Daysleeper

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Background

During R.E.M.'s performance for VH1 Storytellers, Stipe explained the background to the song:

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The song "The Lifting" from R.E.M.'s 2001 album Reveal is a prequel to "Daysleeper" and features the same character.[1]

Music video

The video, shot at Broadway Studios in the Astoria district of New York City in September 1998,[2] was filmed in stop-frame photography to get what Stipe called a "really druggy, really great look."[2] It features Stipe as the office worker who goes to work at night. All three band members then wear pajamas and bed socks, while failing to get to sleep during the day. The video was directed by the Icelandic Snorri brothers. "I think it's about the sort of alien nature of a night shift," explained Mike Mills. "The weird lighting, the fluorescent lights that you find and the isolation of working the graveyard shift—how it screws up your sleep patterns and that sort of thing, and I think that's the main image we're trying to get across."[2]

Track listings

All songs were written by Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe.

UK cassette single[6]
European CD single[7]
  1. "Daysleeper" – 3:32
  2. "Emphysema" – 4:21
  • Canadian, Australian, and Japanese CD single[8][9][10]
  1. "Daysleeper" (single) – 3:31
  2. "Emphysema" – 4:21
  3. "Sad Professor" (live in the studio, Toast, San Francisco, California) – 3:59
  4. "Why Not Smile" (Oxford American version) – 3:00
  1. "Daysleeper" – 3:31
  2. "Emphysema" – 4:21
  3. "Why Not Smile" (Oxford American version) – 3:00
  • UK mini-CD single[12]
  1. "Daysleeper" (single edit) – 3:31
  2. "Sad Professor" (live in the studio, Toast, San Francisco, California) – 3:59

Charts

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Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
Europe September 1998 Radio Warner Bros. [19]
United Kingdom October 12, 1998 Template:Hlist [20]
United States October 13, 1998 Contemporary hit radio [21]
Japan October 26, 1998 CD [22]

References

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