R.E.M. - "That Beat" Murmur Outtake 

There's few greater joys than witnessing these fab four casually being themselves!

I think this song felt more like their live shows than most of the material that made it onto Murmur.

Sounds like Shaking Through, Radio Free Europe, and Pretty Persuasion all at once

Should have been on Dead Letter Office

How is there still so much undiscovered greatness from these guys??Love it.Hearing a bit of 'Ages of You' on this one.

Has alot of REM songs in it. Mystery To Me, Ages of You, Radio Free, Bandwagon, Romance, Burnin Down. etc

funny how it was always Mike Mills that counted them in, never Bill.

Is this still officially unreleased? Time to put out that career spanning box set with all the unreleased songs!

Amazing how good, how young. They're about 20 years old here; Peter a bit older.

OMIGOD! WISH THIS WAS ON THE ALBUM

"Yes, rollin'; been rollin'."

Ahh, I've heard this. This was available to listen to on I believe OnlineAthens after When The Light Is Mine came out I believe. I like how the bass has hints of 'Shaking Through' in it.

Should have been included on the album!

Loved this since I heard it on the live bootleg show "So Much Younger Then."

Thank you for uploading.

"I'm not even gonna comment on that one."

fantastico..!!

Thank you very, very much Chout :-)

Wow! Your "closet" seems to have gotten much larger. Thanks for all the new uploads! ~be well

This is Pretty Persuasion

la de de da da da aye

That's Old Man Katsey....

My favorite of their unreleased, if not my favorite of all their songs. What's your source? The actual dialogue after the song is Michael asks, "Bill, how come you didn't sing?" Don (or Mitch) says "That was great!" and Mike says, "Yeah, we don't have a drummer anymore." The dialogue here sounds like what's before "All the Right Friends" on the Dead Letter Office/Chronic Town re-issue.

They sure were great then weren't they...

someone sent me a link to dl these audio files today.

sorry, I'm glad they kept working on it...

A bit West Side Story. Good tune.

you gotta smackarack it!

Leave the kitty out of it.

Is Michael actually singing lyrics in the verses or just singing melodies?

@mrblisterfist In the wake of REM's demise, other people have been digging in their closets!!!!

Doesn't seem to fit 'Murmur' at all...would have fit on 'Reckoning' however.

Shame they nixed this one...

the beat on murmur? really? did I miss this on murmur for 20+ years?

This should if been on murmer, I think it's better then most if the tracks on there!! It's funny what most people think what's good and what's bad!! I'm glad I'm not one of them!!

Yes. I don't hear it at ALL.