Bad Day (R.E.M. song)

"Bad Day"
"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	13 October 2003
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
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 in October 2003.

The song first appeared in 1985, when Michael Stipe sang a few words of it during a concert in Albany, New York, as part of the Reconstruction tour. Then, around the time of Lifes Rich Pageant, the song emerged in a more polished version with the title "PSA"—an abbreviation for "public service announcement".^{[citation needed]} An anti-media rant inspired by a day Stipe found a camcorder lens in his face when he answered the front door, the song was never released but did serve as a sort of forerunner to "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)", a song with a similar cadence and delivery. In 2003, Stipe saw that the song still had contemporary resonance, and the band finally recorded it for In Time, with only slightly updated lyrics and under the new title "Bad Day".

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.

Music video

The song's music video^[1] was directed by Tim Hope and shot in Vancouver. It is a spoof of media news and was produced by Passion Pictures. It appears on In View, the DVD companion of In Time, and is also found on the main CD of In Time. In the video, Stipe appears as the Morning Team's news anchor Cliff Harris; Mills doubles as roving reporter Ed Colbert and meteorologist Rick Jennings; and Buck as climate expert Geoff Sayers and the reporter Eric Nelson. News stories shown include a monsoon contained within an apartment, a senator's office flooding, and a tornado inside a boy's bedroom.

In other media

The song can be heard in a third-season episode of Alias, in the Scrubs episode "My Advice To You", in the 76th episode of Boston Public and in the Smallville episode "Slumber".

The song is included on R.E.M. Live.

Track listing

CD (Warner W624CD1) (UK)
1. "Bad Day" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe)
2. "Favorite Writer" (Linda Hopper, Ruthie Morris)
3. "Bad Day" (Video)
CD (Warner W624CD2) (UK)
1. "Bad Day"
2. "Out in the Country" (Paul Williams, Roger Nichols)
3. "Adagio" (Buck, Mills, Stipe)
CD (Warner 16533-2) (US)
1. "Bad Day"
2. "Favorite Writer" (Hopper, Morris)
3. "Out in the Country" (Williams, Nichols)
4. "Adagio" (Buck, Mills, Stipe)

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (2003)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)^[2]	22
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)^[3]	45
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders)^[4]	4
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Wallonia)^[5]	9
Invalid chart entered Germany2	39
Ireland (IRMA)^[6]	11
Italy (FIMI)^[7]	9
Netherlands (Single Top 100)^[8]	68
Norway (VG-lista)^[9]	11
Spain (PROMUSICAE)^[10]	4
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)^[11]	43
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)^[12]	39
UK Singles (OCC)^[13]	8
US Adult Alternative Songs (Billboard)^[14]	1

References

^ http://www.passion-pictures.com/flash.html#page=d16&video=v27 Archived 2008-02-21 at the Wayback Machine
^ "R.E.M. – Bad Day". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
^ "R.E.M. – Bad Day" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
^ "R.E.M. – Bad Day" (in Dutch). Ultratip. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
^ "R.E.M. – Bad Day" (in French). Ultratip. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Bad Day". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
^ "R.E.M. – Bad Day". Top Digital Download. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
^ "R.E.M. – Bad Day" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
^ "R.E.M. – Bad Day". VG-lista. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
^ "R.E.M. – Bad Day" Canciones Top 50.
^ "R.E.M. – Bad Day". Singles Top 100. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
^ "R.E.M. – Bad Day". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
^ "R.E.M. Chart History (Adult Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved January 9, 2018.

External links

Template:MetroLyrics song

Black, Johnny (2004). Reveal: The Story of R.E.M.. Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-776-5.

[1] ttp://www.passion-pictures.com/flash.html#page=d16&video=v27 Archived 2008-02-21 at the Wayback Machine

[sc_Australia_R.E.M.-2] "R.E.M. – Bad Day". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved September 22, 2015.

[sc_Austria_R.E.M.-3] "R.E.M. – Bad Day" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved January 9, 2018.

[sc_Flanders_Tip_R.E.M.-4] "R.E.M. – Bad Day" (in Dutch). Ultratip. Retrieved January 9, 2018.

[sc_Wallonia_Tip_R.E.M.-5] "R.E.M. – Bad Day" (in French). Ultratip. Retrieved January 9, 2018.

[sc_Ireland2_R.E.M.-6] "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Bad Day". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved January 9, 2018.

[sc_Italy_R.E.M.-7] "R.E.M. – Bad Day". Top Digital Download. Retrieved January 9, 2018.

[sc_Dutch100_R.E.M.-8] "R.E.M. – Bad Day" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved January 9, 2018.

[sc_Norway_R.E.M.-9] "R.E.M. – Bad Day". VG-lista. Retrieved January 9, 2018.

[sc_Spain_R.E.M.-10] "R.E.M. – Bad Day" Canciones Top 50.

[sc_Sweden_R.E.M.-11] "R.E.M. – Bad Day". Singles Top 100. Retrieved January 9, 2018.

[sc_Switzerland_R.E.M.-12] "R.E.M. – Bad Day". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved January 9, 2018.

[sc_UK_-13] "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved January 9, 2018.

[sc_Billboardadultalternativesongs_R.E.M.-14] "R.E.M. Chart History (Adult Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved January 9, 2018.

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v t e R.E.M.
Bill Berry Peter Buck Mike Mills Michael Stipe Bertis Downs Jefferson Holt
Studio albums	Murmur Reckoning Fables of the Reconstruction Lifes Rich Pageant Document Green Out of Time Automatic for the People Monster New Adventures in Hi-Fi Up Reveal Around the Sun Accelerate Collapse into Now
Live albums	R.E.M. Live Live at The Olympia Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions R.E.M. at the BBC Live at the Borderline 1991
Compilations	Dead Letter Office Eponymous The Best of R.E.M. The Automatic Box Singles Collected In the Attic In Time iTunes Originals And I Feel Fine Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011 Complete Rarities (I.R.S. · WB) 7IN—83–88
EPs	Chronic Town Not Bad for No Tour Vancouver Rehearsal Tapes Live from London Reckoning Songs from The Olympia
Other albums	Man on the Moon r.e.m.IX
Singles	"Radio Free Europe" "Talk About the Passion" "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" "Cant Get There from Here" "Driver 8" "Wendell Gee" "Fall on Me" "Superman" "The One I Love" "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" "Finest Worksong" "Orange Crush" "Stand" "Pop Song 89" "Get Up" "Losing My Religion" "Shiny Happy People" "Near Wild Heaven" "Radio Song" "Drive" "Man on the Moon" "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" "Everybody Hurts" "Nightswimming" "Find the River" "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" "Bang and Blame" "Crush with Eyeliner" "Strange Currencies" "Tongue" "E-Bow the Letter" "Bittersweet Me" "Electrolite" "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us" "Daysleeper" "Lotus" "At My Most Beautiful" "Suspicion" "The Great Beyond" "Imitation of Life" "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)" "I'll Take the Rain" "Bad Day" "Animal" "Leaving New York" "Aftermath" "Electron Blue" "Wanderlust" "#9 Dream" "Supernatural Superserious" "Hollow Man" "Man-Sized Wreath" "Until the Day Is Done" "Mine Smell Like Honey" "Überlin" "Oh My Heart" "We All Go Back to Where We Belong"
Other songs	"Sitting Still" "Gardening at Night" "Perfect Circle" "Pretty Persuasion" "7 Chinese Bros." "Begin the Begin" "Cuyahoga" "Ages of You" "Turn You Inside-Out" "Texarkana" "Country Feedback" "First We Take Manhattan" "Ignoreland" "Dark Globe" "Star 69" "New Test Leper" "All the Right Friends" "Out in the Country"
Videos	Succumbs Tourfilm Pop Screen This Film Is On Parallel Road Movie In View Perfect Square When the Light Is Mine R.E.M. Live Live from Austin, TX REMTV
Support and side projects	Nathan December Buren Fowler Peter Holsapple Barrett Martin Scott McCaughey Bill Rieflin Ken Stringfellow Joey Waronker The Baseball Project Filthy Friends Hindu Love Gods The Minus 5 Tanzplagen Tuatara Tired Pony
Related articles	Discography List of songs Awards Tours 170 College Avenue Peter Buck Athens Andover "I Belong to You" Hib-Tone Surprise Your Pig: A Tribute to R.E.M. Drive XV: A Tribute to Automatic for the People
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