R.E.M. - Can't Get There From Here 

Mike Mills is killing it on Bass

I really like old REM music. There's something organic and flowing about it that's not so prevalent in their later music.

Best REM tune ever. Entire Fables album, one of the best.

I worked at the Drive - In movie theater where this was filmed in Athens and was privileged enough to be there the night they shot this video and it was a blast, I actually had some classic Motown on cassette and we were playing it through all the movie speakers in the parking area and the guys loved it! Those were def the good ol" days in Athens, GA, great music was everywhere!

The entire Fables of the Reconstruction album was all killer no filler. Every song was excellent. I think it's their best and Reckoning their second best

I love Fables with every fiber of my being. To me a perfect album. Not saying my word is law, I just love it.

One of the greatest bands ever.

i love old stuff of r.e.m

Ever since rediscovering R.E.M.'s music, this has become a favorite of mine.

God, if ONLY I could back to this time in my life.

The song that started my R.E.M. adventure

The first time I heard of R.E.M was when they played on the David Letterman show in around 1982? They played Radio Free Europe and Dave was so impressed that he invited them to sit down and have a conversation In spite of the already popular B-52s, Michael Stipe described Athens, Georgia as the home of Herschel Walker. Oh, have times changed

I saw these guys when they first started out in a small venue in San Francisco and I was hooked! That was 39 years ago and I still play their albums regularly!

I love R.E.M. and I love this song

how many times did i watch this on 120 min. on mtv..... 12 oclock every sunday night!!

Incredible song and album... One of their best songs for sure

I miss both the eighties and REM. Thanks for giving me the best years of my life. The music will live on.

I grew up listening to REM in the 90s but I never realised how good their stuff from the 80s was. Absolutely fantastic

I first heard this song in 1985 on a "classic rock" station, and was surprised it was then-current, at a time when the likes of Prince and Madonna were dominating the charts. This was more to my liking.

My favorite R.E.M. song EVER......and I love all their songs.

I particularly enjoyed Bill Berry's dramatic facial expressions.

Gosh remember seeing this video on heavy rotation on MTV in the 80's

I remember trying to figure out all the words on early REM songs and then you see the words and still don't know what the hell the song is about. But I love it - still my favorite band.

This, South Central Rain, Radio Free Europe, ...the early stuff..End Of The World As We Know It...just...totally good memories..mid 1980's.

31years old. Great song from a classic album ...

The best of REM (this one, Fall on me + SO. Central Rain)

Nice to see R.E.M. taking a rare comic turn in this video.

MTV vidcheck August 10 , 1985 10:45 pm EST this song played . I saw them 2 years earlier in Hartford , CT. August 1983 OPENED ( still unknown band) for The POLICE . Awesome night !!!!

every time i listen to REM i wonder why i dont listen to them more. Thanks for turning me on to REM, Gary .... 30 years ago...

such a kick ass rock song turn it up!

R.E.M. are the boild penuts of indie music. Luv'om.

Another one of those R.E.M. videos where I want to jump through the screen and join in on the fun.

Happy Birthday today(July 31) to REM drummer Bill Berry. Cheers!

Here at 1 million views today! It took way too long. Here's to the next million quicker. We can get there from here

Ahh, REM from their golden era. I can't describe how much their music meant to me back then.

One of my favorite bands of all time

I used to worship this group. Good times. Little did I know that life had much much more happiness to come!

Nice bass line from Mike Mills

This was the very first REM song I ever heard that was on someone's mix tape at the time. Blew my mind! They really sold out after this era.

I like this song . Can t get there from here . Good song .

This was another song i used to listen a lot while playing games.Always thought this song was great.

So Georgia!!! I love this band!

Been a fan for near 30 years. Never saw this before.

Everybody on this thread was raised right..cheers!

The greatest american band in history..imo

This song deserves to have 1000000 likes. I don't understand why music changes so much nowadays

This is my favorite REM song and video's great, too. Bill Berry 's drumming is so clean and immaculate, my favorite performance from him as well.

I still drive through Philomath several time a year.

I've never been to Philomath (or Athens, for that matter), but it's on the list!

I like it. Also, Michael Stipe dancing is a spectacle not to be missed.

I know it came out well before August 1987, but it goes into heavy rotation every August because that's when I put it on a compilation tape that I played endlessly late summer 1987 and my junior year of college (to the exhaustion of several college newspaper co-workers).

Neat to see Pete’s Lavender 1960 Ford Sedan. Haven’t thought about that car in years. REM IS the 80s. Seeing them play at the I&I Club, the Watt, etc. was so much fun

A blast furnace Georgia summer, feeling now as several lifetimes ago. Driving. I had a destination, but lacked direction. Soaking in the pure, gritty beauty of rural Georgia- rolling hills, farms, power lines with floaters, dilapidated sharecropper houses, rolls of hay laid in fields, walls of stone old as time itself which somehow seemed to pass over the whole of the world here. It was hot. Holy shit it was hot. The heat bore down oppressively. Wendel gee popped up on my mixtape. And suddenly, there I was, driving through philomath. Not even a dot on the map. But there it was. I can not tell you how I got there, all I know is that I can’t get there from here. It’s a place one must be lost in order to find.

First REM song I heard, really brings back the time when bands actually played their own instruments, wrote their lyrics and could actually sing. When MTV actually had something to do with music

R.E.M. have the best music videos in my opinion

REM your music shaped so many young people, for me you guys were like gurus and I listened like a monk in the house of REM.

Probably the only song to ever use the word "Philomath"

I've been there... to Philomath... I actually do know the way. Not much to see there, but it is... there.

This is catchy as hell!

Can't Get There From Here R.E.M. When the world is a monster Bad to swallow you whole Kick the clay that holds the teeth in Throw your trolls out the door If you're needing inspiration Philomath is where I go Lawyer Jeff he knows the low down He's mighty bad to visit home Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) When your hands are feeling empty Stickheads jumping off the ground Tris is sure to shirr the deers out Brother Ray can sing my song Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Hands down, Calechee bound And locked, kiss the ground The dirt of seven continents going Round and round Go on ahead Mr. Citywide Hypnotize, suit and tie Gentlemen testify If your world is a monster Bad to swallow you whole Philomath they know the low-down Throw your trolls out the door Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Songwriters: Bill Berry / Peter Buck / Michael Mills / Michael Stipe Can't Get There From Here lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc, Universal Music Publishing Group

Man, what a great time! College...R.E.M. Such a great song!

Okay this video is even sillier than I remembered. I love it.

Ive been to Philomath on the way to Athens...cant get many places from there thats for sure!!!!

Can't get there from here. Can't get there from anywhere.

I can't feel ' gravity's pull'!

First saw this on the Succumbs VHS I bought when i was about 15

I first heard this song play at the Roxy Bar near Vicenza, Italy. I immediately asked the DJ who was playing and he showed me REM's Fables of the Reconstruction album which they got from Saxophone record store in Vicenza. The next day I went to Saxophone and bought the record. I also sample played another REM record they had in stock and was pleased to find Radio Free Europe and the Murmur album. I bought that album too and have been a huge fan of REM ever since. I got to see REM in concert in Seattle a few years later. Awesome band. REM retired too early.

REM are the American answer to the Beatles.

drunken high school guitar player... got a gig at gettysburgh college frat ... playe rem ... chicks digged us .. life was good for a kid fom NJ.

Love seeing Jefferson Holt (lawyer Jeff) and Bertis Downs cavort out there in the weedy fields of an Athens spring...

There are a few songs that I can remember the very first time that I heard them. Not very many but there are a few and this is one of them. I heard it first on an FM rock radio station and I remember thinking 'What a cool ass song' and 'Who in the hell is that?' To this day I still think it's a great song.

Used to be on the radio every morning I woke up for high school....ahhhhh the good ol days!

even if you don't like REM you like this

love that subtle baritone sax in the background

thanks R.E.M. for over 20 years quality music, we can always listen to the their songs,but for me it's like a I'm loosing something, they will be missed, all the best to the band, I'm sure Micheal will not sit in the garden sipping tea with Morrissey or Courthey, so I hope he will make a solo album or a new project, also for the other guys in the band, Thanks from the Netherlands

Eponymous was by far the best album REM ever recorded.

i'm beginning to appreciate REM a lot more these days. first, these are some crazy tunes, none of this sounds easy to play. but the star of the band has to bassist mike mills. i love his counter harmonies to michael stipe's mumbles. further, his bass line are catchy and drive each tune. i think this is his "the real me" moment. they mixed his bass way up and he is just ripping it.

Top 40 REM in the late 80's-early 90's was pretty good, but does not hold a candle to this era of REM.

this is the song that started it all for me....changed my life

I miss Athens Ga grew up there in 60's

When the world is a monster Bad to swallow you whole Kick the clay that holds the teeth in Throw your trolls out the door If you're needing inspiration Philomath is where I go Lawyer Jeff he knows the low down He's mighty bad to visit home Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) When your hands are feeling empty Stickheads jumping off the ground Tris is sure to shirr the deers out Brother Ray can sing my song Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Hands down, Calechee bound And locked, kiss the ground The dirt of seven continents going Round and round Go on ahead Mr. Citywide Hypnotize, suit and tie Gentlemen testify If your world is a monster Bad to swallow you whole Philomath they know the low-down Throw your trolls out the door Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way) Can't get there from here (I've been there I know the way)

we gotta have an REM dance party soon, across the nation

Makes me feel better that there are a number of R.E.M. singles that do little for me. This one, The One I Love, Stand, Shiny Happy People and Drive, regardless I was always a big R.E.M. fan. Kept the bar high since they were such a good band. Hey, whatever worked for them, that's the important thing. Here's a big-ass salute to R.E.M.

First REM song I ever heard, hooked....

Not even Michael Stipe knows all the lyrics to this.

those bird things @ 3:10 made me *really laugh*

Great song!

Anybody here who lived in Pakistan and loved REM ? I felt like I was their only fan growing up there

how does peter buck perform that rhythm guitar perfectly like that

This is my favorite album and era of REM. Many of their motifs and musical devices can be traced back here. I also love the cinematography of just random but captivating imagery. It's something of a lost art. Also, I just noticed that JMS resembles John Cusack in this video, at least the face. In silhouette, Micheal appears tall, lanky, powerful, and almost a demi-human, drawing parallels to The Giant in Twin Peaks.

Freeky dancey music..

ANOTHER FANTASTIC VIDEO FROM R.E.M., the dj

Michael Stipe was just so adorable. (Don't mean to talk like he's dead.) But I guess we were all more "adorable" when we were young.

I remember watching this on 120 minutes back in the '80s and they commented that the reason REM put in the subtitles was because some critics complained they couldn't understand the lyrics, so it was kindof a dig at he the critics ha

I think this is rems greatest song. Check those vocal arrangements

A stable song from WXPN in the early eighties.Always loved this album...before REM became top 40.But i still love em.

We knew the old REM was that good at the time !!!!!

There used to be a drive in theater on Atlanta Highway where the Mall now is. That theater is certainly the inspiration for this video.

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Only 94,000 something hits for this gem of a song? It can't be. Oh, I see the reason now for the poor showing........VEVO