Top 20 Favorite R.E.M. Songs: Pretty Persuasion (#15)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (62505)
United States
October 20, 2018 10:52am CST
It’s a mere 100 miles from indianapolis to Louisville, and yet it took me all day to get home. Why? I went on a foliage drive that I’ll discuss later. First things first: another great R.E.M. song!! Here’s today’s song from my list of favorite R.E.M. songs.
#15: Pretty Persuasion
The theme song of Black Friday:
Here’s what I want
Hurry and buy
A slap at the over-consumeristic approach to things, “Pretty Persuasion” dates to the first R.E.M. album, but didn’t make the cut. It was then re-recorded for the second album.
Man, what a song. This never makes it through the iPod with just one play. It’s a killer!
Pretty Persuasion
Written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe
From Reckoning, 1984
It’s all wrong:
Music video by R.E.M. performing Pretty Persuasion (Live on THE OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST).
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@crossbones27 (48480)
• Mojave, California
20 Oct 18
They are such a solid band but for some reason can never get into them. What is wrong with me. I try I swear. lol
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@FourWalls (62505)
• United States
20 Oct 18
Don’t ever ridicule yourself for not liking a band that “everybody” is “supposed” to like. Among the act that “everybody” is supposed to like, I do not care for Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, and Bob Dylan.
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@FourWalls (62505)
• United States
20 Oct 18
@crossbones27 — I don’t mind Dylan as a songwriter (look at all the songs the Byrds did of his!), but to listen to him sing? 
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@crossbones27 (48480)
• Mojave, California
20 Oct 18
@FourWalls My favorite part kind of, but again I like punk and used to bad singers.
He Definitely can write some musical poetry.
He Definitely can write some musical poetry.1 person likes this
@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
20 Oct 18
Did they ever do a bad song and I like Shiny Happy People.
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@FourWalls (62505)
• United States
20 Oct 18
No. They did do a bad version of “King of the Road” (“Roger Miller should sue us for what we did”), but they know it was bad.
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@FourWalls (62505)
• United States
21 Oct 18
@JohnRoberts -- you asked if they ever did a bad song. No. But they did do a bad version. 
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
20 Oct 18
@FourWalls Yeah, but they didn't write it. A cover.
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@teamfreak16 (43419)
• Denver, Colorado
11 Nov 18
Had to listen simply because it's been quite awhile since I've heard it. So good! And damn, what a lineup on that night's Old Grey Whistle Test! It would have been worth watching for the pantomime cow alone!
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