A liner note from the Special Edition of In Time written by Peter Buck: The Great Beyond

A liner note from the Special Edition of In Time written by Peter Buck: The Great Beyond

The special edition of In Time comes with a cool orange book in which REM guitarist Peter Buck has written some history of the songs on the album.

The Great Beyond

"When asked to contribute a song to the movie Man on the Moon, we acceded with alacrity (I just love that alliteration, don't you?) Because of our love for Andy Kaufman, it seemed only natutal that we should write the theme song to a movie about him. The probelm, of course, was thad we had already written that song, namely, Man on the Moon. So what to do?

Rather than trying to write some kind of biography of Andy, Michael concentrated on encapsulating some of Andy's philosophy; that to keep creating you have to push forward, go beyond, attempt the impossible, in life as in art.

This is also the first song Joey Waronker played at his audition. We gave him a list of five songs to learn, and then threw a new one at him to see how quickly he thought on his feet. Very quickly as it turns out."
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