I literally lived through ALL THE MUSIC VIDEOS OF THE 1980S AND 1990S. Even while training as.a Jesuit priest, I kept up with all the great Rock and pop releases. Having long left the Society of Jesus and married a beautiful woman, I still keep up through Vimeo and many other video platforms. I LOVE MUSIC, A PASSION WHICH DEFINES ME.
My dad told me he heard this song while he was sitting in his friends jeep outside a bar in Pheonix in 1984. It was a college station that played entire records after midnight. He bought this record a few days later and hes been a lifelong fan ever since. He told the story in such detail, i love how music can take you back to a certain time so vividly. I fuckin love REM.
@@ingenerchik EVIDENTLY, R.E.M. STOLE MOST OF THEIR SOUND FROM ONE OF THEIR RIVAL BANDS THAT NEVER GOT ANYWHERE CALLED PYLON. AND THEY ADMIT AS MUCH. JUST AS NIRVANA STOLE EVERY TRICK THEY HAD FROM FRANK BLACK AND THE PIXIES. AND KURT COBAIN MADE NO SECRET OF THAT EITHER.
The beauty is in the details: Mike's countermelody, the piano rambling on in the background, the extra reverb on berry's drums on the second hit of the bridge.
Mike Mills is the unsung hero in this band. He is the secret weapon that every guitarist or singer wants. Apart from the intro it's the bass doing the main riff. And good backing vocals. As any singer knows, a good backing vocal always makes the main vox sound better. Without him REM would never have been the awesome band they were. Love the other 3 too, of course.
REM in a nutshell. Mike Mills not just an ace bass player, a top backing vocalist, genius songwriter but also a great mine of knowledge on all genres of music.
@@jeffbachman Who ya got ? For me its R.E.M, 70's / early 80's Aerosmith ( after those years was crap ) , Eagles , Pearl Jam , CCR . i dont count Seger / Petty / Bruce , as I consider them solo artists with a backing band.
@@stevewright6290 If we can't include solo artists, Dylan, would have been my one or two, it has to be the Grateful Dead 1 and REM 2. I guess I don't like to use terms like "greatest" because music is so subjective, but rather favorites. After the Dead and REM, its a mishmash, Talking Heads, Ramones, Allman Brothers, the various incarnations of The Byrds, Pearl Jam are all up there for me. If you include solo artists, Dylan, Petty, Neil Young (I know he was born and raised in Canada, but has lived in the US nearly all of his career and has US citizenship).
Got to see them in NYC in '83, during a thunderstorm at Shea Stadium. Worth the soaking, took me a while to shake what I was on that night and recognize Mike's contribution, which is most significant to the R.E.M. sound.
Yes! I am currently bawling my eyes out watching this. I am having an intense emotional and visceral reaction to this song, but I can’t remember why... but I know it is there and happened
There's a video on here, if I recall correctly was R.E.M.'s first time on Letterman? Mike Mills is out there crushing on that bass. His face was lit up like a christmas tree.
Michael refused to lip sync the lyrics for the music video. This is him singing live in the video. That's why it sounds a bit different than the album version.
First REM song I ever heard, back in '84 , instant love. I saw them live in Birmingham a year later, easily one of the best concerts of my life. Early REM were something else.
Brilliant. Still gives me the chills to this day when I hear it. Goes down as one of my all time favorites. Getting old...but, this one brings me back to that simple, beautiful, happy place of my youth
I’m here for REM, 29years ago. At my small town school, in the country, full of work and dust and a bunch of idiots, REM planted a seed within me and some other kids. It was a big deal. It didn’t make sense to the older folk. We had skateboards, REM, tube socks and awful parents.
It's rare that this song doesn't cause me to cry...it's brilliant that way, and also takes me back to some very specific experiences. So beautifully emotive.
For my generation, high schoolers in the 80’s, who did not want hair bands or pop, this song was an anthem. All across the seaboard the kids were playing it in the early to late 80’s: Replacements, Black Flag, Meat Puppets, Husker Du and these guys from Athens, GA. Damn, was I privileged kid!
What a song! "Did you never call? I waited for your call These rivers of suggestion are driving me away The trees will bend, the cities wash away The city on the river there is a girl without a dream I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry Eastern to Mountain, third party call, the lines are down The wise man built his words upon the rocks But I'm not bound to follow suit The trees will bend, the conversation's dimmed Go build yourself another home, this choice isn't mine I'm sorry, I'm sorry Did you never call? I waited for your call These rivers of suggestion are driving me away The ocean sang, the conversation's dimmed Go build yourself another dream, this choice isn't mine I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry"
This has always been my favorite REM song, and this is a great take! The instrumental backing tracks are exactly as they appear on the LP Reckoning, but the vocal take is different, as it is sung live over the backing tracks, because Stipe refused to lip sync during this song. I remember seeing this video on some stupid dance show back in 1984, and being completely floored by it!
So true! After "Losing my Religion", I stopped listening to their stuff. I can't think of another band that their music is completely different with fantastic stuff & then....not so good. I could understand if band members had changed but i don't think they did.
@@derrickmartin8390 I agree, I am probably younger than you guys and for me Monster and New Adventures in Hifi ('94-'96) are my definite favorite masterpieces I still regularly come back to. Murmur is a masterpiece I found out recently. The other older albums (including the one with this song) meh, except for a few songs
Yeah these guys were geniuses but its Michaels voice that is just so sad and for some reason his voice is like a time echo for me theres just this absolute mourning for humanity in his voice and yet the fact that he has also experienced great joy is very apparent as well but his music is painful for me to hear its painful as if ive lost something in the past and can never get it back except in memory alone and yet at the same time is extremely beautiful... lifes so short its like a vapor of mist blown away on the wind... God bless
Left home and drove across the country listening to this album on repeat. I landed in Seattle just in time to get to watch Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Nirvana become mega stars. Those were good years.
I was born and raised in Seattle and was there for that whole pop culture nuclear explosion. Before the 90s, nobody gave a shit about our town, but after “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was released it was ka-BOOM!
I've been looking for this song for months. This song plays all the time at my job and the "I'm sorry" was the only lyrics I knew. Glad I finally found it.
First heard this tune when they made their debut on Letterman. Loved early REM, they sounded like no one else back then, little did I know that they were time travelers from the '90's.
I completely agree you can hear “magic” in that added little bit of humming at the end of the track as it is heard as being so intimate as well as intense! It puts the song / video in a league of its own while serving as a tribute to the artistry behind the bands efforts to become the accomplished artists they are at present.
This has always been my favorite R.E.M. song, although I’d be lying if I said Thom Yorke saying it’s his too didn’t make me far more proud of my choice.
+georgeharrison70 That's because R.E.M. would specialize in electric folk even if many would mischaracterize that same band as "new wave." Far too many artists were of either the European technopop or hair metal variety throughout the 80's but R.E.M. led a musical underground that ignored many of the most popular trends within that same period. The quartet's material didn't receive a great deal of airplay on commercial radio then but albums such as "Reckoning" (or "Let It Be" by the Replacements for that matter) have aged more gracefully than Twisted Sister.
541967 There were tons of great guitar-oriented indie bands from North Carolina (Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Raleigh), Athens GA, Austin, Minneapolis and L.A. The early 80s was a great time musically. ("Hair metal" and Twisted Sister, etc., came later, had a different audience just as all the schmatlzy 80s power ballads did. Blech.) I was a college radio dj from 1985-90, and one annoying downside to REM's success was the slew of bands trying to imitate REM or at least Peter Buck in the latter half of the decade. No one could come close to their unique sound. Yes, it took a little while for REM to break commercial markets, but that's why I was able to see them play in an old movie theater in 1984. Then, as now, you won't find anything but crap on the big stations. I still prefer the college stations to this day.
This amazing band had the uncanny ability to write beautiful yet not sappy music - all the time keeping it cool and real. Amazing vocals, incredible backing vocals and unbelievable musicianship. They are and always will be one of the best bands ever. Thank you, R.E.M., for the best music a music fan could ever have hoped for! Love you guys!!!!
Yeah! I listened to Hard to be a Saint in the City by Springsteen driving through San Francisco, it was great, the lyrics were being lived out around me.
***** That's an interesting point. I'd like to hear others chime in on that question. Do the artists consider RUclips to be an advertising venue to get their music out there or do they resent the non-profit of it?
Rock bands early music is always the best in my experience. For some reason many bands tend to later abandon their raw sound and go very polished instead... I can appreciate the polished sound as well but nothing beats raw emotion and grittiness.
-I went to college in the 80's - my best friend, who lived across the hallway in Clement Hall, at the University of Tennessee, turned me on to Reckoning, then Murmur. He had seen them play at a club on "the Strip" a month earlier - Cumberland Ave. - it was Fall semester of '84, I was a freshman - this is my favorite band, ever. -p.s. my favorite r.e.m. song, at the time, was called "Time after Time". another great song they did, that people don't talk too much about, was called "Ages of You". and then there's the "Dead Letter Office" CD.
@@Heathcoatman Eew that's weird why the hell would he smell like that. I do believe you actually because that would be a weird thing to make up. Was it after a show?
Feeling nostalgic...This and many other REM songs were the background sounds of my darkroom photojournalism lab class. Love REM...I wish I had the opportunity to see them live.
It's bewildering to me how you never hear R.E.M. on the radio anymore. I just mean in terms of "oldies" stations that play 80's and 90's, which I listen to in my car - they're just NEVER played. Let alone anything they did in 2000's after Berry left. And I never hear any modern musicians talking about them. I just don't get it. The amount of bands who wouldn't exist without R.E.M. is mind-boggling to think about.
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A lot of people don't know old great R.E.M. This is great R.E.M.
I agree. Early REM so pure...no politics... just passion
This is great indeed. Later rem albums give me (rem) sleep😀
Yes... but is it old??!!??!!
karltbui early REM was political. they were just very sly about it
IRS REM is fantastic
Thom Yorke’s favorite REM song.
I just came here for that reason. LOL
I also came here after that interview.
Ha! Why I'm not surprised that this is the first comment I see here? :-)
I still prefer Shiny Happy People and Losing my Religion better :P
lmao yes ugh taste wbk
I literally lived through ALL THE MUSIC VIDEOS OF THE 1980S AND 1990S. Even while training as.a Jesuit priest, I kept up with all the great Rock and pop releases. Having long left the Society of Jesus and married a beautiful woman, I still keep up through Vimeo and many other video platforms. I LOVE MUSIC, A PASSION WHICH DEFINES ME.
My dad told me he heard this song while he was sitting in his friends jeep outside a bar in Pheonix in 1984. It was a college station that played entire records after midnight. He bought this record a few days later and hes been a lifelong fan ever since. He told the story in such detail, i love how music can take you back to a certain time so vividly. I fuckin love REM.
R.E.M. the only other band Smiths fans liked. Totally different, but similar in that they stuck to their vision. + Mike Mills = the secret weapon
I was at a gas station in Miami in a summer rain storm .. came on while I waited I line .. vivid 80s memory
Few people know it is a remake of a Chuck Berry’s song
They have stolen it from Chuck Berrie
@@ingenerchik EVIDENTLY, R.E.M. STOLE MOST OF THEIR SOUND FROM ONE OF THEIR RIVAL BANDS THAT NEVER GOT ANYWHERE CALLED PYLON.
AND THEY ADMIT AS MUCH.
JUST AS NIRVANA STOLE EVERY TRICK THEY HAD FROM FRANK BLACK AND THE PIXIES. AND KURT COBAIN MADE NO SECRET OF THAT EITHER.
The beauty is in the details: Mike's countermelody, the piano rambling on in the background, the extra reverb on berry's drums on the second hit of the bridge.
That reverb is such a beautiful touch.
I was blown away when I saw this was made in 1984. It’s so 90s sounding. They were the future.
It''s true!😊😊😊
To be fair a lot of that 90s sound was directly inspired by REM.
Actually in 1984 it sounded like it was from another planet.
@@lolah3838Very nice analogy 👌 ❤
Mike Mills is the unsung hero in this band. He is the secret weapon that every guitarist or singer wants. Apart from the intro it's the bass doing the main riff. And good backing vocals. As any singer knows, a good backing vocal always makes the main vox sound better. Without him REM would never have been the awesome band they were. Love the other 3 too, of course.
Remi with Stone Roses springs to mind.
REM in a nutshell. Mike Mills not just an ace bass player, a top backing vocalist, genius songwriter but also a great mine of knowledge on all genres of music.
They are all the unsung heroes.
Agree with all you have written about Mike Mills.
I am still hoping he will come to be a believer.
They were all secret weapons.
I think a case can be made that R.E.M is the greatest American rock band ever..
100%. Their first 8-9 albums are one of the best and most consistent runs in rock history in my opinion.
You can make a case, but I wouldn't agree with you 😀. I do love them though. Easily top 5 for me. Maybe even in the top 2 or 3.
@@jeffbachman Who ya got ? For me its R.E.M, 70's / early 80's Aerosmith ( after those years was crap ) , Eagles , Pearl Jam , CCR . i dont count Seger / Petty / Bruce , as I consider them solo artists with a backing band.
@@stevewright6290 If we can't include solo artists, Dylan, would have been my one or two, it has to be the Grateful Dead 1 and REM 2. I guess I don't like to use terms like "greatest" because music is so subjective, but rather favorites. After the Dead and REM, its a mishmash, Talking Heads, Ramones, Allman Brothers, the various incarnations of The Byrds, Pearl Jam are all up there for me. If you include solo artists, Dylan, Petty, Neil Young (I know he was born and raised in Canada, but has lived in the US nearly all of his career and has US citizenship).
Sorry...... ummm....but you may be right 😁👍😂
Love the early R.E.M
1:50
when Mills comes in with his accompaniment vocals, I'll always get chills.
Sublime
Got to see them in NYC in '83, during a thunderstorm at Shea Stadium. Worth the soaking, took me a while to shake what I was on that night and recognize Mike's contribution, which is most significant to the R.E.M. sound.
@@JohnSmith-op1tc NAILED IT.
Mills has so many moments like this. I find myself sometimes choosing to sing along to his background vocals more than the lead.
@@robertreel71 Indeed! Same here. I always song the backing vox. Drives my coworkers crazy, LOL
Greatest American band in history
Mike Mills backing vocals are vastly underated.
He's brilliant
Harmonizing with Stipe is no small feat ... Mills is an icon.
no they're not
He's called their secret weapon in every mention of him, so no.
No, not at all.
sometimes when you hear a song it takes you right back to a place you thought you had long forgotten all about. this is one of those songs
Kevin Walker Freshmen year in college. Good times.
..and places where i probably should had been; i.e. Sea-Tac
Aren't songs like that great? (Even the sad ones.)
Yes! I am currently bawling my eyes out watching this. I am having an intense emotional and visceral reaction to this song, but I can’t remember why... but I know it is there and happened
One of those underrated REM songs you didn't think was out there but there it stands.
Sometimes I think that this is the best band there has ever been. And sometimes I'm actually right about something.
Agreed. That's why I said sometimes I feel that way. How could there ever be a "best" band
To me, R.E.M. and The Tragically Hip were two of the best bands of their time, similar yet not the same :)
youandshosearmy - tonight is one of those times. congratulations. ;)
You ARE.😊💝
LOL yes Some times. Esp When you want to listen to depressing music all day haha
Fun fact, Michael Stipe is singing this live. He refused to lip sync. So they filmed him recording a new vocal over the track.
The early days are the most artistic of REM....THE BEST.
Wow! 40 years?! Micheal had beautiful hair and Mikey Mills looked like he was in high school. Good times!
There's a video on here, if I recall correctly was R.E.M.'s first time on Letterman? Mike Mills is out there crushing on that bass. His face was lit up like a christmas tree.
Rem's best song. Fall 1983.
Michael refused to lip sync the lyrics for the music video. This is him singing live in the video. That's why it sounds a bit different than the album version.
Good info, and the music is the original from the album?
1:38 by example
It's cool. Not PIL on American Bandstand cool, but still awesome.
I believe so, yes.
Stipe always stood up for what was right. Sure miss these guys.
Been listening to this song for over 35+ years.It hits the same way still.You know the chills and outer body experience.
First REM song I ever heard, back in '84 , instant love. I saw them live in Birmingham a year later, easily one of the best concerts of my life. Early REM were something else.
The first one I heard was off "Murmur": "Radio Free Europe". I believe it was 1983, and I was 19 at the time.
How is this not one of the greatest songs on RUclips?!? R.E.M. is arguably one of the top five bands in history.
As much as I love REM (and you bet I do), they're not top 5. A solid top 25, maybe top 20.
All that beautiful hair
Gone daddy Gone
Top 500 maybe .
@@johncalloway3547 they are not the Bangles, lol.
As far as melodies go, only the Beatles and Paul Simon are better
This is still my favourite R.E.M. song.
Hi Thom 👐
Hi Thom
Stipe's howl of remorse and pain at the end is one of the most moving wordless utterances in recorded music.
I loved Michael’s hair in this era of REM!!
Early REM has a purity of spirit.
The best band of the college radio era. Love there originality. Nothing like R.E.M.
John Byrnes I’ll bet your 52 like myself. 👍🏻
So true
Rem can’t be compared to anything else bc their overall talent is just pure genius in my opinion
Their... College grad are we ?
@@kevn99 - I am 52; bought Murmer in high school the second I heard Radio Free Europe on the radio. REM was the band of my college years.
For me, it's R.E.M., XTC, and The Smithereens...that's "college" to me. 1988 - 1992.
The song that made me fall in love with them.
Brilliant. Still gives me the chills to this day when I hear it. Goes down as one of my all time favorites. Getting old...but, this one brings me back to that simple, beautiful, happy place of my youth
I’m here for REM, 29years ago. At my small town school, in the country, full of work and dust and a bunch of idiots, REM planted a seed within me and some other kids. It was a big deal. It didn’t make sense to the older folk. We had skateboards, REM, tube socks and awful parents.
This is the first REM song, I ever hear. After that, I was hooked.
This song is a masterclass in setting a mood and tone with vocals and melody. You just feel it in your soul.
Totally agree. I don’t know half the lyrics to R.E.M. songs. I just like to zone out to the mood of the tune.
Yes I agree😊
It's rare that this song doesn't cause me to cry...it's brilliant that way, and also takes me back to some very specific experiences. So beautifully emotive.
For my generation, high schoolers in the 80’s, who did not want hair bands or pop, this song was an anthem. All across the seaboard the kids were playing it in the early to late 80’s: Replacements, Black Flag, Meat Puppets, Husker Du and these guys from Athens, GA. Damn, was I privileged kid!
Michael might be the most beautiful human being I've ever seen 😍
my fav band since i was a kid in the 80's. one of my greatest influences
Early REM is some of the best music produced.
Early REM was agnostic soul music
What a song!
"Did you never call? I waited for your call
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away
The trees will bend, the cities wash away
The city on the river there is a girl without a dream
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry
Eastern to Mountain, third party call, the lines are down
The wise man built his words upon the rocks
But I'm not bound to follow suit
The trees will bend, the conversation's dimmed
Go build yourself another home, this choice isn't mine
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
Did you never call? I waited for your call
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away
The ocean sang, the conversation's dimmed
Go build yourself another dream, this choice isn't mine
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry"
I love the song but it just occurred to me, he was waiting for a call from someone whose rivers of suggestion are driving him away...Go figure.
This has always been my favorite REM song, and this is a great take! The instrumental backing tracks are exactly as they appear on the LP Reckoning, but the vocal take is different, as it is sung live over the backing tracks, because Stipe refused to lip sync during this song. I remember seeing this video on some stupid dance show back in 1984, and being completely floored by it!
this is simply one of the Best songs of my Generation.... go X'ers!!!!
I never realized how beautiful he really was...always knew his voice was
Same...agree
Love this song. It still feels like an ocean of sadness and anger crashing over an entire town.
Such a great song, some people need to learn to say they are sorry, it’s not always someone else’s fault 🙏
I'm here because of REM.
REM brought me here.
First REM song i heard. Stunned. Perfection.
Icons forever
Thank you very much Philadelphia USA 🇺🇸 Nostrovia ❤❤❤
Been in the mood a lot lately to listen to REM, love their guitar sound and music.
Me too!
I always listen to older REM if I get in a crap mood. Usually works ☺️
Tons of college bands played REM's music at frat and sorority parties. Women ate this music up! If you were a member of the band....nuff said!!!
Classic. No way around it.
I don't even want to get round this one. How do I write a song after hearing this?
South Central Rain takes me back to the most heartbreaking relationships I ever had
Me too.
Me too..
OMG and how...
@@williampettengill5851 me too. I wrote earlier that this song reminds me of what could have been. You take care and stay safe 😷
Same. I dreamed of my ex this morning, and I feel the pain of that marriage when I hear this
'Did you never call'? *myheart*
It's hard to beleive something so beautiful came out of the same well that made Shiny Happy People
I know. This is 10,000, shiny is 43.
😆
the riff
So true! After "Losing my Religion", I stopped listening to their stuff. I can't think of another band that their music is completely different with fantastic stuff & then....not so good. I could understand if band members had changed but i don't think they did.
@@derrickmartin8390 I agree, I am probably younger than you guys and for me Monster and New Adventures in Hifi ('94-'96) are my definite favorite masterpieces I still regularly come back to. Murmur is a masterpiece I found out recently. The other older albums (including the one with this song) meh, except for a few songs
Listening to this song is comforting after a terrible nightmare. Thank you REM for being there😀
And that’s exactly what I’m doing.
One of Stipe's best vocal performances.
Yeah these guys were geniuses but its Michaels voice that is just so sad and for some reason his voice is like a time echo for me theres just this absolute mourning for humanity in his voice and yet the fact that he has also experienced great joy is very apparent as well but his music is painful for me to hear its painful as if ive lost something in the past and can never get it back except in memory alone and yet at the same time is extremely beautiful... lifes so short its like a vapor of mist blown away on the wind... God bless
Love this!
I'd buy a book that begins with this sentence.
@@francisconavarrete104
Im being dense, which sentence?
@@barbarapybus5660 the initial comment :)
@@francisconavarrete104 life’s so short ...??
This is my favorite R.E.M song but that keeps changing.
Left home and drove across the country listening to this album on repeat. I landed in Seattle just in time to get to watch Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Nirvana become mega stars. Those were good years.
I was born and raised in Seattle and was there for that whole pop culture nuclear explosion. Before the 90s, nobody gave a shit about our town, but after “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was released it was ka-BOOM!
I've been looking for this song for months. This song plays all the time at my job and the "I'm sorry" was the only lyrics I knew. Glad I finally found it.
My all time favorite REM song. It feeds my heart, so thank you.
Seriously Mike Mills helped the vocals a lot Dude tunes in great with Stipe's voice
Mike Mills is one of the better back up singers in any band anywhere. No doubt about it.
Tommy Pearson Absolutely. The mix of their voices is REM.
This is loud and clear in "Fall On Me".....
I completely agree Tommy. Mike Mills is great and kind of was under the covers
Pipedown I appreciate that ,I have been a fan for years
I didn't always have a beard =)
I remember seeing this music video when it came out. Around 1983 (?) or so. Still so much emotion in this song!
+Chrisdougable It was actually in 1984.
Im here because of Thom Yorke interview
Same haha
Me too
Yup
Me too,hahahahaha
Huh. I'm here from a Darius Rucker interview...
First heard this tune when they made their debut on Letterman. Loved early REM, they sounded like no one else back then, little did I know that they were time travelers from the '90's.
Extremely high quality track. In league with the greatest classic rock/pop.
I completely agree you can hear “magic” in that added little bit of humming at the end of the track as it is heard as being so intimate as well as intense! It puts the song / video in a league of its own while serving as a tribute to the artistry behind the bands efforts to become the accomplished artists they are at present.
This would pop up in my recommended videos, almost just teasing me of my Thom Yorke obsession
Pure Athens GA genius. So glad I was there in the 80’s.
THE best REM song ever made. Completely brilliant.💋
This has always been my favorite R.E.M. song, although I’d be lying if I said Thom Yorke saying it’s his too didn’t make me far more proud of my choice.
my brother show me REM for the first time, now hes death, im so grateful that he taught me so many valuable things in life. like this music.
These R.E.M. were something. Perfect pop songs played with an "indie" approach.
This was released in 1984? Damn.....doesn't sound like typical 80s music at all. So fresh, beautiful, mysterious & timeless.
+georgeharrison70 That's because R.E.M. would specialize in electric folk even if many would mischaracterize that same band as "new wave." Far too many artists were of either the European technopop or hair metal variety throughout the 80's but R.E.M. led a musical underground that ignored many of the most popular trends within that same period. The quartet's material didn't receive a great deal of airplay on commercial radio then but albums such as "Reckoning" (or "Let It Be" by the Replacements for that matter) have aged more gracefully than Twisted Sister.
541967 There were tons of great guitar-oriented indie bands from North Carolina (Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Raleigh), Athens GA, Austin, Minneapolis and L.A. The early 80s was a great time musically. ("Hair metal" and Twisted Sister, etc., came later, had a different audience just as all the schmatlzy 80s power ballads did. Blech.) I was a college radio dj from 1985-90, and one annoying downside to REM's success was the slew of bands trying to imitate REM or at least Peter Buck in the latter half of the decade. No one could come close to their unique sound. Yes, it took a little while for REM to break commercial markets, but that's why I was able to see them play in an old movie theater in 1984. Then, as now, you won't find anything but crap on the big stations. I still prefer the college stations to this day.
This amazing band had the uncanny ability to write beautiful yet not sappy music - all the time keeping it cool and real. Amazing vocals, incredible backing vocals and unbelievable musicianship. They are and always will be one of the best bands ever. Thank you, R.E.M., for the best music a music fan could ever have hoped for! Love you guys!!!!
Look at all that wild curly hair Michael had...Takes me way back. Wow
This video is simply beautiful.
I just listened to this while driving through South Central. In the rain.
+Eric Santiestevan
South Central L.A.?
Yeah! I listened to Hard to be a Saint in the City by Springsteen driving through San Francisco, it was great, the lyrics were being lived out around me.
It's South Central Los Angeles..I've done it too
Far and away their best tune.
Tough call. Definitely in my top 3 REM.
when a band is so good that you can't have a favorite song, all of their songs are great
Agreed. No other song they did had the range of this one.
Depends on the day. LOL. I probably have 40 or so "best songs" by this legendary band. This is of course one of them
This, Kahoutek and Perfect Circle.
I never knew that Michael sang this live for the filming of the video. Amazing.
1984, back when MTV was actually Music Television without commercials. Imagine!
+Katie Morgan And no Teen Moom, no any shore.
I think RUclips is vastly better anyway.
Agreed.
***** That's an interesting point. I'd like to hear others chime in on that question. Do the artists consider RUclips to be an advertising venue to get their music out there or do they resent the non-profit of it?
forget the commercials, its all that crappy reality T.V. They don't even show Bevis & Butthead anymore.
Wow, Michael was a looker. Love this!
R.E.M were raw back then and weren't over produced. That's why I love this era of the band.
True... their '80's stuff is much better than their later work...
Rock bands early music is always the best in my experience. For some reason many bands tend to later abandon their raw sound and go very polished instead... I can appreciate the polished sound as well but nothing beats raw emotion and grittiness.
Can't get enough of this. Sorry....
Esta fue la primera canción de REM que escuché en mi adolescencia y todavía la recuerdo con cariño.
When I was in High School I used to crank this album every morning while I was getting ready for school, a great start to the day!
-I went to college in the 80's - my best friend, who lived across the hallway in Clement Hall, at the University of Tennessee, turned me on to Reckoning, then Murmur. He had seen them play at a club on "the Strip" a month earlier - Cumberland Ave. - it was Fall semester of '84, I was a freshman - this is my favorite band, ever. -p.s. my favorite r.e.m. song, at the time, was called "Time after Time". another great song they did, that people don't talk too much about, was called "Ages of You". and then there's the "Dead Letter Office" CD.
Matt W, I went to UT around that time and I saw them at UT in the fall of '87. Good times! I lived in Strong Hall then.
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REM was the soundtrack for my years at Creighton University.
I used to listen to this song on the bus heading to work.
Well if I’m honest
Rem on repeat
Didn't even make it to the next 10 seconds of the Thom Yorke interview before I came here for this.
Snap !!
Great bass line and harmonies, loving your work Mr Mills :0
definitely, I
We all love Mike Mills
Like that 'Jeremy' guy said, Mills was R.E.M.'s secret weapon.
He certainly was, he's a musical genius.
Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe. Nuff said.
amazing song, amazing band, still finding it impossible to find an imperfection on a young Michael stipe
thom yorke's fav REM song
I'm here because Michael Stipe has hair...
I met Stipe back in the 90s at a party. He stunk like a homeless man. Really bad BO/piss/dirt plus whatever else. I love REMs music though.
@@Heathcoatman Eew that's weird why the hell would he smell like that. I do believe you actually because that would be a weird thing to make up. Was it after a show?
Gregory Grieves Touring is heavy travelling. It’s like being homeless or something.
Richie Pietro :)
Gregory Grieves and is a damn good singer .
Feeling nostalgic...This and many other REM songs were the background sounds of my darkroom photojournalism lab class. Love REM...I wish I had the opportunity to see them live.
Noticed that i´m not the only one feels so cool love you guys RADIOHEAD!
These guys can fall off a truck, pick up, and play without skipping a beat. Greatest band ever....
It's bewildering to me how you never hear R.E.M. on the radio anymore. I just mean in terms of "oldies" stations that play 80's and 90's, which I listen to in my car - they're just NEVER played. Let alone anything they did in 2000's after Berry left. And I never hear any modern musicians talking about them. I just don't get it. The amount of bands who wouldn't exist without R.E.M. is mind-boggling to think about.
Hi I Recommend an indie song called 'The Bond Villain' By Robert Nix
Brings me back to my college days......
I'm here because I was 'there' 40 years ago when this was first released. What a young man he was.
My fav era of REM
Would see these guys at the Fox in Atlanta in the 80's. Awesome shows.
NightFlight on the the USA Network. Been an REM fan ever since