Electrolite

"Electrolite"
Single by R.E.M.
from the album New Adventures in Hi-Fi
B-side	"The Wake-Up Bomb" (Live), "Binky the Doormat" (Live), "King of Comedy" (808 State remix)
Released	December 2, 1996 (1996-12-02)
Recorded	November 4, 1995
Studio	Bad Animals (Seattle)
Venue	Desert Sky Pavilion (Phoenix, Arizona)
Genre	Folk pop jangle pop
Length	4:05
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Bill Berry Peter Buck Mike Mills Michael Stipe
Producer(s)	Scott Litt R.E.M.
R.E.M. singles chronology
"Bittersweet Me" (1996) "Electrolite" (1996) "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us" (1997)
Music video
"Electrolite" on YouTube

"Electrolite" is a song by American rock band R.E.M., released as the closing track from their tenth studio album, New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996), and as the album's third single later that year. The song is a piano-based ballad dedicated to Hollywood and the closing twentieth century. Frontman Michael Stipe initially objected to including the song on the album, but was convinced by his bandmates Peter Buck and Mike Mills.

The single was released by Warner Bros. on December 2, 1996, in the United Kingdom and on February 2, 1997, in the United States. Commercially, "Electrolite" reached the top 40 in Canada, Finland, Iceland and the United Kingdom but stalled at number 96 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The single's music video, directed by Peter Care and Spike Jonze, "involved dune buggies, crazy costumes, and rubber reindeer."^[1]