![]() ![]() The song was also performed by the original line-up of the band, accompanied by Eddie Vedder, during the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on March 12, 2007.Īll songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, except as indicated. ![]() The song was performed live on July 2, 2005, at Live 8's London concert, along with " Everybody Hurts" and " Imitation of Life". It was one of four songs from Automatic for the People to make the compilation, more than any from other albums. Cudi would later go on and use the ‘Man on the Moon’ alias for his acclaimed album trilogy: Man on the Moon: The End of Day (2009), on which this song was included as a bonus track, Man on the. Records "best of" album In Time: The Best of R.E.M. The song was placed on R.E.M.'s Warner Bros. The song gave its name to a 1999 film Man On The Moon, and was used in the film's soundtrack along with other songs composed by R.E.M. The title, video, and lyrics reference the conspiracy theory that the American moon landing was faked. The song makes numerous references to the performer Andy Kaufman, including his Elvis impersonation and work with wrestlers Fred Blassie and Jerry Lawler. at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, #4 on the Canada Hot 100 and #18 on the UK Singles Chart. from their 1992 album Automatic for the People and was also the second single taken from the album in 1993, charting in the U.S. J.R.R." Man on the Moon" is a song written and recorded by R.E.M. "Only a few words of it are now, as a rule, remembered." With a ping and a pong the fiddle-strings broke!Īnd the little dog laughed to see such fun,Īccording to Tolkien, this poem survived to "our time" in the form of the simplified nursery rhyme " Hey Diddle Diddle". The cow and the horses stood on their heads Now quicker the fiddle went deedle-dum-diddle While the landlord shook the Man in the Moon: He squeaked and sawed and quickened the tune, So the cat on his fiddle played hey-diddle-diddle, When there's good cheer among the guests,īut their master's been and drowned his wits, The contributions of Ratatat and MGMT further dissolve the boundaries. Sonically, the album takes its cues from new wave and New Romantic bands, techno, and ambient music. That the Man in the Moon himself came down Kid Cudi’s full-length debut is a vast, ambitious concept album divided into five acts, each exploring a different aspect of Cudi’s psyche. ![]()
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