Nightswimming

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"Nightswimming"
"Nightswimming" cover
Single by R.E.M.
from the album Automatic for the People
B-side(s) Losing My Religion (Live)
Released July 15, 1993 (UK)
Format CD single, 7" single, 12" single
Recorded 1992
Genre Rock
Length 4:16
Label Warner Bros.
Producer(s) Scott Litt & R.E.M.
Chart positions
  • #27 (UK)
R.E.M. singles chronology
"Everybody Hurts"
(1993)		 "Nightswimming"
(1993)		 "Find the River"
(1993)

"Nightswimming" is a song by the band R.E.M.. It appears on their 1992 album Automatic for the People, and was released in 1993 as the fifth single off of that album. It was recorded at Criteria Studios in Miami using the same piano used by Derek and the Dominos on the recording of Layla.[citation needed]

The lyrics were written by Michael Stipe in 1991, but the music wasn't created in time for release on Out of Time. There is a demo from Out of Time sessions called "Night Swim," but that song has no relation to "Nightswimming," other than the title. This may be the only R.E.M. song to have had its lyrics written before the music.

The song makes numerous references to skinny dipping.

"Nightswimming" is one of four songs from Automatic for the People to be included on the Warner Bros. compilation In Time - The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003, more than from any other album.

Contents

All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe.

  1. "Nightswimming" – 4:16
  2. "Losing My Religion" (live)1 – 4:55

  1. "Nightswimming" – 4:16
  2. "World Leader Pretend" (live)1 – 5:16
  3. "Belong" (live)1 – 4:40
  4. "Low" (live)1 – 4:59

1 Recorded at the Capitol Plaza Theater, Charleston, West Virginia, April 28, 1991 in performance for Mountain Stage).

R.E.M.
Peter Buck • Mike Mills • Michael Stipe • Bill Berry
Other musicians: Scott McCaughey • Bill Rieflin • Ken Stringfellow • Nathan December • Buren Fowler • Peter Holsapple • Barrett Martin • Joey Waronker
Management and producers: Bertis Downs, IV • Pat McCarthy • Jefferson Holt • Scott Litt
Joe Boyd • Don Dixon • Mitch Easter • Don Gehman
Discography
Albums and EPs: Chronic Town • 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
Singles: See here
Compilations: Dead Letter Office • Eponymous • In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 • And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987
Remix album: R.E.M.IX
Soundtrack: Man on the Moon
Videos: Succumbs • Tourfilm • Pop Screen • This Film Is On • Parallel • Road Movie • In View: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 • Perfect Square • When the Light Is Mine: The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987
Related articles
Alternative rock • Hindu Love Gods • I.R.S. Records • Warner Bros. Records
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