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R.E.M.'s 'It's The End Of The World' Re-Enters Charts Amid Pandemic Crisis

With the world focused on dealing with the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, R.E.M.'s classic track “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” is making a comeback and climbing the charts. Consequence of Sound wrote about the phenomenon yesterday afternoon and the song was at No. 64 iTunes US Top Songs chart. As of 12:20 p.m. CST today, it's at No. 39. At its peak in 1987, “It’s the End of the World” only reached as high as No. 69 on the Billboard Top 100.

The song was written after the band ran into rock critic Lester Bangs at a party. R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe later had a dream about attending Bangs' birthday party and being the only guest whose initials were not L.B. That led to the lyrics about Lenny Bruce, Leonid Brezhnev, and Leonard Bernstein. According to past interviews, the song is a laundry list of mid-80s pop culture and current events that Stipe saw while flipping through TV channels. The lyrics include references to environmental concerns, the Cold War, Iran Contra, and TV evangelists.

The track was famously used in the sci-fi disaster movie Independence Day right before the aliens arrive. It's also appeared in Tommy Boy, Chicken Little, and Dream A Little Dream.

“It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” is on R.E.M.’s 1987 album Document.

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