{"id":2448599,"date":"2019-09-12T07:26:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T13:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=883191"},"modified":"2019-09-12T07:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T13:26:18","slug":"r-e-m-unearth-lost-song-fascinating-to-aid-hurricane-relief-in-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/r-e-m-unearth-lost-song-fascinating-to-aid-hurricane-relief-in-bahamas\/","title":{"rendered":"R.E.M. Unearth Lost Song \u2018Fascinating\u2019 to Aid Hurricane Relief in Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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R.E.M. have dug into their vault and are offering fans the chance to download their lost song \u201cFascinating\u201d via Bandcamp<\/a> for $2 to aid victims of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas. All proceeds will benefit Mercy Corps\u2019 hurricane relief and recovery effort in the Bahamas. \u201cI\u2019m glad the song is now available,\u201d R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cBut I\u2019m heartsick it\u2019s for this particular situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFascinating\u201d was originally recorded for Reveal<\/em> in 2001 and nearly made the record before being cut at the last second. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that the song didn\u2019t work,\u201d says Mills. \u201cIt has a really cool melodic figure and I think we arranged it with oboe and flute, which you usually don\u2019t hear together. It\u2019s an odd song about alienation and I really liked it, but it just didn\u2019t fit on the record.\u201d<\/p>\n

They re-recorded the song in Nassau for 2004\u2019s Around The Sun<\/em>, though once again couldn\u2019t find a place for it on the album. But their minds went back to it recently when they wanted to release something to help with the horrible devastation that Dorian caused on the island. \u201cI\u2019ve personally spent a lot of time right where that hurricane sat for two days,\u201d says Mills. \u201cI know a lot of people who have no home, literally no home, and no place of employment. Everything there is gone, wiped out. It\u2019s heartbreaking for me. I wish we had more that we could do for this, but at least this is a start.\u201d<\/p>\n

The song is one of many unreleased tracks in the group\u2019s vault. There are also many complete concerts that may see the light of day. \u201cIf the quality is good enough and there is some element to it that makes the concert special, then I\u2019m open to releasing it,\u201d says Mills. \u201cYou don\u2019t want to throw things out willy-nilly just because you have a bootleg. But if the recording enhances the songs and presents them in an unusual way, I\u2019m absolutely open to more releases.\u201d<\/p>\n

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R.E.M. have dug into their vault and are offering fans the chance to download their lost song \u201cFascinating\u201d via Bandcamp for $2 to aid victims of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas. All proceeds will benefit Mercy Corps\u2019 hurricane relief and recovery effort in the Bahamas. \u201cI\u2019m glad the song is now available,\u201d R.E.M. bassist Mike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 16:24:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}