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R.E.M.

(Don’t Go Back to) Rockville

1984 · via R.E.M.

R.E.M.’s 1984 recording of “(Don’t Go Back to) Rockville” is the earliest release on file. Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe of R.E.M. are credited as its writers. Also recorded by J Church (released 1992), 10,000 Maniacs (released 1992) and Bain Mattox (released 2007), among 38 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe all share the credit on this one, and decades after R.E.M. cut it, Harvey Milk picked it up. Spin the two back to back and see what survives the trip.

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Credited writers: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1984.

Other recordings on file · first release year

38 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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