You knows you've spent a great deal of time with this wonderful album when the opening chords for "Departure" immediately starts playing in your head after this...
Man, I've been listening to Automatic for the People everyday. Boy is that album so relevant now more than ever. It was my favorite album to go to sleep. I think that was their greatest masterpiece. Not one bad song. A beautiful set of music that will bring you to tears. But also give you comfort. Love everything this band has done. Time is fleeting. At least I got to see them live.
@@Panzer_the_Merganser Find the River and Sweetness Follows too... they creep up on you if you've already been loving on that album for years. So good. It's like, how can you possibly make a song to follow "Nightswimming"? Here you go. 😭
@@cupofsunNightswimming is great, but I do think it’s a little overrated. Find the River is the better song of the two for me, and hey, can ya blame me? It’s glorious! My favorite R.E.M. song, actually. :)
I remember buying the album the day it came out. It was the first R.E.M. album I had bought as a new fan that was a new release. I was so excited. I got home, put it on and absolutely loved it. But I always remember getting to this song and being blown away because it felt SO different for them. And I'll NEVER forget my Dad instantly loving it, aswell ❤
@@samdryden7944 Fables -- murky, muddy, plodding, boring, pedestrian -- is near the bottom for me. Lifes Rich Pageant is their best album. Hi-Fi might soon crack my top five.
"My back against the fall, my face towards it all, feeling the worst, seeing the best, a mix of the two, unreal reality really reeling me in." - Weiczyk
25 years and hundreds of listens later I still get chills listening to this. I love this album, so wonderful and sad at the same time knowing what was coming in 1997.
Intro portion features Bill Berry on guitar and Scott McCaughey on keyboard, recorded in a backstage dressing room. Scott also had the pleasure of playing/toggling the “siren” during shows.
R.E.M. is one of my favorite bands ever, and this is my favorite out of all their songs. So powerful and painful, full of longing, darkness, madness, regret, but also, somehow, hopeful. An absolute masterpiece.
I was starting to worry nothing was coming for the anniversary. New Adventures was the album that got me into R.E.M. and this song in particular was the tipping point that made me a fan.
at the start of August someone asked Mike Mills over twitter if we were getting a 25th of New Adventures and he confirmed that we were so from that moment I felt sure we would not miss out on a 25th release
This isn't even one of the best songs on this album .... and it's still absolutely superb. The album is absolutely magnificent. Gets overlooked by casual fans and critics . My favourite REM album. nearly every track on it is sublime.
twenty five years later. long overdue. R.E.M. provided me with the essential rock music for the X generation. i wore out my Automatic for the People album. now it's time to retune to discovery - New Adventures in Hi-fi. thanks Bill, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck.
Always remember the 1994-95 Monster tour (the Monster "Curse" as it was called). Mike Mills had surgery for an intestinal tumor, Michael Stipe had surgery for a hernia, and most serious was Bill Berry, who underwent emergency brain surgery for a brain aneurysm. But during all that (and the world tour), a masterpiece was created; New Adventures in Hi-Fi.
Dunno if anyone else knows this but the distorted effect you hear throughout the song is actually an alarm that was played through a distortion pedal. Pretty cool and really innovative since it lends itself so well to the song. Peter Buck was a genius
Not only is this song great but the whole album is, too. I remember listening and thinking this a masterpiece. It was completely ignored by Radio for some reason and didn’t really have any hits. It fell through the cracks. I don’t care because the first time I heard it I knew it was one of their best. It has a low key kind of understated sadness and melancholy vibe to it. Absolutely brilliant! This is what Artists create. If you want Sunshine and Lollipops, go Elsewhere! It’s actually too good for Radio. 📻
It fell through the cracks because it came after Monster, which just didn't really land well despite the tour. I remember shopping used CD stores in the early 2000s, and everywhere there were copies of Monster. New Adventures got judged negatively because of that one, which is too bad because it could be their best album. Also...Radiohead disrupted things with something called OK Computer, and REM and NAIHF just didn't exactly fit in anymore. Look what REM tried to do with Up (which was also amazing) - such a departure of this mid 90s rock sound.
@@davidtorpen4501 New Adventures Is one of their best albums! After Green and Murmur. I just listen to the whole album over and over. I like it’s low key, low Fi style! Remember Albums and the concept of an album flowing together? That’s a lost idea on this generation. I used to tape a whole album off the Radio and then listen to it over and over and then buy it if I liked it. We didn’t know how good we had it back then. I would get excited about a bands new release in anticipation. That’s all gone now and I could care less. The music was better and the bands. Now that’s over and I don’t care. I live in the glorious past. Todays stuff doesn’t interest me.
@@dynjarren8355 I totally agree about concept albums. How would I rank REM's albums? I keep coming back to Up (it's just so appropriately melancholy post Berry), Life's Rich Pageant, and New Adventures in Hi Fi. Murmur and Reckoning I love also. I saw them live in 2003 and 2008...and love the recordings from the Green tour.
The Green tour was when they became headliners and the album was solid so they played so many good songs from that album! I never saw them live for some reason.
Just received my boxed set and haven't stopped listening ! I'm finding myself coming up with reasons to drive just to listen in the car. It's comforting to me to know I can always listen to them as my world changes.
1. I think this is their only song where Michael produces these vocals. Amazing. 2. Thanks for the lyrics in the video. Finally got some missing parts. 3. The lyrics are insanely true.
This is my favorite REM song, and I think it's also my favorite vocal performance from Michael Stipe. The first time he hits the high note in the chorus, I get goosebumps.
New Adventures was always one of my favorite REM albums, right up there with Automatic and Reckoning. I loved how the real REM fans (like myself) were crazy about this LP, while the fans who followed the band because of Losing My Religion and Everybody Hurts, were already gone due to the harder edge of Monster. And...this was the last REM album with the irreplaceable Bill Berry.
@@HSPGelton2 Great choice. With drummer Bill Berry leaving, it was a masterpiece for the original four guys to go out with. And yes, all the terrific memories connected with it...
My favourite REM song ever, I was so young becoming an REM fan then Bill Berry left and they went electric rock and they were NEVER the same again. Thank god for New Adventures in Hi-Fi. Just wish they would go back
Two lines I’ve been mishearing for 25 years… it’s even more powerful seeing the actual words. Beyond excited to have this anniversary edition. My favorite album EVER.
Has anyone else ever noticed that right at the end of this song you can hear a woman shout "YEAH!", like woo, yeah, rock on! I first noticed it when I got the original record back in the 90s, and it always amuses me. One of my absolute favourite songs by one of my absolute favourite bands.
Its gotta be some record to leave a siren going the whole time, and indeed it is! Top drawer quality here from REM stepping into uncharted distorted territory and making it their own.
Du sagst es. Ich weiß nicht wie oft ich dies Lied schon gehört habe. Einfach genial . Ich könnte es in Endlosschleife den ganzen Tag hören - na ja, fast
I love how Peter Buck was able to take his guitar and make the siren loop. It adds so much intensity to an otherwise melancholy masterpiece. Recorded at a soundcheck at the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 18, 19, or 21, 1995
People will finally figure out that this is the perfect song when there is world peace. Or maybe there will be world peace when they figure out this is the perfect song
I have been a huge fan of R.E.M since I was 11 years old and I am 45 now. Around that time I believe Out Of Time came out with songs like Near Wild Heaven and Shiny Happy People on there. I’d never heard anything current at that time that I really related to and liked but those songs were incredible and the melodies were beautiful and catchy. Then they brought out Automatic For The People which was an album that was whole and complete; a perfect masterpiece indeed. I must admit though that this album whilst decent doesn’t get anywhere near the former for they (AFTP & OOT), belong to the dizzy heights of record royalty.
One of my favorite songs in their entire catalog.
This is my favorite song by a group...ever.
Same 👌
agree with u freaks! love 🧡
all the same ^^ especially the version of the movie "A Life Less Ordinary" i love !!!
Same
You knows you've spent a great deal of time with this wonderful album when the opening chords for "Departure" immediately starts playing in your head after this...
I have that feeling with all their albums. :)
well said
So true. I've gone through five cds of this since 96. No joke.
I hear & sing the next song of an album after every time I hear an R.E.M. song - radio station, grocery store, Sirius XM at work, … …
Yesssss❤
The song that made me buy an e-bow.
The false finish on this track is masterful.
This album sold a lot of e-bows. Mine included!
Is that someone saying ‘wow’ at the end? I always wondered who that was
@@signalmanmusic4225 Twenty-five years and I’ve never noticed that. Wow indeed!
@@signalmanmusic4225 Always assumed it was someone watching them.
@@signalmanmusic4225 I just commented separately about that, I first noticed it years ago, but I always thought she's saying "Yeah!"
This song hits me the same way as it did the first time I heard it 26 years ago. Simply amazing.
Man, I've been listening to Automatic for the People everyday. Boy is that album so relevant now more than ever. It was my favorite album to go to sleep. I think that was their greatest masterpiece. Not one bad song. A beautiful set of music that will bring you to tears. But also give you comfort. Love everything this band has done. Time is fleeting. At least I got to see them live.
Right there with you. For as many outstanding tracks on that album, the lesser-heard ‘Find the River’ is perfection.
New Adventures rules, too.
@@Panzer_the_Merganser Find the River and Sweetness Follows too... they creep up on you if you've already been loving on that album for years. So good. It's like, how can you possibly make a song to follow "Nightswimming"? Here you go. 😭
@@cupofsun Exactly, that's how you leave a lasting impression of an album: have two powerfully resonant songs right at the end. Love it.
@@cupofsunNightswimming is great, but I do think it’s a little overrated. Find the River is the better song of the two for me, and hey, can ya blame me? It’s glorious! My favorite R.E.M. song, actually. :)
A life less ordinary ❤
I still wince every time when the car slams into the rock with Holly Hunter on the front!
Me too :)
This is probably my favorite r.e.m. song. So excited for this anniversary!
my too
I remember buying the album the day it came out. It was the first R.E.M. album I had bought as a new fan that was a new release. I was so excited. I got home, put it on and absolutely loved it. But I always remember getting to this song and being blown away because it felt SO different for them. And I'll NEVER forget my Dad instantly loving it, aswell ❤
Very underated album by rem
The most stunning song on the most stunning album
I tried to scientifically rate all of their studio albums, and Fables came out on top. New Adventures was second.
Proper shame it wasn't considered as a single, I'm sure the video would have been awesome like so many of their others. Not mainstream enough I guess.
@@samdryden7944 Fables -- murky, muddy, plodding, boring, pedestrian -- is near the bottom for me. Lifes Rich Pageant is their best album. Hi-Fi might soon crack my top five.
@@davidbowman4259bs😂
"My back against the fall, my face towards it all, feeling the worst, seeing the best, a mix of the two, unreal reality really reeling me in." - Weiczyk
There are many many MANY brilliant songs in the R.E.M. discography but Leave is still one of my all time favourites...
This is a kind of Masterpiece...
Never gets old.
Thrilled and excited for NAIHF 25th anniversary!
you will be disappointed
That siren 🚨 in this song is fucking awesome!
lots of love, spotfix
25 years and hundreds of listens later I still get chills listening to this. I love this album, so wonderful and sad at the same time knowing what was coming in 1997.
This album was, is and will always be a masterpiece.❤
Intro portion features Bill Berry on guitar and Scott McCaughey on keyboard, recorded in a backstage dressing room. Scott also had the pleasure of playing/toggling the “siren” during shows.
R.E.M. is one of my favorite bands ever, and this is my favorite out of all their songs. So powerful and painful, full of longing, darkness, madness, regret, but also, somehow, hopeful. An absolute masterpiece.
@@marcia_elena i couldn't agree more
I've had this one on my suicide soundtrack for the longest. Thanks for keeping me around, REM.
I’ve been there, and I’m glad you’re still here.
If I ever met Stipe I don't think I'd be able to stop myself from telling him how much his words mean to me and how he has helped me lol
Don’t do it, when you lose everything, you just start again.
Major Thom
How did I not hear this song till now? Wow......what a masterpiece
Such an under-rated song! My favourite song on my favourite REM album. Incredible
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👏👏
Just sadly outrageously gorgeous and moving song from the hands of gods. Long live Michael, Peter, Bill, Mike!!!!
I've been to Athens because of them!!! Well and the B52s and Pylon and other wonderful bands but u know what I mean!
This song makes me cry everytime I hear it! 😭❤️
I really love this song! A massterpiece!
This album as a whole is profound in many ways.
Für mich der beste song von REM !!
recorded at a sound check, nothing but respect for these musicians
The whole album has that live feel. I think I read they wrote all the songs on the road and recorded some of them that way too.
Interesting Fact: The siren plays at 188.5 BPM. In Hertz, the frequency is 3.1415 Hz.
Thanks Kenneth!
@@fragonthetyne 😂
This gotta be my favourite R.E.M. Album/ Brings back so many fond memories every time I listen to it.
Epic song from an epic album from an epic band...was going thru some tough times, and bitter-sweet feelings. I miss REM so damn much!
“Bittersweet Me” you might say?
I was starting to worry nothing was coming for the anniversary. New Adventures was the album that got me into R.E.M. and this song in particular was the tipping point that made me a fan.
at the start of August someone asked Mike Mills over twitter if we were getting a 25th of New Adventures and he confirmed that we were so from that moment I felt sure we would not miss out on a 25th release
This isn't even one of the best songs on this album .... and it's still absolutely superb.
The album is absolutely magnificent.
Gets overlooked by casual fans and critics .
My favourite REM album. nearly every track on it is sublime.
The most epic R.E.M. song.
twenty five years later. long overdue. R.E.M. provided me with the essential rock music for the X generation. i wore out my Automatic for the People album. now it's time to retune to discovery - New Adventures in Hi-fi. thanks Bill, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck.
Always remember the 1994-95 Monster tour (the Monster "Curse" as it was called). Mike Mills had surgery for an intestinal tumor, Michael Stipe had surgery for a hernia, and most serious was Bill Berry, who underwent emergency brain surgery for a brain aneurysm. But during all that (and the world tour), a masterpiece was created; New Adventures in Hi-Fi.
proving that out of challenges come good things
The best R.E.M. album in my list!!
The soundtrack of a lifetime!!
Gracias por las memorias!!
It's under under under my feet
The sea spread out there before me
Where do I go when the land touches the sea?
There is my trust in what I believe
Epic song, timeless album...simply superb.
So powerful, so magnetic, so REM!!
Dunno if anyone else knows this but the distorted effect you hear throughout the song is actually an alarm that was played through a distortion pedal. Pretty cool and really innovative since it lends itself so well to the song. Peter Buck was a genius
Wrong...It's an old ARP Odyssey with the octave switch being toggled back and forth.
Its annoying AF and takes away from the genius of the rest of the track.
@@crosseyedmiles3105 no, it's perfect
@@crosseyedmiles3105It’s one of the most compelling production flourishes that only beautifully highlights an already incredible song.
Agreed
Not only is this song great but the whole album is, too. I remember listening and thinking this a masterpiece.
It was completely ignored by Radio for some reason and didn’t really have any hits. It fell through the cracks. I don’t care because the first time I heard it I knew it was one of their best.
It has a low key kind of understated sadness and melancholy vibe to it. Absolutely brilliant! This is what Artists create.
If you want Sunshine and Lollipops, go Elsewhere!
It’s actually too good for Radio. 📻
It fell through the cracks because it came after Monster, which just didn't really land well despite the tour. I remember shopping used CD stores in the early 2000s, and everywhere there were copies of Monster. New Adventures got judged negatively because of that one, which is too bad because it could be their best album. Also...Radiohead disrupted things with something called OK Computer, and REM and NAIHF just didn't exactly fit in anymore. Look what REM tried to do with Up (which was also amazing) - such a departure of this mid 90s rock sound.
@@davidtorpen4501
New Adventures Is one of their best albums! After Green and Murmur. I just listen to the whole album over and over. I like it’s low key, low Fi style!
Remember Albums and the concept of an album flowing together? That’s a lost idea on this generation. I used to tape a whole album off the Radio and then listen to it over and over and then buy it if I liked it.
We didn’t know how good we had it back then. I would get excited about a bands new release in anticipation. That’s all gone now and I could care less. The music was better and the bands. Now that’s over and I don’t care. I live in the glorious past. Todays stuff doesn’t interest me.
@@dynjarren8355 I totally agree about concept albums. How would I rank REM's albums? I keep coming back to Up (it's just so appropriately melancholy post Berry), Life's Rich Pageant, and New Adventures in Hi Fi. Murmur and Reckoning I love also. I saw them live in 2003 and 2008...and love the recordings from the Green tour.
The Green tour was when they became headliners and the album was solid so they played so many good songs from that album! I never saw them live for some reason.
The Serenity and crazyness of the music .resembles my brain.
The lyrics speaks my toughts , And yes its all about interpretation what a masterpeace
This should’ve been released as a single
Stipe fills my soul.
I loved this album from day one and it still resonates -- by far their most underrated effort.
one of many r.e.m masterpieces
Just received my boxed set and haven't stopped listening ! I'm finding myself coming up with reasons to drive just to listen in the car. It's comforting to me to know I can always listen to them as my world changes.
I just spent the last 3 days listening to all 47 songs -- great playlist!
1. I think this is their only song where Michael produces these vocals. Amazing.
2. Thanks for the lyrics in the video. Finally got some missing parts.
3. The lyrics are insanely true.
Incredible, beautiful lyrics that I’m ashamed to say I never read until today. Misheard a lot of them. My god that bridge…”lift me, lift me…”
Absolutely amazing
This is my favorite REM song, and I think it's also my favorite vocal performance from Michael Stipe. The first time he hits the high note in the chorus, I get goosebumps.
Boom! YES!! 28 years ago!
young boy in boarding school - this gave me hope!
The perfect travel song.
New Adventures was always one of my favorite REM albums, right up there with Automatic and Reckoning.
I loved how the real REM fans (like myself) were crazy about this LP, while the fans who followed the band because of Losing My Religion and Everybody Hurts, were already gone due to the harder edge of Monster.
And...this was the last REM album with the irreplaceable Bill Berry.
New Adventures wins it for me - a combo of sublime music and memories of the time...
@@HSPGelton2 Great choice. With drummer Bill Berry leaving, it was a masterpiece for the original four guys to go out with.
And yes, all the terrific memories connected with it...
Love this song, love R.E.M.
powerful song, peak r.e.m. 🤘🔥
This song kept me safe. Thank you
Leave, is such a great song. Thanks for sharing. 🙏
I love this song so much!!!
Masterpiece
What a masterpiece, carrying me from the 90s until today
A truly fantastic record
One of their best and it’s their longest song
My favourite REM song ever, I was so young becoming an REM fan then Bill Berry left and they went electric rock and they were NEVER the same again. Thank god for New Adventures in Hi-Fi. Just wish they would go back
My favorite band ever. Excited to buy New Adventures 25th!
I was watching "A Life Less Ordinary" and this started playing at the climax of the film from 1997.
The Good Rock Is Coming Back!❤️
Have grown to love this song so much, really stick out from their catalogue
diamond of music
An AMAZING SONG
Best Album and best song
I remember the rush home after I bought the album from the music store because I was impatient to listen it. Where did almost 28 years go?
Two lines I’ve been mishearing for 25 years… it’s even more powerful seeing the actual words.
Beyond excited to have this anniversary edition. My favorite album EVER.
che canzone delle madonna! Ogni volta che la riascolto ho i brividi
Has anyone else ever noticed that right at the end of this song you can hear a woman shout "YEAH!", like woo, yeah, rock on! I first noticed it when I got the original record back in the 90s, and it always amuses me. One of my absolute favourite songs by one of my absolute favourite bands.
The best song ever written.
Love it
Its gotta be some record to leave a siren going the whole time, and indeed it is! Top drawer quality here from REM stepping into uncharted distorted territory and making it their own.
I feel pure love to this song
I like both versions.
Έχω καταλήξει εδώ και πολύ καιρό. Αυτό είναι το αγαπημένο μου τραγούδι
Du sagst es. Ich weiß nicht wie oft ich dies Lied schon gehört habe. Einfach genial . Ich könnte es in Endlosschleife den ganzen Tag hören - na ja, fast
✌️ 💜 🙏
🌹 Legendary 🌹
Peace from Georgia, USA ✌️😎 ✨
I love how Peter Buck was able to take his guitar and make the siren loop. It adds so much intensity to an otherwise melancholy masterpiece. Recorded at a soundcheck at the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 18, 19, or 21, 1995
I really love this song 💖🤩
My cousin Gary met Barney Rubble at a monster truck rally in Hoover Alabama.
I met Wilma Flintstone is my claim to fame.
I live, I breath, I feel, til now, I know my heart will stop but this song will go with me to my last breath.
People will finally figure out that this is the perfect song when there is world peace. Or maybe there will be world peace when they figure out this is the perfect song
E si piange, si piange, è bellissima ❤️
Definitely my favorite from NAIHF.
Thank you!
R.E.M QUE BANDA!!LOCURA POR VOLVER A VERLOS ❤
I have been a huge fan of R.E.M since I was 11 years old and I am 45 now. Around that time I believe Out Of Time came out with songs like Near Wild Heaven and Shiny Happy People on there. I’d never heard anything current at that time that I really related to and liked but those songs were incredible and the melodies were beautiful and catchy. Then they brought out Automatic For The People which was an album that was whole and complete; a perfect masterpiece indeed. I must admit though that this album whilst decent doesn’t get anywhere near the former for they (AFTP & OOT), belong to the dizzy heights of record royalty.
Only REM nobody else. ❤❤❤
Great album opener.
New adventures in hi fi is my favorite rem album
Bellissima
Maravilhoso!!! Adorei!!!
Michael Stipe had the REM Instagram share me playing my acoustic instrumental of this song in my PJs in my kitchen LOL.
This is definitely a classic. Also should've been a single 🎸🎸🎸
amei thank you spotfy