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"Cant Get There From Here," or "'''Can't Get There From Here'''," was the first Single released by R.E.M. from their third studio album '' Fables Of The Reconstruction '' in 1985 . The song failed to chart on either the Billboard Hot 100 or UK Singles Charts . It was the only lead single to fail to chart from an R.E.M. studio album in the U.S. until " Leaving New York " in 2004 . Unlike the folk rock that many of the song on Fables of the Reconstruction reflect, "Cant Get There From Here" draws on different Southern musical traditions - ) for inspiration, and a confirmed line of absolute gibberish - "Tris is sure to shirr the deers out". In another first for R.E.M., who had opposed including the Lyrics with their albums, many of the words of "Can't Get There From Here" appeared in the Video for the song. This Day-glo , bad B-movie spoof features band members frolicking in hay fields, throwing popcorn at each other at a Drive-in movie, and big insects. "We used the new-to-us 'blue screen' process," Buck explained to MTV UK in 2001, during ''An Hour with R.E.M.'' "So we have dinosaurs and monsters in the background. It's probably the most humorous video we've ever done. For a band that's kind of noted for not having a sense of humour, I kind of enjoy that aspect of it." The actual title of the song is unclear. Unlike "Feeling Gravitys Pull" or '' Lifes Rich Pageant '', this song does not maintain a consistent punctuation. On the album, it is spelled without an apostrophe. On the greatest hits compilation '' Eponymous '', it also is spelled without the apostrophe, except in the liner notes. One version of the single has an apostrophe and the other does not. TRACK LISTING # Can't Get There From Here # Bandwagon # Burning Hell (12" only) |
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