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* CreativeDifferences: According to Michael Stipe, he and producer Don Gehman occasionally clashed over their different approaches to lyrical content. Gehman favored the idea of songs being easily decipherable, while Stipe attempted to continue his usual opaque writing style. Despite this, Stipe considered these clashes beneficial, feeling that Gehman's willingness to challenge him helped make his lyrics less self-indulgent.
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* RefittedForSequel: "I Believe" was reworked from "When I Was Young", a track recorded for ''Music/FablesOfTheReconstruction'' that was dropped at the last minute (so late, in fact, that the initial LP release still listed it on the inner sleeve).
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* RefittedForSequel: "I Believe" was reworked from "When I Was Young", a track recorded for ''Music/FablesOfTheReconstruction'' that was dropped at the last minute (so late, in fact, that the initial LP release it's still listed it on in the inner sleeve).liner notes).
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* RefittedForSequel: "I Believe" was reworked from "When I Was Young", a track recorded for ''Music/FablesOfTheReconstruction'' that was dropped at the last minute (so late, in fact, that the initial LP release still listed it on the inner sleeve).
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* CreatorRecovery: The more energetic musical and lyrical tone of the album was noticeably influenced by the band recovering from a huge personal nadir that they'd been wrestling with during the making of ''Music/FablesOfTheReconstruction''; Michael Stipe in particular described how he felt a huge sense of renewal at the time, which influenced his lyrics on the album.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Like ''Music/{{Reckoning}}'' before it, ''Lifes Rich Pageant'' was originally devised as a double-album, with various interludes between tracks. Once again, the idea was axed in favor of a single LP due to commercial concerns, though a few remnants of the multi-interlude concept did remain in the form of "Underneath the Bunker", the banjo intro to "I Believe", and the pull-string doll intro to "Superman".
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* ThrowItIn: The banjo intro to "I Believe" was actually an unrelated clip of Peter Buck messing around on the banjo, recorded without his knowledge and stuck onto the song for the hell of it.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Like ''Music/{{Reckoning}}'' before it, ''Lifes Rich Pageant'' was originally devised as a double-album, with various interludes between tracks. Once again, the idea was axed in favor of a single LP due to commercial concerns, though a few remnants of the multi-interlude concept did remain in the form of "Underneath theBunker", the banjo intro to "I Believe", Bunker" and the pull-string doll intro to "Superman".
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Like ''Music/{{Reckoning}}'' before it, ''Lifes Rich Pageant'' was originally devised as a double-album, with various interludes between tracks. Once again, the idea was axed in favor of a single LP due to commercial concerns, though a few remnants of the multi-interlude concept did remain in the form of "Underneath the
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Like ''Music/{{Reckoning}}'' before it, ''Lifes Rich Pageant'' was originally devised as a double-album, with various interludes between tracks. Once again, the idea was axed in favor of a single LP due to commercial concerns, though a few remnants of the multi-interlude concept did remain in the form of "Underneath the Bunker", the banjo intro to "I Believe", and the pull-string doll into intro to "Superman".
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Like ''Music/{{Reckoning}}'' before it, ''Lifes Rich Pageant'' was originally devised as a double-album, with various interludes between tracks. Once again, the idea was axed in favor of a single LP due to commercial concerns, though a few remnants of the idea multi-interlude concept did remain in the form of "Underneath the Bunker", the banjo intro to "I Believe", and the pull-string doll into to "Superman".
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Like ''Music/{{Reckoning}}'' before it, ''Lifes Rich Pageant'' was originally devised as a double-album, with various interludes between tracks. Once again, the idea was axed in favor of a single LP due to commercial concerns, though a few remnants of the idea did remain in the form of "Underneath the Bunker", the banjo intro to "I Believe", and the pull-string doll into to "Superman".
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