Bad Day (R.E.M. song)

"Bad Day"
Single by R.E.M.
from the album In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003
B-side	"Favorite Writer" "Out in the Country" "Adagio"
Released	September 15, 2003 (2003-09-15)
Recorded	2003
Genre	Alternative rock, college rock
Length	4:07
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Bill Berry Peter Buck Mike Mills Michael Stipe
Producer(s)	Pat McCarthy R.E.M.
R.E.M. singles chronology
"I'll Take the Rain" (2001) "Bad Day" (2003) "Animal" (2004)
Music video
"Bad Day" on YouTube

"Bad Day" is a song recorded by American alternative rock band R.E.M. It is one of two previously unreleased songs from their 2003 compilation album, In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003, and was released as the album's lead single on September 15, 2003.

An outtake version of the song originally recorded for Lifes Rich Pageant finally appeared on EMI's 2006 compilation And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982–1987. A demo version from the same sessions appeared on the 25th Anniversary Edition of Lifes Rich Pageant in 2011. The arrangement of the song is slightly different in each version.