Michael Stipe looks like the character from the 80's high school movie that doesn't talk or go to class but then says something poignant at the end and saves the day.
I was born in Athens, Georgia. Met the love of my life there. Spent the happiest days of my life with her there. And much like Ingrid Schorr (the lady this song is about), she left town. Michael Stipe’s attitude in this video is priceless
When Stipe misses his cue at 1:48 for the tag line, you can see Mike Mills quietly whispering the words ("And waste another year"). Then Stipe sheepishly smiles at his miscue and carries on. The gaff actually makes this video more endearing.
Didn't notice that before (and you're right, makes it fun). Looks like Mike was whispering his lyrics the whole way through, so Stipe's omission just stood out a bit more there - and his grin really captured the moment.
@@attsealevel Mike wrote the lyrics indeed. He didn't sing lead vocals much (Near Wild Heaven) but was the main composer on many of the finest REM songs: NWH, NIghtswimming, Find A River, Electrolite, Rockville.
omg i just found this right this minute. yes a true gift. they clearly are like a fine wine that just gets better as time passes. haha i love how mike sounds country. he's so amazing. they should have won some country award that year for this.
As a 90s kid, I grew up on Out of Time and Monster but Murmur and Reckoning are, by far, the best albums this band released... And this is one of the best songs from that time.
I was pretty sure I heard Mike's voice harmonizing in this song and that helped me figure out it was an REM song I was hearing for the first time. I heard a different rendering of the song, more heavily produced, and it was very hard to recognize who the band was, who the lead singer was. In this version, I immediately knew it was REM . Great song!
@@judetheneilyounggirl2358 I agree completely. And when you have band chemistry and talent like they did, they make it look so damn easy! Like you can just pick up a guitar and start playing and out comes this wonderful song! But it’s not like that for most people. Just them and those other great bands that had that special magic that fate brought them together for apparently. They were so lucky to have that. It’s like they won the lottery!
Contains the most emotional/direct line of all the REM I know (pre-Warner Bros. anyway) "At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend I don't care that you're not here with me"
Met them at a house party in Bloomington in the summer of 1986. They were recording LRP at Mellencamps studio. Nicest guys. No one knew who they were. Seemed surprised we recognized them.
I helped move my keyboardist's Hammond B3 out to Mellencamp's Belmont studio for that session. We got a call from Kenny Aronoff asking if our keyboard player would like to rent his B3 for a session REM would be doing there (Kenny was a friend of ours through our guitarist. He filled in on a three-day gig in Nashville one weekend when our drummer broke his foot). Pretty cool fun memory of my Indiana days.
@@lapdawg60 I remember Kenny. And I had a Deadhead roommate in Bloomington in the Dead cover band Glass Camels, so I know moving a B3 is not fun. We had the police called on us so many times when he was rocking the B3. Take care.
Mike Mills giggles very sweet . When Michael Stipe nudging him. They are special guys to me. I still love all of them in REM. Bill, Mike, Peter and Michael.
@@philipmarx1819 no their production got better but after out of time they started recycling their songs for the masses..apart from drive and man on the moon..I thought automatic unlistenable for me
That's the best music video I've ever seen because they are so great, so casual, so flawed, yet gathered up into a tight ball of perfection; and I was as young as they were when that was filmed with much more difficulty than it could be today.
Found it! This song is about Ingrid Schorr, R.E.M. bass player Mike Mills' girlfriend at the University of Georgia in 1980 when the band formed. She was having a great time on the campus in Athens and wanted to stay there for the summer, but her parents insisted she return home to Rockville, Maryland. The song is Mills trying to convince her to stay.
I agree. How did I miss this? This whole album was created as a rebellion against the 1980's drum machine and the desire to bring music back to a personal level. Success.
That's actually better than the album version to me. Just guys sitting around playing for fun, not trying to be rock stars. I love hearing Michael Stipe sing with a Georgia accent.
that was beautiful. time passes so quickly. i remember getting the same goosebumps the first time I heard this song, when it was JUST released. I was instantly addicted to R.E.M., this cut & 'Radio Free Europe', summer of 1983 while in college. I had a radio show and remember the singles coming out wayyy before they were hits, like a lot of amazing music those years... about R.E.M., I also remember thinking they must have been influenced by Michael Nesmith of the Monkees, the texas twang in the lyrics/performance here very remeniscent of him and "Take The Last Train To Clarksville". Could've been, "Don't Go Back To Clarksville"...lol.. I also remember being in Rockville, Maryland for work the following summer & couldn't get the song out of my head.
I saw them in a gymnasium. We were so hot, the girls took their tops off . I LOVED them. I saw them many more times in small venues in the south. But nothing compares to that first show.
Of the thousands of music videos I have saved, this is the one I keep coming back to. I just love the naturalness of it and how very talented they are at such a young age. Can't get enough.
Nash1965H lol and yet the Only REM song you’ll hear on the radio is the overly appreciated Losing My Religion. They had some really great songs and that one just eclipsed them because it was what, poignant? Such a shame.
Not just my fave song by this incredible band, but one of my faves of all time! Love the spontaneity and laid back nature of this video, and extra points for even bringing out a Guitarron, regardless of actually playing it or not. ;)
I love it when Michael forgets the first "...waste another year" line and then smiles when he realizes it. Very cute moment... As a Rockville native, I agree with the sentiment.
I'm currently reading their biography by Peter Ames Carlin, which inspired me to look this video up. If there's one video that captures exactly what the band was like as young lads in the early 80s who were simply playing music because it's what they loved doing, this is it. This is beautiful.
This band is so freaking great. One of a kind. The stars aligned here, mills, buck, stipe, buckner. They remain unmatched like The Doors remain unmatched. TREMENDOUS!!!
At the 34th Annual Grammy Awards, the lead single "Losing My Religion", was R.E.M.'s highest-charting and best-selling single...The band broke up amicably in 2011 with members devoting time to solo projects after having sold more than 90 million albums worldwide and becoming one of the world's best-selling music acts. : source Wikipedia. But you can go dig around the billboard chart stats if you want to get your own source.
@@rigamarole1117 look J. Let’s cut to the chase. Why are you choosing this fight? A position blatantly well-supported in fact? Starting with … College FM had how many listeners versus pop radio at that time? If you are going to attempt to insult ppl, at least be well-informed.
Am in a position where I'm gonna have to make a decision in which I decide to stay in a country town where my mother is from, and the coastal city/town that I was born in, and love. It's the toughest decision ever because, either way, all the pros outweigh the cons. But this catchy tune really makes it tougher. haha.
Truly time machine stuff, really takes me back!! All the hair, and Michael working that Georgia accent too, Tasty!! Thank you SO MUCH for posting this and all of these. I love them.
This has always been my favourite REM song, I first heard it during physio sessions after being hit by a car on my way home. Certainly made the physio more bearable :)
I had this on VHS back in the 80s, I think it was on IRS the cutting edge off MTV and I believe they said it was in shot in Stipes bedroom . Shortly thereafter I made my first trip to athens ( from charleston Sc) and wondered if I could actually see the band around town. My first stop was the original Grit restaurant and 5 minutes after I sat down, Michael walked in . True story.
I COMPLETELY AGREE!! Fables is such a great album, I wish that it wasn't so underrated!! Feeling Gravity's Pull, Driver 8, Life and How to Live It, Maps and Legends, Green Grow the Rushes, Wendell Gee....ugh, I could name the entire f**kin' album!! Fables is awesome, hopefully people will recognize its greatness in the future. However, Murmur, Reckoning and Lifes Rich Pageant are also excellent albums, they are definitely among the best albums of the 1980s. R.E.M. seemed a lot better in the 80s.
I just listened to New Adventures in Hi-Fi, and I love it. New Adventures in Hi-Fi is SUCH a great album, it's really underrated. Darn shame that Bill Berry left R.E.M. after New Adventures, he was a really important part of R.E.M. Another underrated R.E.M. album is Fables of the Reconstruction, I think that it might be my favorite R.E.M. album now.
Mike Mills is a genius for writing this song. It's brilliant. When my boyfriend and I drive down to Florida each year, I listen to this song over and over again! Poor guy. lol
Красиви млади момчета,които свирят и пеят с голямо удоволствие и лекота.Положиха много труд и лишения,но стигнаха върха и сега само можем да се наслаждаваме на тяхната музика и да им благодарим.ОБИЧАМ ГИ ВСИЧКИ!❤❤❤❤❤❤
I heard this song on my radio this morning. It was a different version, not this bare bones style. It was the first time I'd ever heard this song and I really liked it. In the recording I heard on my radio , it was very hard to recognize who was singing. It was more heavily produced, like an album cut. I'm pretty good at recognizing bands and singers and lead quitarists, and I had a fairly good idea I was hearing some EARLY REM . I couldn't wait to hit utube and type in what I thought the song title might be. SURE ENOUGH! I was right. Micheal Stipe with HAIR early! Now in this pared down acoustic rendition I knew immediately it was REM. How did I miss this little beauty for all these years? Very cool finding this tune and then seeing this great video of the band. Awesome! I love playing musical trivia with myself and I must boast a little that I am VERY good at it. I've not met too many people that are as good as I am. I am so sure of myself that I once bet my original 1987 Pontiac Firebird GTA against a guy with a brand new Corvette Stingray. I won. It was a sweet win! I'm 68 and live and breathe music from The Beatles to Death Metal to Grunge, everything from 1964 and on to today. Anyway, great present whenever I find a great new song or some new steller artist.
@@GreenCanvasInteriorscape We were in The Porthole Lounge in Tampa, FL. Playing a SERIOUS game of music trivia. The whole bar was watching me and this guy play. The question I won with was: what is the name of the album that just came out that is a play on words from The 5 Man Electrical Band who had the hit song "Signs" in the 70s and who is the Artist that released it? A 2 parter!! OMG! But I knew both answers and I started getting REALLY excited. I answered ; the artist is Tesla and the album is titled The 5 Man Acoustical Jam. Yesurie, Bob! I won! I remember that I thought I just lucked out because I thought that question was a "gimmie ". It just seemed too easy! I thought "Everybody's gotta know this", but NO, I quess they didn't! SO, that was the 10 thousand dollar question that night! Thanks for asking me! You're a sweetheart!! Peace!
Love this song. I’m from Chicago, but actually bought the new release in (‘86, ‘87?) Rockville, MD. I was in high school and my family had driven my older bro to some Engineering Camp at the US Naval Base nearby. Had already listened to Murmur and liked it, and saw this near release date (didn’t even notice there was a song about Rockville on the album). It’s a sort of love song from Mikey to a girl that was leaving Athens for a while. Top 20 songs of all time.
Yeah, Fables is incredibly underrated. People didn't like it that much back in 1985, and it still doesn't get a lot of love these days. I will admit that I didn't like Fables at first, but it grew on me a lot. Fables is such a great album, it's just as great as Murmur & Automatic for the People. I love the murky, dark sound of Fables.
![[Don't Go Back To] Rockville (Remastered 2006)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/rvE1lkLfpnc/mqdefault.jpg)
The I.R.S. years, that was R.E.M at its most beautiful.
Fables of the Reconstruction woohoo
Monster is a great album.
Agree wholeheartedly but I do love Out of Time, though.
They made great songs and albums on both IRS and Warner bros.
@@DamianDavis-q3l Maybe, but in the I.R.S. era they were something apart. In the WB era they were another pop band.
My God, what a gem. How lucky we are to have this around to watch after all these years. This is timeless music.
I’ve been enjoying seeing these guys in the news lately. Songs of a generation!
Right??? Where the hell was this amazing version in the 1980s??? I would have bought it in 1 second!!
My favorite version by far
Michael Stipe looks like the character from the 80's high school movie that doesn't talk or go to class but then says something poignant at the end and saves the day.
The "0bserver"
So True!
This song for some is too forward don't worry about others who wouldn't have a. Clue of what this song is about .
Love this guy and his song
If you are in the comments, I love you...
That's bc he is.....
I was born in Athens, Georgia. Met the love of my life there. Spent the happiest days of my life with her there. And much like Ingrid Schorr (the lady this song is about), she left town. Michael Stipe’s attitude in this video is priceless
Sorry man. Bittersweet. Hope you find or found that again
Amazing and lovely as usual when it comes to REM❤❤😊
She was Mike Mills girlfriend, he wrote the song.
When Stipe misses his cue at 1:48 for the tag line, you can see Mike Mills quietly whispering the words ("And waste another year"). Then Stipe sheepishly smiles at his miscue and carries on. The gaff actually makes this video more endearing.
Didn't notice that before (and you're right, makes it fun). Looks like Mike was whispering his lyrics the whole way through, so Stipe's omission just stood out a bit more there - and his grin really captured the moment.
@@attsealevel Mike wrote the lyrics indeed. He didn't sing lead vocals much (Near Wild Heaven) but was the main composer on many of the finest REM songs: NWH, NIghtswimming, Find A River, Electrolite, Rockville.
He was wasted
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Love it
When you imagine getting a band together, this is what it looks like in your mind.
been there with the opt head and all that.
I usually imagine the guitars to be far more oversized than this, but you're right it's somewhat close.
but never happens...
@@christiantoma5917 Unless it does and then you're in REM
Exactly
How did I miss this for all these years? It's like a present from the universe to have found it today.
It is! It truly is!
its an easter egg
Where exactly is it a "hidden track video" from?
omg i just found this right this minute. yes a true gift. they clearly are like a fine wine that just gets better as time passes. haha i love how mike sounds country. he's so amazing. they should have won some country award that year for this.
Chris Gonzalez Thanks for the reply! It reminded me to come back and enjoy this treasure again---and I can really use the inspiration today!
As a 90s kid, I grew up on Out of Time and Monster but Murmur and Reckoning are, by far, the best albums this band released... And this is one of the best songs from that time.
Agreed
I discovered REM far too late in life and when I first heard this song at one of their concerts, I was overjoyed. It's so good!
i think new adventures in hi fi is on the same level.
Yep.💙
So many good albums, I would say Lifes Rich Pageant, Document, and Automatic are my favs
Mike Mills wrote this song and it fits REM perfectly!
I was pretty sure I heard Mike's voice harmonizing in this song and that helped me figure out it was an REM song I was hearing for the first time. I heard a different rendering of the song, more heavily produced, and it was very hard to recognize who the band was, who the lead singer was. In this version, I immediately knew it was REM . Great song!
@@judetheneilyounggirl2358
I agree completely. And when you have band chemistry and talent like they did, they make it look so damn easy! Like you can just pick up a guitar and start playing and out comes this wonderful song! But it’s not like that for most people.
Just them and those other great bands that had that special magic that fate brought them together for apparently.
They were so lucky to have that. It’s like they won the lottery!
Contains the most emotional/direct line of all the REM I know (pre-Warner Bros. anyway) "At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend I don't care that you're not here with me"
That gets me too
It's amazing that line is so embedded in the song and my brain that I can read and sing it in perfect pitch...and I'm not a singer. So pure!
1,131,072 views and only 1,038,584 of them are from me! ;)
Seriously though I love this video so much, I watch it at least a couple times per month.
WTF?! This is my favorite country song for damn near 40 years! Never seen this before. Thanks for sharing!
Wow, never seen this till now in 2023 and this is one of the best things on UA-cam.
Agree!
Absolutely love the whimsical nature of this version
Agreed.
Mike Mills has got to be one of the all time great backing vocalists
It’s quite a skill to sing and bake cakes at the same time.
Mike was in it. Michael was baked.
He also wrote this song. Mills deserves far more credit than he gets. I love them all but truly this song is perfection.
definitely
@@dspf68 fer sure😎
Met them at a house party in Bloomington in the summer of 1986. They were recording LRP at Mellencamps studio. Nicest guys. No one knew who they were. Seemed surprised we recognized them.
I helped move my keyboardist's Hammond B3 out to Mellencamp's Belmont studio for that session. We got a call from Kenny Aronoff asking if our keyboard player would like to rent his B3 for a session REM would be doing there (Kenny was a friend of ours through our guitarist. He filled in on a three-day gig in Nashville one weekend when our drummer broke his foot). Pretty cool fun memory of my Indiana days.
@@lapdawg60 such a cool summer here. Thanks for the anecdote!
@@marktalbott3835 - you bet! My guitarist was a guy by the name of Chris Hattingh. Wicked good player. We had a band called See Rock City! Fun times.
Damn, I didn’t get to Bloomington til ‘89. Never knew JCM and REM were friends. Thanks for the story. ✌️
@@lapdawg60 I remember Kenny. And I had a Deadhead roommate in Bloomington in the Dead cover band Glass Camels, so I know moving a B3 is not fun. We had the police called on us so many times when he was rocking the B3. Take care.
Mike Mills giggles very sweet . When Michael Stipe nudging him. They are special guys to me. I still love all of them in REM. Bill, Mike, Peter and Michael.
This may be one of the best videos on UA-cam. Amazing band, amazing song and this version is just so authentic...so real.
Raw and authentic... absolutely love it! Their earlier 80's stuff is so much better than their later work...
From their first EP to their last album, they were constantly excellent
Yes every song was awesome... later years only 2 good songs per album
@@philipmarx1819 no their production got better but after out of time they started recycling their songs for the masses..apart from drive and man on the moon..I thought automatic unlistenable for me
So true
@@modernchampionmusic81 Well, that’s like, just your opinion, man.
Y'all are crazy. I ❤Michael's overly country voice here. So glad I found this.
'I don't always roll out of bed and record music but when I do, it's a classic'
Absolutely loved early Rem, they were like a breath of fresh air, adored this song still have the 12inch of it. Magical..
That's the best music video I've ever seen because they are so great, so casual, so flawed, yet gathered up into a tight ball of perfection; and I was as young as they were when that was filmed with much more difficulty than it could be today.
Yes, yes, yes; perfectly stTed!
agree!!!
Found it! This song is about Ingrid Schorr, R.E.M. bass player Mike Mills' girlfriend at the University of Georgia in 1980 when the band formed. She was having a great time on the campus in Athens and wanted to stay there for the summer, but her parents insisted she return home to Rockville, Maryland. The song is Mills trying to convince her to stay.
Beautiful and a bit hurt mixed in.
Just read this in the bio. Such great songwriting right off the bat!
I agree. How did I miss this? This whole album was created as a rebellion against the 1980's drum machine and the desire to bring music back to a personal level. Success.
That's actually better than the album version to me. Just guys sitting around playing for fun, not trying to be rock stars. I love hearing Michael Stipe sing with a Georgia accent.
I watch this and I’m 23 again.
I believe I know exactly what you mean.
that was beautiful. time passes so quickly. i remember getting the same goosebumps the first time I heard this song, when it was JUST released. I was instantly addicted to R.E.M., this cut & 'Radio Free Europe', summer of 1983 while in college. I had a radio show and remember the singles coming out wayyy before they were hits, like a lot of amazing music those years... about R.E.M., I also remember thinking they must have been influenced by Michael Nesmith of the Monkees, the texas twang in the lyrics/performance here very remeniscent of him and "Take The Last Train To Clarksville". Could've been, "Don't Go Back To Clarksville"...lol.. I also remember being in Rockville, Maryland for work the following summer & couldn't get the song out of my head.
time does pass. I feel it more acutely when I listen to these guys.
I saw them in a gymnasium. We were so hot, the girls took their tops off . I LOVED them. I saw them many more times in small venues in the south. But nothing compares to that first show.
Saw them at the Swisher Gymnasium...lol on the campus of Jacksonville University. I think that may have been the Fables tour. Great memories.
Me too
Obsessesd
Currently a few miles from Rockville Maryland and remembered this song Saturday morning I had no idea that I would be here
there was a magic about them back then...
and still today.
yes
you mean singing their own songs ...
@@zroosh not as much
Of the thousands of music videos I have saved, this is the one I keep coming back to. I just love the naturalness of it and how very talented they are at such a young age. Can't get enough.
I like Mike mouthing the words as Michael sings.
Mike wrote the lyrics about his girlfriend at the time, asking her not to go back to live with her parents.
I think he was singing, but because he wasn’t miked up (LOL) you couldn’t hear it.
A lesson on on how to take not yourselves to seriously, and be brilliant at the same time!
Nash1965H They were always pretty good at that. Just one of the myriad reasons i love them so
Nash1965H lol and yet the Only REM song you’ll hear on the radio is the overly appreciated Losing My Religion.
They had some really great songs and that one just eclipsed them because it was what, poignant? Such a shame.
Absolute Genius.
61 year old, lifelong fan.
Still relavent after all this time.
Much respect, how they evolved....
I'm 62 and I remember when REM first came on the scene. Still one of my all time favorite bands.
@@Lisa-pl6gvAgreed. Absolutely ahead of their time...
Not just my fave song by this incredible band, but one of my faves of all time!
Love the spontaneity and laid back nature of this video, and extra points for even bringing out a Guitarron, regardless of actually playing it or not. ;)
I can't like this enough. So pure and real. This brought back how I felt when I first heard them.
They were so young here! Love it! Sounds so natural and unrehearsed!
REM was so great. You could definitely see how much they loved playing together. Wish they would regroup...
I spent the first 25 years of my life in Rockville...
Haven't been back since
Took the song to hart lmao
Nowadays is 2023! Beatiful REM sound. Our youth...listening again and again. Beautiful mood,song ,young Michael,Mike,Bill ❤❤❤❤
I love it when Michael forgets the first "...waste another year" line and then smiles when he realizes it. Very cute moment... As a Rockville native, I agree with the sentiment.
He heard Mike sing it lol.
This was always one of my fav' REM songs (there are many). I've never seen this footage before now. Love it!
This and World Leader Pretend bounce around my skull way too frequently.
This is the closest thing to a time machine that I'll ever experience. Bravo!
My favorite version of my favorite R.E.M. song. I never get tired of this.
For the sake of this super fan that has listened since 1980. Just reunite!
Gee, with a lot of work these guys could really go somewhere!
I'm currently reading their biography by Peter Ames Carlin, which inspired me to look this video up.
If there's one video that captures exactly what the band was like as young lads in the early 80s who were simply playing music because it's what they loved doing, this is it.
This is beautiful.
And my god, were any of us ever this young?
Nope
I wish that I could be that young again.
not me ..
I wasn’t that young when I was born!
I love this so much. Takes me back to college.
This band is so freaking great. One of a kind. The stars aligned here, mills, buck, stipe, buckner. They remain unmatched like The Doors remain unmatched. TREMENDOUS!!!
sp. berry
@Itillbe Buckner, Berry, Byron, Boop; it’s all the same…
Buckner lost the 1986 World Series for the Boston Red Sox. Ironically Mike Mills was involved in a group called The Baseball Project!
@@dspf68 "is involved". They're still playing. Buck and Mills both play from time to time.
This song resonated with me for such a long time in the 80s
I saw these guys play in an elementary school cafeteria on their Murmurs tour. Great band...great acoustic song.
I was a senior in high school in 1984 loved r.e.m. dead letter office was my favorite
One of their most underrated songs.
It's not underrated. It's popular. Unless you just don't know music.
@@rigamarole1117 How many times have you heard it on the radio? Now: How many times have you heard “Losing My Religion” or “ Shiny Happy People”?
@@gina.1gee did you ever hear of college FM radio? Or was that just wayyy before your underrated time?
At the 34th Annual Grammy Awards, the lead single "Losing My Religion", was R.E.M.'s highest-charting and best-selling single...The band broke up amicably in 2011 with members devoting time to solo projects after having sold more than 90 million albums worldwide and becoming one of the world's best-selling music acts. : source Wikipedia. But you can go dig around the billboard chart stats if you want to get your own source.
@@rigamarole1117 look J. Let’s cut to the chase. Why are you choosing this fight? A position blatantly well-supported in fact? Starting with … College FM had how many listeners versus pop radio at that time? If you are going to attempt to insult ppl, at least be well-informed.
im 14 im an idiot from toccoa , and this is when i believe in a world bigger than the one that surrounds me . thank you .
hang in there, Chas!
Nothing but love for R.E.M.
I was in Rockville Iceland!
I want to see more of that session, please
Thank you for bringing back the beautiful, youthful memories of being part of the Athens scene. southgagirl
I started following them in 1982 and saw them live in 1984. Awesome.
same! and 85
40yrs...still love the music
This is exceptionally good.... especially when you look at music now... Jeez
Check out the Barr Brothers. You gotta search a bit. But there are artists in every generation.
Plenty of incredible music today. Under the radar...just like REM at that time. Gotta look for it. Surfer Blood. Loads...and better then REM
Love Stipes Southern accent in this version
Went college in Virginia 83-87.
Saw them play Wn'L in 85.
i live in rockville!!!
I want to come to Rockville, and then leave.
lol
No really. I'm ready for the next big disipapointment. That's life. Makes for a great song. Just kidding. I just love rem.
+Jeffrey Heise ya I get that
+Sophie Zuckman We could talk. I'm not that weird. I just love music, and rem.
Am in a position where I'm gonna have to make a decision in which I decide to stay in a country town where my mother is from, and the coastal city/town that I was born in, and love. It's the toughest decision ever because, either way, all the pros outweigh the cons. But this catchy tune really makes it tougher. haha.
When the world was young...
I think this played on MTV back in the day. I didn’t have a VCR (remember those?), and it’s great to see/hear it again 40 years on.
So damn good....a beer, a grill, a firepit or any other low key chill events pair nicely with this music and vibe to have a damn great day.
Michael, so cute with cutest song, with that hair!!
I've been listening to REM since Chronic Town. It's great to see a clip like this. Keep up the good work, and thanks. That was great!
A lot if people forget that album.
Amazing. How have I never seen this classic.
Absolutely bloody brilliant.
And they were just toying around. The Martin's are super great recording just a taste of the brilliance to come in spades.
I work in Rockville and would play this as I drove into work (pre-pandemic telework). Gave me a laugh.
Truly time machine stuff, really takes me back!! All the hair, and Michael working that Georgia accent too, Tasty!! Thank you SO MUCH for posting this and all of these. I love them.
Watching this brings back so many memories. First heard this on WUNH in 1984. They look so young. We all were. Still one of my favorite REM songs.
This has always been my favourite REM song, I first heard it during physio sessions after being hit by a car on my way home. Certainly made the physio more bearable :)
:))
THIS, right here...is R.E.M.
My new favorite version of this song!
I had this on VHS back in the 80s, I think it was on IRS the cutting edge off MTV and I believe they said it was in shot in Stipes bedroom . Shortly thereafter I made my first trip to athens ( from charleston Sc) and wondered if I could actually see the band around town. My first stop was the original Grit restaurant and 5 minutes after I sat down, Michael walked in . True story.
I COMPLETELY AGREE!! Fables is such a great album, I wish that it wasn't so underrated!! Feeling Gravity's Pull, Driver 8, Life and How to Live It, Maps and Legends, Green Grow the Rushes, Wendell Gee....ugh, I could name the entire f**kin' album!! Fables is awesome, hopefully people will recognize its greatness in the future. However, Murmur, Reckoning and Lifes Rich Pageant are also excellent albums, they are definitely among the best albums of the 1980s. R.E.M. seemed a lot better in the 80s.
Fables has always been one of their best albums and certainly their most underrated
Rockville was on Reckoning, not Fables. Just FYI. Agreed that Fables is awesome.
Fables is the best.
they were such babies here... still love them so...
Best country song ever written, better than Lonesome Highway--just truly the best song.
Please come back.
I just listened to New Adventures in Hi-Fi, and I love it. New Adventures in Hi-Fi is SUCH a great album, it's really underrated. Darn shame that Bill Berry left R.E.M. after New Adventures, he was a really important part of R.E.M. Another underrated R.E.M. album is Fables of the Reconstruction, I think that it might be my favorite R.E.M. album now.
Yep. Fables came out of the gate slowly but hit its stride late and is one of their best albums.
Great memories.😮😪
My favorite REM song
Love the Charlie Rich reference at end
Mike Mills is a genius for writing this song. It's brilliant. When my boyfriend and I drive down to Florida each year, I listen to this song over and over again! Poor guy. lol
Красиви млади момчета,които свирят и пеят с голямо удоволствие и лекота.Положиха много труд и лишения,но стигнаха върха и сега само можем да се наслаждаваме на тяхната музика и да им благодарим.ОБИЧАМ ГИ ВСИЧКИ!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Truly the greatest band of my generation...
I especially loved that riff on Behind Closed Doors at the end. Good to see REM playing up their sense of humor here.
My heart is happy! They were so young then! Sweet memories!
I heard this song on my radio this morning. It was a different version, not this bare bones style. It was the first time I'd ever heard this song and I really liked it. In the recording I heard on my radio , it was very hard to recognize who was singing. It was more heavily produced, like an album cut. I'm pretty good at recognizing bands and singers and lead quitarists, and I had a fairly good idea I was hearing some EARLY REM . I couldn't wait to hit utube and type in what I thought the song title might be. SURE ENOUGH! I was right. Micheal Stipe with HAIR early! Now in this pared down acoustic rendition I knew immediately it was REM. How did I miss this little beauty for all these years? Very cool finding this tune and then seeing this great video of the band. Awesome! I love playing musical trivia with myself and I must boast a little that I am VERY good at it. I've not met too many people that are as good as I am. I am so sure of myself that I once bet my original 1987 Pontiac Firebird GTA against a guy with a brand new Corvette Stingray. I won. It was a sweet win! I'm 68 and live and breathe music from The Beatles to Death Metal to Grunge, everything from 1964 and on to today. Anyway, great present whenever I find a great new song or some new steller artist.
What was the song that you had to identify or factoid that you had to answer to win the Corvette?
@@GreenCanvasInteriorscape We were in The Porthole Lounge in Tampa, FL. Playing a SERIOUS game of music trivia. The whole bar was watching me and this guy play. The question I won with was: what is the name of the album that just came out that is a play on words from The 5 Man Electrical Band who had the hit song "Signs" in the 70s and who is the Artist that released it? A 2 parter!! OMG! But I knew both answers and I started getting REALLY excited. I answered ; the artist is Tesla and the album is titled The 5 Man Acoustical Jam. Yesurie, Bob! I won! I remember that I thought I just lucked out because I thought that question was a "gimmie ". It just seemed too easy! I thought "Everybody's gotta know this", but NO, I quess they didn't! SO, that was the 10 thousand dollar question that night! Thanks for asking me! You're a sweetheart!! Peace!
Love this song. I’m from Chicago, but actually bought the new release in (‘86, ‘87?) Rockville, MD. I was in high school and my family had driven my older bro to some Engineering Camp at the US Naval Base nearby. Had already listened to Murmur and liked it, and saw this near release date (didn’t even notice there was a song about Rockville on the album). It’s a sort of love song from Mikey to a girl that was leaving Athens for a while. Top 20 songs of all time.
This reminds me of a Roche sisters song " if you go down to Hammond, you'll never come back "
Funny, Hammond, IN is 10 miles from me. ✌️
Don't go back to Yountville or any town that ends with a ville. I love Michael Stipes Jumbo Guitar/Percussion Instrument.
Reminds me of my college dorm room days.
Same here. Rhoades Hall, VCU circa 1986/87
The leaning tower of Rhoads. My brother lived there.
Yeah, Fables is incredibly underrated. People didn't like it that much back in 1985, and it still doesn't get a lot of love these days. I will admit that I didn't like Fables at first, but it grew on me a lot. Fables is such a great album, it's just as great as Murmur & Automatic for the People. I love the murky, dark sound of Fables.
Except this is on Reckoning.
This is one of my favorite country songs.
My thinking was wow this is a country version. Pleased someone shared this for us
He quotes famous Country singer Charlie Rich's song "Behind Closed Doors" at the very end.
the clarity of this video is incredible. It doesn't seem real.
Oh to be young, talented, handsome, and high...
No doubt, lol
Esp Bill Berry is high as hell...
Early 80`s me and my brother played this song none stop while we played pinball on our Comodore 64. Shit where does time go?