How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us

"How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us"
Single by R.E.M.
from the album New Adventures in Hi-Fi
B-side	"Be Mine" (Mike on the Bus Version)
Released	1997
Studio	Bad Animals (Seattle, Washington)
Length	4:31
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Bill Berry Peter Buck Mike Mills Michael Stipe
Producer(s)	Scott Litt R.E.M.
R.E.M. singles chronology
"Electrolite" (1997) "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us" (1997) "Daysleeper" (1998)

"How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us" is a song by R.E.M. released as the fourth and final single from their tenth studio album New Adventures in Hi-Fi in 1997.^[1] It was released in Germany and Japan was the final R.E.M. single and music video to feature Bill Berry until "#9 Dream" in 2007.

The primary B-side was an alternate recording of "Be Mine". Other B-sides for the maxi-single include a cover of The Troggs' "Love Is All Around," previously released on the soundtrack for I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) and Vic Chesnutt's "Sponge", previously released on the Chesnutt benefit album Sweet Relief II (1996). The track was performed live only throughout various shows during promotion of Up in 1998 and 1999.

Track listing

All songs were written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe unless otherwise indicated.

1. "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us" – 4:30
2. "Be Mine" (Mike on the Bus version) – 4:54
3. "Love Is All Around" (Reg Presley) – 3:04
4. "Sponge" (Vic Chesnutt) – 4:08

Personnel

"How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us"

• Bill Berry – drums, tambourine, Ennio whistle
• Peter Buck – bass guitar, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin
• Mike Mills – piano, synthesizer, backing vocals
• Michael Stipe – vocals, synthesizer

References

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R.E.M.

• Bill Berry
• Peter Buck
• Mike Mills
• Michael Stipe

• Bertis Downs
• Jefferson Holt

Studio albums

• Murmur
• Reckoning
• Fables of the Reconstruction
• Lifes Rich Pageant
• Document
• Green
• Out of Time
• Automatic for the People
• Monster
• New Adventures in Hi-Fi
• Up
• Reveal
• Around the Sun
• Accelerate
• Collapse into Now

Live albums

• R.E.M. Live
• Live at The Olympia
• Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions
• R.E.M. at the BBC
• Live at the Borderline 1991

Compilations

• Dead Letter Office
• Eponymous
• The Best of R.E.M.
• The Automatic Box
• Singles Collected
• In the Attic
• In Time
• iTunes Originals
• And I Feel Fine
• Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011
• Complete Rarities (I.R.S. · WB)
• 7IN—83–88

EPs

• Chronic Town
• Not Bad for No Tour
• Vancouver Rehearsal Tapes
• Live from London
• Reckoning Songs from The Olympia

Other albums

• Man on the Moon
• r.e.m.IX

Singles

• "Radio Free Europe"
• "Talk About the Passion"
• "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)"
• "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville"
• "Cant Get There from Here"
• "Driver 8"
• "Wendell Gee"
• "Fall on Me"
• "Superman"
• "The One I Love"
• "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"
• "Finest Worksong"
• "Orange Crush"
• "Stand"
• "Pop Song 89"
• "Get Up"
• "Losing My Religion"
• "Shiny Happy People"
• "Near Wild Heaven"
• "Radio Song"
• "Drive"
• "Man on the Moon"
• "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
• "Everybody Hurts"
• "Nightswimming"
• "Find the River"
• "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"
• "Bang and Blame"
• "Crush with Eyeliner"
• "Strange Currencies"
• "Tongue"
• "E-Bow the Letter"
• "Bittersweet Me"
• "Electrolite"
• "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us"
• "Daysleeper"
• "Lotus"
• "At My Most Beautiful"
• "Suspicion"
• "The Great Beyond"
• "Imitation of Life"
• "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)"
• "I'll Take the Rain"
• "Bad Day"
• "Animal"
• "Leaving New York"
• "Aftermath"
• "Electron Blue"
• "Wanderlust"
• "#9 Dream"
• "Supernatural Superserious"
• "Hollow Man"
• "Man-Sized Wreath"
• "Until the Day Is Done"
• "Mine Smell Like Honey"
• "Überlin"
• "Oh My Heart"
• "We All Go Back to Where We Belong"

Other songs

• "Sitting Still"
• "Gardening at Night"
• "Perfect Circle"
• "Pretty Persuasion"
• "7 Chinese Bros."
• "Begin the Begin"
• "Cuyahoga"
• "Ages of You"
• "Turn You Inside-Out"
• "Texarkana"
• "Country Feedback"
• "First We Take Manhattan"
• "Ignoreland"
• "Dark Globe"
• "Star 69"
• "New Test Leper"
• "All the Right Friends"
• "Out in the Country"

Videos

• Succumbs
• Tourfilm
• Pop Screen
• This Film Is On
• Parallel
• Road Movie
• In View
• Perfect Square
• When the Light Is Mine
• R.E.M. Live
• Live from Austin, TX
• REMTV

Support and
side projects

• Nathan December
• Buren Fowler
• Peter Holsapple
• Barrett Martin
• Scott McCaughey
• Bill Rieflin
• Ken Stringfellow
• Joey Waronker
• The Baseball Project
• Filthy Friends
• Hindu Love Gods
• The Minus 5
• Tanzplagen
• Tuatara
• Tired Pony

Related articles

• Discography
• List of songs
• Awards
• Tours
• 170 College Avenue
• Peter Buck
• Athens Andover
• "I Belong to You"
• Hib-Tone
• Surprise Your Pig: A Tribute to R.E.M.
• Drive XV: A Tribute to Automatic for the People

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