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"All the Right Friends" is one of the earliest songs written by R.E.M., in fact written by Peter Buck and Michael Stipe before they had met their future bandmates, according to the liner notes to the band's ''In Time'' compilation album. Like all R.E.M. songs, its composition is credited to all members. The song was recorded for ''Murmur'' in 1983, but was left off the album. In January 1993, the European reissue of ''Dead Letter Office'', a B-side album compilation, included that recording, along with an acoustic version of "Gardening at Night". The song was also recorded during the ''Reckoning'' sessions, but not used (though bootlegged), and later recorded during the ''Lifes Rich Pageant'' demo sessions, and this version was included on the bonus disc of the 25th Anniversary edition of the album. In 2001, director Cameron Crowe released the movie ''Vanilla Sky'', starring Tom Cruise. R.E.M. were approached with the idea of them contributing a rock song to the soundtrack. According to Peter Buck, they were approached "about eight days before they needed it", and they had loads of material left from ''Reveal'', but they wanted a rock song, and their manager Bertis Downs had liked "All the Right Friends", so they recorded it. Slightly different from the other version (with most of the original lyrics missing), the song was, in Peter Buck's vision, recorded as if they were recording it for the ''Chronic Town'' EP, as Buck noted on the sleeve notes to the band's 2003 ''In Time'' compilation album. The song was recorded on October 23, 2001, in Seattle's Bad Animals Studio's "Studio X" while R.E.M. were in town for a performance at the Groundwork Benefit the previous day and, that evening, at the Crocodile Café. On an R.E.M. special of ''The South Bank Show'', which aired in May 2002 on the UK's ITV, Buck is seen recording a guitar overdub for the song, then, upon completion, the camera follows him into the control room to evaluate the recording. In addition to the ''Vanilla Sky'' soundtrack album, the re-recording is included on R.E.M.'s Warner Bros. Records 2003 compilation, ''In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003''. The original 1983 version of the song recorded for ''Murmur'' was internationally released on EMI's 2006 compilation, ''And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987''. ==External links== * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「All the Right Friends」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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