Music: Dreaming At The Wheel

Of the eleven excellent tunes on R.E.M.'s new album Green, one of the most memorable is the last one, . Playful and unabashedly eccentric, R.E.M. has just crashed out from cult status to broad-based popular appeal, and a song like , with its allusive lyrics and lulling, faintly ominous melody, is a bright beacon for the band's breakthrough. The fact that the song's full and complete title really is may make for a number of bookkeeping and bibliographic headaches, as well as considerable white space on record labels and magazine pages. But it demonstrates that this fierce four-man band out of...