Back in the day, in the '80's, when you went to an R.E.M. concert, it was like paradise. I saw them twice at Radio City Music Hall and every person in the house was dancing, singing along, jumping up and down, and in between songs, Michael would say "what do you want to hear?" Everybody was screaming out the names of their favorite songs, and R.E.M. transported us to Heaven.
Saw them in Lawrence, Kansas when they only had few songs songs to perform. Mesmerizing! Met them after show and they were so down to earth, polite and gracious.
Was that the show in the old Hoch auditorium? i remember seeing Stipe hanging out the window of the tour bus beforehand drunk out of his mind. Great show.
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@urbangorilla33 I was commenting on the original sound of REM & it's generally accepted that Mike Mills added a lot to their vocals. Bill Berry's impact on REM was clearly through his guitar playing & melodic chord composition. Whatever Berry's minor vocal additions on a handful of songs, at the most, are really so minor, insignificant & generally absent from almost all of their songs, that they're not really worth noting as an essential quality of REM's early original sound.
Yes.. the Raleigh Underground, also called the Village Subway, had nightclubs and shops, etc. underground.. It was very cool. I went to the Pier a couple of times in 1979- 1980. Saw the punk band 999 play there, and the band Arrogance also.. the entire place became abandoned in the late '80's..
He was a friend of the band. I think he had a band of his own. He used to join the guys on stage and play guitar on stage at some of their shows. He played with the band for their first Unplugged performance. Michael called him "the fifth member of R.E.M. 🙂
@@dewaynehairston6286 Their third album, Like This, is worth a listen. It was released in 1984 and has some standouts - Love Is For Lovers, Lonely Is (As Lonely Does), Amplifier, A Spy In The House of Love.
@@viachicago Dynamite is another great song from the dB's off an earlier album. It's available on TH-cam but not on Spotify. Definitely worth a listen.
** I say the following w/ deep sorrow, but early-mid 80's REM fans might find some truth in it **..........The more I listen to the Chronic Town EP the clearer it is to me that as REM moved away from it in time, the less REM sounded like REM. They had a good 4-5 year run after this EP though. My opinion, Fables of the Reconstruction/Reconstruction of the Fables ('85) was their last epic, truly great album. Life's Rich Pageant ('86) was solid & good; though you could start hearing Stipe's P.C., social justice, eco pretensions sneaking in (i.e.: "Cuyahoga", "Fall on Me"). Document ('87) was the beginning of the end; more "message" songs & half the album I didn't care for as music. You could say that Stipe's early non-intelligible, undecipherable lyrics were an "idiosyncratic affectation" that he would evolve away from as he matured as a singer; I disagree. Stipe basically said as much later in defense (paraphrasing), "...what ever I may have 'lost' ", I actually gained more." I see that as a justification for his need to have the listener clearly hear the increasingly P.C. messages he wanted to communicate. Their new corporate label's (Warner Bros') need for them to transition to the big anthem rock, mega stadium "Rock" & profit producing band (that they eventually became), & away from the artsy college indie scene had to have had some affect also. REM's early sound w/ Stipe's vocals, presented an almost mythical soundscape. Beautiful, melodic, infinitely suggestive, but completely impenetrable. Impenetrable like staring at a sphinx or monolith; you knew it was speaking to you in a beautiful language but you couldn't define it. Ideas, feelings were just hinted @, almost like a shadow play where you fill everything else in w/ your imagination. I remember one review of Reckoning ('84), "...like a travelogue-reciting of a half-remembered journey to a place that never really existed..." That's a perfect description of REM's early (pre-Mega band) music. THAT was the magic of REM; because it was undefinable, it remained timeless & "not of this world" (i.e.: transcendent). Transcendent things are universally beautiful because they're not crude & mundane concerns of human existence. Like a "burning river" (Cuyahoga) or nuclear war (Fall on Me). Why was Stipe singing about nuclear war?....isn't that something a politician would do? It just felt dirty like Stipe was prostituting REM to aggrandize his self-righteousness (it was also pretty unoriginal & boring). Once Stipe's vocals & "the music" got de-linked & stopped working as a single beautifully harmonic hypnotic sound, that was the end of REM as that uniquely original melodic indie band. Why didn't they care about the Self-Righteous buffoons they were becoming, to the detriment of their music? I think it was because they became rich & true to form they just didn't care because they had a HUGE record label deal, went on stadium tours & sold millions of albums. But, they were then no different than every other mega "corporate" band. REM '80-'86 (RIP)..........one of the greatest bands ever.
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Back in the day, in the '80's, when you went to an R.E.M. concert, it was like paradise. I saw them twice at Radio City Music Hall and every person in the house was dancing, singing along, jumping up and down, and in between songs, Michael would say "what do you want to hear?" Everybody was screaming out the names of their favorite songs, and R.E.M. transported us to Heaven.
the thing about REM is that they were all secret weapons
Say what you will, but back in those early days, R.E.M. were touched by some kinda magic.
Saw them in Lawrence, Kansas when they only had few songs songs to perform. Mesmerizing! Met them after show and they were so down to earth, polite and gracious.
Was that the show in the old Hoch auditorium? i remember seeing Stipe hanging out the window of the tour bus beforehand drunk out of his mind. Great show.
@@MECowgo
The one at Hoch Auditorium was their second show in Lawrence. That was also great - as always.
So nice to see Peter Buck break out with a smile here and there in this performance. A rarity.
This song takes me into the mystical zone every time...early REM was so ingeniously creative and beautiful.
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I stupidly forgot my password. I would appreciate any tips you can give me
@Leonard Makai Instablaster :)
@Zachary Deshawn thanks for your reply. I got to the site thru google and Im in the hacking process atm.
I see it takes a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Zachary Deshawn It did the trick and I now got access to my account again. Im so happy!
Thank you so much you saved my account :D
@Leonard Makai glad I could help xD
I'm so in love with these guys. After all those years, I miss them all.
😍💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞 I wasn't even born but feels like I'm living that time through this video.
33 yrs after 1st hearing REM, I'm still amazed how much Mike Mills harmonies/vocals are crucial to their sound, amazing.
Agreed.
Yes but Bill Berry's too. Here Mike and Bill sing the "house in order" line in two-part harmony and Michael does the "Uh-huh-aHa" reply vocal.
@urbangorilla33 I was commenting on the original sound of REM & it's generally accepted that Mike Mills added a lot to their vocals. Bill Berry's impact on REM was clearly through his guitar playing & melodic chord composition. Whatever Berry's minor vocal additions on a handful of songs, at the most, are really so minor, insignificant & generally absent from almost all of their songs, that they're not really worth noting as an essential quality of REM's early original sound.
@@chrysopylaedesign I guess we'll have to disagree. This song here is a good example of his contribution.
@urbangorilla33 I do understand the point you were trying to make, thank you.
This is always on my top ten favorite R.E.M. song list. Never goes beyond six or so.
This was posted on my 24th birthday! It's like someone gave me a present I wouldn't find until a decade later :)
Let's hear it for Let's Active
I love this band so much, my favorite song from them
My favorite version of this awesome song
Cool that Stipe mentions Peter Holsapple.
Amazing! I am transported back in time!
REM just rules. There isn’t one driving factor in the band, it’s all of them.
Hell yea. Hundred thousand thank you's orangeyeliner 😻🍍🤘🏼❣️
I've been in Raleigh for 25 years. I wish I would have been there for the "underground"days
I am from Greenville, SC, and channel 4 would have been WFBC at this time so this video was somehow retrieved after it changed to WYFF later.
This is gold.
Looking good Michael! 😍😍😍😘 ...the pier...😊
Wow.....exactly 41 yrs. ago.
RARE !!!
Oh wow, the quality of this video is amazing. Great add!
You are such a lucky human being...
YAAAAAAASSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
Love seeing Stipey with hair on his head on fire.
The pier. Was that underground? Where jim carroll performed in the early 80s?
Yes.. the Raleigh Underground, also called the Village Subway, had nightclubs and shops, etc. underground.. It was very cool. I went to the Pier a couple of times in 1979- 1980. Saw the punk band 999 play there, and the band Arrogance also.. the entire place became abandoned in the late '80's..
Mirror flower...aah ha aah!
Ghengis Khan never gets mentioned… except by Stipe! 😂
Songs, four, REM
de niro...........flower..........
This comment is from 4 years ago??? 🤔
May I ask you what do you mean by De Niro?
!!!
Cuánto pelo diosmío
whats this song about?
And suddenly I’m a teenager again fantasizing of moving to a shitty apartment on the Lower East Side
Who is Peter hoseapple?
He was a friend of the band. I think he had a band of his own. He used to join the guys on stage and play guitar on stage at some of their shows. He played with the band for their first Unplugged performance. Michael called him "the fifth member of R.E.M. 🙂
@@dewaynehairston6286 The DB's
@@dewaynehairston6286 Their third album, Like This, is worth a listen. It was released in 1984 and has some standouts - Love Is For Lovers, Lonely Is (As Lonely Does), Amplifier, A Spy In The House of Love.
@@viachicago Dynamite is another great song from the dB's off an earlier album. It's available on TH-cam but not on Spotify. Definitely worth a listen.
@@viachicago Black and White is a pop masterpiece.
** I say the following w/ deep sorrow, but early-mid 80's REM fans might find some truth in it **..........The more I listen to the Chronic Town EP the clearer it is to me that as REM moved away from it in time, the less REM sounded like REM. They had a good 4-5 year run after this EP though. My opinion, Fables of the Reconstruction/Reconstruction of the Fables ('85) was their last epic, truly great album. Life's Rich Pageant ('86) was solid & good; though you could start hearing Stipe's P.C., social justice, eco pretensions sneaking in (i.e.: "Cuyahoga", "Fall on Me"). Document ('87) was the beginning of the end; more "message" songs & half the album I didn't care for as music. You could say that Stipe's early non-intelligible, undecipherable lyrics were an "idiosyncratic affectation" that he would evolve away from as he matured as a singer; I disagree. Stipe basically said as much later in defense (paraphrasing), "...what ever I may have 'lost' ", I actually gained more." I see that as a justification for his need to have the listener clearly hear the increasingly P.C. messages he wanted to communicate. Their new corporate label's (Warner Bros') need for them to transition to the big anthem rock, mega stadium "Rock" & profit producing band (that they eventually became), & away from the artsy college indie scene had to have had some affect also. REM's early sound w/ Stipe's vocals, presented an almost mythical soundscape. Beautiful, melodic, infinitely suggestive, but completely impenetrable. Impenetrable like staring at a sphinx or monolith; you knew it was speaking to you in a beautiful language but you couldn't define it. Ideas, feelings were just hinted @, almost like a shadow play where you fill everything else in w/ your imagination. I remember one review of Reckoning ('84), "...like a travelogue-reciting of a half-remembered journey to a place that never really existed..." That's a perfect description of REM's early (pre-Mega band) music. THAT was the magic of REM; because it was undefinable, it remained timeless & "not of this world" (i.e.: transcendent). Transcendent things are universally beautiful because they're not crude & mundane concerns of human existence. Like a "burning river" (Cuyahoga) or nuclear war (Fall on Me). Why was Stipe singing about nuclear war?....isn't that something a politician would do? It just felt dirty like Stipe was prostituting REM to aggrandize his self-righteousness (it was also pretty unoriginal & boring). Once Stipe's vocals & "the music" got de-linked & stopped working as a single beautifully harmonic hypnotic sound, that was the end of REM as that uniquely original melodic indie band. Why didn't they care about the Self-Righteous buffoons they were becoming, to the detriment of their music? I think it was because they became rich & true to form they just didn't care because they had a HUGE record label deal, went on stadium tours & sold millions of albums. But, they were then no different than every other mega "corporate" band. REM '80-'86 (RIP)..........one of the greatest bands ever.