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  • 11.18.83
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  • @TheOnlyOneStanding8079
    @TheOnlyOneStanding8079 2 місяці тому +6

    This song carried my loneliness in my freshman year in high school through the early 80s and im 55yrs old today and it's still keeps me going through 911, covid and 2024 🥃🥂🍻😝😜😛🥳

    • @chimichangazzz4966
      @chimichangazzz4966 2 місяці тому +1

      16 years old in 2024. keep going on brother!

    • @karlcherry
      @karlcherry Місяць тому

      I'm 60, 61 at the end of the year, and, I truly understand, friend that I have never met!

  • @daappleby
    @daappleby 6 місяців тому +17

    That bass dominates ✌️

  • @CineMollusk
    @CineMollusk Рік тому +37

    When you think of what was on the radio in 1983, this is quite amazing.

    • @caryheuchert
      @caryheuchert Рік тому +1

      It was an amazing year musically. I remember not wanting it to end.

    • @johnnymeyer4253
      @johnnymeyer4253 2 місяці тому +1

      I loved '83 for music -- so much variety.

  • @ClockworkOrchestra
    @ClockworkOrchestra 9 місяців тому +24

    Peter Buck and Bill Berry had just finished their shift at the restaurant before doing this gig.

    • @TrevorPaull-xe1yq
      @TrevorPaull-xe1yq Місяць тому

      That's so deadly to know !!! Mike's bass playing here and on most REM songs is so cool how he weaves through the chords and holds both guitar and drum parts together !!! I really think a lot of his playing !!! He good !!!

  • @CarlosMurgueitio
    @CarlosMurgueitio 2 місяці тому +5

    There's only one thing I've got to say about this superb performance:
    B A S S

  • @sratus
    @sratus 3 роки тому +75

    A blend of late 60's West Coast and late 70's NYC punk sensibilities and laying the ground for the grunge generation to come. An important band.

    • @StratsRUs
      @StratsRUs 9 місяців тому

      I do not care.
      REM were REM.
      Decide Yourself.

  • @Pazuzu82
    @Pazuzu82 3 роки тому +41

    One of the best songs I've ever heard, amazing live performance, crowd doesn't even know what they they witnessing!

    • @jml-rj5re
      @jml-rj5re Рік тому +2

      I was thinking the same thing!

  • @OlafProt
    @OlafProt Місяць тому +2

    In the uk, REM really were a well kept secret, especially at this point. Their importance was based very much on the US college circuit whereas they didn't really hit the uk consciousness until maybe Life's Rich Pageant or even Document.

  • @jml-rj5re
    @jml-rj5re 10 місяців тому +15

    lol Those kids have no idea they are watching greatness.

    • @AndrewMiff162
      @AndrewMiff162 7 місяців тому

      Bearing in mind this was a new sound to the brits.. rem didnt even have a genre to be classed in...so thats maybe your answer..we did end up loving them quickly tho😊

  • @johnsaul5142
    @johnsaul5142 5 місяців тому +8

    I like this live version better than the studio cut

    • @Pazuzu82
      @Pazuzu82 5 місяців тому +4

      Its just one of them songs that sounds better live all the time

    • @LL-bl8hd
      @LL-bl8hd 3 місяці тому +1

      I think REM are still underappreciated for what a great live band they were. They didn't put out much live stuff when they were together. I think some of the reissues had live bonus tracks. But there were tons of bootlegs and TV appearances to hear them live.

  • @derekfromtexas7621
    @derekfromtexas7621 26 днів тому +1

    Michael’s outfit would pass in 2024

  • @SoundsofDecay
    @SoundsofDecay Рік тому +21

    That crowd had no idea what they were witnessing, did they

    • @stevemorse9102
      @stevemorse9102 10 місяців тому +2

      This was a performance on a British TV program called ‘The Tube’ filmed in Newcastle. The show was groundbreaking at the time in that it went out live early on Friday evenings and featured up coming bands like The Smiths etc so the audience would have been expecting to ‘witness’ all sorts of bands.

    • @stevemorse9102
      @stevemorse9102 10 місяців тому +1

      This was a performance on a British TV program called ‘The Tube’ filmed in Newcastle. The show was groundbreaking at the time in that it went out live early on Friday evenings and featured up coming bands like The Smiths etc so the audience would have been expecting to ‘witness’ all sorts of bands.

    • @1monki
      @1monki 10 місяців тому +1

      One of the main reasons R.E.M. left I.R.S. is that they couldn't expand their music into Europe. They'd tour "across the pond" and no one knew who they were. I mean, at this point practically no one did, but that didn't change to match R.E.M.'s growth in the US. Towards the end of their career, the band was probably more popular across the sea

    • @vordman
      @vordman 9 місяців тому +2

      Brit audiences were suspicious of American bands back then on account that they were usually crap. REM were the exception and they laid the foundations for the likes of Sonic Youth, Nirvana and many others.

  • @marcknightly9677
    @marcknightly9677 2 роки тому +12

    What a gem of a video.

  • @goldenagenut
    @goldenagenut Рік тому +10

    I bet this is a fun song to perform!

    • @nicolasmrn
      @nicolasmrn 4 місяці тому

      Totally a banger. I used to play it with my band, I love to sing it ❤

  • @nicolasmrn
    @nicolasmrn 4 місяці тому +6

    Sounds like 1990, but is 1983...

  • @davidwilcox153
    @davidwilcox153 9 місяців тому +7

    Looks to be around the time of their appearance on Letterman.

  • @katherineraessyoung
    @katherineraessyoung 2 роки тому +20

    Baby Michael Stipe rocking that hoodie and Baby Peter Buck looking like a wine waiter after a hard night. Priceless!

  • @jasonpeters9716
    @jasonpeters9716 3 місяці тому +1

    American Rock n Roll?
    #1

  • @sexobscura
    @sexobscura 2 роки тому +10

    Stipe is just making up whatever sounds enter his mouth at any given second

  • @rftulie
    @rftulie Рік тому +3

    perfect

  • @marclayne9261
    @marclayne9261 Рік тому +2

    Athens GA....

  • @TGiannini007
    @TGiannini007 Рік тому +5

    REM working it’s ass off.

  • @halenbud
    @halenbud 7 місяців тому +6

    Keep me out of country and the word
    Wheel of fortune's leading us absurd
    Push that, push that, push that to the floor
    That this isn't nothing at all
    Straight off the boat, where to go
    Calling out in transit
    Calling out in transit
    Radio Free Europe (Radio)

  • @thelex001
    @thelex001 13 років тому +1

    A pity it's been blocked - it was a terrific performance of RFE...

  • @packers600
    @packers600 2 роки тому +8

    Is that crowd on dope?
    Sincerely,
    Mr. Hand

  • @donatodiegolopezcaballero4730
    @donatodiegolopezcaballero4730 Місяць тому +1

    La unica banda que va al tu por tu a los Smiths el Murmon es un discazo!!!!

  • @thelex001
    @thelex001 14 років тому +23

    A brilliant video, but it's not 1992. It's 1983.

    • @whlewis9164
      @whlewis9164 8 місяців тому +1

      I thought Mike was playing a Rickenbacher in 1983. He and Peter have matching Ricks in the ‘83 Letterman clips.

    • @peterzang
      @peterzang 6 місяців тому +1

      Michael’s hair was gone by 92. It is 1983 genius.

  • @norbertovelazquez7441
    @norbertovelazquez7441 Рік тому +9

    Stipe look eddie vedder circa 1993/94

  • @tastemaker_87
    @tastemaker_87 13 років тому +6

    @thelex001 i'm pretty sure it was 83. These were the IRS years

  • @philipmarsh3522
    @philipmarsh3522 Місяць тому +1

    The rhythm section really carried that band until the guitar player and singer caught up. And they did catch up and became brilliant, just pretty raw at the start. Not too many bands have an anchor like Mike Mills when they are just starting out.

  • @jasonpeters9716
    @jasonpeters9716 3 місяці тому +1

    R
    E
    A
    L

  • @johnned4848
    @johnned4848 3 роки тому +12

    A combination of Wire and the Byrds. Great performance. Where was The Tube made?

    • @nicolasmrn
      @nicolasmrn 2 роки тому +6

      Wire, Ramones and Byrds I would say.

    • @baliluke2364
      @baliluke2364 2 місяці тому +1

      Channel 4 UK. Live from 5pm on a Friday

  • @Riffmaster227
    @Riffmaster227 4 місяці тому +4

    Just realized peters not playing a 360 but a 330 here

  • @rossrossa7596
    @rossrossa7596 Місяць тому

    Slow Musik Projekt

  • @burnzie743
    @burnzie743 3 роки тому +15

    Great performance; terrible crowd.

    • @camilopibi
      @camilopibi 3 роки тому +1

      They don't understand that

    • @smiddlecn
      @smiddlecn 3 роки тому +1

      I was thinking the same thing!

    • @pcramon
      @pcramon 3 роки тому +3

      The Tube showcased many new bands from across the pond, usually their first UK TV appearances, the “ boring, subdued crowd “ in many cases had never heard such bands as REM, 10000 Maniacs, The Call and Missing Persons to name but a few so they weren’t likely to be moshing. All those named bands I personally loved and thank heavens for this TV Show filmed local in Newcastle.

    • @anthonyfrancis2374
      @anthonyfrancis2374 3 роки тому +3

      The audience was made up of production staffs kids and the occasional trendy dressed punter from the pub round the corner and competition winners to give a vague semblance of a live performance. Much like the German show Beat-Club from the 60s and 70s. It was all filmed up North too so a good old mackerel chunder was enjoyed by all before showtime to anoint the vagueness of their daily day-to-day!
      You can't have too much critical thinking going on as they might wander off and get in the way of the cameraman and let's not forget many of these dunderheads dropped the brexit sprog.

    • @joelhusbands3838
      @joelhusbands3838 2 роки тому +3

      It wasn't the electronic synth keyboard sound that they were familiar with

  • @Sal.Manila
    @Sal.Manila Рік тому +8

    The audience wasn’t into it. Maybe they were expecting a group like Wham!, or Culture Club.

  • @pb12661
    @pb12661 2 місяці тому +2

    lifeless crowd.

  • @jasonpeters9716
    @jasonpeters9716 3 місяці тому +3

    Wtf is up crowd?
    Born in 77?
    I would be poggying/jumping all around.
    LAME crowd

  • @Svatopluk
    @Svatopluk 7 місяців тому +1

    Michael Stipe is painfully out of tune. Love this song though!