But the story of how the song came to be is an interesting one. The band members, Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe, were all attending the University of Georgia when they bonded over their love of music. Soon enough, they were performing and quickly gaining fans and attention.
Stipe said in a 1983 interview with Alternative America, via Rocking in the Norselands, "Those earlier songs were incredibly fundamental, real simple, songs that you could write in five minutes. Most of them didn’t have any words. I just got up and howled and hollered a lot." In a later interview, he went even further, calling it "complete babbling."
Thankfully, the incoherent singing clearly worked in Stipe's favor. In the same interview with Alternative America, Stipe noted that R.E.M. planned to re-record "Radio Free Europe" and said, "I’ve got to write words for ‘Radio Free Europe,’ because we’re going to re-record that for the album. It still doesn’t have a second or third verse. I think there are actually lyrics to every song on the EP.”
It was the first single from the band to make it to music charts. "Radio Free Europe" peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 25 on the Mainstream Rock chart.
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