"Bad Day"

R.E.M. has a marvelous new song that I adore. This will not surprise anyone who knows my love of R.E.M., but I really think that "Bad Day" is an improvement on most of Reveal, which I liked a lot. "Bad Day" is marvelously catchy and has a quirky and cool video to boot. I think the backing refrain of "Please don't take a picture" eerily invokes the "It's time I had some time alone" backing of refrain of "It's the End of the World..." Awesome. And, especially awesome was the release of the single to the iTunes music store, allowing me to download it on a particularly bad day of my own.