Everybody Hurts (track)
by R.E.M.
Year: 1992
From the album Automatic For The People (track #4)
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Everybody Hurts appears on the following album(s) by R.E.M.:
- Automatic For The People (track #4) (this album) (1992)
- In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003 (track #16) (compilation) (2003)
- Live (track #5) (2007)
- Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982–2011 (track #22) (compilation) (2011)
- R.E.M. At The BBC (track #68) (compilation) (2018)
- R.E.M. At The BBC (track #83) (compilation) (2018)
- The Best Of R.E.M. At The BBC (track #30) (compilation) (2018)
- Complete Studio Albums 1988-1996 (track #26) (compilation) (2014)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 01/16/2026 16:32 | philschmil | 309 | 88/100 |
| ! | 12/11/2025 23:06 | billyboy66 | 5 | 96/100 |
| ! | 12/09/2025 23:45 | AbsurdCheesecake | 1,614 | 90/100 |
| ! | 12/02/2025 09:07 | mash | 4,227 | 92/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 02:06 | Exist-en-ciel | 76,498 | 70/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 88.6/100, a mean average of 87.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.8/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.2.
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slatsheit 11/08/2024 02:01 | #305931
As an R.E.M. fan, I for many years absolutely abominated this song. Don't get me wrong; I'm all for compassion and accompaniment in times of trouble, but not with a profoundly lame rewrite of "Bridge over Troubled Water" with horrendous-singing-era Michael Stipe braying cliches at me. However, in recent times, I have come more to terms with it. Raised my rating from 5 to 70. I understand more the point of the song, and I can't knock John Paul Jones's string arrangement.
The greatest anti-suicide song ever written
rogue 09/16/2021 02:31 | #273782
Although I always think of Dwight Schrute now when I hear this song it's still so exceptional. The sweeping strings, Michael's delicate and impressive vocal range - a classic.
Squonk007 09/14/2021 19:06 | #273726
Impressive, I can always listen to this.
Great song but not exceptional. Haunting, emotional simple lyrics delivered with silky sombre vocals supported by nice acoustic guitar and keyboards/organ(?) and drum machine(?). Enhanced with yet another strings arrangement half way through. I have no problem with introducing strings at this point but for me it's a wee bit too sugary bearing in mind the subject matter. A minor criticism hence my score.
StefanR10 07/10/2020 21:09 | #255388
This song saved many lives so i give it 100 points.
Best R.E.M. song ever.
VictorVale 06/08/2019 18:21 | #237277
Incrivelmente bela!
This is one of the few songs that I can listen to a million times and still impress me. Michael Stipe's lyrics are awesome, comforting also. Because everybody hurts...sometimes.. so hold on!
Onater 09/11/2016 18:51 | #174778
This is actually my least favourite song in the album. It's a great song, but doesn't really fit in with the flow of the album very well. It has a very different tone from just about every other R.E.M. song.
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