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Andy Kauffman Tribute

Thomas Magnum | NJ, USA | 05/18/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

""The Great Beyond" is another song from R.E.M. about the late comic Andy Kauffman. Their first song, "Man On The Moon", serves as the title of the film that "The Great Beyond" is included in. The song finds the band looking for answers and calling out to Mr. Kauffman to provide them. The song is not quite as whimsical as "Man In the Moon", but it has alot of power and is easily better than anything from their Up album."

A Great Souvenir of R.E.M. live!

Thomas Magnum | 02/11/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"** I STRONGLY RECOMMEND GETTING THE OTHER (MAXI) VERSION OF THIS SINGLE (see Amazon search query results for R.E.M.) instead of this version.The great and worthwhile surprise of that single is the 3 LIVE tracks recorded in England during last summer's tour. It makes for a great souvenir for anyone who saw R.E.M. on tour last year - or wanted to! The CD has One I Love followed by a lengthy version of Everybody Hurts (with audience singalong) and the closer Man On The Moon. The live version of MOTM is much better and so much more energetic than the original studio version from the album Automatic For The People. If this appeals to you, then I recommend that CD.Of course, the CD also includes the title track Great Beyond, which I think sounds like the Automatic For The People album. But the Great Beyond, in my view, is less enjoyable than the 3 live tracks.Be sure to get the Maxi version of the CD with the 3 live tracks and NOT this version with only 1 extra track. Note that on my CD, it doesn't say that the 3 extra tracks are live - but they are indeed live!"