Crush with Eyeliner

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"Crush with Eyeliner"
File:R.E.M. - Crush with Eyeliner.jpg
Single by R.E.M.
from the album Monster
B-side "Crush With Eyeliner (Instrumental Version)"
Released August 15, 1995 (1995-08-15)
Format CD single, 7" single, 12" single
Recorded 1994
Genre Alternative rock, glam rock
Length 4:39
Label Warner Bros.
Writer(s) Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe[1]
Producer(s) Scott Litt & R.E.M.
R.E.M. singles chronology
"Strange Currencies"
(1995)		 "Crush with Eyeliner"
(1995)		 "Tongue"
(1995)

"Crush with Eyeliner" is a song by R.E.M., released as the fourth single from their ninth studio album Monster. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore provides background vocals.

Michael Stipe claims the song was inspired by the band New York Dolls, who, in his opinion, "knew how to exaggerate a song, to make it sound really sleazy and over the top." This was also one of the first songs that surfaced from Stipe after the writer's block that hounded him after the death of his friend, actor River Phoenix.[2]

The single's video, directed by Spike Jonze, shows a group of Japanese youths dancing and miming to the track at a party, while the band are shown briefly, looking on. It is available on the music video compilation Parallel.

Track listing

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

12" and CD maxi-single

  1. "Crush with Eyeliner" – 4:39
  2. "Fall on Me" (live)1 – 3:23
  3. "Me in Honey" (live)1 – 4:18
  4. "Finest Worksong" (live)1 – 4:18

7" single

  1. "Crush with Eyeliner" (album version) – 4:39
  2. "Crush with Eyeliner" (instrumental version) – 4:39

Notes

1 Recorded at the 40 Watt Club, Athens, Georgia; November 19, 1992. The performance, a benefit for Greenpeace, was recorded on a solar-powered mobile studio.
2 Mandy Fu stars in the video as the disinterested bar maid at approximately 25 seconds in to the film clip.

Charts

Chart (1995) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA Singles Chart)[3] 55
Canadian Hot 100 28
Irish Singles Chart 21
UK Singles Chart[4] 23
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles 13
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 20
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 33

References

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External links

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