I fell in love with this song, not from Pageant initially, but through watching the live version on Pete Buck's porch in the film Athens: Inside Out. That video sent me on a years long quest to find the ideal front porch to hang out with friends and play music.
This is the quintessential REM tune in many ways: minor key, acoustic guitar driven, Southern themes, cryptic but engaging word pictures.
A personal memory: In college I took an audio production class and my final project was my own version of this song, recorded on an old TEAC 4 track - doubling up tracks, doubling guitars, vocals. I didn't have any percussion available, so I recorded my own dry hands rubbing rhythmically like a shaker. Good times.
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do you still have that recording? i'd love to hear it.
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