's Michael Stipe and Mike Mills reflect on 1991's Out of Timemore stories from this episodeFull EpisodeA decade into their career, R.E.M. thing about as well as we could do it," bassist Mike Mills notes, of where the band was leading up to Out of Time. "We decided to take a big left-hand turn [...] We threw away a lot of songs because they sounded too much like R.E.M." That reinvention led to some of the band's biggest hits including "Losing My Religion," which singer Michael Stipe still admits to liking all these years later. "You get to hear the making of these songs and they're not altogether pretty," Stipe explains.

Source: CBC News November 21, 2016 13:49 UTC