question: Finest Worksong is a single from an R.E.M. album released in what year?
answer: 1987
context: Title: The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
  Passage: "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was influenced by the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", both in the title of the song and through the song's opening refrain.  (SongFacts writes, "Rather than follow industry practice and simply pilfer the song, R.E.M. paid for the rights to use it.  As part of the deal, R.E.M. were asked to do a cover of the original "Lion Sleeps Tonight".)  The band used "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" as the B-side to this song.  The song was released on R.E.M.'s 1992 album "Automatic for the People" and was later released as a single in 1993, reaching number 17 in the UK Singles Chart.
  Title: E-Bow the Letter
  Passage: "E-Bow the Letter" is the first single from R.E.M.'s tenth studio album "New Adventures in Hi-Fi".  It was released in August 1996 just weeks before the album's release.  During the same month, R.E.M. signed its then record-breaking five-album contract with Warner Bros.  Records.  Although it peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles Chart, the highest any R.E.M. song charted in the UK until "The Great Beyond" in 2000, the song fared less well in the United States, reaching only number 49 on the "Billboard" Hot 100.  It became R.E.M.'s lowest charting lead single since "Fall on Me" released from "Lifes Rich Pageant" in 1986, when the band was on a smaller record label, I.R.S. Records.
  Title: Imitation of Life (song)
  Passage: "Imitation of Life" is a song by R.E.M., the first single released from the band's 12th album, "Reveal" in 2001.  The song peaked at number 83 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 (but reached number 22 on the US Modern Rock list).  It was the lowest chart of a lead single from an R.E.M. album in the United States since "Fall on Me" from "Lifes Rich Pageant" in 1986.  The song did reach #6 on the UK Singles Charts, making it the eighth top 10 for the band in Britain.  The song also became R.E.M.'s first number-one single in Japan.  The song was nominated for a 2002 Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals but lost to U2's "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of".  The song appeared in an episode of "Smallville".
  Title: Star 69 (song)
  Passage: "Star 69" is a song from the R.E.M. album "Monster".  It was not released as a single but still reached No. 74 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 Airplay chart.
  Title: Finest Worksong
  Passage: "Finest Worksong" is the third and final single released from R.E.M.'s fifth studio album "Document".  It peaked at number 50 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1988, at the time the group's highest-charting single in the UK.
  Title: In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003
  Passage: In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003 is the second official compilation album released by R.E.M. Issued in 2003, it includes tracks from their Warner Bros.  Records era, from 1988's "Green" to 2001's "Reveal", as well as two new recordings and two songs from movie soundtracks.  The album was the tenth-best-selling album of 2003 in the UK, and the 50th-best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK.
  Title: R.E.M.
  Passage: R.E.M. was an American rock band that formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by lead singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and drummer Bill Berry.  One of the first alternative rock bands, R.E.M. was noted for Stipe's particular vocal quality and obscure lyrics, Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style, and Mills' melodic basslines and backing vocals.  R.E.M. released its first single—"Radio Free Europe"—in 1981 on the independent record label Hib-Tone.  The single was followed by the "Chronic Town" EP in 1982, the band's first release on I.R.S. Records.  In 1983, the group released its critically acclaimed debut album, "Murmur", and built its reputation over the next few years through subsequent releases, constant touring, and the support of college radio.  Following years of underground success, R.E.M. achieved a mainstream hit in 1987 with the single "The One I Love".  The group signed to Warner Bros.  Records in 1988, and began to espouse political and environmental concerns while playing large arenas worldwide.
  Title: Pretty Persuasion (song)
  Passage: "Pretty Persuasion" is a song by R.E.M. that was first released on the band's 1984 album "Reckoning".  Although not released as a single, it reached number 44 on "Billboard"'s Rock Tracks chart.  According to R.E.M. biographer Tony Fletcher, it is often regarded as "the 'archetypal' R.E.M. anthem".
  Title: The Great Beyond
  Passage: "The Great Beyond" is a song by R.E.M. It is not featured on an original studio album as it was written specifically for the 1999 movie "Man on the Moon" but was released as a single the following year for support of the film's soundtrack album.  The single reached #3 in the UK singles chart in January 2000, the band's highest ever placing in that country.  The unedited version is included in two R.E.M. compilations: "In Time - The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003" and "Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011".  On the "Man on the Moon" soundtrack, there is some dialogue from the movie at the end of the track; meanwhile, the single version is a radio edit, with the bridge omitted.
  Title: Document (album)
  Passage: Document is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was released on September 1, 1987 a few months after their rarities collection "Dead Letter Office" appeared and is the last album of new material by the band released on the I.R.S. Records label.  It is the first album on which the band worked with producer Scott Litt.
citations: Document (album) Finest Worksong