 much became the mark fighting theme song there for a while too it's the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine released on this day by rem in 1987 in 1989 it was the first album following the death of two of their co-founders who both died in the early 80s they did have a couple of hits in 80 and 82 but in 1989 a renovated re-grouped style of the b-52s hit the charts