Music video by R.E.M. performing Feeling Gravitys Pull. (P) (C) 2010 Capitol Records, LLC. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by IRS Catalog,
@Bass Man I think the problem is more how that and Oddfellows Local don't work together as number 10 and 11 on the album. It just creates a slightly anticlimactic feeling for me, to what is a pretty invigorating and quite aggressive album before that. The last two songs have grown on me and I like them now, just not as much as some of the others.
This was REM at their best (imho) and it shows in every aspect of the song, from Michael's haunting tenor to Pete's awesome guitar work; from Mike's incredible bass work to Bill's perfect percussion work. Mesmerizing is the only word that comes close!
Ha! Reminds me of Christmas 1987. My twin and I were 13 and just discovered these guys. We dove head first. He asked for this album and DLO. I asked for Murmur and Reckoning. We received all. There is indeed a Santa!
My entire teen life 1980 through 1989 was listening to REM. That and Cocteau Twins, Joy Division, Violent Femmes, Bauhaus, The Clash, The Jam, The cure, X, Dead Kennedy's, The Germs, Black Flag, Fear, minutemen, Sonic Youth, Iggy Pop, Souxie, The Specials, The English Beat, The Pretender's, Elvis Costello, 45 Grave, The Rain Parade, Dream Syndicate, Social Distortion, Husker Du, The Cramps, T.S.O.L., Crass, The Fall, The Talking Heads, Mud Honey, Fugazi, Buzzcocks, Green River, Bad Religion, Bowie... Just to name a few. I'm sure I missed many.
Their first five albums were so different and great compared to what other bands were doing. But the 80’s in general was an awesome decade for musical experimentation.
I was 23 when I first heard this album. I think it changed my life. This song appears to be the illegitimate child of The Band and Black Sabbath. Heavy, dark and reminiscent of a Southern, gothic novel. Okay, maybe that’s a stretch, but you get my point. REM’s music resonates deeper now than 25 years ago when I first listened I think, now, I find their songs are less about standard musical art forms; I.e., melody, harmony, bridge, etc.; and more akin to dreamscapes; where the song enables us to float on a breeze or smell the wild grass growing on the roadside or revel in the soundscape of a river full of toads, crickets, birds and waterfalls. This music paints indelible images in my mind; of places seen or remembered or perhaps yet to occur. They chose to eschew standard musical forms and did not write to please an audience; but rather to please themselves. And what a payoff that achieved. For instance is ‘Feelings Gravity’s Pull’ a modern song about technology and yearning or an old dirge about lost seamen and castles? I don’t know and I don’t care, and maybe that’s the brilliance of their musical choices - the listener is free to interpret these songs in any way we desire, which is the true essence of great art.
When I was eleven years old, I stayed up late one Friday night and watched a local music video program... And I saw this. A part of me thought I imagined what I had seen (the cutting is very jumpy, like in a dream), but I could not shake it or the song from my mind. And I think this made me a fan of a group that would challenge whatever I thought a song or video should be. Thank you, Buck, Berry, Mills and Stipe. 👍🏾
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This is the first song I ever heard them play live, through the walls of a soundcheck as we were waiting outside. I'm sure you can imagine the chills of excitement that went through the line as we all heard this opening riff.
I haven't listened to this song in 30+years, can at once remember and can't recall how it used to move me - an elusive tonality of the soul forever beyond reach in a vanished decade
me, my bicycle, and this song on my walkman in early nighties...remember exploring early rem stuff after hearing out of time - this was so entertaining.
Fables is a fascinating hybrid of the proto-rem demonstrated on murmur and reckoning. And the more accessible sounds that they would show on life's rich pageant. This was were they started to head for the stars. And by Automatic they had achieved it!LOL
@@beckyschade2359 Wow, Automatic being your least favourite. Fair enough I guess, although to me it's close to perfect in the way it flows and each song touches you in a different, but still profound way.
Green is my favorite for how sincere the songs were. But I know I'm in the minority on that and I know that album alienated IRS fans. I think Green, Fables, Monster and New Adventures are under appreciated and often written off, especially Fables and Monster.
Saw them in the Royal Court in Liverpool in 85 when they were promoting Reconstruction. They made me realise life was worth a go, along with The Smiths and Prefab Sprout and others. I know they had a tough time recording this album and it maybe isn't among their favourites but this my introduction to REM and I wouldn't have it any other way
Lucky u. I was supposed to see them first time on this reconstruction tour but my friend screwed me over. Saw them on green , out of time and monster tours.
I fell asleep and read just about every paragraph Read the scene where gravity is pulling me around Peel back the mountains peel back the sky Stomp gravity into the floor It's a Man Ray kind of sky Let me show you what I can do with it Time and distance are out of place here Step up, step up, step up the sky is open-armed When the light is mine, I felt gravity pull Somewhere near the end it said "You can't do this", I said "I can, too" Shift sway rivers shift, oceans fall and mountains drift It's a Man Ray kind of sky Let me show you what I can do with it Step up, step up, step up the sky is open-armed When the light is mine, I felt gravity pull onto my eyes Holding my head straight (looking down) This is the easiest task I've ever had to do I fell asleep and read just about every paragraph Read the scene where gravity is pulling me around Shift the swaying river's shift Oceans fall and mountains drift It's a Man Ray kind of sky Let me show you what I can do with it Time and distance are out of place here Step up, step up, step up the sky is open-armed When the light is mine, I felt gravity pull onto my eyes Holding my head straight (looking down) This is the easiest task I've ever had to do Reason had harnessed the tame Holding the sky in their arms Gravity pulls me down
I love R.E.M. ❤️️❤️️❤️️...they were so talented, too bad they have broken up now & are no longer together to give us even more great music.😢 I love R.E.M. ❤️️❤️️❤️️...they were so talented, too bad they have broken up now & are no longer together to give us even more great music.😢
REM are my favorite band of all time, this album sound so great also thanks to the good job by Joe Boyd, as he done with Nick Drake and many others UK band...we miss him.
Always thought the Gang of Four influence was heavy on this one, but I really love how they incorporate cello and other touches which make it their own. Fables of the Reconstruction is my favorite R.E.M. album because of it’s the one where they seemed to take the most chances. It’s also the darkest they got.
They opened with this when I saw them at the Leroy Theater in Pawtucket, R.I.. It was the Fables tour. Great show. Overall, I had seen REM 8 times. Stopped at Green tour.
Tin Gym. University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa. November 1985. 10,000 Maniacs opened. One of their best songs ever. Never heard it on the radio. Very little air play on MTV (yes, they really use to play videos!)
+Carole Corns And Maps and Legends, Live and How To Live It, Old Man Kensey, Green Grow the Rushes, Kahoutek, Auctioneer, Good Advices and Wendell Gee. Oh yeah and Bandwagon. It was a B side. My favorite LP by them.
driver 8 and Rockville and wendell gee and little america and this. "reason has harnessed the tame" is a line found both in little america and feeling gravity's pull
I'll never be able to thank you enough for awakening the odd peaceful corner of my subconscious that has stayed with me for over 20 years, now. Your music has touched my mind like no other. Knew it had to end someday, but why NOW? :,(
I love all of REM's back catalogue, you can really hear them getting better and better from album to album -can you imagine a band being given the chance to develop like that these days? It would all be over by Murmur!
Recorded yards from where i used to live in a particularly shitty part of London. They hated it there. This record 'made' the band. They should have moved there permanently.
+Anthony Meursault 'Just because people put things in quotes' 'Doesn't mean they have any significant meaning.' 'While this is my favorite record of there's, very few bought it so I don't know what it made for them.' 'Outside of it being my favorite of there's.'
i'd say it was life's rich pageant and document which "made" the band in terms of popularity and chart success, but this was a really good album that differed from murmur and reckoning and helped proved that they could differentiate themselves. it's one of my favorites they made, but i'd imagine if they'd gone through that recording process again, there wouldn't have been many more albums to follow.
I love the sound of this song. Probably R.E.M.'s best song but then, i haven't heard the Collapse into now album yet but almost all of their other albums ive listened to a lot.
there was a time that i thought bill berry was the lead singer because they never showed the bands photos on their albums, now you cannot escape Stipes face.
I shouldn't have taken the bait, either. I just get really tired of people bringing such irrelevant topics up. The music is amazing. Appreciate and enjoy it, and be happy.
