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Wow ... so much less haunting than the original. Almost, dare I type, UPbeat. I like it too. The original tune would be on my desert island list.

So does this mean Michael Stipes isn't gay anymore??

Oh my goodness, how does that work so well?

Upvote, and let us never speak of it again.

REM - Losing My Religion has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo on that post.

To me, compared to the original it seems somewhat emotionless and flat.

Cool. Weird. Clever. Don't like it.

Interesting. But now explain to me like I'm 5, what minor and major chords/scales are? The Wikipedia articles seem to assume a bit of musical theory knowledge, even trying to figure out what a chord is (seems to be just a stack of notes, but then they talk scales where there is no stack of notes at the same time). I know where middle C is on a piano, and on a sheet music and could follow a note to where it is by counting up or down (so no playing songs). I've always thought of the two clefs as left (for the bass clef) and right (for the treble clef) hand... so poor music knowledge here...

EDIT: I should note I can hear how it sounds more upbeat or whatever, but I hear the terms major/minor and chords all the time (I think I understand scale is going up the notes from whatever key you are starting at to the last key before repeating and then back down)... and just wondering on what the terms refer to...

Look at the keyboard, starting at middle C, which is a white key. All the keys in C major are white keys, so going right from middle C, the keys are named: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, then C again an octave higher.

The simplest way to hear the difference is to play a C major chord, which is the first, third and fifth notes of the scale: C, E, G. Just hit all three at the same time and you can hear they have a certain sound together - call it majorness.

In a minor chord, on the other hand, the middle note of the chord (the third, E in the case of a C chord) is flattened -- so, instead of hitting the white E key, you hit the black E-flat key to its left, while keeping the same C and G. You can hear those notes also have a certain sound to them - call it minorness. Go back and forth between the major and minor chords and you'll start to hear the difference.

Here's the thing: scales are based on the *intervals* between the notes in them. C to D is a full step, or just a step. D to E is also a full step. D to E-flat, on the other hand, is a half-step. So the major scale goes like this:

Step, step, half-step. Step. Step, step, half-step.

Notice how the first part and the second part of the scale are identical, with an additional step separating them? Now try flattening the third note of both parts to make a minor scale:

Step, half-step, step. Step. Step, half-step, step.

That's the minor natural scale. Starting at C, it goes: C, D, E-flat, F, G, A, B-flat, C. If you start from a different note, you transpose into a different key and end up with different notes being sharp or flat, but the major- or minorness of it still comes from the interval pattern.

Anyway, what they basically did was take the flattened third (E-flat) and seventh (B-flat) and raised them a half-step while leaving everything else the same. Boom, it sounds like a more upbeat song. Cheers!

Minor sounds sad, major sounds happy.

I'm with @FlowersInHisHair.

and internet points to @elrondhubbard for a detailed explanation and @shatterdose for a concise explanation of major/minor

It's interesting but it sounds too happy for the subject material.

Had this been the original release, nobody would have heard this song.

I find it so bizarre that there are these seemingly arbitary scales which pretty much everybody can identify as sounding "happy" or "sad".

The Chorus fights the whole way....

But can you imagine what would happen if the original became this remix?

This is what REM sounds like on the radio in Bizarro World.

I thought that was "Shiny Happy People", the original.