This isn’t our favorite R.E.M. song … in fact it’s probably not even in our all-time Top Ten. Plus it’s the second song we’ve played from the band’s 1987 Document album (which is probably our fifth favorite R.E.M. LP).
That goes against our natural predisposition to mix things up …
Still, for some reason we wanted to hear it today.
That reminds us, our jukebox is also your jukebox. If you’ve got a song you want to hear, email us. Also be sure to scroll down beneath the lyrics to see all the other songs we’ve played previously …
R.E.M. – “FINEST WORKSONG”
The time to rise has been engaged
You’re better best to rearrange
I’m talking here to me alone
I listen to the finest worksong
Your finest hour
Your finest hour
Another chance has been engaged
To throw Thoreau and rearrange
You are following this time
I beg you not beg to rhyme (blow your horn)
Your finest hour (blow your horn)
Your finest hour
Take your instinct by the reins
Your better best to rearrange
What we want and what we need
Has been confused, been confused (blow your horn)
Your finest hour (blow your horn)
Your finest hour
Take your instinct by the reins
Better best to rearrange
What we want and what we need
Has been confused, been confused (blow your horn)
Your finest hour (blow your song)
Your finest hour (blow your horn)
Your finest hour (blow your song)
Your finest hour
PREVIOUSLY …
The Afghan Whigs – “Gentleman”
All-American Rejects – “Swing, Swing”
Arcade Fire – “Suburbs”
Beastie Boys – “Sabotage”
Beck – “Loser”
The Black Crowes – “Soul Singing”
The Black Crowes – “Wiser Time”
B.O.B. – “Nothing On You”
Bouncing Souls – “!Ole!”
Brother Ali – “Uncle Sam Goddamn”
The Cars – “Let’s Go”
Coolio – “Fantastic Voyage”
Cracker – “Low”
Cypress Hill – “Rock Superstar”
The Cure – “Burn”
The Dan Band – “Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Cover)”
Death Cab For Cute – “Expo 86?
Billy Ward & The Dominoes – “Sixty Minute Man”
Dropkick Murphys – “Shipping Up To Boston”
Elvis Costello – “Every Day I Write The Book”
Eminem (ft. Rihanna) – “Love The Way You Lie”
Filter – “One (Cover)”
Flobots – “Handlebars”
Ben Folds Five – “Rockin’ The Suburbs”
Foo Fighters – “Times Like These”
Foo Fighters – “My Hero”
The Fray – “The Great Beyond (Cover)”
Green Day – “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
Ice Cube – “It Was A Good Day”
James – “Born of Frustration (Live)”
Janet Jackson – “When I Think Of You”
Joy Division – “New Dawn Fades”
Jupiter One – “Countdown”
Kesha- “Your Love Is My Drug”
Katie Melua - “Just Like Heaven (Cover)”
The Killers – “Shadowplay (Cover)”
The Killers – “Sweet Talk”
Lady Ga Ga/ Beyonce – “Telephone”
Led Zeppelin – “Your Time Is Gonna Come/ Black Mountain Side”
Led Zeppelin – “Misty Mountain Hop”
Led Zeppelin – “Thank You”
Live – “Overcome”
Live – “White, Discussion”
Living Colour – “Cult of Personality”
LL Cool J – “Mama Said Knock You Out”
Luna – “Lovedust”
Bob Marley – “One Love”
Sarah McLachlan – “Building A Mystery”
Metric – “Help I’m Alive”
M.I.A. – “Paper Planes”
George Michael – “Freedom ’90?
Midnight Oil – “Dreamworld”
Monster Magnet – “Negasonic Teenage Warhead”
The National – “All The Wine”
Naughty By Nature – “O.P.P.”
Nena – “99 Luftballoons”
New Order – “Regret”
Nine Inch Nails – “Piggy”
Nine Inch Nails – “Hand That Feeds”
Nirvana – “All Apologies”
Nirvana – “Rape Me”
Novadriver – “Blackout”
One Republic – “All The Right Moves”
The Outfield – “I Don’t Need Her”
Outkast – “Rosa Parks”
Outkast – “Gasoline Dreams”
Owl City – “Hot Air Balloon”
Parliament-Funkadelic – “Give Up The Funk”
Panic At The Disco! – “Karma Police” (Cover)
Paramore – “The Only Exception”
Pavement – “Range Life”
Pearl Jam – “Alive”
Tom Petty – “The Waiting”
Liz Phair – “Johnny Feelgood”
The Police – “Synchronicity II”
Pretenders – “Back On The Chain Gang”
Queen – “Somebody To Love”
R.E.M. – “These Days”
R.E.M. – “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”
Gerry Rafferty – “Right Down The Line”
Rage Against The Machine – “Bulls on Parade”
Rage Against The Machine – “Killing In The Name Of”
Smashing Pumpkins – “Geek, U.S.A.”
Smashing Pumpkins – “Age Of Innocence”
The Smiths – “Headmaster Ritual”
The Smiths – “Panic”
Soul Asylum – “Somebody To Shove”
Soundgarden – “Outshined”
Soundgarden – “Burden In My Hand”
The Spin Doctors – “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues”
Sting – “Fortress Around Your Heart”
The Strokes – “Hard To Explain”
Teenage Fanclub – “Hang On”
‘Til Tuesday – “Voices Carry”
TV Heart Attack – “AO”
Twilight Singers – “The Twilite Kid”
U2 – “Pride (In The Name Of Love)”
U2 – “Until The End Of The World”
U2 – “Where The Streets Have No Name”
The Verve – “Lucky Man”
The Waitresses – “I Know What Boys Like”
Weezer – “Put Me Back Together”
The Who – “Baba O’Riley”
Stevie Wonder – “I Believe (When I Fall In Love This Time It Will Last Forever)”
Wu-Tang Clan – “C.R.E.A.M.”
Yeasayer – “Ambling Alp”
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