Altogether this song is reminiscent of old European nobility whose nearest neighbors were miles away. Transportation took forever in the horse-and-carriage days, so these people would usually only gather for special occasions like balls, weddings and affairs of state. Their social skills were very formal by our standards because meeting people wasn't an everyday thing. And they learned to love their valuables, their "simple props" more than other people. These sentiments are enjoying a resurgence in our 1% era and Stipe was ahead of the game with this song.
@@TheMeanArenaA little of both. The Mona Lisa was Da Vinci's favorite simple prop. He brought her with him everywhere he went, like she was an actual human companion. The Mona Lisa really blurs the distinction between 'she' and 'it'. But she is a product of this low-tech feudal era, where the aristocrats and their similarly landowning friends went a little kooky from isolation. They probably had imaginary friends and whatnot.
@@TheMeanArena However Hell is other people. I can't remember which author said that but it's very true. Just because the nobility lived out in the middle of nowhere doesn't mean they were sad. They may have been eccentric but for the most part I think they were happy.
@@TheMeanArena The Mona Lisa's alternative title is La Giaconda, which means jocund. How great it is never to have to interact with the f**king a**holes in this world. This song really captures the whole attitude.
Alton Brown, the Food Network chef, was Director of Photography for this video. Alton Brown did the cinematography for this. R.E.M is one of the greatest rock bands in history.
I think he died to save her soul that she might believe in Jesus and love and what on the surface ostensibly appears as a brutal rejection is in fact a way to protect her soul that she may be sealed for eternity.. I hope anyway…because it has happened to me…because your savage turn and rending really came out of left field and I didn’t give you a proper reason that I should be your enemy…in truth…for the most part…at least not such that I deserve this fate I am currently living…but happy to have evaded the curse of a third eye and all the horrible things witnessed thereby… hope everyone will be saved in the end and 144,000 is a code for everyone, but you’ve taken your abuse a bit too far tbf also…🙏
O que eu "corri" atrás dessa Música, para hoje achar, nunca imaginei ser do "R.E.M" e sim do "IGGY POP", Pesquisei várias vezes sem sucesso, hoje através de um aplicativo que tenho que acha os nomes de músicas, consegui tocou na rádio e pá achei, somzera! 😎
It's always amazing to see how many people think this is a love song. It isn't. It's a song about someone that keeps using other people for their own selfishness. The band has said repeatedly that it was a dark song. It quickly started to be their number one hit so they just let people think of it as they want. Listen to the lyrics, not the music. The lyrics are all the same, they just repeat. The only difference is the last verse. It changes "a simple prop to occupy my time" to: This one goes out to the one I love This one goes out to the one I've left behind Another prop has occupied my time This one goes out to the one I love
So great to finally have these beautiful pieces of art remastered! This one looks so sharp now it's almost uncanny. It seems as if most great music has been remastered, but for whatever reason most groups continue to ignore their classic music videos, sometimes even still having the official uploads in 360 or even ghastly 240p, not even passable 480. Bravo to R.E.M. for restoring these classic clips!
All your dreams are made When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade Another prompt, to occupy your time This one goes out to the dreams you love
i'm addicted to all 90's songs... no one can beat the songs of those years..! just real voice, no auto tune..❤❤❤ i love 90's.. and rest in peace to this singer. you gave one of the best songs i ever heard.. ❤❤😘😘😘😘
What's amazing about this song is how far ahead of its time it was. This is a song that easily could have come out in say 1992 or 1993. This song was #12 on tonight's 80s on 8 top 40 November 1987 countdown. #13 and 14 that week. Poison and Debbie Gibson. Let that sink in. Michel Stripe and R.E.M has always been very forward thinking in their music.
At the end though when he sings or yells, "Fire" I think he's killing mass amounts of people with a missile or even a nuke. That would be so dark and disturbing -- ua-cam.com/video/lugwYTwW8us/v-deo.html
A lot of REM songs seem happy on the surface but are actually pretty dark. Shiny Happy People was inspired by a propaganda billboard Stipe say in a news report about the Tiananmen Square massacre in China.
@@callahans44 this one goes out to the one I love (followed by fire and a woman chanting) - Fire, as you should know (though noone can seem to put 2+2 together) equals Satan. The one he left behind is God. If you listen to EVERY song with a God vs. Satan perspective- you unmagically will suddenly understand the meaning to all lyrics in music.
@@ranulfo-p6i ficou numa pegada mais enérgica, um pouco mais atual e com uma leve pegada grunge... e o melhor: no maior palco icônico do Rock que foi o WOODSTOCK em 1999 ! Rock é vida, R.E.M é vida e Bush é vida 😎😎😎
In January 1988, singer Michael Stipe said of the song that it was about exploiting people in love. However, due to a misinterpretation of part of the text ("this one goes out to the one I love"), the listeners thought it was a love song, which, however, somewhat refutes the other part of the text ("simple prop to occupy my time"). However, Stipe later said that it was probably a good thing that the listeners interpreted the song as a love song.
Ha ha. Like the way you posted that before it became 2020. It's now March 2020, and I have been hearing some of this tune going around in my head for some reason.. so I came here to listen to the full song 😀🎶
If you had MTV when this video came out, then you've had the superimposed images of the woman gazing up and the man screamingburned into your memory ever since.
+Sheels1976.........I'm an oldie and you can't imagine my delight when R.E.M. hit the airwaves! It had been something of a "drought" since the great sounds of the early '70's. And you're right, this music (just like so much earlier) truly WAS mesmerising. Something went radically wrong somewhere but there is still good music to be had, you've got to search for it though.
I love how often this gets played at weddings by people who think it's a love song when it's about a violently abusive relationship of guitarist Peter Buck's, who called the song "savagely anti-love," Michael Stipe saying that he almost didn't record the song because he thought it "too brutal" and saying that the widespread misinterpretation of the song vexed him.
I am a dj, and that is not an uncommon thing! Regularly at weddings, there are requests from usually 'The Bride' on the playlist; Paul Weller You Do Something To Me is a massive favourite, when in actual fact it is a song of 'Love's Failure' another is 'Blinded by the Sun' by The Seahorses which is another tale of 'Failed Love' ! But that's Women for ya! dx
I 'll just throw this out there.....which artist(band), belts out fire the best .........REM , the One I Love, .....The Doors, Light My Fire,......The Cult , Fire Woman, .......or Type O Negative, Blood and Fire?
Enola Raven Stipe might not like the concept of bacon, but I don't think he could argue about the taste. And fuck me, right, because any ersatz meat is just plain wrong.
I love this song ..this is my favourite of my late husband ..he song this with loud and clear ..I remember his voice when I hear this song ..💞💖💞i miss those days🔥❤️
Blows my mind to know that this songs original meaning was far from being a love song, but everyone, including, including me, thought it was. Just goes to show that the writers of classic tracks are sometimes going through darker things than we're aware of.
impresionante la época de los 80. R.E.M. - The One I Love lo demuestra con este tema épico se adelanto de época con esta canción por su sonido va con el grunge de los 90. Son espectaculares.
Back in the early 80’s my sister’s boyfriend saw R.E.M. play when he was in college. They split up, and she never forgot him. She died from Covid and I got word from him. Although my sister and he had both lived different lives, he said she had been the love of his life. Perhaps the band wrote this song about people being used, perhaps drugs. To me it will always be a man crying it out to a lost love, the “prop” being the actual words, or poetry, of the song. ❤️
I just saw an interview with all of them together. It was a clip, so it didn't say anything about making new stuff. One thing said by a band member was they have let go of the idea of despising their music. They had a phase where that happened I guess
Still sends chills down my spine. Such a timeless song.
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They really hit a homerun with this one!!!!
Same.
So
yeah bro especially hits different when the lyrics hit home so hard it hurts
"A simple prop to occupy my time"
Damn, that's cold, Michael.
Altogether this song is reminiscent of old European nobility whose nearest neighbors were miles away. Transportation took forever in the horse-and-carriage days, so these people would usually only gather for special occasions like balls, weddings and affairs of state. Their social skills were very formal by our standards because meeting people wasn't an everyday thing. And they learned to love their valuables, their "simple props" more than other people. These sentiments are enjoying a resurgence in our 1% era and Stipe was ahead of the game with this song.
@@evelynzlon9492 He's talking about a woman.
@@TheMeanArenaA little of both. The Mona Lisa was Da Vinci's favorite simple prop. He brought her with him everywhere he went, like she was an actual human companion. The Mona Lisa really blurs the distinction between 'she' and 'it'. But she is a product of this low-tech feudal era, where the aristocrats and their similarly landowning friends went a little kooky from isolation. They probably had imaginary friends and whatnot.
@@TheMeanArena However Hell is other people. I can't remember which author said that but it's very true. Just because the nobility lived out in the middle of nowhere doesn't mean they were sad. They may have been eccentric but for the most part I think they were happy.
@@TheMeanArena The Mona Lisa's alternative title is La Giaconda, which means jocund. How great it is never to have to interact with the f**king a**holes in this world. This song really captures the whole attitude.
Peter Buck is one of the most underrated guitarists.
Yep, absolutely correct
I feel this song is a represention’ of a loved one passing away this I feel this is the song my late husband would want me to hear
One of the greatest bands ever!! So many great songs!! ❤❤
Hell yeah!
R.E.M is one of the greatest rock bands in history.
REM is good, but if your thinking Top Ten, I go for the Rolling Stones 😁
Not really
Yes. And why anybody would feel the need to bring up the Rolling Stones ...
Of that, there is no doubt !
In 80s history, yes.
Alton Brown, the Food Network chef, was Director of Photography for this video.
Alton Brown did the cinematography for this.
R.E.M is one of the greatest rock bands in history.
Yes he did, Chef Brown is a man of many talents.
kristina castaldo really
I didn't know that until I saw him on hot ones
Interesting
@@fungi42o0 just saw that too! Brought me here! lol
To all the lovers we left behind, may they find true happiness forever.
Well said.
So true. I wish my first and only love a long healthy life full of Joy.
I wish my old love a happy life
May we find true happiness too. We all are former lovers.
@@1220b “only”? You mean you never moved on or you haven’t dated since?
One of my favorite songs of all times - it is dark. It is lovely, thanks. These guys are amazing!
I think he died to save her soul that she might believe in Jesus and love and what on the surface ostensibly appears as a brutal rejection is in fact a way to protect her soul that she may be sealed for eternity.. I hope anyway…because it has happened to me…because your savage turn and rending really came out of left field and I didn’t give you a proper reason that I should be your enemy…in truth…for the most part…at least not such that I deserve this fate I am currently living…but happy to have evaded the curse of a third eye and all the horrible things witnessed thereby… hope everyone will be saved in the end and 144,000 is a code for everyone, but you’ve taken your abuse a bit too far tbf also…🙏
Masterpieces never die - they only grow more majestic
The day you find out that you are not Immortal is the day you enjoy the rest of your life .... Jim Morrison
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The day you find out that you are not Immortal is the day you enjoy the rest of your life .... Jim Morrison
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I'm going to hell
-Eminem
Still loving R.E.M. in 2024, too!
Me too. Over 35 years
@@richelleshellibaugh5181 me to for about six years!
Me too!! :-)
I JUST LOVE IT
me 2 xoxoxo
Primeiro single que conheci do REM! Saudades dos anos 80...🇧🇷
Em geral os anos 80 estavam os melhores na musica.
O que eu "corri" atrás dessa Música, para hoje achar, nunca imaginei ser do "R.E.M" e sim do "IGGY POP", Pesquisei várias vezes sem sucesso, hoje através de um aplicativo que tenho que acha os nomes de músicas, consegui tocou na rádio e pá achei, somzera! 😎
"R.E.M." " THE ONES I LOVE"!!
It's always amazing to see how many people think this is a love song. It isn't. It's a song about someone that keeps using other people for their own selfishness. The band has said repeatedly that it was a dark song. It quickly started to be their number one hit so they just let people think of it as they want. Listen to the lyrics, not the music. The lyrics are all the same, they just repeat. The only difference is the last verse. It changes "a simple prop to occupy my time" to:
This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
Another prop has occupied my time
This one goes out to the one I love
Rest In Peace to my Father who died from Covid19 last MAY25, He loves New Wave songs especially this one.
Rip
I'm sorry!
Sorry for your loss.
R.I.P
So sorry for your loss
So great to finally have these beautiful pieces of art remastered! This one looks so sharp now it's almost uncanny. It seems as if most great music has been remastered, but for whatever reason most groups continue to ignore their classic music videos, sometimes even still having the official uploads in 360 or even ghastly 240p, not even passable 480. Bravo to R.E.M. for restoring these classic clips!
Hi I recommend an indie song called 'Don't Lie To Me' By Robert Nix
A timeless classic.
The Band that has interpreted music in its most artistic form in the sense of ART. Their music videos and Long Play covers are timeless works of art.
Graças a internet temos a possibilidade de ouvir essas relíquias da boa música
All your dreams are made
When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade
Another prompt, to occupy your time
This one goes out to the dreams you love
It can mean anything you want it to..thats whats great about music and your imagination.
i'm addicted to all 90's songs... no one can beat the songs of those years..! just real voice, no auto tune..❤❤❤ i love 90's.. and rest in peace to this singer. you gave one of the best songs i ever heard.. ❤❤😘😘😘😘
he's still alive, man
And this song was released in 1987.
His name is Michael Stipe and he is alive.
REM first album Murmur released 1983. So what you are saying is the 1980s were great, and you would be correct :)
What's amazing about this song is how far ahead of its time it was. This is a song that easily could have come out in say 1992 or 1993. This song was #12 on tonight's 80s on 8 top 40 November 1987 countdown. #13 and 14 that week. Poison and Debbie Gibson. Let that sink in. Michel Stripe and R.E.M has always been very forward thinking in their music.
Hermosa canción, siempre quedará en mis recuerdos como la última canción que la canto una persona muy especial para mi.
Epic band, epic times, epic memmories!!!
Silvio Moraes The pride of Athens Georgia 🤘🏼
essa música é muito linda mesmo maravilhosa demais
Dedicated to one I loved for many years......and then she broke my heart.
Actally this is a very disturbing deep song. Its about only use the "one he loves" as a passtime or side activity. Great song by REM actually
At the end though when he sings or yells, "Fire" I think he's killing mass amounts of people with a missile or even a nuke. That would be so dark and disturbing -- ua-cam.com/video/lugwYTwW8us/v-deo.html
A lot of REM songs seem happy on the surface but are actually pretty dark. Shiny Happy People was inspired by a propaganda billboard Stipe say in a news report about the Tiananmen Square massacre in China.
I think the prop is the one he has now, to occupy his time. Cuz she's not the one he loves whom this goes out too.
The one he loves = _his lover_
@@callahans44 this one goes out to the one I love (followed by fire and a woman chanting) - Fire, as you should know (though noone can seem to put 2+2 together) equals Satan. The one he left behind is God. If you listen to EVERY song with a God vs. Satan perspective- you unmagically will suddenly understand the meaning to all lyrics in music.
Over 30 years ago I first heard this song and it changed my life forever.
Putz, que sonzaço! O UA-cam nos proporciona encontrar músicas que não lembramos mais. Viva REM! 👏👏🙂👉🇧🇷🇧🇷
Já ouviu a versão cover dessa música feita pela banda Bush? É top !
@@BaiaoDe2 Não tinha ouvido ainda. Ficou legal essa versão mais pesada. Show! 👏👏🙂👉🇧🇷🇧🇷
@@ranulfo-p6i ficou numa pegada mais enérgica, um pouco mais atual e com uma leve pegada grunge... e o melhor: no maior palco icônico do Rock que foi o WOODSTOCK em 1999 ! Rock é vida, R.E.M é vida e Bush é vida 😎😎😎
Feel the contrast between when he says "a simple prop, to occupy my time" to "FAAAYAAA!"
Curtindo muito aqui do Brasil,sou super fã desta banda.
I love Michael Stapp songs
Simply wonderful... The song that made me fall in love with R.E.M.
In January 1988, singer Michael Stipe said of the song that it was about exploiting people in love. However, due to a misinterpretation of part of the text ("this one goes out to the one I love"), the listeners thought it was a love song, which, however, somewhat refutes the other part of the text ("simple prop to occupy my time"). However, Stipe later said that it was probably a good thing that the listeners interpreted the song as a love song.
Hi I recommend a few indie songs(and accompanying videos) called 'Where I Come From' and 'Covid19Jam' By Robert Nix
A cynical love song can still really hit the spot from time to time though, right?
Thumbs up if you're listening to this in 2020!!
Hahahaha
Lol. Hopefully. ✌
No
Lol
Ha ha. Like the way you posted that before it became 2020.
It's now March 2020, and I have been hearing some of this tune going around in my head for some reason.. so I came here to listen to the full song 😀🎶
Can remeber singing this with my mam on guitar hero, being 16 and listening to this now changes lol
Que nostalgia
Amoooooo
If you had MTV when this video came out, then you've had the superimposed images of the woman gazing up and the man screamingburned into your memory ever since.
This one goes out to the one I left behind ...
My favorite band since high school dances and still love the awesome songs in 2022
I hear this another and in my heart I know my husband is sending it to play he's been gone 11 years and it still hurts that he's gone
Stay strong.
Alton Brown did the cinematography for this.
Very good. Few people know that.
Is that true?
I've always love Alton Brown. He's from Georgia so it makes sense he hooked up with this.
I just saw this fact on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" game show. Pretty cool big of trivia. 😎 Love Alton Brown.
UNA DE MIS FAVORITAS
Who's listening this in September 2024?
How’d you know?? 😂
Present ❤🎉😊
Yes
I'm here
Me
This song hurts so good and so bad
To tina who went to Massachusetts,I'll always love you!
Still rocking out in 2019 !
2:08 this is why... I'm here.
Me again ,,, one love this beautiful Song ❤😢😢😢
pov: your listening to this in 2009 because you have a cool dad.
That is oddly specific
Found the youngun. This song was old af when my cool dad played it for me in 99 lol
2011 and both of my parents.
Im a cool mother haha
I AM THE COOL DAD💪🏾🙏🏽✌🏾
BR 2019?
BRASIL 🇧🇷👱♂️😁
R.E.M. - The One I Love 2019🇧🇷✌👍
Just heard this in a Whole Foods and was like, "Man, I remember this!!" Viva la 90s!
This song is from ‘87.
FANTASTIC!!!
2:50...Michael Stipe pledging allegiance! ; )
Rem is best girl !!!
R.E.M. - The One I Love 2019?
Just after stoppin by...
Forever
@@jonathanluna3558 Until you find another prop to occupy your time :)
Genius REM
+Sheels1976.........I'm an oldie and you can't imagine my delight when R.E.M. hit the airwaves! It had been something of a "drought" since the great sounds of the early '70's. And you're right, this music (just like so much earlier) truly WAS mesmerising. Something went radically wrong somewhere but there is still good music to be had, you've got to search for it though.
I love how often this gets played at weddings by people who think it's a love song when it's about a violently abusive relationship of guitarist Peter Buck's, who called the song "savagely anti-love," Michael Stipe saying that he almost didn't record the song because he thought it "too brutal" and saying that the widespread misinterpretation of the song vexed him.
!
To some people it is just about it going out to the 1 they love JUST THEM WORDS
I am a dj, and that is not an uncommon thing! Regularly at weddings, there are requests from usually 'The Bride' on the playlist; Paul Weller You Do Something To Me is a massive favourite, when in actual fact it is a song of 'Love's Failure' another is 'Blinded by the Sun' by The Seahorses which is another tale of 'Failed Love' ! But that's Women for ya! dx
Deixa o povo pensar ( Essa música é uma faca de dois gumes).
@@socorrosolimar3590 Fair Enough! It is a Great song! dx
Like si lo escuchas en la cuarentena #pandemia #coronavirus #vamosamorir
Timeless classic
2019 ?? ♥️♥️
Absolutamente Inesquecível Wonderfull The One I Love
Timeless!.. cool song 👍🎶
Fire 🔥. Seriously I thought.. I was in love way back in the day... still waiting for that True love..
Simple prop, simple tune, great impact yeah
REM ... still getting me through the day at work.
Masterpiece
I 'll just throw this out there.....which artist(band), belts out fire the best .........REM , the One I Love, .....The Doors, Light My Fire,......The Cult , Fire Woman, .......or Type O Negative, Blood and Fire?
I love REM but I'll have to say The Cult Fire Woman and REM a close second.
thanks...
+shootermav11 Type O Negative Blood and Fire!!!
obviously doors...
kasabian-fire :)
2011 Absolutely Fantastic Amazing Year Forever
Flam Bass Bass Flam. Can you get a more simple opening drum riff? Yet brilliant!!
The videoclip is very well crafted.Moving.
Wow ,ist so beautiful this Song , tímeles ❤❤❤😢😢😢
This was their first top 10 HIT on the Billboard Hot 100.
This song is the song I Love and the song Everyone Love
Such a dark song. The singer is the villain
The long cold distance
Is part of love
It’s where love meets the universe
REM are a bit like Bacon
You either like them or you're wrong
Thought you were going to say "You take one bite and you want to the whole thing" but I like your quote better! :-)
Well, Michael Stipe is a vegetarian, so let's replace bacon with 'tempeh bacon'. If you don't like that stuff, F.U.
Stгคzzเyค B๏ςђภ๏ש IV only fucked up people love bacon
but eventually you try bacon, relish in it and say "shit, you mean it was this awesome the whole time"
Enola Raven Stipe might not like the concept of bacon, but I don't think he could argue about the taste. And fuck me, right, because any ersatz meat is just plain wrong.
Y am 62 years old ando i like this song.
A legend❤
❤😢a mis 52 años todavia lo escucho pura nostalgia 😢!!!
I love this song ..this is my favourite of my late husband ..he song this with loud and clear ..I remember his voice when I hear this song ..💞💖💞i miss those days🔥❤️
I have been searching for this song typing 'FIIIIIIIRE' for days now
Blows my mind to know that this songs original meaning was far from being a love song, but everyone, including, including me, thought it was. Just goes to show that the writers of classic tracks are sometimes going through darker things than we're aware of.
Right on!!
One of best songs
Most iconic band of georgia. Well drivin n cryin were good too
I love this song it makes me think about my ex-girlfriend Tracci, who I loved very much, but left behind when I dumped her.
Always one of the best in my mind
This one goes out to The One, My Left Behind *pat, pat* ❤
Grandioso..terrible tema y album❤
One of the greats
Hi I Recommend an indie rock song called 'The Bond Villain' By Robert Nix
I love Michael Stipe!! I love the entire band bc they are so great together!! I pray they get back to one another!! Man they love you like crazy!!
I love my 3 woman!!! Thank you for your Support Jahwe!!!
This song will go to my loved one!
Still sounds great don't forget about Bang and Blame
impresionante la época de los 80. R.E.M. - The One I Love lo demuestra con este tema épico se adelanto de época con esta canción por su sonido va con el grunge de los 90. Son espectaculares.
Man sucks if cobain lived he was going to do a collaboration with Michael.Both were geniuses of melody.
He missed their collaboration never went 😢
I remember of this song!nostalgic and happy!😢😮😅😊
Back in the early 80’s my sister’s boyfriend saw R.E.M. play when he was in college. They split up, and she never forgot him. She died from Covid and I got word from him. Although my sister and he had both lived different lives, he said she had been the love of his life. Perhaps the band wrote this song about people being used, perhaps drugs. To me it will always be a man crying it out to a lost love, the “prop” being the actual words, or poetry, of the song. ❤️
Dam that's deep. Ive never forget the love of my life. And your might be right about the prop thing...
Sorry to her of your bereavement.
Well said!
This band was amazing! Unfortunately they don't exist anymore! This song, particularly brings me good memories! I love you REM! God bless you!
I just saw an interview with all of them together. It was a clip, so it didn't say anything about making new stuff. One thing said by a band member was they have let go of the idea of despising their music. They had a phase where that happened I guess
@@chriscornelius2518 Cool! Thanks!
Wish they'd even tour again. They are INCREDIBLE live.