@@Channelscruf So how do they come up with that number? My mother who was very religious died of lung cancer at 49. My father who then became an atheist lived to be 82. Not too impressed with your study...
american mandolin unfortunately, the Italian ones have better sound and more sweet and melodic. I play the mandolin since 8 years old and now I am 50, and the best mandolin I have ever held was Carmelo Catania no3, now is not produced anymore unfortunately.
It’s true. Michael Stipe had a thing about love songs, meaning he hated them and calling them odious. But another musician once told me that “people are in danger of taking themselves too seriously, and frankly people just don’t want to hear it”.
My sister had a co-worker who would sing.... 🎶"That's me at the corner / That's me at the stoplight / Losing my transmission / Trying to keep my car off you"🎶
When I heard this song after making it through about 2 years of an unrequited love, it was about nothing else. It was about what I just went through, to a tee. It hit like a truck. No song ever came this close to being this personal. I thought it was obvious though, even outside of it speaking to me on a personal level.
Had the unexpected good fortune to crew the Green Tour. It was a believe tour and not only was the incredible - they were smart enuff to film their own tours on 16mm film and release their own concert films on then VHS. Incredible musicians + savvy businessmen
@@loufaolla I Still Have My VHS Tape Of The GREEN TOUR! And Also My REM Vinyl Collection,Cassette Tapes, And A GREEN TOUR POSTER IN A FRAME ( it’s hanging up in my laundry room) Oh And my tee shirt collection! REM Was the soundtrack of my life in the 90’s ❤️
I’m a Gen X now, but when that song first came out I was a 20 something year old living w my much older boyfriend . But my first love before him was speedballs: coke Heroin , or Heroin and meth. He tried and tried to stop me. When we first heard it on the radio we both were in shock. He was from a Catholic family as well, tho a hippie carpenter all around sweet good guy. He said to me” Listen this is how I feel watching you kill yourself , 😢and I cannot stop you. We held each other and just cried. I wanted to know HOW THE FUCK DOES MICHAEL STIPE KNOW US ? Now I have outlived this good man, and he died of cancer. I’m off the needle and in a program. But every time I hear or think of this song I wish I could tell my beloved Eric that I loved him and how sorry I am .
@@anubisrapture992what a story, I felt moving. I had to struggle with addiction when I was teen, and R.E.M. was there to help me through this ordeal, so in a certain way I feel connected with what you told me by music and life experiences. Hope you're doing well now. Cheers from Brazil
I had a girl leave me a dear John letter and all. I was "wow!".... and was okay for a lil while. I remember playing Guitar hero to just chill n mellow and relax. This song came on and and it ALL HIT ME AT ONCE!! I started balling as I was playing the song still. Hearing Stype say it was about that... Makes my soul feel more sensible
Well, it is a fact that the best way to get over an ex is to start balling someone new. It's really good that you were able to do that. A lot of guys would've just started bawling into their beers.
I feel like producing relatable work is every artists desire. I don’t find this song cryptic at all, can’t believe some people couldn’t get past the title and listen to the rest of the lyrics. Maybe they were smart to use a title as such and gain attention. Such a good song. I was wondering what stringed instrument was used for it! Now I know (:
Song reminds of my daughter Catarina hits in my heart and soul alway 😢looking for her or to hear voice it’s a song that I can feel understanding my loss how much I need my kid 😢living with out my daughter ❤ as deep song of the soul and peace and love
We have a very similar saying in German: "Vom Glauben abfallen". It used to be so common in my area that I initially knew that this song was about someone expressing that they're losing their temper.
I dissected this song for many years after my life long husband divorced me… it made me realize…. There’s always someone in the relationship who loves more than the other.. I’m still standing in the same place 16 yr and 8 mos later 😢
As someone raised in the American South, I can't explain HOW many times I've acknowledged losing my religion is a phrase. In a sentence, I'm losing my religion over how many people misunderstand the meaning behind the song. Also, I think I've read somewhere that Michael Stipe wrote this as a gay love song. Considering it was the 90s, of course he, as the frontman for a popular, touring band, he would write it to be less obvious.
If there is one thing that can truly be said about REM is that every single song they ever created was absolutely fantastic!! I have loved these guys since 1982!
I live in GA, where the band also lived. Someone might say, "I lost my religion for a minute", meaning they cussed somebody out. The lyric means the guy is angrily cursing at people or even to himself bc his loved one is driving him crazy
I always felt that the song was about someone who was fighting to keep a relationship going where his/her partner was constantly F'ing up and the protagonist was reaching their limit. Losing their faith.
It's about REM sleep phase cloning technology and the deep underground cloning stations. It depicts what goes through the mind of a person who awakens there, not understanding if it's real or not. See Donald Marshall.
Incorrect - It's not a southern expression. The expression comes from Asian countries. When someone loses their religion, it means they're losing their mind, going crazy, etc. So, the song is a love song about going crazy either with or by a lover. And this information comes from the band members themselves as they were questioned on MTV, live in 1991.
In the South, " Losing my Religion" also referred to losing one's virginity. Whatever, it was their breakout song and huge on MTV(younguns will be mystified by that). "
I saw them when they were absolutely nobody’s in Knoxville in 1981 or 2. I tried talking to Michael stype between sets. I was pretty drunk and he totally ignored me. Probably a good idea. A lot of fans showed up in pajamas and I thought that was weird.
Yeah, Stipe is partially right, but the genesis of the expression comes out of the southern charismatic movement. There are several terms such as backsliding, losing your religion or being prayed up. Backsliding references a general going back to one's old life of sin. Losing your or my religion is more temporary like rising frustration or a flash of temper. A brother or sister in the Lord might say, "Careful you're losin' your religion" or "that person made so mad I started losin' my religion." So, you gotta stay prayed up to keep from backsliding or losin' your religion. Salvation can't be lost.
Even though I've barely left Tennessee, I still have yet to hear the expression "losing my religion" other than in this song. Is this because it was commonly used by people older than me (born 1979) or because it's more of a "Deep South" expression?
Here's a true story. On the day Peter Buck bought the mandolin was a used music shop in New York. When he and the journalist who was interviewing him were walking down the street in midtown Manhattan, they were standing on a busy street corner when a horse drawn carriage with two young women sitting in it shouted out to him "Nice show last night?" Peter just smiled and waved
again yall got it all wrong ,,,the song was a design ,,it was covering his emotions and changes in life ,,heard him say so ,,,when they put you in a corner and shine a spotlight on you for one reason or another ,,and hes afraid he said to much ,the mandolin piece was just the hook ,,,loosing religion means changing your perspective on life ,,,being gay ,a famous musician ,and from the south
It's hard to believe this narrative, because if It's not about religion, BUT shows Saints, Angels, Siddhartha Gautama, Hindi Gods, Communism, Etc... I love the Song and for me... It's About Religion...! lol
“Losing my religion” means in southern shorthand; swearing, cursing, insulting, and complaining frivolously. Life after a break up; complaining into the air about every little thing a person did wrong, when no one is around, just to be angry and let it all out.
Losing my religion might not actually be about losing one's religious beliefs. However, I'm an Ex Mormon, and i know many formerly religious people (myself included) for whom that song might as well be our anthem. So no matter its purpose, WE LOVE IT!
