br />(1998) |
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| This single = "'''At My Most Beautiful'''" <br /> (1999) |
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| Next single = "[[Suspicion (song)|Suspicion]]"<br />(1999) |
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#"[[So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)]]" (live) |
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==Charts== |
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!align="center"|Chart (1991) |
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!align="center"|Peak<br>position |
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|Irish Singles Chart |
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|align="center"| 28 |
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|[[UK Singles Chart]] |
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|align="center"| 10 |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~turidbro/jam.html/ Interview Source] |
* [http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~turidbro/jam.html/ Interview Source] |
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*[http://www.remhq.com/shared_assets/videography/videos/atMyMost.html Video clip at REMhq.com] |
* [http://www.remhq.com/shared_assets/videography/videos/atMyMost.html Video clip at REMhq.com] |
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Revision as of 13:03, 13 September 2008
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"At My Most Beautiful" is a song by R.E.M. and the third single from the album Up. With a heavy influence from the Beach Boys (mainly Pet Sounds-era songs) and the Beatles, lyricist Michael Stipe wanted it to be the most romantic song he'd ever written.
According to an interview to the Canadian news site CANOE, this was the inspiration for the song:
It came from, I was driving up and down Santa Monica Boulevard when I was putting together the Patti Smith book I was working on (2XIntro: On The Road With Patti Smith). I was consistently late. It's one of my bad personality traits. I was stuck in traffic, this mid-day traffic, on Santa Monica Boulevard, but I had the tapes, and I was listening to them in the car, and I was trying to come up with stuff. I wrote the line, 'I found a way to make you smile', and I just thought, that's the most beautiful thing in the world.
The song borrows part of a melody refrain from the aria "Musetta's Waltz" in La bohème.
The single's video, directed by Nigel Dick, shows an accident-prone cellist, played by Rain Phoenix, on her way to an audition, of which the band are the panel. It appears on In View, the DVD companion to In Time, R.E.M.'s Warner Brothers 2003 "best of" album, which also includes the song.
The single's B-side is a live version of Iggy Pop's "The Passenger" as performed on the BBC's Later with Jools Holland R.E.M. special, a 14-song set which aired on November 6, 1998.
Track listing
All songs written by Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe unless otherwise indicated.
- "At My Most Beautiful" (radio remix)
- "The Passenger" (live) (Iggy Pop)[1]
- "Country Feedback" (live)
- "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" (live)
Charts
| Chart (1991) | Peak position |
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| Irish Singles Chart | 28 |
| UK Singles Chart | 10 |
References
- ^ Recorded on Later with Jools Holland’s R.E.M. special; October 27, 1998.
External links
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