I worked at the Drive - In movie theater where this was filmed in Athens and was privileged enough to be there the night they shot this video and it was a blast, I actually had some classic Motown on cassette and we were playing it through all the movie speakers in the parking area and the guys loved it! Those were def the good ol" days in Athens, GA, great music was everywhere!
I don't know if you'll remember me, but I know you must be who I remember. You have a sister, Kathy(a nurse), who's with Randy. And a good friend, Mickey, who was a projectionist. And you shared a house with the flute player from Roc-a-u-socs-off(or something like that). They opened for REM @ 40 Watt for a benefit show. I used to visit Kathy's house by a pond off Atlanta Hwy and watch the Braves with Randy. Was friends with Beth J and Lynn too. Haven't seen any of y'all in long time. I saw Randy and Groover(think that's what he called Kathy) at a Bonnie Raiit show at Chastain around '95. If this is who I'm sure this is, well hey from Teddy Cook (me). And tell any you see that I said hey! And if this isn't you, well, hey anyways! I'll never forget y'all! I lived in the house Randy and Kathy moved out of on Prince Ave and got one of their puppies. I had Fred for 15 years. He was a wonderful pal!
34hershel Hey man, yep it's me! Mickey and I still play some music together. Still see Kathy and Randy of course only rarely others from back then good to hear from you.
I remember trying to figure out all the words on early REM songs and then you see the words and still don't know what the hell the song is about. But I love it - still my favorite band.
wilbur johnson I was 14 when I heard this song on MTV and is the best song they sang and wrote. Later they wrote some interesting stuff but I have to give it to the song forgiven them a whole career!
The entire Fables of the Reconstruction album was all killer no filler. Every song was excellent. I think it's their best and Reckoning their second best
Agreed. I listened to Fables yesterday. It had been years since I listened to it. A mark of a great album is that no matter how much time passes it still has that emotional resonance it had when you first listened. Fables still has that. I enjoyed it so much yesterday I listened to it AGAIN earlier today!
@@dathorndike4908 It's great that they had an album called Murmur. Like the Cocteau Twins, their lyrics were best when they were semi-indecypherable and left something to the imagination.
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The first time I heard of R.E.M was when they played on the David Letterman show in around 1982? They played Radio Free Europe and Dave was so impressed that he invited them to sit down and have a conversation In spite of the already popular B-52s, Michael Stipe described Athens, Georgia as the home of Herschel Walker. Oh, have times changed
I agree! Could've been age and a major label however the real transition was on Document...still on IRS but big success. Maybe that wasn't the point you guys made...I went sideways with it.
I first heard this song in 1985 on a "classic rock" station, and was surprised it was then-current, at a time when the likes of Prince and Madonna were dominating the charts. This was more to my liking.
I saw these guys when they first started out in a small venue in San Francisco and I was hooked! That was 39 years ago and I still play their albums regularly!
Penny Rondeau I hope that was only 39 years ago. 😀 I grew up in New Zealand and got into them in 86. Murmur Reckoning Fables Pageant Document Green, what a run!
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One of those early REM songs I heard on the radio in the early-to-mid 80s,before they started having mainstream hits here in the UK. Don't Go Back to Rockville was another one,and there was also Finest Worksong and,going back the farthest in time,Radio Free Europe. Probably at least one more I can't think of at the moment.
MTV vidcheck August 10 , 1985 10:45 pm EST this song played . I saw them 2 years earlier in Hartford , CT. August 1983 OPENED ( still unknown band) for The POLICE . Awesome night !!!!
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A blast furnace Georgia summer, feeling now as several lifetimes ago. Driving. I had a destination, but lacked direction. Soaking in the pure, gritty beauty of rural Georgia- rolling hills, farms, power lines with floaters, dilapidated sharecropper houses, rolls of hay laid in fields, walls of stone old as time itself which somehow seemed to pass over the whole of the world here. It was hot. Holy shit it was hot. The heat bore down oppressively. Wendel gee popped up on my mixtape. And suddenly, there I was, driving through philomath. Not even a dot on the map. But there it was. I can not tell you how I got there, all I know is that I can’t get there from here. It’s a place one must be lost in order to find.
I first heard this song play at the Roxy Bar near Vicenza, Italy. I immediately asked the DJ who was playing and he showed me REM's Fables of the Reconstruction album which they got from Saxophone record store in Vicenza. The next day I went to Saxophone and bought the record. I also sample played another REM record they had in stock and was pleased to find Radio Free Europe and the Murmur album. I bought that album too and have been a huge fan of REM ever since. I got to see REM in concert in Seattle a few years later. Awesome band. REM retired too early.
Neat to see Pete’s Lavender 1960 Ford Sedan. Haven’t thought about that car in years. REM IS the 80s. Seeing them play at the I&I Club, the Watt, etc. was so much fun
lmbadr1960 I agree! They made lots of great songs, but this one is my all time favourite.. my second favourite is Maps and Legends, from the same album, Fables of the Reconstruction.
I know it came out well before August 1987, but it goes into heavy rotation every August because that's when I put it on a compilation tape that I played endlessly late summer 1987 and my junior year of college (to the exhaustion of several college newspaper co-workers).
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i'm beginning to appreciate REM a lot more these days. first, these are some crazy tunes, none of this sounds easy to play. but the star of the band has to bassist mike mills. i love his counter harmonies to michael stipe's mumbles. further, his bass line are catchy and drive each tune. i think this is his "the real me" moment. they mixed his bass way up and he is just ripping it.
thanks R.E.M. for over 20 years quality music, we can always listen to the their songs,but for me it's like a I'm loosing something, they will be missed, all the best to the band, I'm sure Micheal will not sit in the garden sipping tea with Morrissey or Courthey, so I hope he will make a solo album or a new project, also for the other guys in the band, Thanks from the Netherlands
There are a few songs that I can remember the very first time that I heard them. Not very many but there are a few and this is one of them. I heard it first on an FM rock radio station and I remember thinking 'What a cool ass song' and 'Who in the hell is that?' To this day I still think it's a great song.
First REM song I heard, really brings back the time when bands actually played their own instruments, wrote their lyrics and could actually sing. When MTV actually had something to do with music
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Makes me feel better that there are a number of R.E.M. singles that do little for me. This one, The One I Love, Stand, Shiny Happy People and Drive, regardless I was always a big R.E.M. fan. Kept the bar high since they were such a good band. Hey, whatever worked for them, that's the important thing. Here's a big-ass salute to R.E.M.
This is my favorite album and era of REM. Many of their motifs and musical devices can be traced back here. I also love the cinematography of just random but captivating imagery. It's something of a lost art. Also, I just noticed that JMS resembles John Cusack in this video, at least the face. In silhouette, Micheal appears tall, lanky, powerful, and almost a demi-human, drawing parallels to The Giant in Twin Peaks.
I've been a major fan since Chronic Town came out in my early '20s, but up until today in 2020 I had no idea that Philomath was actually a place name. I always assumed that it was one of those words that Stipe used to love to throw into the lyrics because he liked the way it sounded.
Was a compilation not album but yes that was my first of their early works I found Back in the early 90s I found it on tape in a small music shop in Karachi
When the world is a monster Bad to swallow you whole Kick the clay that holds the teeth in Throw your trolls out the door If you're needing inspiration Philomath is where I go Lawyer Jeff he knows the low down He's mighty bad to visit home Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) When your hands are feeling empty Stickheads jumping off the ground Tris is sure to shirr the deers out Brother Ray can sing my song Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Hands down, Calechee bound And locked, kiss the ground The dirt of seven continents going Round and round Go on ahead Mr. Citywide Hypnotize, suit and tie Gentlemen testify If your world is a monster Bad to swallow you whole Philomath they know the low-down Throw your trolls out the door Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way)
Mike Mills is killing it on Bass
He’s the man!
I came here to say that
Yes. Beat me to it.
I worked at the Drive - In movie theater where this was filmed in Athens and was privileged enough to be there the night they shot this video and it was a blast, I actually had some classic Motown on cassette and we were playing it through all the movie speakers in the parking area and the guys loved it! Those were def the good ol" days in Athens, GA, great music was everywhere!
I don't know if you'll remember me, but I know you must be who I remember. You have a sister, Kathy(a nurse), who's with Randy. And a good friend, Mickey, who was a projectionist. And you shared a house with the flute player from Roc-a-u-socs-off(or something like that). They opened for REM @ 40 Watt for a benefit show. I used to visit Kathy's house by a pond off Atlanta Hwy and watch the Braves with Randy. Was friends with Beth J and Lynn too. Haven't seen any of y'all in long time. I saw Randy and Groover(think that's what he called Kathy) at a Bonnie Raiit show at Chastain around '95. If this is who I'm sure this is, well hey from Teddy Cook (me). And tell any you see that I said hey! And if this isn't you, well, hey anyways! I'll never forget y'all! I lived in the house Randy and Kathy moved out of on Prince Ave and got one of their puppies. I had Fred for 15 years. He was a wonderful pal!
34hershel Hey man, yep it's me! Mickey and I still play some music together. Still see Kathy and Randy of course only rarely others from back then good to hear from you.
34hershel Kathy sounds cool, Randy I'm not sure about
Did they really get in the hood of the car and climb out? and whats with the primitive art at 0:21 ?
Thanks.
I remember trying to figure out all the words on early REM songs and then you see the words and still don't know what the hell the song is about. But I love it - still my favorite band.
As a writer it gave me permission to realize lyrics have a lot of leeway
Best REM tune ever. Entire Fables album, one of the best.
wilbur johnson I was 14 when I heard this song on MTV and is the best song they sang and wrote. Later they wrote some interesting stuff but I have to give it to the song forgiven them a whole career!
my faves are Kohutek and Green Grow as if they were twin songs.
i never was able to identify the album cover but these days it looks like a book.
I second that motion as best REM song ever
Georgia - in this. Love it.
The entire Fables of the Reconstruction album was all killer no filler. Every song was excellent. I think it's their best and Reckoning their second best
Agreed. I listened to Fables yesterday. It had been years since I listened to it. A mark of a great album is that no matter how much time passes it still has that emotional resonance it had when you first listened. Fables still has that. I enjoyed it so much yesterday I listened to it AGAIN earlier today!
@@dathorndike4908 It's great that they had an album called Murmur. Like the Cocteau Twins, their lyrics were best when they were semi-indecypherable and left something to the imagination.
Murmer is amazing top to bottom from to back black to.front no filler only killer tunes every damn one of them. And yes reckoning and fables are amazing as well. But really so is Life's rich pageant and document well damn 8m.in the rabbit hole.
Ever since rediscovering R.E.M.'s music, this has become a favorite of mine.
The first time I heard of R.E.M was when they played on the David Letterman show in around 1982? They played Radio Free Europe and Dave was so impressed that he invited them to sit down and have a conversation
In spite of the already popular B-52s, Michael Stipe described Athens, Georgia as the home of Herschel Walker. Oh, have times changed
I love Fables with every fiber of my being. To me a perfect album. Not saying my word is law, I just love it.
I really like old REM music. There's something organic and flowing about it that's not so prevalent in their later music.
I agree! Could've been age and a major label however the real transition was on Document...still on IRS but big success. Maybe that wasn't the point you guys made...I went sideways with it.
I miss both the eighties and REM. Thanks for giving me the best years of my life. The music will live on.
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I first heard this song in 1985 on a "classic rock" station, and was surprised it was then-current, at a time when the likes of Prince and Madonna were dominating the charts. This was more to my liking.
I saw these guys when they first started out in a small venue in San Francisco and I was hooked! That was 39 years ago and I still play their albums regularly!
Penny Rondeau I hope that was only 39 years ago. 😀 I grew up in New Zealand and got into them in 86. Murmur Reckoning Fables Pageant Document Green, what a run!
@@duncanwcraig9668 Yep Typo! Good catch! And yes they had a great run!!!
Lucky girl!
Life's Rich Pageant is every bit as good today as the days when I wore out the cassette tape.
@@whlewis9164 Absolutely!
This, South Central Rain, Radio Free Europe, ...the early stuff..End Of The World As We Know It...just...totally good memories..mid 1980's.
The song that started my R.E.M. adventure
God, if ONLY I could back to this time in my life.
can't get there from here
I was just thinking the same!
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how many times did i watch this on 120 min. on mtv..... 12 oclock every sunday night!!
Lucky
Yes my first exposure to REM, loved it!!
I was there but usually went too bed 1/2 way through...😅
One of those early REM songs I heard on the radio in the early-to-mid 80s,before they started having mainstream hits here in the UK. Don't Go Back to Rockville was another one,and there was also Finest Worksong and,going back the farthest in time,Radio Free Europe. Probably at least one more I can't think of at the moment.
Miss that show...and that time period.
One of the greatest bands ever.
I grew up listening to REM in the 90s but I never realised how good their stuff from the 80s was. Absolutely fantastic
Same here
Incredible song and album... One of their best songs for sure
Another one of those R.E.M. videos where I want to jump through the screen and join in on the fun.
I love R.E.M. and I love this song
Gosh remember seeing this video on heavy rotation on MTV in the 80's
MTV vidcheck August 10 , 1985 10:45 pm EST this song played . I saw them 2 years earlier in Hartford , CT. August 1983 OPENED ( still unknown band) for The POLICE . Awesome night !!!!
31years old. Great song from a classic album ...
Now 34 years old and still a great song and a classic album.
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This song deserves to have 1000000 likes. I don't understand why music changes so much nowadays
every time i listen to REM i wonder why i dont listen to them more. Thanks for turning me on to REM, Gary .... 30 years ago...
Nice to see R.E.M. taking a rare comic turn in this video.
A blast furnace Georgia summer, feeling now as several lifetimes ago. Driving. I had a destination, but lacked direction. Soaking in the pure, gritty beauty of rural Georgia- rolling hills, farms, power lines with floaters, dilapidated sharecropper houses, rolls of hay laid in fields, walls of stone old as time itself which somehow seemed to pass over the whole of the world here. It was hot. Holy shit it was hot. The heat bore down oppressively. Wendel gee popped up on my mixtape. And suddenly, there I was, driving through philomath. Not even a dot on the map. But there it was. I can not tell you how I got there, all I know is that I can’t get there from here. It’s a place one must be lost in order to find.
I particularly enjoyed Bill Berry's dramatic facial expressions.
I first heard this song play at the Roxy Bar near Vicenza, Italy. I immediately asked the DJ who was playing and he showed me REM's Fables of the Reconstruction album which they got from Saxophone record store in Vicenza. The next day I went to Saxophone and bought the record. I also sample played another REM record they had in stock and was pleased to find Radio Free Europe and the Murmur album. I bought that album too and have been a huge fan of REM ever since. I got to see REM in concert in Seattle a few years later. Awesome band. REM retired too early.
The best of REM (this one, Fall on me + SO. Central Rain)
I used to worship this group. Good times. Little did I know that life had much much more happiness to come!
I liked the band too before the whole Seattle music scene became popular.
Everybody on this thread was raised right..cheers!
Ahh, REM from their golden era. I can't describe how much their music meant to me back then.
This is my favorite REM song and video's great, too. Bill Berry 's drumming is so clean and immaculate, my favorite performance from him as well.
One of my favorite bands of all time
This was the very first REM song I ever heard that was on someone's mix tape at the time. Blew my mind! They really sold out after this era.
Been a fan for near 30 years. Never saw this before.
Heard this a thousand times and just now noticed the subtle sax in the mix
Neat to see Pete’s Lavender 1960 Ford Sedan. Haven’t thought about that car in years. REM IS the 80s. Seeing them play at the I&I Club, the Watt, etc. was so much fun
Watching this I just realised it was the first song and video I ever heard and saw from REM!
R.E.M. have the best music videos in my opinion
Happy Birthday today(July 31) to REM drummer Bill Berry. Cheers!
Otto Greenleaf he wrote the song
Thanks Paul.
This was another song i used to listen a lot while playing games.Always thought this song was great.
My favorite R.E.M. song EVER......and I love all their songs.
Ditto
Agreed.
lmbadr1960 I agree! They made lots of great songs, but this one is my all time favourite.. my second favourite is Maps and Legends, from the same album, Fables of the Reconstruction.
+lmbadr1960 Well then, I'd have to wonder why this is your favorite then. It is a free country however...Free World Too!
+lmbadr1960 I would agree if Cuyahoga didn't exist.
I still drive through Philomath several time a year.
What is Philomath?
I know it came out well before August 1987, but it goes into heavy rotation every August because that's when I put it on a compilation tape that I played endlessly late summer 1987 and my junior year of college (to the exhaustion of several college newspaper co-workers).
Here at 1 million views today! It took way too long. Here's to the next million quicker. We can get there from here
such a kick ass rock song turn it up!
R.E.M. are the boild penuts of indie music. Luv'om.
they indeed are my honey roasted cashews.
Totally punkers
REM your music shaped so many young people, for me you guys were like gurus and I listened like a monk in the house of REM.
love that subtle baritone sax in the background
Okay this video is even sillier than I remembered. I love it.
So Georgia!!! I love this band!
Man, what a great time! College...R.E.M. Such a great song!
I like this song . Can t get there from here . Good song .
We knew the old REM was that good at the time !!!!!
Can't Get There From Here
R.E.M.
When the world is a monster
Bad to swallow you whole
Kick the clay that holds the teeth in
Throw your trolls out the door
If you're needing inspiration
Philomath is where I go
Lawyer Jeff he knows the low down
He's mighty bad to visit home
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
When your hands are feeling empty
Stickheads jumping off the ground
Tris is sure to shirr the deers out
Brother Ray can sing my song
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
Hands down, Calechee bound
And locked, kiss the ground
The dirt of seven continents going
Round and round
Go on ahead Mr. Citywide
Hypnotize, suit and tie
Gentlemen testify
If your world is a monster
Bad to swallow you whole
Philomath they know the low-down
Throw your trolls out the door
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
Songwriters: Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Michael Mills / Michael Stipe
Can't Get There From Here lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc, Universal Music Publishing Group
REM liked to throw trolls out the door in the 80s. They'd have a busy time now.
After 30 years. I finally looked up philomath. I guess I'm not one of them.
@@leechurchill1965 I just did the same,and I think I qualify as one,in a laid back way.
@@leechurchill1965 There's a town in Georgia called Philomath. It's where the Confederate government gave up at the end of the Civil War.
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Nice bass line from Mike Mills
Delicious
Cranks
Mike Mills has many nice bass lines from just about every REM song
The greatest american band in history..imo
In mine too
Me too
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I like it. Also, Michael Stipe dancing is a spectacle not to be missed.
i'm beginning to appreciate REM a lot more these days. first, these are some crazy tunes, none of this sounds easy to play. but the star of the band has to bassist mike mills. i love his counter harmonies to michael stipe's mumbles. further, his bass line are catchy and drive each tune. i think this is his "the real me" moment. they mixed his bass way up and he is just ripping it.
THIS
Used to be on the radio every morning I woke up for high school....ahhhhh the good ol days!
Top 40 REM in the late 80's-early 90's was pretty good, but does not hold a candle to this era of REM.
First saw this on the Succumbs VHS I bought when i was about 15
thanks R.E.M. for over 20 years quality music, we can always listen to the their songs,but for me it's like a I'm loosing something, they will be missed, all the
best to the band, I'm sure Micheal will not sit in the garden sipping tea with Morrissey or Courthey, so I hope he will make a solo album or a new project, also for the other guys in the band, Thanks from the Netherlands
I've been there... to Philomath... I actually do know the way. Not much to see there, but it is... there.
There are a few songs that I can remember the very first time that I heard them. Not very many but there are a few and this is one of them. I heard it first on an FM rock radio station and I remember thinking 'What a cool ass song' and 'Who in the hell is that?' To this day I still think it's a great song.
First REM song I heard, really brings back the time when bands actually played their own instruments, wrote their lyrics and could actually sing. When MTV actually had something to do with music
Bring those days back please the stuff nowadays sucks big-time.
@@jamescarey2367 we need good music again
And that was 8 years ago, think about today’s music
My first REM song too. My friends kept playing it in '85 at N.C. State University dorm rooms.
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Makes me feel better that there are a number of R.E.M. singles that do little for me. This one, The One I Love, Stand, Shiny Happy People and Drive, regardless I was always a big R.E.M. fan. Kept the bar high since they were such a good band. Hey, whatever worked for them, that's the important thing. Here's a big-ass salute to R.E.M.
Mike Mills incredible bassline, makes this song, he is a multi instrumentalist and a composer , REM killer band🫶
There used to be a drive in theater on Atlanta Highway where the Mall now is. That theater is certainly the inspiration for this video.
The Athens Drive In was actually located on the Atlanta Highway where Phil Hughes Honda is now, I used to work there
Anybody here who lived in Pakistan and loved REM ? I felt like I was their only fan growing up there
This is my favorite album and era of REM. Many of their motifs and musical devices can be traced back here. I also love the cinematography of just random but captivating imagery. It's something of a lost art. Also, I just noticed that JMS resembles John Cusack in this video, at least the face. In silhouette, Micheal appears tall, lanky, powerful, and almost a demi-human, drawing parallels to The Giant in Twin Peaks.
I've never been to Philomath (or Athens, for that matter), but it's on the list!
+Eziekle Crafts I'm in Philomath Georgia at this moment. Google it 😎
Eziekle Crafts @ E , really? Philomath is a real town in USA Georgia
a philomath is someone who loves to seek knowledge. i learned that in Alcohol recovery group. been sober for 8 1/2 years now. but i still smoke.
I've been a major fan since Chronic Town came out in my early '20s, but up until today in 2020 I had no idea that Philomath was actually a place name. I always assumed that it was one of those words that Stipe used to love to throw into the lyrics because he liked the way it sounded.
Cliff Hendroval I finally went to Athens about 3 years ago. Nice town. Still didn’t make it to Philomath...
Eponymous was by far the best album REM ever recorded.
That's a greatest hits album lol. Has all the best songs though so I agree
Ummm ... 🙄
Was a compilation not album but yes that was my first of their early works I found
Back in the early 90s I found it on tape in a small music shop in Karachi
even if you don't like REM you like this
this is the song that started it all for me....changed my life
drunken high school guitar player... got a gig at gettysburgh college frat ... playe rem ... chicks digged us .. life was good for a kid fom NJ.
This is catchy as hell!
Ive been to Philomath on the way to Athens...cant get many places from there thats for sure!!!!
Probably the only song to ever use the word "Philomath"
A stable song from WXPN in the early eighties.Always loved this album...before REM became top 40.But i still love em.
When the world is a monster
Bad to swallow you whole
Kick the clay that holds the teeth in
Throw your trolls out the door
If you're needing inspiration
Philomath is where I go
Lawyer Jeff he knows the low down
He's mighty bad to visit home
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
When your hands are feeling empty
Stickheads jumping off the ground
Tris is sure to shirr the deers out
Brother Ray can sing my song
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
Hands down, Calechee bound
And locked, kiss the ground
The dirt of seven continents going
Round and round
Go on ahead Mr. Citywide
Hypnotize, suit and tie
Gentlemen testify
If your world is a monster
Bad to swallow you whole
Philomath they know the low-down
Throw your trolls out the door
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
Can't get there from here
(I've been there I know the way)
Can't get there from here !!
Oh when music was so fresh.. you could hear it and get excited. Not autotuned garbage. This was a great song
I think this was the 1st REM video I've ever watched
Love seeing Jefferson Holt (lawyer Jeff) and Bertis Downs cavort out there in the weedy fields of an Athens spring...
I spoke with Jefferson on the phone a few times back in my indie-pop youth. He kept calling me "Mickey".
Bertis looking pretty darn good
This Video introduce me to the music of R.E.M.I'v became a fan ever since.
First REM song I ever heard, hooked....
I miss Athens Ga grew up there in 60's
we gotta have an REM dance party soon, across the nation
Can't get there from here. Can't get there from anywhere.
Got it-daily therapy- all five minutes!!! Yea Michael!!
Still my fave tune from dem
ANOTHER FANTASTIC VIDEO FROM R.E.M., the dj
"thank you, ray."
SUPER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
REM are the American answer to the Beatles.
This was the first REM dldong I ever heard. I saw the video on tv69 in Gainesville and was instantly hooked.