MORNING TEAM.com beautiful video to Bad Day!!! I start lovin' this song... really... I knew it was and old song, I heard a demo version many years ago, but... guess I know why it hadn't been released... first I found this: R.E.M. is ON!: "many fears are gone, step down, step down, watch a heel crush, ah this means war" - almost the same words as in ITEOTW(AWKI)... they are not the words you can hear now in the single version, but it's from the previous version of BD known as P.S.A., so... at first I thought that as usual Michael tried different lyrics with different tunes, but... then I realized it has very similar harmony to ITEOTW - you can actually sing ITEOTW lyrics (and melody) to BD, so... they were the same song or seemed to be very similar that's why only one (one version) was released then and the other now... well that's my theory of conspiracy...
and also worth noticing on BD a very rare (for R.E.M.) instrument - harmonica can be heard - who plays it? I bet it's Mike... or Michael... :) ? the only other time I can think of harmonica in R.E.M. songs is Driver 8... anything else?