2000 Great Songs #1444: Me In Honey
There are probably a few R.E.M. songs I haven't hit yet which I like more than "Me In Honey"--yes, I could take nearly every song from their first couple albums before I stray into something else--but the closing track from 1991's Out Of Time has always felt special to me. As I've repeated ad nauseum both in these parts and in my book , R.E.M. was truly a life-changing band for me, particularly those early IRS albums, which were just a huge part of my musical life in college. But 1988's Green , their first album after I graduated college (and first for Warner Bros.), didn't hit me the same way. It was still a good, maybe even great album, but it didn't have the same emotional tug, and I wondered at the time if they were maybe a part of my college years and it was time to move on. It didn't help that there was more than a two-year wait for the follow-up, an agonizingly long time for a band which had been releasing new music every year since thei...
