“Gardening At Night” by R.E.M.

"Gardening at Night" was on Chronic Town, R.E.M.'s 1982 debut EP on I.R.S., with Mitch Easter producing and Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe sharing the credit. The story goes that it was dreamed up on a mattress sprawled on the lawn outside the Oconee Street church in Athens, Georgia, back when, by Buck's account, the band ran on little more than a few chords and a six-pack.

The title is less poetic than it sounds. Berry recalled driving home after a show with a trailer in tow when one of his passengers asked him to pull over so he could do a little roadside "night gardening", and four guys in their early twenties knew a song title when they heard one. The music jangles and murmurs like a half-remembered dream, and the band liked the phrase enough to name their publishing company Night Garden Music.

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