SAD TO SEE HOW MANY UPLOADERS ARE AGREEING TO HAVE COMMERCIALS PLAY BEFORE THEIR VIDEOS...THAT WAS THE ONE THING THAT MADE RU-vid GREAT...NO COMMERCIALS!!!!!
I DON'T CARE THAT PEOPLE CAN GET COPIES OF MY VIDEOS (I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO IT), BUT IT DOES BUM ME OUT THAT THEY REPOST THEM HERE ON RU-vid!!!
I'd guess that my REM youtube channel is aimed at diehard REM fans...not everything is perfect quality, but everything is pretty rare, in one way or another...
The video/audio are from tapes I've had sitting in the closet from my tape trading days...
Sorry I can't make DVDs of these.
Check out my other youtube channels for more rare music and videos: Sonic Youth videos ru-vid.com Husker Du videos ru-vid.com Replacements rare audio ru-vid.com Miscellaneous band videos ru-vid.com
Looking at your watch a third time Waiting in the station for the bus Going to a place that's far So far away and if that's not enough Going where nobody says hello They don't talk to anybody they don't know You'll wind up in some factory That's full-time filth and nowhere left to go Walk home to an empty house Sit around all by yourself I know it might sound strange but I believe You'll be coming back before too long Don't go back to Rockville, don't go back to Rockville Don't go back to Rockville and waste another year At night I drink myself to sleep And pretend I don't care that you're not here with me 'Cause it's so much easier to handle All my problems if I'm too far out to sea But something better happen soon Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back Don't go back to Rockville, don't go back to Rockville Don't go back to Rockville and waste another year It's not as though I really need you If you were here I'd only bleed you But everybody else in town only wants To bring you down and that's not how it ought to be I know it might sound strange, but I believe You'll be coming back before too long Don't go back to Rockville, don't go back to Rockville Don't go back to Rockville and waste another year Don't go back to Rockville, don't go back to Rockville Don't go back to Rockville and waste another year
There's a secret stigma, reaping wheel Diminish, a carnival of sorts Chronic town, poster torn, reaping wheel Stranger, stranger to these parts Gentlemen don't get caught, cages under cage Gentlemen don't get caught Box cars are pulling out of town Box cars are pulling out of town Box cars are pulling out of town Cages under, cages under, cages under cage Cages under, cages under, cages under cage There's a secret stigma reaping wheel Stranger, stranger to these parts Chronic town, poster torn, reaping wheel Diminish, stranger Boxcars are pulling a carnival of sorts Out of town, out of town
Came here from the Beato interview with Mike Mills. It's obviously REM but still somehow sounds nothing like them. Eerie enough that it's hard to even evaluate it.
Wow. I'd read about this many years ago, but never realised that it had surfaced. I thought that R.E.M. would have destroyed all evidence, given how much they hated it. My opinion? It's actually not as bad as I imagined. The chorus effect that was added to Peter's guitar makes it sound weirdly like early Cure. It's not exactly caked in synths like it was rumoured, but they're still incongruous-sounding and they're unnecessary embellishments that add nothing to the song. The Murmur version - like the rest of that record - sounds weirdly timeless, but the production on this version carbon-dates it to the early-1980s. I think the band were so horrified with it because Hague took something that they made and messed with it to such a degree that they didn't think it even sounded like them. Kind of like if you went to the barber, told him what you wanted, but he then gave you a stupid haircut that didn't suit you for no other reason than because he thought it was fashionable. Ironically, they band became born-again synthesiser enthusiasts 15 years later, but the two records that made the greatest use of them (Reveal and Around the Sun) are by far their two weakest.
Producer mismatch. REM were never going to be Pet Shop Boys at least in 1981. In Hague's i like the drum sound very much. I don't like the vocal sound (way too much reverb), and the background keyboards melt this song into a monotonic mess, to the point that chord changes become jarring after the hypnotising G-Em-D progression. And Berry DID need a metronome - his beat is fast in the "did we miss anything" part. I haven't heard any versions of this song prior to this one, but i think it possible Buck got the little "d-e-f#" riff from this version.
what is happening? am I insane? where is the sound coming from? how are they doing this? seriously what is going on? there is no way on earth this should be this good. and yet... where is the sound coming from?
