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I love this video for Michael Stipe's performance on it's own, but I also think Mike Mills' backing vocals are just as special. He looks so young and cool!
I remember seeing this performance on UK tv in about '86 and loved Stipes dancing so much I copied it at the local disco in Lancashire! This performance could have been taken from The Tube but I could be wrong on that. REM were definitely at their artistic peak at this time. I also remember Stipe doing a great perfomance on the Old Grey Whistle Test around this time where he did an acapella intro of 'Moonriver' followed by "Pretty Persuasion'...
This was when I fell for REM, the first time I ever heard them - Can't Get There and Driver 8 (where's that?) on The Tube. They're so different in this, long before Michael disappeared up himself, full of life and unselfconscious. That whoop at the start has never been bettered either!
so many stupid comments lol...first of all, the audience wouldn't have heard the song before so they're probably trying to actually listen to it. Second, it's a (deliberately) weird song even by REM's early album standards - the audience reaction (when the song's finished) is pretty cool, all things considered. And the backing vocals sound fine!
+Raxa Emu It was that kind of show - do you remember The Tube (you may if you were in the UK in the Eighties)? It was a studio bound music show with a small audience being shepherded around from one stage to another by staff, watching a disparate array of bands. They may not have been REM fans, but it wasn't a "wig-out" kind of show anyway. Also...things were different in those days. There was less mugging for the cameras, less "me me me" from audience members - it may be hard to believe, but a crowd would sometimes just want to listen to the music!
@@Dermot2927 i'm the one in the red cardigan at the front... i was a MASSIVE REM fan at that point. i made a point of putting my hand on mike mill's monitor - just so i could FEEL the band as well as see and hear them.. you're totally right - i for one just wanted to 'listen' to the band. the tube studio was indeed tiny - and the audience were herded around from stage to stage. REM were still pretty much unknown at this point too - and most of the audience would have never heard of them. the show went out early evening - and the studio was very bright with very little 'atmosphere' (i'm not saying it wasnt amazing to have been there!), stone cold sober audience etc... trivia note: that's my band's demo cassette (which i gave to MM just before they went on) standing up on top of the bass cabinet :)
@@porridge10k Fun story! I also love your screen name 😂 Nice to see somebody else here in this bizarre year 2020. There’s a full concert from right around this time, done a small stage in a bar, I think, in Germany. If you’ve not seen it, check it out. Fantastic show, they were on fire. They did this song, and it’s even better than this version of it. Oops it’s the person you are replying to, with the fun Twitter handle.
