Biography:
R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe. One of the first alternative rock bands, R.E.M. was noted for Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style, Stipe's distinctive vocal quality and obscure lyrics, Mills's melodic basslines and backing vocals, and Berry's tight, economical style of drumming.
R.E.M. released its first single—"Radio Free Europe"—in 1981 on the independent record label Hib-Tone.
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- Everybody Hurts
- Imitation Of Life
- It's The End Of The World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
- Losing My Religion
- Man On The Moon
- Nightswimming
- Shiny Happy People
- Stand
- The One I Love
- 9
- Academy Fight Song
- Accelerate
- After Hours
- Aftermath
- Ages Of You
- All The Right Friends
- All The Way To Reno
- Arms Of Love
- Around The Sun
- Ascent Of Man
- At My Most Beautiful
- At My Most Beutiful
- Automatic
- Automatic For The People
- Baby I
- Bad Day
- Bandwagon
- Bang And Blame
- Be Mine
- Beat A Drum
- Begin The Begin
- Belong
- Berlin
- Binky The Doormat
- Blue
- Boy In The Well
- Burning Down
- Cant Get There From Here
- Carnival Of Sorts
- Catapult
- Chronic Town
- Circus Envy
- Country Feedback
- Crazy
- Crush With Eyeliner
- Cuyahoga
- Dark Globe
- Daysleeper
- Dead Letter Office
- Departure
- Devil Rides Backwards
- Diminished
- Disappear
- Discoverer
- Disturbance At The Heron House
- Document
- Dont Go Back To Rockville
- Dream
- Drive
- Driver 8
- E Bow The Letter
- Ebow The Letter
- Electrolite
- Electron Blue
- End Of The World
- Every Day Is Yours To Win
- Exhuming
- Exhuming Mccarthy
- Fables
- Fall On Me
- Falls To Climb
- Feeling Gravitys Pull
- Femme Fatale
- Final Straw
- Find The River
- Finest Work Song
- Finest Worksong
- Fireplace
- First We Take Manhattan
- Fretless
- Friendly Friendly World
- Funtime
- Gardening At Night
- Get Up
- Good King Wenceslas
- Green
- Green Grow The Rushes Go
- Ha We Get Paid For It
- Hairshirt
- Half A World Away
- Hallelujah
- Harborcoat
- Have You Ever Seen The Rain
- Hello In There
- High Speed Train
- Hollow Man
- Houston
- I Believe
- I Belong To You
- I Dont Sleep I Dream
- I Took Your Name
- Ignoreland
- Ill Take The Rain
- In Time The Best Of Rem 1988
- It Happened Today
- Its A Free World Baby
- Its The End Of The World As We Know It
- Ive Been High
- Just A Touch
- Kerouac No 4
- King Of Birds
- King Of Comedy
- King Of The Road
- Last Date
- Laughing
- Leaving New York
- Let Me In
- Letter Never Sent
- Life And How To Live It
- Lifes Rich Pageant
- Little America
- Live At The Olympia
- Living Well Is The Best Revenge
- Lotus
- Low
- Make It All Okay
- Man
- Mandolin Strum
- Maps And Legends
- Me In Honey
- Me Marlon Brando Marlon Brando And I
- Million
- Mine Smell Like Honey
- Monster
- Monty Got A Raw Deal
- Moon River
- Moral Kiosk
- Mr Richards
- Murmur
- My Youngest Son Came Home Today
- Near Wild Heaven
- New Adventures In Hi
- New Orleans Instrumental No 2
- New Test Leper
- Oh My Heart
- Orange Crush
- Out Of Time
- Out Of Time Instrumental 1
- Outsiders
- P S A
- Pale Blue Eyes
- Parakeet
- Perfect Circle
- Photograph
- Pilfrimage
- Pop Song
- Pop Song 8
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- Reveal
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- Saturn Return
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- Shaking Through
- Sitting Still
- Skank
- So Central Rain
- So Fast So Numb
- Star 6
- Star 69
- Star Me Kitten
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- Strange Currencies
- Stumble
- Sugar Cane
- Summer Turns To High
- Superman
- Supernatural Superserious
- Suspicion
- Swan Swan H
- Sweetness Follows
- Tainted Obligations
- Talk About The Passion
- Texarkana
- That Beat
- The Apologist
- The Great Beyond
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight
- The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
- The Wall Of Death
- The Wrong Child
- Theme From Two Steps Onward
- There She Goes Again
- Tongue
- Try Not To Breath
- Try Not To Breathe
- Turn You Inside Out
- Turn You Inside
- Uberlin
- Until The Day Is Done
- Untitled
- Wake Up Bomb
- Walk Unafraid
- Wall Of Death
- We All Go Back To Where We Belong
- We Walk
- Wendell Gee
- West Of The Fields
- What If We Give It Away
- Whats The Frequency Kenneth
- Wichita Lineman
- Windout
- Winged Mammal Theme
- World Leader Pretend
- You
- You Are The Everything
- Youre In The Air
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R.E.M. - Nightswimming
Tuning: standard (EADGBe)
(Chords)
G: 320033
Cadd9: x32033
Aadd9: x02033 (simply remove top 3 on Cadd9)
D: xx0232
[Intro]
G C9
G D
[Verse 1]
G C9 D
Night - swimming...
G C9 A9*
deserves a quiet night.
C9 D
The..
G C9 D
photograph on the dashboard,
G C9 A9*
taken years ago,
C9 D
turned around backwards so the windshield shows.
G C9 D
Every streetlight reveals the
G C9 A9*
picture in re-verse.
C9 D
Still it's so much clearer.
G C9 D
I forgot my shirt at the
G C9 A9*
water's edge. The moon is low to-
C9 D
-night.
[Instrumental]
G C9
G D
[Verse 2]
G C9 D
Night - swimming...
G C9 A9*
deserves a quiet night. I’m
C9 D
not sure all these people under-
G C9 D
-stand. It’s not like years
G C9 A9*
ago. The fear of getting
C9 D
caught, of recklessness and
G C9 D
water. They cannot see me
G C9 A9*
naked. These things they go
C9 D
away, replaced by every(day).
[Verse 3]
G C9 D
-day. Night - swimming...
G C9 A9*
remembering that night. Sep-
C9 D
-tember's coming soon. I'm
G C9 D
pining for the moon. And
G C9 A9*
what if there were two side by
C9 D
side in orbit around the fairest
G C9 D
sun? That bright, tight for-
G C9 A9*
-ever drum cannot describe night-
C9 D
swimming.
[Verse 4]
G C9 D
You, I thought I knew you.
G C9 A9*
You, I can-not judge.
C9 D
You, I thought you knew me. This one’s
G C9 D
laughing quiet-ly under-
G C9 A9*
-neath my breath. Night-
C9 D
swimming.
[Interlude]
[Intro]
G C9
G D
[Verse]
(w/ solo)
G C9 D
G C9 A9*
C9 D
(The..)
[Verse 5]
G C9 D
photograph re-flects every
G C9 A9*
streetlight a reminder. Night-
C9 D
-swimming de-serves a quiet
G C9 D
night.
G C9 A9*
de-serves a quiet
C9 D
night.
[Outro]
(w/ solo)
G C9 D
G C9 A9*
C9 D
G C9 A9*
C9 D G (one strum)
Progressions
Intro (2 measures, played once)
1.G C9
2.G D
-d-u-d--u--u-d-u-d-------d---d---
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
Verses (3 measures, repeat as needed)
1.G C9 D
2.G C9 A9*
-d---d--u--u-d-u-d---d-u-d---d-u-
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
then
3.C9 D
-d---d--u--u-d-u-d---d--u--u-d-u-
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
Notes:
I found the previous tab hard to follow and played around with the chords
a little to get the rhythm down first. In doing so, I discovered that by
simply removing the A note off the C chord it sounded closer to the song.
Then, by changing the C to a Cadd9 and doing the same thing, song became
extremely simple to play and still sounds great (on my guitar, actually
better this way, to me). Thus creating the Aadd9 (A9)* for lack of a name.
(Sure you'll let me know the real chord)
I show the basic Intro and Verse progressions above. I suggest just
strumming until you get the rhythm down as it's not a very complicated
song. Then by adding in base lines especially on the G chords, and using
some middle string strumming you can make things a bit more interesting.
Anyways, I love this song and give thanks and credit to for the original
post. If you're looking, this is a great acoustic solo-artist song.
(Hopefully, this version works with formatting, else I give up - sorry for the previous one)
Good luck, have fun!
-Chris ([email protected])
Tuning: standard (EADGBe)
(Chords)
G: 320033
Cadd9: x32033
Aadd9: x02033 (simply remove top 3 on Cadd9)
D: xx0232
[Intro]
G C9
G D
[Verse 1]
G C9 D
Night - swimming...
G C9 A9*
deserves a quiet night.
C9 D
The..
G C9 D
photograph on the dashboard,
G C9 A9*
taken years ago,
C9 D
turned around backwards so the windshield shows.
G C9 D
Every streetlight reveals the
G C9 A9*
picture in re-verse.
C9 D
Still it's so much clearer.
G C9 D
I forgot my shirt at the
G C9 A9*
water's edge. The moon is low to-
C9 D
-night.
[Instrumental]
G C9
G D
[Verse 2]
G C9 D
Night - swimming...
G C9 A9*
deserves a quiet night. I’m
C9 D
not sure all these people under-
G C9 D
-stand. It’s not like years
G C9 A9*
ago. The fear of getting
C9 D
caught, of recklessness and
G C9 D
water. They cannot see me
G C9 A9*
naked. These things they go
C9 D
away, replaced by every(day).
[Verse 3]
G C9 D
-day. Night - swimming...
G C9 A9*
remembering that night. Sep-
C9 D
-tember's coming soon. I'm
G C9 D
pining for the moon. And
G C9 A9*
what if there were two side by
C9 D
side in orbit around the fairest
G C9 D
sun? That bright, tight for-
G C9 A9*
-ever drum cannot describe night-
C9 D
swimming.
[Verse 4]
G C9 D
You, I thought I knew you.
G C9 A9*
You, I can-not judge.
C9 D
You, I thought you knew me. This one’s
G C9 D
laughing quiet-ly under-
G C9 A9*
-neath my breath. Night-
C9 D
swimming.
[Interlude]
[Intro]
G C9
G D
[Verse]
(w/ solo)
G C9 D
G C9 A9*
C9 D
(The..)
[Verse 5]
G C9 D
photograph re-flects every
G C9 A9*
streetlight a reminder. Night-
C9 D
-swimming de-serves a quiet
G C9 D
night.
G C9 A9*
de-serves a quiet
C9 D
night.
[Outro]
(w/ solo)
G C9 D
G C9 A9*
C9 D
G C9 A9*
C9 D G (one strum)
Progressions
Intro (2 measures, played once)
1.G C9
2.G D
-d-u-d--u--u-d-u-d-------d---d---
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
Verses (3 measures, repeat as needed)
1.G C9 D
2.G C9 A9*
-d---d--u--u-d-u-d---d-u-d---d-u-
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
then
3.C9 D
-d---d--u--u-d-u-d---d--u--u-d-u-
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
Notes:
I found the previous tab hard to follow and played around with the chords
a little to get the rhythm down first. In doing so, I discovered that by
simply removing the A note off the C chord it sounded closer to the song.
Then, by changing the C to a Cadd9 and doing the same thing, song became
extremely simple to play and still sounds great (on my guitar, actually
better this way, to me). Thus creating the Aadd9 (A9)* for lack of a name.
(Sure you'll let me know the real chord)
I show the basic Intro and Verse progressions above. I suggest just
strumming until you get the rhythm down as it's not a very complicated
song. Then by adding in base lines especially on the G chords, and using
some middle string strumming you can make things a bit more interesting.
Anyways, I love this song and give thanks and credit to for the original
post. If you're looking, this is a great acoustic solo-artist song.
(Hopefully, this version works with formatting, else I give up - sorry for the previous one)
Good luck, have fun!
-Chris ([email protected])
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