R.E.M. - “What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?” (LIVE @ Cologne, Germany 2001)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- A rockin’ live version of the track from R.E.M.’s 2001 free concert in Cologne, Germany, which was filmed for broadcast. This performance and a lot more are featured on the REMTV 6 DVD box set. Full details on the release at www.REMHQ.com
Mike Mills absolutely killing that bass tone! Amazing!!
Yes! It's too low in the mix in the studio version for my taste. It's too easily masked by the heavy guitar distortion, it needed to be louder.
Yeeeeeeeeeees♥️
@@mattyward1979Have you seen the clip of just the two of them doing Nightswimming on the Jools Holland show?
one of the all time great rock songs..killer guitar and vocals
leokimvideo absolutely!
Bass line is pretty damn cool too!!!
leokimvideo And Bass!!!!
That bassist gives REM such a distinct sound. His high backing vocals. When I was a kid in the 90s I thought there was a girl in the band.
Sure! and surely in my top 5 R.E.M. Favorites songs
Mike Mills. Probably one of the best musicians alive to this day.
Mike Mills harmonies are untouchable
Yes very good !!
Yupp!! This song wouldn't be the same with out his vocals or bass line!
As are his shirts
Not bad for two. I’d say the Eagles as five parts are much better. The Beatles were better too.
@@michaelconvery8871 Beach Boys
Proper band, proper venue, proper song. Fantastic 🔥
Proper word!
Nicely said Sir!!😎
You gotta love Peter Buck. None of the over long , bombastic solos of other guitarists just rock solid riffing!!
Totally. He works for the song.
He's great
Isn't he playing rhythm on the solo?
Sorry-take that back!
Greetiings from Finland!
Best concert ever in the best location ever, Cologne my beautiful city ❤
better than Dusseldorf, that I will give you
Love it there. Glad the church was not destroyed in WWII.
Love it Cologne Germany
No musician these days beats mills
@@josejones7025 REM had a chemistry that produced 40 years of amazing and innovative music. Each of the 4 members played a unique role.
Love Mike Mills bass line and killer tone!
My favourite bassist
He has such a distinctive style
The bass line has a great groove to it!
That's the great Mike Mills on bass :)
Agree
He's a wicked bass player.....
Gotta love Michael's smile at the end of the song.
Anyway, great performance of a great band.
"You said that irony was the shackles of youth" DAMN that's a good line........
REM lyrics were always full of good/poignant/thought provoking lines. Quoted them for my senior quote in my high school yearbook.
Omg.. aint it!!... so totally wish I was there and just totally realized I have been making up My Own lyrics for the last 30 years! I knew it had something to do with the TV reporter I didn't know the whole story and a sad story it is
@@dawnd5761
yes, the REM story is *very* sad indeed
I prefer "withdraw in disgust isn't the same as apathy"
And there was me all these years singing “you said that Arnie put the shackles on you” 😂
Michael Stipes genius of modern music
That bass is sooooo good.
Please REM for the good of everything in the world...reunite for even one show!!!!
Never appreciated these guys til now
Same
Go and listen to their early stuff, it absolutely kicks ass.
I’ve always loved New Adventures in Hi-Fi, but I checked out their other albums much. I’m just finally getting around to discovering them at 46 years old, and I’m constantly impressed.
That's a shame.
Early stuff is deadly
Fantastic!! This song blew me away when “Monster” was released decades ago…and it still makes me want to jump around like I’m 22 again!
Great atmosphere ...... dont forget Joey smashing them drums on point guy has a great sound ...
Great gig in front of the "Kölner Dom" and I was there...yeah!
Frank Pickardt lucky you to have been there
So was I :-) Probably the best concert I have attended. First nice day in early summer, free REM concert and (for whatever reason) right in front of the stage. Wonderful memories...
This was one of the first concerts I ever attended in my youth :)
Me too! Drove from Lausanne just for this. Amazing experience! I can’t believe that this is almost 20 years ago. Wish the video of the entire concert was available in good quality. I want to look for me and my friend in the audience.
Love Cologne. Beautiful city, great people, excellent ice hockey team. 👍🏴🏒🇩🇪
Man do I miss this band!! The world is simply a better place because of R.E.M.!!
the boys from Athens, Georgia rock!!! Mike Mills just kills on this song. great musician
R.E.M. was the soundtrack for my college days!
My 2023 obession..R.E.M. Always loved them..My sadness..never saw them live.
i did mate, the Monster tour mid 90s it was very raw and awesome
I got lucky. My Ex took me to see "em for my birthday "around the sun. Sadly, no Bill Berry. It was still one of my best days like graduating Boot Camp. Yup that's right. Stone Cold REM loving Jarheads exist in the wild✌️
Yah Ive never seen them live either & eirked at outdoor music theater outside Chicago in my summer breake ftom UCLA for 7 Summers, almost 600 shows & I've eeen about 400 on my own. Oh well. Eas in Cologne while I was in the Army & it was an Awwwwseme City 🎶🎵🙌🩵💙👏😎
monster is the heaviest REM album. 1994 was a great year for music. I remember REM in college early 80's. Miss them.
Both Dookie and Smash were released in 1994 as well! Too bad I was wasting that part of my life in school. "Irony is the shackles of youth."
Still good stuff
What a stunning performance.
Mike Mills is so fing great!! Love these guys, but he’s always stood out 4 me.
So fucking good 🤘🏽
Without a doubt, my favorite REM song..
Mike mills could harmonize over a pair of rutting stags and it would still sound gorgeous.
Great musician :)
Sounds good or better live than recorded. That's a real rock band.
fideau one I saw them live mid 90s. this song sounded the best live. Man on the Moon was crowd fav though.
I still remember seeing them when they were on tour for their second album; it was in a small (2000 seat) venue in southern IL. I'd liked Murmur, but didn't expect them to have a great deal of depth at that point, but they amazed everyone that night by playing their entire catalog (at the time), as well as a good half-dozen VU chestnuts. The band, and everyone else there was exhausted by the last encore; still one of the best shows ever for me...
That's a fact!
I like the slower version better.
A real rock band yes, but not agree with the first!
Another band I'll always regret never seeing live.
i did at two very different times in their career, one early and one late. you didn't miss much as they never had a great stage personality. the first time was fun because i was in a tribal youth faze and felt these were important bands i was following (you know what i mean?). the later show was bland, as the songs were not extended nor jammed out nor do i think they were able to . they stopped at the right time.
That's too bad. I saw them live 11 times and they were excellent. They were great to the end--or near the end. Their 2008 Accelerate show (at the United Center) was the second-best concert of the bunch.
I am so lucky that I have seen them at Torhout Werchter in 86 and in Utrecht 89
@@janvermin4729
Me too, the Green tour '89 right before high school graduation for me.
I saw their first four tours of the US. Really special band.
Back in 93, my fiancé at the time took me to see them for my Father's Day present. Radiohead opened up for them. I'm a heavy metal drummer and I knew their sound man they were using that night. A couple weeks later their sound man sent me a copy of the mixing board tapes of the show. I still have them. What a memory! R.E.M is one of those bands that it doesn't matter what genre of music you're into because they fit right in and can easily match talents. I love them! And this song is an absolute 10!
Ya Know, it's very sad. I will never get the chance to see them Live. LONG LIVE R.E.M
i so miss this band.
Bomb-ass bass line! Always loved this one. They should have played it a bit faster on the album, but so be it. I prefer these live versions of it now, and don't listen to the studio version anymore. It's tempo is just a bit too lethargic for me.
God I love the addition of the keyboards to this song. Fills it up incredibly. I wish every top band had keyboards. Amazing!
Mike Mills, probably one of the greatest bass players alive.
One of the greatest backing vocalists as well. R.E.M.'s secret weapon.
Got backstage when they played Auburn as their last show before going home to do the Atlanta shows on the Work/Documents tour (87). Got to meet/talk with Mike Mills. He was the last one to get on the buses, just a regular down to earth guy.
Miss the tremolo on the refrain ....
epic shit. this is what rock music is all about.
fuck yeah
That was fuckin brilliant
2020?
Hell yeah
2020? .. Pretty shitty. Let's see what 2021 is like 😉
2021 brother
Imagine being Peter here, looking down at the les Paul knowing you’re about to play two simple chords and have an audience off its feet straight away, biblical
Best comment! Yeah, it's amazing but true!
And it wasn't his Les Paul that did it. It was the anonymous player's Les Paul behind Buck.
Make that 3 chords
@@albertandrews130 Make that four chords.. Gmaj, Amaj, Dmaj, Bminor & Emaj
@@neanderthalsnavel7411 It's Peter Buck that plays the opening riff, and Scott McCaughey is not anonymous.
Dan Rather from CBS was walking in Central Park and this guy William tager thought CBS News was beaming signals to his head when he saw Dan Rathers walking down the street, he ran up and beat the crap out of him, repeatedly requesting the frequency ( Kenneth Whats the Frequency ) of the signals so he can stop them, while addressing Rathers as "Kenneth" for no apparent reason to this date. and then REM made this song
William Tager was Jewish so Kenneth could be an anglicisation of 'goniff', Yiddish for Thief
Joe Gomez I remember David Letterman talking about it when it was fresh in the news, even before the song was written. A lot of people seemed to doubt Dan Rather's account of what happened.
Joe Gomez finally, a story with a happy ending,
Joe Gomez yeah, cool story....pity its all bullshit
+Martin Conway The story did happen though.
That's still a fucking tight rhythm section...
I was surprised when i read "2011“... Yeah it's only 2001.. But what the hell it's r.e.m. let's rock together!
"Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy." I've got to use that line sometime.
I've lost track of the number of times I've used it in the past, usually while refusing weekend overtime :)
2024.
R.E.M or Radiohead?
REM: Like
Radiohead: Comment
SexyBrigadeiro here... OH, FUCK, HOW MUCH I MISS YOU GUYS!!! PLEASE, COME BACK!!!
P.S. The year in the title is wrong... it says 2011 and this performance was in 2001... - NOW COME BACK, PLEASE!!! (seriously...)
I am agree with you, I miss R.E.M. so much, hope they come back.
***** They look like 2001, sound like 2011 - shit.
I was there, first row... 22 years and I can still remember it like yesterday. Fantastic show and what an insane location in front of the majestic cathedral. And the whole thing was entrance free! They closed it after roughly 20.000 people showed up. Opening Act was Seeed, incredible show as well!
So German, lol. Great people, a much maligned, and deprecated people. I am Hungarian and German, so I'm a bit of a rebel, a musician and also an engineer, a wicked combo. My grandfather was a pianist in the Berlin Harmonic Orchestra, so I get a bit of his genes I guess, I've played guitar since I was 12, that's why I connect to this.
Is so great to see people that know rock and roll when they hear it
What a helpful and important comment to my genuine feeling of happiness remembering this special day. Thank you, you brought us all closer together.@@EnzoFerenczyo
These are the moments your mind will always go back to. Rock on!@@markfancher5676
@@jackharper82 Is that sarcasm? If so, well done, if not my BAD
thats what i thought: paris-gothique during edinburgh....
the les paul sounds sooooo much better then the ric live
Dan Rather needs to pop down an alley and take one for the team again!
Philocognition lol
Philocognition Yes indeed. That's a hella story
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was really skeptical of Joey Waronker taking the drum seat but he fit in nicely. Great drummer. He’s great with Beck too.
Fantastic ! Bass sounds great on this, a tad too much keyboards but mighty fine.....
live is hard.felt keyboard filled in gap
Mills bass fuckin biblical
Not a huge REM fan but this version of this song is a banger for sure.
I’m old, grew up in 70’s, I admit I’ve gone through country music, disco …. I didn’t even know who these guys when they were popular.. but I do love these guys, snow patrol, Keene etc..
What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh
I was brain-dead, locked out, numb, not up to speed
I thought I'd pegged you an idiot's dream
Tunnel vision from the outsider's screen
I never understood the frequency, uh-huh
You wore our expectations like an armored suit, uh-huh
I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines
Richard said, "Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy"
A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth
You said that irony was the shackles of youth
You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh
I never understood the frequency, uh-huh
"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh
Butterfly decal, rearview mirror, dogging the scene
You smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth
You said that irony was the shackles of youth
You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh
I never understood the frequency, uh-huh
You wore our expectations like an armored suit, uh-huh
I couldn't understand
You said that irony was the shackles of youth, uh-huh
I couldn't understand
You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh
I couldn't understand
I never understood, don't fuck with me, uh-huh
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Fuente: LyricFind
Compositores: Bill Berry / Michael Mills / Michael Stipe / Peter Buck
Letra de What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? © Universal Music Publishing Group
In 2002 I took my 14 year old daughter to see R.E.M. at MSG in NYC. She had previously seen Van, Dylan & CSNY. By the end of the show Michael had his shirt off and was singing lying down. Great show. When it ended she gave me a look that said: "That was a fuckin' concert!". She was right.
You're a cool Dad!!!
2003
What a performance! The drummer is off the hook!
Bill Rieflin, he was great.. He Died not long after this. Was very ill for a while
@@taekwanlew I believe that's Joey Waronker on drums in the video.
0:30 mac demarco's feeling it
Holy shit I got this reference!! "I'll smoke ya til I'm dying"
It sounds like he changed the last line of the song at 03:27 from "I never understood the frequency" to "I never understood don't fuck with me". BTW, great song, great band.
Love Joey’s drumming on this! He’s so solid. Love that kit too! So simple but sounds HUGE!
Crispier than K.F.C.
Very Basic.he's right on point for sure.
The drummer make's the groove not the size of the kit.
Real drummers and bass players are the engine of the the band
Mike mills bass riff though 👍
"What's the frequency, Kenneth, is your Benzedrine."
Brilliant!💪
Just killin it...f*ckin unreal live band
How is it freakin possible that 22 people actually gave this a thumbs down?? This is as good as rock n roll gets, in the perfect setting, with some wonderful, beautiful people enjoying themselves!! Just outstanding!!
I can't dance, but this jam makes me move. I love Michael Stipe and REM.
busaman5261 ok you know stipe is part or R.E.M. tho
Make that 23. Please see my post,
Believe it or not, your personal preference doesn't necessarily apply to everyone out of over 7 billion people on the whole planet. I enjoy R.E.M. a bit but suppose I were someone who didn't and was trying to enjoy it but for whatever reason or "reasons" it just wasn't working. This is my situation with Stevie Ray Vaughan right now; I admit he was technically talented and I think it's nice seeing the crowd just sitting there, enjoying the concert. I still would like to know how I can appreciate his songs when I considered his music to be so predictable and boring. Help.
WGAF...REM baby!
Love R.E.M. one of my top 5 favorite bands.
You said I love 💕 you was the shackles of you
Toute une époque ! Et oui, c'était mieux avant. Désolé, les gamins😊.
Peter Buck is probably the most underrated guitar player in rock history. I’ve so enjoyed his music over the last nearly 40 years
Instantly recognisable the minute that first chord strikes. Killer guitar and cracking song
Great song,no gimmicks,no pretentious rubbish.Positive as well.
Great guitar sound ,great lyrics,just a great ,great rock song.
My absolute favorite bass line of all time!
It's definitely a good one! A mile above the usual basic root-pounding shit. Mike Mills was mighty good ;)
Mike Mills is super inventive. Great bass player
Always loved these guys an this song but never could understand some of the words lol
WTF is with Michael’s in ear monitor cables..?? I’m tipping the monitor guy didn’t let him go out looking like that…
Stipe probably wanted to go out looking like that. He's on a different "frequency." 🤣
@2:10 Why?!? 🤣
Hahahahaha yeah eh :)
i never understood the frequency and still love it
me neither 😍 no need to
@@SandraRuz-fh5ip A bit of a mystery but the news guy Dan Rather was followed by two guys on the street in New York, one kept asking him "Kenneth, what's the frequency?" they then assaulted him. They mistook him for another guy who apparently knew the freq. The story goes much deeper, you can find info online but seems there was another tech guy that had stumbled upon a radio freq (the two who assaulted Rather apparently mistook him for the tech guy) that could zero in on Russian communications. The song was actually written by another band and REM picked it up and added it to the Monster LP. The song title was changed to What's The Frequency, Kenneth. The whole thing is very strange and too much to get into here but worth checking out.
It's so weird not seeing Bill Berry on drums!
it sucks
weird = better
"what's the frequency, Donald?"
"I have the best frequencies, nobody's heard frequencies like these..."
I'm Canadian but you kinda nailed it. The fact that it took me 2 years to 'get' it shows I'm in Canada :)
Good to hear REM enjoying a basic punk influced rocker like they played when they started out; it's always healthy to revisit your roots every so often to remind you of why you did it in the first place. Nicely obscure and malleable lyrics though! Some things never change... 😂
this is a fantastic song, and people in Cologne are a fantastic public
The first show where i see me and my friends in front of the stage. Juhuuuuu
Buck Stipe and Mills kicking ass,... LIVE!! 👍
Mike Mills has an amazing voice
I like how Michael smiles like a beautiful little boy at the end. Gorgeous and hot.
This is the funniest song in the world when you understand the context of it. This is when Dan Rather was beat up by a psychopath in the streets. And the friend of the psycho just heard the guy say, what’s the frequency Kenneth over and over and over as he rained blows on Rather. He had no idea what the fuck was going on. Lol
what a bass line.....I know everything in this song is amazing, but in this video the bass is outstanding
Yeah it is. Glad others are noticing.
I was live there...Jumping by "Its the end of the world" 😁😁 But after the concert, driving home in a full train, body on body. 😅
How many here listening in 2018?????????
2019
2020
2018? So last year ... :)
2089
Truly a life moving event. RIP Kenneth AFD!
great band great show.wish they'd get together for a concert this year if possible 😀 👍 😉 😊 🙌 😄 😀
they hated touring. they had become a festival band and did things on their terms, even calling it a day. the crowds were becoming smaller and smaller. the music industry had changed. they were not going to be heritage act and there last albums did not sell well at all. once stipe started to wear suits on stage....and the ridiculous eye paint/ face paint many fans gave up on them.
@@markdaly1903 >> I certainly did. R.E.M. died when Bill left.
@@markdaly1903
i gave up when he cut his hair . . .
Please bring back this music...good songs/artists are few and far between these days
Michael Edward Mills (Orange County, California, 17 de diciembre de 1958), conocido como Mike Mills, es un músico estadounidense, exbajista de la banda R.E.M., principalmente conocido por encargarse del bajo y del piano, pero también en ocasiones instrumentos de percusión, cuerdas y teclados. También contribuyó en la creación de las letras de la banda.
Takes a special soul to write stuff like this.
Wonderful in every way you cam imagine
Performance, music, artist, playing - R.E.M., and damn brilliant
That was Fantastic!. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
D'accord avec vous ils sont fantastiques 'uniques LOVE 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
You said that irony was the shackles of youth...
What a fuckin lyric!
*best version here*