| "Finest Worksong" | ||||
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| Single by R.E.M. | ||||
| from the album Document | ||||
| B-side | "Time After Time, Etc." (Live) | |||
| Released | March 1988 | |||
| Recorded | 1987 | |||
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| Length | 3:48 | |||
| Label | I.R.S. | |||
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"Finest Worksong" is the third and final single released from R.E.M.'s fifth studio album Document. It peaked at number 50 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1988, at the time the group's highest-charting single in the UK.[3]
The single version of the song (also known as Mutual Drum Horn mix), featuring a new horn section by The Uptown Horns, was placed on R.E.M.'s I.R.S. Records compilation Eponymous. This was the last original single the band released on I.R.S. Records.
- ^ David Fricke (22 October 1987). "R.E.M. Document Album Review". Rolling Stone.
- ^ "Albums". R.E.M.HQ. Archived from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
- ^ "REM - Full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Official Charts Company. Retrieved 24 January 2016.