Reminds me of my nightshift job at the gas station in this godforsaken town in the middle of nowhere...after a year I quit, got back into university, and finished my bachelor's degree.
Almost the same for me...after getting my degree I spent a year working as a night auditor in a small hotel, with almost no guests showing up after midnight. Now I'm a teacher, I really enjoy my job and my circadian rhythms are back to normal, but sometimes I miss those quiet nights alone with my thoughts and good books to read. This song will always be a part of my life.
My mental health is so fucked up right now the voices are so cruel but when i put my headphones in and these legends on full blast all the pain disappears got to love REM
Tom George I know what under-rate means :lol: I don't know a man who underrate this song. On the other side I know a lot of ppl who's thinking that's the best song of REM
Well I understand what he meant. Most people will mention Everybody Hurts or Losing My Religion ( or any of the other early 90's hits ) first. Daysleeper is one of their best though. We all have our faves... My favorite is Crush with Eyeliner, I always loved the reverb in that song.
This song always reminds me of being a kid going to work with me da who was a truck driver, still dark at 4 and 5am when we'd be taking off in the truck, now whenever I wake at this hour in the morning I think of this song and put it on, my da passed away in 2017 and I am 32 now but I will never forget the great days he gave me and the things he thought me. Great thing about music and certain songs is that it can preserve precious memories clear in your mind forever. RIP Da, and thank you REM for this great song...
did you play this song in the truck or something? Because I have certain memory trigger songs of times from when I was in my dad's van with him going to work
@@Talisman09 I wake up at 4 working for City Bus System. But Just like you, my father taught me a Strong work ethic that lasts to this day. Hadn't heard it in years, checked it out read your awesome story.
Have to admit I lose it a bit at "I cried the other night, I can't even say why." Something about reaching that breaking point where you have to let your sadness flow, even if you can't articulate it.
I feel your pain. Used to work such a job in the past and a bunch of 2nd shift CS jobs myself. Makes it hard to do basic daily things others take for granted.
I remember when I first found this song I was a fulltime college student in New York City, living walking distance of the "Bull" statue referenced in this song, working an unpaid internship hoping to get a job after graduation and feeling utterly exhausted from stretching myself too thin, and that very morning my roommates decided to have a loud argument in our apartment that woke me up at 6 am on the first day off I had in weeks. I have a horrific time falling asleep once I'm awake, so I went to my favorite cafe downtown to get my morning coffee and read for a little as a mental health break, when this song came on over the cafe and I nearly cried in the middle of the coffee shop. The feeling of being utterly exhausted from what I was working towards and seeing the world as an eternally gray headache hit me in my soul. I knew I had to reevaluate what I was doing and make sure my physical and mental health were accounted for while I was going after what I wanted. I'm grateful this song made me realize I wasn't alone and it helped set me straight.
I'm only 18 and have considered R.E.M. my absolute favorite band since 2011. Of course when I started listening, I immediately recognized many songs from my childhood. :) Your comment is beautiful and I wish more people from my own generation would appreciate amazing music like this.
for almost 5 years i had a late shift from 7pm to 7am, me and my good friend used to sing this song lots on our way out of the office towards the bus station home, it became our little anthem.
Was living in Taipei in 1999 teaching English. Not many songs mention Taipei, so this was in my head a lot. During that time I met my wife to be. 10 yrs on we hooked up and got married, in Taipei, so am there most years seeing in-laws! So this song will always have special significance "Taipei Awakes..."
REM have written many great songs but Daysleeper, Nightswimming and At Your Most Beautiful have to been some of the songs of not only the 20th Century but immortally entrenching for as long as our species exists. Even when we collapse, other species will hear the vibrations of Stipe and they too will continue to agree and vibe with the greatness of these tunes.
November 1998, I'm 20 and travelling Europe with my best friend. I was waiting for her at the station in Venice, she was running late, so I listened to the radio on my headphones and this song just came out as a single. I will always transfer back to this moment with this song: Autumn in Venice, late 90s, being young and free..
Hi R.E.M. & everybody, have a nice day 💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖 Hi R.E.M. & everybody, have a nice day 💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖 Hi R.E.M. & everybody, have a nice day 💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖
@German Morawski They're all different music genres for starter. This is definitely not POP. Try to at least pretend to know the Legends before talking about them and being so wrong.
Sung from the point of view of a night shift worker corresponding with colleagues, "Daysleeper" focuses on the disorientation of time and circadian rhythm in such a lifestyle, leading to despair and loss of identity. Lead singer Michael Stipe developed the song's concept after noticing a sign reading "daysleeper" on a New York City apartment door.
Romantic song about nightshifters, being one of them, I see my colleagues of the NHS with disturbed sleeps but 100% committed. 7.30am "have a good sleep guys", bless you
I worked nights for many years and the loneliness and isolation really took its toll on me. REM nailed it with this one, a great song that I always could relate to.
I grew up listening to R.E.M.I bought Murmur the year it came out (1983).I was 16 years old and their music has painted the landscape of my life ever since.One of the things that I find most remarkable about their carrer is their incredible consistancey.They've NEVER made a bad album.Some less popular,sure,but bad?NEVER.I was so sad when I heard that they were breaking up,but I also felt a huge sense of gratitude for having the privilage of their music in my life.Thank you guys.It was an HONOR.
The sound that R.E.M. made together was art in its purest form. Poetry backed by a brilliant orchestration of instruments. One of the greatest bands of my lifetime and all time. This song is one of my personal favorites. Beautiful and mind-blowing.
This was my first CD ever. I wore it out just because of the novelty of CDs. I quickly came to love it. Simultaneously I listened to my mum and dad's CDs just because I loved the technology. James Taylor, Dolly Parton, although incongruous, will always be inextricably linked with New Adventures in Hi-Fi and the Daysleeper EP. Go figure
I was listening to them in 1993 when doing my GCSE's and having just turned 40, listening to them again is just like 93 was yesterday. Timeless classics from a truly wonderful band.
Listening to this song in 2024 and it still hits the same way as when I was a kid and heard this song for the first time… This song will always be one of my favourite… and it’ll always remind me of many beautiful moments… *Thank you R.E.M for such a masterpiece… we can enjoy…*
This just never stops being ''my song'', it fits me so perfectly. I've been working roughly 18:00 - 04:00 at the local bus company as part of the maintenace crew for years. I am comfortable with being alive and living during these hours. During my free time, i go by the same hours (as much as possible). It works for me and i have no intention of changing. I am almost completely disconnected from all the 8-4 wage-slaves, so meeting new people is pretty damn near impossible. I don't care, i don't mind. I am a daysleeper. Without question my favourite band and song. R.E.M. will never stop being one of those vital things that keeps me going. You guys absolutely made my life livable. You will forever have my love.
+Rethic I worked long hours as a Pharmacist (salaried, of course) & had to move the clock because q time I looked at any clock, the time never changed.. I thank God that I never made a mistake
"Hong Kong is present, Taipei awakes, all talk of circadian rhythm, i see today with a newsprint fray, my night is colored headache gray, daysleeper" What a bridge, what a hook! One of my favourites from R.E.M. ♡♡♡
OK, this video it literally me. I covered the Tokyo market, I have lived in and worked in these exact places in Tokyo in this video for the past 25 plus years. This song is almost literally about me (if it was more explicit on investment banking which is vague in the lyrics). I do still now and did the work hours that this song talks about. Been doing it for 25 plus years. Love that that captured a part of my reality in this video.
I was an RN, driving home after 12 to 13 hard hours and with a torn up back I always play this song. I worked 7p to 7a, plus. It felt like it was my own song 🎵. Thank you REM
I was 14 when this came out. I'm now 40. still my favorite band on planet earth. I miss them so much. they left us with the best pieces of music ever written.
Awake at 2:42, many years after my last night shift, and I still remember how it felt. A decade plus of chasing dawn. Sometimes old patterns re-emerge.
This song summons me to feel again. I can close my eyes and sing this song with full lungs, finally breathing with a giant smile of relief. Forgetting and finding this song over the past 2 decades. It ages well. 💙💯
What is that sound at the start? I bought this album the day it came out, I was 19 and in college in Colorado. I woke up early one morning for class, it was super cold, I was depressed. Then I heard a train make that exact sound off in the distance. I can still instantly place myself at that moment. It made me smile. That sound always brings me back to a different time.
Hello fellow REM fans. This is one of my favorites. Was singing it all day long at work, then at the doctor's office, then on the way home on the train. Had to play it just now blasting loud and singing at the top of my lungs. My pet bird started screeching (I don't sing as well as Michael). OK, it's a few minutes later now and I am not done yet. Must play it a few more times. Poor birdy!
The UP album changed my life. Only a few albums have and this one I know from Song 1 to the Hidden tracks to the B-sides, to the Outtakes. Phenomenal piece of work.
Pablo Sergio Rivera Huh I liked I'm Gonna DJ live but not studio. I've heard Emphysema but I don't tend to like their instrumentals ... I'll check out Surfing the Ganges.
YEP & seen most of em. Freddie 8 times 1st they were support band for Mott the Hoople . STONES, WHO, BOSTON, ROSES, etc,etc, but,REM were just so TIGHT. REEESPECT.JOHN
I remember this song was a big hit in the same year when Alanis Morissette "Thank You" was big, TLC, the best years of Robbie Williams "Millennium", Busta Rhymes, the best Madonna's album "Ray of Light" and one of my favourite songs "The Power of Goodbye", and Manic Street Preachers "If You Tolerate This". That was a great year in music... I even remember the MTV Music Awards of 1998.
I vividly remember the first time I heard Daysleeper, I was 12yrs old in my afternoon science class that happened to be taught by Michael’s brother-in-law West. He had an early copy of the single and put it on for us in class. Michael’s sister and uncle were also two of my other teachers and all three had a huge effect on the person I became.
If there ever was a band I wish was still together and making this magic for us still, it is R.E.M., who still command my attention and respect, even more now than ever. Forever legends--my GOAT!
Unless you have lived working night shift, I doubt this video would make sense. It makes complete sense to me. The headache of fatigue to the world going by while you are sleeping.
yeah this song is so obtuse and opaque, i can't believe i never thought of it that way what a genius you must be. by allah i will slap you with my shoe
The song that marks my early phase of depression. "My bed is pulling me, gravity" I was 13 then, didnt really understand the lyrics ( i thought it was literal Bull and the Bear). And then Nightswimmin soothes my dark sleepless nights. Oh wow this brings back so many memories..
This actually reminds me of working in an office building alone during Covid. I would listen to my music out loud at work and this came on one day reminded me of my office space and day to day of walking to the coffee machine going back to my desk and looking out the windows and watching the traffic outside or watching the sun setting. I love REM and the cozy feel I get when I listen to their music.
I miss you a lot! You made your sad songs into the most beautiful medicine that healed my broken soul into something beautiful and I also thank God who has created beautiful REM
I wish REM was still together. It's hard to believe its been 10 years and they were together through all my life at that point. When I move and begin a new chapter I had hoped they'd be a part of it.
The ocean machine is set to 9, I’ll squeeze into heaven and Valentine, My bed is pulling me, gravity Daysleeper Never knew expressing the sensation of craving sleep so strongly when you climb in your pit after the night shift was humanly possible, but Stipe managed it. Stunning
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I miss REM so much. There's nobody else like them.
@ERASING YOUR MEMORY!!! alla akbar
Go to Athens Georgia. They own half the town and are local celebrities. You seem them around all the time.
I miss sleep
Everyone
Completely agree MrVirtube.
"I cried the other night,
I can't even say why".
What a line.
The entire cosmic sorrow,
concentrated into a few words.
Could it be the constant stress?
9 years ago comment... Time goes to quickly
@@rbutler007 2021 baby may 20th
Wonder i this Oren Elbaz reads a reply after 10 years?
@@allraargast Yes, he does.
Absolutely crazy so many insanely good songs REM had.
Reminds me of my nightshift job at the gas station in this godforsaken town in the middle of nowhere...after a year I quit, got back into university, and finished my bachelor's degree.
Almost the same for me...after getting my degree I spent a year working as a night auditor in a small hotel, with almost no guests showing up after midnight. Now I'm a teacher, I really enjoy my job and my circadian rhythms are back to normal, but sometimes I miss those quiet nights alone with my thoughts and good books to read. This song will always be a part of my life.
That night shift aged you my dude.
Let's hope u GT menny happy good jobs to go my lady
Very nice that you did something useful with your life
“Now I manage the gas station.”
We were spoiled with music in the 90s. REM is a prime example
So true 😊
Ir was like every week another incredible song or band would arrive. A true renaissance period of art
My mental health is so fucked up right now the voices are so cruel but when i put my headphones in and these legends on full blast all the pain disappears got to love REM
stay strong @paul Harrison. i hope you are well
You are not alone! 💪😃❤️
Sending you prayers and healing hugs
everybody hurts sometimes ❤
I wish the song was 25 minutes longer. If you need a family, then start watching Newcastle. 🖤🤍 you’ll fall back in love with life
The world needs this band back more than ever.
Very underrated song.
+Melvyn Gingell I don't think so, one of the best song of R.E.M.
+Igor Zvodar that's what Melvyn is saying. Under-rated = not appreciated enough by people.
+Melvyn Gingell Was thinking the same thing
Tom George I know what under-rate means :lol: I don't know a man who underrate this song. On the other side I know a lot of ppl who's thinking that's the best song of REM
Well I understand what he meant. Most people will mention Everybody Hurts or Losing My Religion ( or any of the other early 90's hits ) first. Daysleeper is one of their best though. We all have our faves... My favorite is Crush with Eyeliner, I always loved the reverb in that song.
For me this is the best R.E.M. song!
their version of last date is great too. but yeah, daysleeper is brilliant along with night swimming.
I remember listening to this back in 1955 with my late wife. Wow. RIP
RIP🕊 my dead wife is looking up at me now
One of their best songs imo. Hugely underrated. Best wishes to all x
goes along with half a world away and new test leper
I just wanted to reply so you saw this and came back to the video :)
Hope your last 6 years have been safe & well... blessings!
R.E.M was one of the best groups ever and this is brilliant!!
YES SARAH they are !we love them
This song always reminds me of being a kid going to work with me da who was a truck driver, still dark at 4 and 5am when we'd be taking off in the truck, now whenever I wake at this hour in the morning I think of this song and put it on, my da passed away in 2017 and I am 32 now but I will never forget the great days he gave me and the things he thought me. Great thing about music and certain songs is that it can preserve precious memories clear in your mind forever. RIP Da, and thank you REM for this great song...
Love your story mate, sorry about your dad
Awesome Story, Sorry about your father.
did you play this song in the truck or something? Because I have certain memory trigger songs of times from when I was in my dad's van with him going to work
@@Talisman09 I wake up at 4 working for City Bus System. But Just like you, my father taught me a Strong work ethic that lasts to this day. Hadn't heard it in years, checked it out read your awesome story.
@@robertk9753 no, this one is very underrated, i don't think it got much radio play
Have to admit I lose it a bit at "I cried the other night, I can't even say why." Something about reaching that breaking point where you have to let your sadness flow, even if you can't articulate it.
I feel your pain. Used to work such a job in the past and a bunch of 2nd shift CS jobs myself. Makes it hard to do basic daily things others take for granted.
@@JoeVideoed qqq@8q88iii88889887
Only shift workers understand how this hits different, playing it on 3 AM smoko.
Thats tough. Rough even. Rem forces me memories
Thats a real nice thing to let other humans hear
One of the finest bands that ever were.
Their emphasis on melody and musical integrity has made their music age like a fine wine when so many make it on attitude and trends.
Are you forgetting about NWA
R.e.m is still hauntingly beautiful and tragically hip. They never go out there lyrics are sheer genius poetry. Signed a poet.
My 2 favorite bands
it makes me cry everytime
Stop glazing 💀
I remember when I first found this song I was a fulltime college student in New York City, living walking distance of the "Bull" statue referenced in this song, working an unpaid internship hoping to get a job after graduation and feeling utterly exhausted from stretching myself too thin, and that very morning my roommates decided to have a loud argument in our apartment that woke me up at 6 am on the first day off I had in weeks. I have a horrific time falling asleep once I'm awake, so I went to my favorite cafe downtown to get my morning coffee and read for a little as a mental health break, when this song came on over the cafe and I nearly cried in the middle of the coffee shop. The feeling of being utterly exhausted from what I was working towards and seeing the world as an eternally gray headache hit me in my soul. I knew I had to reevaluate what I was doing and make sure my physical and mental health were accounted for while I was going after what I wanted. I'm grateful this song made me realize I wasn't alone and it helped set me straight.
I'm only 18 and have considered R.E.M. my absolute favorite band since 2011. Of course when I started listening, I immediately recognized many songs from my childhood. :) Your comment is beautiful and I wish more people from my own generation would appreciate amazing music like this.
How we feelin 10 years later?
Just feel sad listening to this. It puts me right back in university and reminds me of much happier times.
for almost 5 years i had a late shift from 7pm to 7am, me and my good friend used to sing this song lots on our way out of the office towards the bus station home, it became our little anthem.
What kind of crazy job do you have to work from 7pm to 7am?
Most healthcare jobs have 7pm-7am shifts.
Very nice! :-)
Extremely bad for your health.
gordon Freeman m
As someone who has worked at night for many years (and still does) this song always speaks to me.
You got that right.
@@BirdNerd52 wanking is not a job. A hand job is not a job
I just wanted to reply so you saw this and came back to the video :)
Stop glazing💀
"I am the screen,
the blinding light
I'm the screen,
I work at night"
What a SONG, guys!!!
Work at night too, so quit and great time to getting something done
Shut up
Was living in Taipei in 1999 teaching English. Not many songs mention Taipei, so this was in my head a lot. During that time I met my wife to be.
10 yrs on we hooked up and got married, in Taipei, so am there most years seeing in-laws! So this song will always have special significance
"Taipei Awakes..."
REM have written many great songs but Daysleeper, Nightswimming and At Your Most Beautiful have to been some of the songs of not only the 20th Century but immortally entrenching for as long as our species exists. Even when we collapse, other species will hear the vibrations of Stipe and they too will continue to agree and vibe with the greatness of these tunes.
November 1998, I'm 20 and travelling Europe with my best friend. I was waiting for her at the station in Venice, she was running late, so I listened to the radio on my headphones and this song just came out as a single. I will always transfer back to this moment with this song: Autumn in Venice, late 90s, being young and free..
It was a magical time when you look back haha.
Pop music does not get any better than this....a awesome social commentary/narrative, an, absolutely gorgeous melody....I miss REM.
It's rock. Soft rock this song. Not pop music.
Hi R.E.M. & everybody, have a nice day 💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖
Hi R.E.M. & everybody, have a nice day 💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖
Hi R.E.M. & everybody, have a nice day 💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖💐💖
@German Morawski They're all different music genres for starter.
This is definitely not POP.
Try to at least pretend to know the Legends before talking about them and being so wrong.
Sung from the point of view of a night shift worker corresponding with colleagues, "Daysleeper" focuses on the disorientation of time and circadian rhythm in such a lifestyle, leading to despair and loss of identity.
Lead singer Michael Stipe developed the song's concept after noticing a sign reading "daysleeper" on a New York City apartment door.
I just wanted to reply so you saw this and came back to the video :)
I worked the overnight shift in a superstore for almost 2 years. You ain't just whistling Dixie, pal.
Can't get enough of this song! I miss R.E.M.
Yeh me also. ain't the same is it?? John MANCHESTER.England.
are the bull and bear constellations, i ask God.
me too
Romantic song about nightshifters, being one of them, I see my colleagues of the NHS with disturbed sleeps but 100% committed. 7.30am "have a good sleep guys", bless you
One of the greatest bands ever
yep
I worked nights for many years and the loneliness and isolation really took its toll on me. REM nailed it with this one, a great song that I always could relate to.
I remember jamming out to this song in 99’ with my buddies Tom, Harry and Matt
College buddies?
I grew up listening to R.E.M.I bought Murmur the year it came out (1983).I was 16 years old and their music has painted the landscape of my life ever since.One of the things that I find most remarkable about their carrer is their incredible consistancey.They've NEVER made a bad album.Some less popular,sure,but bad?NEVER.I was so sad when I heard that they were breaking up,but I also felt a huge sense of gratitude for having the privilage of their music in my life.Thank you guys.It was an HONOR.
I just wanted to reply so you saw this and came back to the video :)
One of the few bands that ended like a true gentlemen. Huge respect for them ! And also thank you for sharing your story 😃
Two bad albums: Reveal and Around the Sun. Everything else is great.
The sound that R.E.M. made together was art in its purest form. Poetry backed by a brilliant orchestration of instruments. One of the greatest bands of my lifetime and all time. This song is one of my personal favorites. Beautiful and mind-blowing.
My favourite rem song.. The richness of his voice is the star of this song. A classic.
For me, this is their best song.
I always saw this as the companion to Nightswimming. Probably cause they’re my two favorite rem songs.
"My night is coloured headache grey" ... pure poetry
Why dont you shut your mouth
Headache grey is so much deeper than it seems
This was my first CD ever. I wore it out just because of the novelty of CDs. I quickly came to love it. Simultaneously I listened to my mum and dad's CDs just because I loved the technology. James Taylor, Dolly Parton, although incongruous, will always be inextricably linked with New Adventures in Hi-Fi and the Daysleeper EP. Go figure
I was listening to them in 1993 when doing my GCSE's and having just turned 40, listening to them again is just like 93 was yesterday. Timeless classics from a truly wonderful band.
Listening to this song in 2024 and it still hits the same way as when I was a kid and heard this song for the first time… This song will always be one of my favourite… and it’ll always remind me of many beautiful moments…
*Thank you R.E.M for such a masterpiece… we can enjoy…*
This just never stops being ''my song'', it fits me so perfectly. I've been working roughly 18:00 - 04:00 at the local bus company as part of the maintenace crew for years. I am comfortable with being alive and living during these hours. During my free time, i go by the same hours (as much as possible). It works for me and i have no intention of changing. I am almost completely disconnected from all the 8-4 wage-slaves, so meeting new people is pretty damn near impossible. I don't care, i don't mind. I am a daysleeper. Without question my favourite band and song. R.E.M. will never stop being one of those vital things that keeps me going. You guys absolutely made my life livable. You will forever have my love.
+Rethic Yes Rethic, I'm only a music fan, and not a musician, but I would rate them one of the best Rock bands ever.
+Rethic 3rd shift for 9 years here, but fuck your dumb Reddit trollface for real
for all the bad press nocturnals and insomniacs get, I find most creative and good natured, many good people online just dig for them
I often work overnight 23:00 till 07:30. Daysleeper. This song sounds so relaxing
+Rethic I worked long hours as a Pharmacist (salaried, of course) & had to move the clock because q time I looked at any clock, the time never changed.. I thank God that I never made a mistake
Weeeee-oh! Weeeee-oh! I love those parts, I can't get enough of it.
True...true xd
I just commented the same!
yeah UP had a lot of nice little touches like that
Such an odd placement but I love it as well. Genius stuff.
@@sonicwise yea like who decided to put that in there! yea someone in the back should just go wee-oh wee-oh! haha awesome hahA
I've been spending 14 hours desperately trying to think of what song I was hearing in my head. It's this one.
I have been released!
"Hong Kong is present, Taipei awakes, all talk of circadian rhythm, i see today with a newsprint fray, my night is colored headache gray, daysleeper"
What a bridge, what a hook!
One of my favourites from R.E.M. ♡♡♡
OK, this video it literally me. I covered the Tokyo market, I have lived in and worked in these exact places in Tokyo in this video for the past 25 plus years. This song is almost literally about me (if it was more explicit on investment banking which is vague in the lyrics). I do still now and did the work hours that this song talks about. Been doing it for 25 plus years. Love that that captured a part of my reality in this video.
🤗
I was an RN, driving home after 12 to 13 hard hours and with a torn up back I always play this song. I worked 7p to 7a, plus. It felt like it was my own song 🎵. Thank you REM
Isn't it so cool when an R.E.M. song fits your life? That's happened to me several times ever since I found their music in 1982.
I'm an LPN, and I have worked nights on and off since 1995. You can keep day shift
Thank u for your service
Don't ask me how but I somehow managed to completely forget about this song, hadn't heard it in a good 20 years. What an absolute classic!
This is a beautiful song. Michael should have won awards for best rock vocal for this, among many other songs.
They were definitely a amazing Group, doubt we will see anything like them again !!!!!!
I was 14 when this came out. I'm now 40. still my favorite band on planet earth. I miss them so much. they left us with the best pieces of music ever written.
Awake at 2:42, many years after my last night shift, and I still remember how it felt. A decade plus of chasing dawn. Sometimes old patterns re-emerge.
I was lucky enough to see them in person three times. Magnificent
This song summons me to feel again. I can close my eyes and sing this song with full lungs, finally breathing with a giant smile of relief. Forgetting and finding this song over the past 2 decades. It ages well. 💙💯
What is that sound at the start? I bought this album the day it came out, I was 19 and in college in Colorado. I woke up early one morning for class, it was super cold, I was depressed. Then I heard a train make that exact sound off in the distance. I can still instantly place myself at that moment. It made me smile. That sound always brings me back to a different time.
I was eleven when this came out. Wow. I miss the old days.
I just wanted to reply so you saw this and came back to the video :) hope you are doing good at 29 or 30
Hermosa canción! Uno de mis favoritas 😊
I think this video can also apply to daily life, melancholy during the day, cycle, work, sleep and repeat, beautiful song
Franklin Ridderstap absolutely,like we r awake but we r actually sleeping
Hello fellow REM fans. This is one of my favorites. Was singing it all day long at work, then at the doctor's office, then on the way home on the train. Had to play it just now blasting loud and singing at the top of my lungs. My pet bird started screeching (I don't sing as well as Michael). OK, it's a few minutes later now and I am not done yet. Must play it a few more times. Poor birdy!
I adore this song. Michael Stipe et al, you beautiful people. Thanks for the music xx
REM songs are incredible life stories, poetry and social contents….. Take all my troubles away 🎸
This is one of my all time favourite REM songs. Love it.
The UP album changed my life. Only a few albums have and this one I know from Song 1 to the Hidden tracks to the B-sides, to the Outtakes. Phenomenal piece of work.
Are there outtakes? What should I listen to?
Only 2. "Emphysema" and "Surfing the Ganges." I also really liked the song "I'm gonna DJ". It's just exciting!
Pablo Sergio Rivera Huh I liked I'm Gonna DJ live but not studio. I've heard Emphysema but I don't tend to like their instrumentals ... I'll check out Surfing the Ganges.
Pablo Sergio Rivera I think there are some cool demos from Up too, that I've seen somewhere on youtube.
rackoflambofgod melhor banda r.e.m
So much sad-beauty evoked in these lyrics and melody. To me, this is high art.
One of the best poets in music for sure 😃
One of my favourite bands of all time, the UP album was heavily underrated. Love them. ❤️
Greatest band ever.
I saw them years ago live. They played an 'all request' concert and it was one of the greatest concerts I have ever seen. :)
bluesandcountry did you make a request
No, I did not. They played the Shoreline Theatre (an outdoor one) in SF Bay Area. :)
YEP & seen most of em. Freddie 8 times 1st they were support band for Mott the Hoople . STONES, WHO, BOSTON, ROSES, etc,etc, but,REM were just so TIGHT. REEESPECT.JOHN
bad attitude bro! it is music
This song will always be beautiful.
I remember this song was a big hit in the same year when Alanis Morissette "Thank You" was big, TLC, the best years of Robbie Williams "Millennium", Busta Rhymes, the best Madonna's album "Ray of Light" and one of my favourite songs "The Power of Goodbye", and Manic Street Preachers "If You Tolerate This". That was a great year in music... I even remember the MTV Music Awards of 1998.
+Flaviyake Official Yes it was!!
I second that opinion. It was a good year in music.
One of America's, & if not, the world's most underrated song
Happy 20th birthday, Daysleeper! Released 12th October, 1998.
I've loved REM since 1987. This made me cry.
I used to work nightshifts... I think this song, and the resulting video, captures what it's like beautifully.
Brilliant. I think about my dad who worked 3rd shift at the post office, 6 a week. Love your grace, Pops.
the music video alludes to how our minds relax and contract, as means of focusing on what makes us happy and/or keeps us safe.
Only Folks who work Nights can Understand and Appreciate this Song. Its Furious Balancing. Headache Gray!
I vividly remember the first time I heard Daysleeper, I was 12yrs old in my afternoon science class that happened to be taught by Michael’s brother-in-law West. He had an early copy of the single and put it on for us in class. Michael’s sister and uncle were also two of my other teachers and all three had a huge effect on the person I became.
Awesome!
If there ever was a band I wish was still together and making this magic for us still, it is R.E.M., who still command my attention and respect, even more now than ever. Forever legends--my GOAT!
Probably this and The Great Beyond are my favourite R.E.M songs
3:07/3:48 I know someone who looks a little like this man
and Bad Day... yum
Man on the Moon is pretty Down to earth...man I need to work on my delivering puns
Whoever gave me is song is f-ing brilliant. Thank you 🖤🤍
Unless you have lived working night shift, I doubt this video would make sense. It makes complete sense to me. The headache of fatigue to the world going by while you are sleeping.
yeah this song is so obtuse and opaque, i can't believe i never thought of it that way what a genius you must be. by allah i will slap you with my shoe
I've worked many night shifts and am thoroughly a nocturnal creature generally, and I've never made that shallow connection 😀
since when a REM song makes sense ?
This is why this is one of my favorite R.E.M. songs
why are you gatekeeping an rem song.. this sounds like that rick and morty copypasta lmao.
The song that marks my early phase of depression. "My bed is pulling me, gravity" I was 13 then, didnt really understand the lyrics ( i thought it was literal Bull and the Bear). And then Nightswimmin soothes my dark sleepless nights. Oh wow this brings back so many memories..
After listening to this song cant seem to get it out of my head. What a voice amazing !!
This actually reminds me of working in an office building alone during Covid. I would listen to my music out loud at work and this came on one day reminded me of my office space and day to day of walking to the coffee machine going back to my desk and looking out the windows and watching the traffic outside or watching the sun setting. I love REM and the cozy feel I get when I listen to their music.
If a song was ever written about real life, this is it.
The feeling from this song is indescribable, cry or smile, I don’t know, just enjoy!!!
Awesome song! R.E.M. rock!
night shifts are not natural. " I cried the other night I can't even say why" that was my experience. why I love this song. anyway
need the supernatural for the natural. need the ugly for the beautiful. evil for the good.
I miss you a lot! You made your sad songs into the most beautiful medicine that healed my broken soul into something beautiful and I also thank God who has created beautiful REM
I wish REM was still together. It's hard to believe its been 10 years and they were together through all my life at that point. When I move and begin a new chapter I had hoped they'd be a part of it.
Thank goodness for REM, tying it all together.
The ocean machine is set to 9,
I’ll squeeze into heaven and Valentine,
My bed is pulling me, gravity
Daysleeper
Never knew expressing the sensation of craving sleep so strongly when you climb in your pit after the night shift was humanly possible, but Stipe managed it. Stunning
Perhaps the only song in human history to include the words 'circadian rythmn'. Love this song. A real go to.
Their best song
Wee ooo wee ooooo is the best part of this song
It's very romantic...really a gorgeous piece of music
My feelings exactly. It's beautiful.
The Bull and the Bear are marking their territories... Internacional glories. Miss you R.E.M. Your lyrics still up to date.
R.E.M. forever
Worked nights for 5 years. Best 5 years of my life!
one of the most meaningful songs I have ever heard, farewell r.e.m you will always remain in my memory
Shades of Bartelby in the Video 💙 such a beautiful song, "I'll squeeze into Heaven"
My heart is melting