It's The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

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  • @jaa1969jaa
    @jaa1969jaa 4 роки тому +711

    Don’t forget the backing vox in the chorus: “time I had some time alone”. Very apt for these times.

    • @deannilvalli6579
      @deannilvalli6579 4 роки тому +8

      I should not have bothered with my reply before reading the others. We all noticed the same thing....

    • @Jaspertine
      @Jaspertine 4 роки тому +4

      @@deannilvalli6579 It happens to all of us at one point or another.

    • @jovenintensa
      @jovenintensa 4 роки тому +9

      Really disappointed it wasn't mentioned. One of the key R.E.M. things is Mike Mills backing vocals. And these ones bring so much poignancy as a counterpoint to Michael's words.

    • @deannilvalli6579
      @deannilvalli6579 4 роки тому +7

      @@jovenintensa Like most bass players, he is underrated. His contribution to the band was always very big.

    • @caitlinroseblaney226
      @caitlinroseblaney226 4 роки тому +6

      Huh - always misheard this as “IIII aaaam not alone”, but knew it sounded like he was saying something else.
      “time I had some time alone” makes a lot of sense.

  • @phil.tremblay5582
    @phil.tremblay5582 4 роки тому +548

    "It's the end of the world as we know it"
    "It's time I had some time alone"
    This song just proves that R.E.M. was secretly composed of 3 time-travellers.

    • @jaa1969jaa
      @jaa1969jaa 4 роки тому +8

      Phil .Tremblay four

    • @simonadams6640
      @simonadams6640 4 роки тому +3

      I can't believe he didn't mention "time I spent some time alone" running behind the chorus

    • @brianmiller1077
      @brianmiller1077 4 роки тому

      Echoes of "Fall on Me" from a few years earlier
      "Fall on me"
      "What is it up in the air for"
      It's Over, It's over"

    • @phenomanon4028
      @phenomanon4028 4 роки тому

      It certainly seems like they knew something or several things

    • @princeibares630
      @princeibares630 4 роки тому

      Did u travel back in time just to let us know.

  • @soupofthedave
    @soupofthedave 4 роки тому +429

    "Sorry, nobody poops that much" should have been a real headline when that happened

    • @spaceinbetween6591
      @spaceinbetween6591 4 роки тому +3

      soupofthedave tbf ppl with ulcerative colitis do in fact poop that much. although at that point, it would be better to just get a bidet

    • @swipswoop1731
      @swipswoop1731 4 роки тому

      spaceinbetween it’s true they do

    • @noahmay7708
      @noahmay7708 4 роки тому +1

      @@spaceinbetween6591 I would love a bidet, pandemic or not.

  • @thisiscaseysaccount3242
    @thisiscaseysaccount3242 4 роки тому +161

    It’s the end of the world and I am watching Polyphonic and I feel fine.

  • @walteracevedo5105
    @walteracevedo5105 4 роки тому +355

    College Students: "Stroke. Stroke. Stroke."
    Griffin: "Quit mocking me."

    • @uuuueber
      @uuuueber 4 роки тому +9

      Walter Acevedo back when either family guy was funny or I was just dumb enough to like it

    • @phenomanon4028
      @phenomanon4028 4 роки тому

      I only stumbled across that scene since the Coronavirus... It is a classic 😀💃👍❤

  • @weirdproq
    @weirdproq 4 роки тому +8

    I remember hearing this song for the first time as a kid in the early 2000's thinking it was a fairly recent song, or at least from the late 90's, only to find out WAY later when I found the album that it was from the 80's. I couldn't believe it. It sounds so much like a 90's or early 00's indie rock song.

  • @applehack97
    @applehack97 4 роки тому +1541

    who else was suddenly hit by this pandemic right when they were fixing their lives?

    • @foxiepaws
      @foxiepaws 4 роки тому +45

      this pandemic and now cancer... i'm... not upset about it not at all /s

    • @047Kenny
      @047Kenny 4 роки тому +20

      Tobías Yance I just bought a car :/

    • @hellhammerCCCP
      @hellhammerCCCP 4 роки тому +4

      Yup

    • @ply61
      @ply61 4 роки тому +9

      @@foxiepaws Damn, that sucks :/

    • @ply61
      @ply61 4 роки тому +11

      Kinda, my aunt died some time ago and my cousin moved with us, then the pandemic came over... so it's just a never ending shit

  • @mitchlmitten5874
    @mitchlmitten5874 4 роки тому +178

    2020 feels like living through a forgotten verse of this song

    • @AriOrSomething
      @AriOrSomething 4 роки тому +10

      Or "We Didn't Start The Fire"

    • @hickorymccay2994
      @hickorymccay2994 4 роки тому +1

      @@AriOrSomething Or "Space Monkey Mafia".

    • @king_dot
      @king_dot 3 роки тому

      @@hickorymccay2994 what?

    • @hickorymccay2994
      @hickorymccay2994 3 роки тому

      @@king_dot ua-cam.com/video/NEYc8ar2Bpw/v-deo.html

    • @sadmac356
      @sadmac356 Рік тому

      ​@@king_dot line in "We Didn't Start the Fire"

  • @nap0038
    @nap0038 4 роки тому +372

    Yall, i wonder how people in 1918 felt. There was The First World War, little food for the war, Influenza epidemic that killed over 100 million, and so much death. It’s literally the four horses of the apocalypse 😳

    • @daeken
      @daeken 4 роки тому +64

      I was thinking about this a few days ago, and I realized that this is likely the first global, widespread pandemic that nearly everyone actually *knows* about. The flu pandemic in 1918-1919 was not widely known; due to involvement in WW1, most countries weren't talking about it. In fact, that's why it's known as the Spanish flu; Spain wasn't in the war and was able to talk openly about it, even though it likely began in the US.
      For the first time, near-instant global communication has made us aware of the pandemic we're facing. This is largely unprecedented.

    • @PieMaster2425
      @PieMaster2425 4 роки тому

      You only listed 3 things though.

    • @jibrish4802
      @jibrish4802 4 роки тому +8

      @@PieMaster2425 they listed 4 things. War, Famine, Pesitlence, and Death in that order.

    • @nap0038
      @nap0038 4 роки тому +4

      PieMaster2425
      War- First World War
      Famine- Food Shortages (yes due to the war)
      Pestilence- 1918 Influenza
      Death- First World War + 1918 Influenza

    • @franciscodiaz3028
      @franciscodiaz3028 4 роки тому +8

      @@PieMaster2425 less we forget a decade later there was the great depression then a decade afterwards another world war. History repeats itself.

  • @moneky6962
    @moneky6962 4 роки тому +97

    people with social lives are freaking out but I'm vibing

    • @RatelHBadger
      @RatelHBadger 4 роки тому +6

      @@yesta7375 do what everyone a dozen years older than you have been doing. Extending your childhood into your 30's, collect superhero memorabilia, watch nothing but Marvel movies and play games all day.

    • @marksanchez7191
      @marksanchez7191 4 роки тому +1

      @@RatelHBadger amen to that

    • @samuesVamues
      @samuesVamues 4 роки тому

      Fr me to

    • @samuesVamues
      @samuesVamues 4 роки тому

      Mark Sanchez amen

  • @dariocaporuscio8701
    @dariocaporuscio8701 4 роки тому +12

    You made the newspaper JUST for the video!! This is insane, it reminds me Jethro Tull's legendary Thick as a Brick cover! Great video!

  • @EnRiCo45100
    @EnRiCo45100 4 роки тому +23

    "many people are panicking but ONLINE the biggest universal response is... MEMES" - this hits home hard

  • @rockstar6790
    @rockstar6790 4 роки тому +2

    The one thing that amazes me about this song (as well as songs from the past), is that how it maintains its relevance over the years. Such songs are so iconic, that it does not need the status of achieving the number 1 song in the charts

  • @emo6577
    @emo6577 4 роки тому +2

    The flipping through channels explanation actually put the song in context for me. The idea of going through news channels to only see all the terrible things in the world, then getting angry but feeling kind of powerless or detached. That’s a very universal thing I think

  • @tngcrossfire
    @tngcrossfire 4 роки тому +210

    "Issue 420, Price: 69 cents"
    Nice.

  • @JustinHmusic
    @JustinHmusic 4 роки тому +45

    I can’t believe this song is 30 years old

  • @manuam98
    @manuam98 4 роки тому +47

    The world is ending, and we're all going to die
    *LET'S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK*

  • @jamesgreenldn
    @jamesgreenldn 4 роки тому +11

    That song has been stuck in my head the past few weeks

  • @MrLinkDay
    @MrLinkDay 4 роки тому +104

    In a way, it really is the end of the world AS WE KNOW IT. The world is going to change somehow, in a big way possibly.

    • @JenDoe1
      @JenDoe1 4 роки тому +13

      Iago The last time I really recall there being a clear before and after was 9/11. I was 24 then. Things will never be the same.

    • @cosmiccomedy7394
      @cosmiccomedy7394 4 роки тому +13

      You're both right...things will never go back to "normal". Sure we will go back to work eventually n all that. But we'll be seeing and feeling the effects of this pandemic for a long time.

    • @harrynac6017
      @harrynac6017 4 роки тому +7

      This is the first wave of this disease. This one hits the hardest, but it won't be the last wave. And it won't be the last pandemic disease, if we don't stop messing around with animals.

  • @deannilvalli6579
    @deannilvalli6579 4 роки тому +41

    Even more of a bizarre coincidence though, is what Mike Mills sings in harmony while Stipe sings "It the end of the world as we know it..." Mills sings "It's time I had some time alone..."

  • @uliseslimaparati
    @uliseslimaparati 4 роки тому +106

    And the aliens aren't even here yet

    • @daishoryujin95
      @daishoryujin95 4 роки тому +11

      Aaaaaaaany minute now.

    • @cjoe5977
      @cjoe5977 4 роки тому +2

      Yet

    • @JohnnyArtPavlou
      @JohnnyArtPavlou 4 роки тому +1

      Oh, hmm...don’t be so sure. 👽😉🤪

    • @oddacity5883
      @oddacity5883 4 роки тому +2

      And the asteroids aren’t even on their way yet

    • @migangelmart
      @migangelmart 4 роки тому

      For that we have Karen Carpenter's "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft."

  • @thomasriley5830
    @thomasriley5830 4 роки тому +84

    Trying to stay positive and then he releases this

    • @timschulz9563
      @timschulz9563 4 роки тому +6

      No, please stay negative.

    • @iwantaoctosteponmyneckbut3545
      @iwantaoctosteponmyneckbut3545 4 роки тому +3

      You can be positive while still bearing in mind the at-times depressing truth of the world. The world can get better, and we have the power to do that.

    • @timschulz9563
      @timschulz9563 4 роки тому +6

      @@iwantaoctosteponmyneckbut3545 Yes, stay positive in the mind but stay negative regarding the virus tests.

    • @oddacity5883
      @oddacity5883 4 роки тому

      Tim Schulz I mean, yeah, that’s fair

  • @indiana3457
    @indiana3457 4 роки тому +3

    Another great video. Didn't know how much meaning these lyrics had, michael stipe is a brilliant lyricist.

  • @stb2017
    @stb2017 4 роки тому +1

    R.E.M got me out of a depression, and they’re still one of my favorite bands.

  • @ThomasWilson4
    @ThomasWilson4 4 роки тому +1

    I realize
    *bright eyes - At the bottom of everything*
    Feels like a big ode to this song too.

  • @sebastianelytron8450
    @sebastianelytron8450 4 роки тому +46

    *LEONARD BERNSTEIN!*

    • @rrson648
      @rrson648 4 роки тому +3

      Damn, you beat me by 5 minutes.

    • @minimoom898
      @minimoom898 4 роки тому +2

      that's the only lyric from the song i knew for the longest time

  • @humptydumpty357
    @humptydumpty357 4 роки тому +29

    I was just thinking about this song yesterday for some reason.

  • @noah6
    @noah6 4 роки тому

    Honestly this is probably one of your best videos, keep up the good work man

  • @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770
    @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 4 роки тому +9

    You might say it was “one of Earth’s greatest classical ballads”.

  • @mason500
    @mason500 4 роки тому +40

    We're living in a History textbook chapter as of now

    • @skinni_the_P00hBear
      @skinni_the_P00hBear 4 роки тому

      Floostick Yep

    • @marivg8948
      @marivg8948 4 роки тому +6

      yeah, and a lot of us are going to be statistics on a graph as well.

    • @randomguy263
      @randomguy263 4 роки тому +1

      Hahaha, yeah, it's gonna be interesting in the future having first hand experience about this.

    • @k_a_y_l_e_e
      @k_a_y_l_e_e 4 роки тому +3

      i feel like millennials have been living in the chapter of a history book since most of us were born: columbine, 9/11, "once in a lifetime" hurricanes, more than one pandemic, obama getting elected, more than one recession....

  • @K-Effect
    @K-Effect 4 роки тому +18

    You might think your world is ending but I know my world is not ending. I have my spine and my orange crush.

    • @leon.damjanov
      @leon.damjanov 4 роки тому

      @Alex Mulvihill So what? Everything is dying. Let it die

    • @randomguy263
      @randomguy263 4 роки тому +1

      @Alex Mulvihill Because it doesn't seem to fuckin care and maybe it's just some kind of crowd control and everything will start over afterwards, like it has several times.

  • @CasualSpud
    @CasualSpud 4 роки тому +16

    Fricking ray of sunshine. Timely

  • @BehindtheCurtain
    @BehindtheCurtain 4 роки тому

    Goddamn the editing in this video is fantastic.

  • @seatspud
    @seatspud 3 роки тому +3

    Obligatory Pearls Before Swine ref, in case no one's done it yet:
    "The greatest song in the world." "And we only know two words."
    LEONARD BERNSTEIN!

  • @StygianSoul2204
    @StygianSoul2204 2 роки тому

    Crazy thing was that March 13th was my last day in school for my sophomore year. Trying to finish your high school years during a pandemic while struggling mentally and then being thrown into a toxic relationship and trying to get out of said relationship. The hardest 2 years of my life but changed me for the best. REM is just a part of the soundtrack of those 2 years for me

  • @critictactic7090
    @critictactic7090 4 роки тому

    I remember packing up my stuff to go home from the UK (Int. Student here) and this song started after I hit “shuffle”. My uni completely empty, halls abandoned, my room in chaos, amid packing up. I remember standing there, listening to this song and smoking. I thought, yeah I do indeed feel fine. I guess there is a chaotic, destructive and dark part of us that just loves hearing bad and alarming news. That part of us feels odd excitement when things go wrong.

  • @PeterTea
    @PeterTea 4 роки тому +1

    Lol. This was always one of my favorite REM songs. And now it is as appropriate as ever.

  • @AngusStewart01
    @AngusStewart01 4 роки тому

    I’ve been literally listening to this over and over again

  • @helloperson6431
    @helloperson6431 4 роки тому

    This song will never die, It will always be around. No matter what, It will still live on.

  • @thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051
    @thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051 4 роки тому +24

    I spent most of 2017-2018 as a quiet loner wanting nothing to do with anybody before I started making friends. So Self-Isolation doesn't bother me for the most part. At least I have Polyphonic to entertain me

    • @TH3F4LC0Nx
      @TH3F4LC0Nx 4 роки тому

      I'm the same way. I really don't need companionship that much to be happy. Give me a book or some free WiFi and I'm happy.

    • @thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051
      @thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051 4 роки тому

      @@TH3F4LC0Nx I was incredibly lonely and depressed last year, thus leading me to make a lot of bad decisions which affected the people I tried to be friends with. So I spent the past 3 months trying to atone for these mistakes.
      But in the end, I have accepted that it is my destiny to be alone. And fortunately, I brought myself a book, and I have also made an imaginary friend to talk too to help me

    • @TH3F4LC0Nx
      @TH3F4LC0Nx 4 роки тому

      @@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051 Umm...ok. It's your destiny to be alone only if you want it to be. I don't know what the heck you did to the people you were trying to make friends with, but you can always learn from whatever mistakes you made so you won't repeat them in the future.

    • @thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051
      @thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051 4 роки тому

      @@TH3F4LC0Nx It was nothing. I just annoyed them. And yes, I have matured since then

    • @o0Donuts0o
      @o0Donuts0o 4 роки тому

      @@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051 That's because you didn't get the attention you wanted from real people so instead peddle your "isolation" on the internet in hopes that you will get asked "why are you this way. you must be interesting. tell us more about you!"

  • @AriOrSomething
    @AriOrSomething 4 роки тому +7

    The lyrics are also hitting just as fast as each of the disasters. Except April so far.

  • @tonynero7005
    @tonynero7005 4 роки тому

    Fitting and well-timed. Thanks Poly

  • @De_La_Soto
    @De_La_Soto 4 роки тому +9

    Peter Griffin having a stroke from eating McDonald's then crashing his car into a lake really does sum up the madness of the world that this song is speaks on.

  • @MrKarmapolice97
    @MrKarmapolice97 4 роки тому

    I find this guys voice so soothing

  • @joelwillis5158
    @joelwillis5158 4 роки тому +3

    i've always compared end of the world as we know it to we didn't start the fire biased on political lyrics no idea if it was an influence but in my mind it has similar structure too

  • @SuperStarr817
    @SuperStarr817 4 роки тому

    I love your video style and analysis of music. Great work!

  • @daniellesve5595
    @daniellesve5595 4 роки тому

    I love how much work u put in these videos.

  • @phenomanon4028
    @phenomanon4028 4 роки тому +14

    The key words are "as we know it"... it doesn't mean it's going to literally end

    • @FNTM2k3
      @FNTM2k3 4 роки тому +1

      I think that means there’s gonna be a massive change. “As we know it” means “as things are most days”, and I think that for most people the situation we’re in IS the end of the world as we know it.

  • @cjoe5977
    @cjoe5977 4 роки тому +34

    This was the first song I learned every lyric to

    • @jaa1969jaa
      @jaa1969jaa 4 роки тому +3

      C Joe Happy Birthday must have been hard.

    • @cjoe5977
      @cjoe5977 4 роки тому +1

      Jo Fo I was like five when I learned every lyric to Its the end of the world as we know it

    • @manuam98
      @manuam98 4 роки тому +1

      False, we're all born knowing Mr. Brightside

  • @desmondoliver5436
    @desmondoliver5436 4 роки тому

    A Nicaraguan viewer here, never noticed the contra reference in the lyrics, great video, my favorite of yours

  • @kciN1221
    @kciN1221 Рік тому

    Im 3 years late for this video and WOW! Excellent take on this 👏👏👏👏👏 Well done and said sir 👍👍

  • @tacocat7822
    @tacocat7822 3 роки тому +3

    It honestly reminds me a lot of We Didn’t Start The Fire

    • @weebunny
      @weebunny 2 роки тому

      When "We Didn't Start the Fire" first came out, it reminded me of this song! "End of the World" was released in 1987, "Fire" in 1989. (I looked up the dates to make sure I was remembering it right.)

  • @carlosoliva2007
    @carlosoliva2007 4 роки тому

    I literally jumped off my chair when I saw the chilean flag and demonstrators at the beginning. Greetings from Chile, I absolutely love your channel

  • @EternalStar2401
    @EternalStar2401 4 роки тому +28

    Who else first heard this song in the alien invasion scene of Chicken Little?

  • @lhmmhl1
    @lhmmhl1 4 роки тому

    The quote at 4:46 gives me insane douche chills.

  • @whatswithalltheportuguesew3090
    @whatswithalltheportuguesew3090 4 роки тому

    When I was like 10 I played it over and over again until I could sing it all from memory. I can still do it. Those were the days

  • @shayneweyker
    @shayneweyker 2 роки тому

    The line "Since daddy had to lie" from Don Henley's "End of the Innocence" was also about Iran-Contra.

  • @fm00078
    @fm00078 3 роки тому

    Nothing like hearing 2 songs in a row, IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT then IMAGINE.
    That should stick in your head a few days.

  • @yvan2218
    @yvan2218 4 роки тому +24

    Last time i was this early the world was still ok

  • @MrCenter61
    @MrCenter61 4 роки тому

    Well done! I’m enjoying the conversations this video is provoking.

  • @daviswall3319
    @daviswall3319 4 роки тому

    Right on. As a GenXer I’ve always felt connected to Stipe’s lyrics even when I couldn’t always understand what he was saying. I did get to see them on the Green tour at LSU assembly center. Most impressive

  • @perfectlycorrupt420
    @perfectlycorrupt420 4 роки тому

    Finally, an R.E.M video! ❤
    Keep doing these videos for us, please. They are keeping us sane. It really is a public service.

  • @diegoleiva2841
    @diegoleiva2841 4 роки тому +9

    Thanks for mentioning the protests and putting a chilean flag in the video, as a Chilean citizen it means a lot

    • @Selum
      @Selum 4 роки тому +1

      we are the best country of chile bro jajaja

  • @mrbull569
    @mrbull569 4 роки тому

    Great episode. And yes, on curiositystream I've watched the Apocalypse WW1 documentary, it's pretty depressing stuff, graphic too at some points , wasn't quite expecting that, faces blown off..etc. but definitely interesting.

  • @mattpoochi6964
    @mattpoochi6964 4 роки тому +1

    There’s something going on that’s not quite right!... There’s something going on that wasn’t here before, keep your eyes glued to the floor... loved REM... Michael’s nervous and the lights are bright, There’s something going on that’s not quite right!

  • @razielblu
    @razielblu 4 роки тому

    Thanks for including Chile 💝

  • @devonboswell3974
    @devonboswell3974 4 роки тому +1

    That intro with the moving news headlines gave me Snake Eater flashbacks

  • @raivane__
    @raivane__ 4 роки тому +3

    How about LCD Soundsystem or Interpol video ? I would love your take on Turn On The Bright Lights !

  • @drillbitt4426
    @drillbitt4426 4 роки тому +1

    how do you not have 1,000,000 subscribers yet, you are one of the best channels on youtube

  • @peacewillow
    @peacewillow 4 роки тому +2

    we feel fine because the world, as it is right now, NEEDS to end. 😇
    here's hoping we rebuild it better, with more empathy and kindness. 🌎💕

  • @ss_salad2172
    @ss_salad2172 4 роки тому +3

    I feel like it's getting the boss battle of the world.

  • @canter1ter
    @canter1ter Рік тому

    Looking at the start of this video in 2022 is just like "ha-Ha-HA!!! He doesn't even KNOW!"

  • @iridescent-frog1059
    @iridescent-frog1059 4 роки тому +13

    Literally though

  • @brentjohnson5171
    @brentjohnson5171 9 місяців тому

    Mike Mills makes that chorus, like he makes most REM choruses. The secret weapon of the band without whom none of those songs would've been the same.

  • @The_Doug__Side
    @The_Doug__Side 4 роки тому

    The luxury of 30 years of history advancing and the march of technology is lyrics are easy to come by. I remember listening to this song over and over again trying to write down all the lyrics and then have to go look up any reference I didn’t get.

  • @friedchicken371
    @friedchicken371 4 роки тому

    Great video as always mate

  • @freekeefox
    @freekeefox 3 роки тому

    It's kinda wild coming back to this in 2021

  • @CrazyBrosCael
    @CrazyBrosCael 4 роки тому +11

    Coronavirus exist:
    Me: this is fine.

  • @leonvz2575
    @leonvz2575 4 роки тому +2

    i dont think we turn to memes as a form of denial, i feel like we resort to memes because like you said, theres nothing we can do. why not laugh at the fact that we might all be dead soon? theres no reason to be afraid of the inevitable, so might as well have fun while we can.

  • @chief4615
    @chief4615 4 роки тому

    This is gonna go viral. Trust me.

  • @jackkirk2282
    @jackkirk2282 4 роки тому +1

    This is that one dude that actually likes the poetry unit in school

  • @loopie007
    @loopie007 4 роки тому +1

    I've always thought this song was about growing up and being more aware of world happenings. You can't go back to being a child. This song could have done 100 years ago, or 100 years from now. It's all the same. Don't look to REM for answers, this was just an observational song about becoming more aware. It will happen to them again, as it will happen to all of us.

  • @gingeeta_creecha3401
    @gingeeta_creecha3401 4 роки тому

    This song happened to start playing as I ordered a beer at a bar the last night before they all shut down near me. making that moment even better, before I walked in the door, the bartender yelled from the fence out back “welcome to the end of the world party!!”

  • @horseenthusiast1250
    @horseenthusiast1250 4 роки тому +3

    So when I was small, my parents were doomsday preppers and big fans of R.E.M., and I grew up surrounded by their music and the abstract threat of apocalypse. This could simply be a side effect of my youth, but the past few years with climate emergencies, rising fascism, and now a plague, have been the first years I've actually felt like an apocalypse could happen. R.E.M.'s music is definitely a comfort in these trying times. Also, if you want something a bit more cheerful, I enjoy the work of Guillaume De Machaut, a 14th century composer who wrote a lot of music during the Black Death. His music is actually very cheerful, which I think is the perfect remedy to a depressing era.

  • @HentaiSweetie
    @HentaiSweetie 4 роки тому +4

    I start listening to that song again a couple of weeks ago and was surprised how many people in the comment section were there listening to it because of covid-19 too.
    Also, I'm surprised that song is that old. I thought it came out in the mid-90s.

  • @vampylass3848
    @vampylass3848 2 роки тому

    Now that the sun flares are being stronger, and our shield that is covering the earth is getting thinner, this is truly the theme song to 2022! So burn up humanity, because I won’t miss you. ☀️🔥

  • @pedenmk
    @pedenmk 4 роки тому +2

    Speaking of TOILET PAPER I finally found a package today. My household was on condition Red. Less than half a roll left.

  • @coolkangaroo5179
    @coolkangaroo5179 4 роки тому +1

    He is basically a rapper on this song.
    We should let him join the ranks of 50 cent and Tupac in the hip hop hall of fame

  • @RailPreserver2K
    @RailPreserver2K 4 роки тому

    I love how this song, made by a band from athens Georgia is still relevant after almost 40 years

  • @oktopussy9628
    @oktopussy9628 4 роки тому +5

    This really is great in times like these and helps coping with the stress of the pandemic. My roommates and I play it loud in the house at least once every other day. And by now most of us even nail it at karaoke😜

  • @randallbatson
    @randallbatson 2 роки тому

    It tells that 'I feel fine' is that no matter what is daunting at the time, it doesn't matter, life goes on. So why worry about bs. I haven't watched more than an hour of the orchestra of the pandemic, and I haven't looked at a billboard chart in 30 years. Independent artists that never sign have more relevancy in my life than any mainstream artist does now days, whether they chart or not. The pandemic didn't affect me psychologically as much as it should have because I had risen above its meaning of despair.

  • @GaryT1952
    @GaryT1952 4 роки тому

    Outstanding content as always. Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe....REM...on my Mt Rushmore of influential bands

  • @AndyM.
    @AndyM. 4 роки тому +2

    "the world kept going" always has and ALWAYS will......

    • @KevinM1905
      @KevinM1905 4 роки тому

      Until the sun dies and sucks everything in our solar system

  • @CD-tj3hg
    @CD-tj3hg 4 роки тому

    It's so unsettling hearing this song as I get older, especially now

  • @AsterixCodix
    @AsterixCodix 2 роки тому

    I just noticed that the newspaper articles during the intro, are either his script, or the song's lyrics. Only noticed this a year later

  • @romans828godissovereign4
    @romans828godissovereign4 4 роки тому

    My brother has been staying out in palm desert the last month. He said the last two days he’s heard bomb blasts, a rumble, and felt an earthquake after. I wouldn’t believe it if he didn’t tell me himself. I know famous people have used Palm Springs/desert for their Vacation homes and that 29 palms military base isn’t far away. Any info on this? News isn’t covering and I looked it up and did the average and palm desert averages about 2.4 earthquakes a day and has had something like 75 in 24 hours

  • @kalopsia821
    @kalopsia821 4 роки тому +3

    fallout-esque resource war inbound

  • @ronburgundy8458
    @ronburgundy8458 4 роки тому

    I played this song first day of the quarantine

  • @linusmurphy3145
    @linusmurphy3145 4 роки тому +15

    can anyone tell me if that heart drawing is from Vesaluis' 'Fabric Of The Human Body' cause I think it is but im not quite sure

    • @kevinforbesofficial
      @kevinforbesofficial 4 роки тому +2

      It seems to come from something similar but not the same. It's from an engraving by Thomas Jeffereys for a royal encyclopedia in the 1700s. wellcomecollection.org/works/cvsevfzz

    • @phenomanon4028
      @phenomanon4028 4 роки тому +1

      @@kevinforbesofficial I am impressed. I do a lot of research but that was pretty good cuz I think you are right

  • @MARZ_ZIG_X
    @MARZ_ZIG_X 4 роки тому

    This past January, I was extremely afraid of dying in a nuclear warhead attack. I live in Washington DC, very close to the seat of government. The capital building is in my neighborhood, and due to tensions between the US and North Korea at the time I was... terrified. Nobody took me seriously. My parents dismissed my anxieties. Everyone said I was being paranoid. Although the tensions have been more or less resolved, I look back, and don’t think I was.
    Now, my entire family is in complete and utter panic mode about COVID-19. I know I should care more, but I just feel numb. They’re talking about it like it’s the end of the world, and I feel... fine.