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"Drive"
"Drive"
Single by R.E.M.
from the album Automatic for the People
B-side	"Winged Mammal Theme"; "World Leader Pretend";
Released	September 21, 1992
Length	4:25
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

"Drive" is a 1992 song by alternative rock band R.E.M. and is the lead single to their eighth studio album Automatic for the People. It went to number 28 in the United States and number 11 in the United Kingdom. It went to the top ten in Canada, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland.

Track listings

All songs were written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe except where noted.

US 7-inch, cassette, and CD single^[2]^[3]^[4]

"Drive" – 4:25
"Winged Mammal Theme" – 2:57

UK CD1^[5]

"Drive" – 4:25
"World Leader Pretend" – 4:15
"First We Take Manhattan" (Leonard Cohen) – 6:06

UK CD2^[6]

"Drive" – 4:25
"It's a Free World, Baby" – 5:11
"Winged Mammal Theme" – 2:55
"First We Take Manhattan" (Cohen) – 6:06

UK 7-inch and cassette single^[7]^[8]

"Drive" – 4:25
"World Leader Pretend" – 4:15

References

↑ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. September 19, 1992. p. 19. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
↑ Drive (US 7-inch single vinyl disc). R.E.M. Warner Bros. Records. 1992. 7-18729.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
↑ Drive (US cassette single sleeve). R.E.M. Warner Bros. Records. 1992. 4-18729.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
↑ Drive (US CD single disc notes). R.E.M. Warner Bros. Records. 1992. 2-18729.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
↑ Drive (UK CD1 liner notes). R.E.M. Warner Bros. Records. 1992. W0136CD.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
↑ Drive (UK CD2 liner notes). R.E.M. Warner Bros. Records. 1992. W0136CDX.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
↑ Drive (UK 7-inch single sleeve). R.E.M. Warner Bros. Records. 1992. W 0136.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
↑ Drive (UK cassette single sleeve). R.E.M. Warner Bros. Records. 1992. W0136C.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

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[1] "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. September 19, 1992. p. 19. Retrieved June 22, 2021.

[2] Drive (US 7-inch single vinyl disc). R.E.M. Warner Bros. Records. 1992. 7-18729.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

[3] Drive (US cassette single sleeve). R.E.M. Warner Bros. Records. 1992. 4-18729.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

[4] Drive (US CD single disc notes). R.E.M. Warner Bros. Records. 1992. 2-18729.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

[5] Drive (UK CD1 liner notes). R.E.M. Warner Bros. Records. 1992. W0136CD.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

[6] Drive (UK CD2 liner notes). R.E.M. Warner Bros. Records. 1992. W0136CDX.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

[7] Drive (UK 7-inch single sleeve). R.E.M. Warner Bros. Records. 1992. W 0136.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

[8] Drive (UK cassette single sleeve). R.E.M. Warner Bros. Records. 1992. W0136C.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

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v t e R.E.M.
Bill Berry Peter Buck Mike Mills Michael Stipe Bertis Downs Jefferson Holt Nathan December Buren Fowler Peter Holsapple Barrett Martin Scott McCaughey Bill Rieflin Ken Stringfellow Joey Waronker
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: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003 iTunes Originals And I Feel Fine Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011 Complete Rarities: I.R.S. 1982–1987 Complete Rarities: Warner Bros. 1988–2011 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
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