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This article is from the R.E.M. FAQ, by Ron Henry (rgh3@cornell.edu) with numerous contributions by others.

70 "So what are all the songs by other artists which R.E.M. has recorded?"

On official releases, the following songs have been covered:

 Song                             Original Artist
  
 (All I Have To Do Is) Dream      Everly Brothers
 Academy Fight Song               Mission of Burma
 The After Hours                  Velvet Underground
 Arms of Love                     Robin Hitchcock
 Baby, Baby                       The Vibrators
 Christmas Time is Here           The Vince Guaraldi Trio
 Crazy                            Pylon
 Dark Globe                       Syd Barrett
 Deck the Halls                   (traditional)
 Femme Fatale                     Velvet Underground
 First We Take Manhattan          Leonard Cohen
 Funtime                          Iggy Pop/ David Bowie
 (Ghost) Reindeer in the Sky,
    (orig. "Ghost Riders...")     The Outlaws
 Ghostrider                       Suicide
 Good King Wenceslas              (traditional)
 I Walked With a Zombie           Roky Erikson
 I Will Survive                   (perf. By Gloria Naylor)
 King of the Road                 Roger Miller
 Last Date                        Floyd Cramer
 Love is All Around               The Troggs
 Moon River                       (by Henry Mancini) Jerry Butler
 Only in America                  Leiber/Stoller/Mann/Weil,
                                  perf. by Jay and the Americans
 Pale Blue Eyes                   Velvet Underground
 Parade of the Wooden Soldiers    (Tchaikovsky, orig. "March of...")
 See No Evil                      Television
 Sex Bomb                         Flipper
 Silver Bells                     (writer Jay Livingston/Ray Evans)
 Skin Tight                       Ohio Players
 Sponge                           Vic Chesnutt
 Strange                          Wire
 Summertime                       (writer Gershwin)
 Superman                         The Clique
 The Lion Sleeps Tonight          (trad.; made popular by The Weavers)
 There She Goes Again             Velvet Underground
 Tighten Up                       Archie Bell and the Drells
 Tom's Diner                      Susanne Vega
 Toyland                          (writer Glen MacDonough & Victor
                                  Herbert)
 Toys in the Attic                Aerosmith
 Wall of Death                    Richard Thompson
 Where's Captain Kirk?            Athletico Spizz
 Wichita Lineman                  Jimmy Webb (perf. By Glen Campbell)

Of course, those with recordings of R.E.M.'s live shows know that the band
has performed covers of even more songs than this, a range that includes
tunes as diverse as Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" and the Mamas and the Papas'
"California Dreaming"; browsing the Bootleg Discography will give you an
idea of some of these.

 

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