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  • Bill Berry Vocals?

    From noiseball@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Cassie Doyon on Mon Apr 23 09:00:46 2018
    On Friday, 13 September 1996 09:00:00 UTC+2, Cassie Doyon wrote:
    I'm curious, has Bill Berry sang lead vocals on any songs throughout
    REM's history? If so, what songs, and what songs is his vocals dominant
    in back-up?

    Cassie

    Bill sings the "dreams, they complement my life" response to Michael's "complicate" line in the chorus to Get Up.

    In the 25th anniversary edition of Out Of Time, you can hear Berry sing a whole verse of the Radio Song demo.

    Of course, that came out 20 years after you asked this question...

    DD

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  • From jhunterjohns52@gmail.com@21:1/5 to nois...@gmail.com on Sat Jul 21 21:23:27 2018
    On Monday, April 23, 2018 at 12:00:47 PM UTC-4, nois...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, 13 September 1996 09:00:00 UTC+2, Cassie Doyon wrote:
    I'm curious, has Bill Berry sang lead vocals on any songs throughout
    REM's history? If so, what songs, and what songs is his vocals dominant
    in back-up?

    Cassie

    Bill sings the "dreams, they complement my life" response to Michael's "complicate" line in the chorus to Get Up.

    In the 25th anniversary edition of Out Of Time, you can hear Berry sing a whole verse of the Radio Song demo.

    Of course, that came out 20 years after you asked this question...

    DD

    hahah, I came here looking to see if BB was the one singing in the radio song demo after i heard it, didnt expect to see someone reply to a 22 year old thread.

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  • From paul150@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Cassie Doyon on Mon Oct 8 23:21:12 2018
    On Friday, September 13, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Cassie Doyon wrote:
    I'm curious, has Bill Berry sang lead vocals on any songs throughout
    REM's history? If so, what songs, and what songs is his vocals dominant
    in back-up?

    Cassie

    I may have missed the reply with the format, but a huge oversight is his backup in the chorus of Harborcoat. For the longest time, I had no idea there were three parts and only thought it was Stipe and Mills, but there are actually three distinct parts (
    best I've been able to determine; I know the exact words are still up for debate):

    MS: Please find my harborcoat...Can't go outside without it.
    MM: Please help me...Wear My Coat
    BB: This Harborcoat is hard on me...Harborcoat is long whoah-oah.

    I love Mills, and he gets a lot of well-deserved credit for his vocal interplay with Stipe, but Bill gave even further depth for a lot of songs that gets overlooked.

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