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Hollow Man (song)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Hollow Man
| cover = R.E.M. - Hollow Man.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = R.E.M.
| album = Accelerate
| B-side =
| released = June 2, 2008
| recorded = 2007
| studio =
| venue =
| genre =
| length = 2:39
| label = Warner Bros.
| writer =
| producer =
| prev_title = Supernatural Superserious
| prev_year = 2008
| next_title = Man-Sized Wreath
| next_year = 2008
}}
"'Hollow Man'" is the fourth track and second single from R.E.M.'s fourteenth album 'Accelerate'. The music video was created by Crush Inc., a graphic-design and production studio based in Toronto, and posted on the band's website on April 23, 2008. The single was released in the UK on June 2, 2008. The song peaked at number 7 on 'Billboard' magazine's Triple A chart.
Track listing
;CD single (UK, W804CD1)
#"Hollow Man" 2:42
#"Horse to Water" (Live in Vancouver) 2:38
The CD cover shows a typical Nokia mobile phone interface.
Canceled release
*This three-track single was scheduled as a CD single in Germany but was subsequently canceled. The B-side "Indian Summer" is however available through download stores. Some three-track copies of the CD single were released as promotional copies. These are extremely rare and were not available in stores.#"Hollow Man" 2:42
#"Horse to Water" (Live in Vancouver) 2:38
#"Indian Summer" 5:01
Personnel
*"Hollow Man" and "Horse to Water" written by Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe.
*"Indian Summer" written by Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening cover, from their album 'Jamboree', 1988).
Music video
The music video for the song features a four-frame animated figure overlaid on top of the footage. At [https://web.archive.org/web/20080627135511/http://www.hollowman.tv/ Hollowman.tv], the band have encouraged fans to print off copies of the character and photograph it themselves to insert on the video projected behind their live performances of the song.
Charts
References
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