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About This Track
“At My Most Beautiful” is a song by R.E.M. and the third single from the album Up. With a heavy influence from the Beach Boys (mainly Pet Sounds-era songs) and the Beatles, lyricist Michael Stipe wanted it to be the most romantic song he’d ever written.
According to an interview to the Canadian news site CANOE, this was the inspiration for the song:“ It came from, I was driving up and down Santa Monica Boulevard when I was putting together the Patti Smith book I was working on (2XIntro: On The Road With Patti Smith). I was consistently late. It’s one of my bad personality traits. I was stuck in traffic, this mid-day traffic, on Santa Monica Boulevard, but I had the tapes, and I was listening to them in the car, and I was trying to come up with stuff. I wrote the line, ‘I found a way to make you smile’, and I just thought, that’s the most beautiful thing in the world. ”
The single’s video, directed by Nigel Dick, shows an accident-prone cellist, played by Rain Phoenix, on her way to an audition, of which the band are the panel. It appears on In View, the DVD companion to In Time, R.E.M.’s Warner Brothers 2003 “Best Of” album, which also includes the song.
According to an interview to the Canadian news site CANOE, this was the inspiration for the song:“ It came from, I was driving up and down Santa Monica Boulevard when I was putting together the Patti Smith book I was working on (2XIntro: On The Road With Patti Smith). I was consistently late. It’s one of my bad personality traits. I was stuck in traffic, this mid-day traffic, on Santa Monica Boulevard, but I had the tapes, and I was listening to them in the car, and I was trying to come up with stuff. I wrote the line, ‘I found a way to make you smile’, and I just thought, that’s the most beautiful thing in the world. ”
The single’s video, directed by Nigel Dick, shows an accident-prone cellist, played by Rain Phoenix, on her way to an audition, of which the band are the panel. It appears on In View, the DVD companion to In Time, R.E.M.’s Warner Brothers 2003 “Best Of” album, which also includes the song.
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In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003
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Shouts
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spacefaceinfurs wrote:
absolutely beautiful
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memeco82 wrote:
que canción mas encantadora
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Devroush wrote:
Interesting to see the spike in the play graph when they announced their retirement.
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MazzyJ70 wrote:
Like I wouldn't know it's you...
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intheluminol wrote:
The only song on Up that I continue to listen to.
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abitbol84 wrote:
The beginning of the end for REM...
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flutgos wrote:
I wish his voice was just a little bit louder on the mix, but a great song.
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jomabbs wrote:
love it....love it....love it....love it....LOVE IT......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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puppyhand wrote:
I actually used to not like this song. What was I thinking?! Now it's one of my most played R.E.M. tracks.
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Deformografy wrote:
At my most beautiful I count your eyelashes, secretly With every one, whisper I love you I let you sleep I know you're closed eye watching me, Listening I thought I saw a smile
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Hetfield55 wrote:
this song breathes like a Brian Wilson song - and I love it. Another example of REMs fine art...
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PlasticSoul wrote:
The most beatiful song of R.E.M. ...and one of the most beautiful songs of the Beach Boys. Ah, sorry, is this not a Beach Boys song?
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jomabbs wrote:
This is my favorite REM track.=^)
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jomabbs wrote:
We'r at there most beutifull song, I love this song.
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aniie22 wrote:
"I found a way to make you smile" -- If I ever get married, I want this at my wedding.
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live4ever89 wrote:
nice song =)
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corky64 wrote:
Great track....<3
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thayseviskis wrote:
this song found a way to make me smile
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docmoondog wrote:
I was heavily into the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, and the unreleased SMiLE sessions when the radio played a new REM track late at night, as I was driving home. My jaw dropped when I heard these harmonies, the piano, the drum fills, and "I found a way to make you...smile". I think Peter Buck was on the same Beach Boys kick I was when they recorded this. Brilliant. Best homage since XTC (The Dukes of Stratosphear) did "Pale and Precious".
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AmNeSiaC_n wrote:
I count your eyelashes, secretly...
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