I'm old enough to have followed and loved REM from the beginning and all these years later I am still listening to their stuff.. and I can now answer the question as to the best REM song and album. Finally, I can declare that Turn you inside out and Green is the best.. hands down. Unrivalled and still as fresh today as back in 1988 when I was 20 years old.
I’m a few years behind you… and I remember being like 12 and trying to explain the meaning of their lyrics to my boomer mom, to a blank stare. Honestly , it had more to do with her lack of appreciation for music than her age. REM will always be the sht. 💜💜
Well said, Green is R.E.M., but Out of Time is their best album... despite Losing My Religion, which is a solid song, but it's global popularity made it too well known for this R.E.M. fan. I'll never be able to settle on my favorite song of theirs, due to the sheer quality of their catalog and the range of human emotions, I find myself needing a different song each day. But thank God they existed, I couldn't have gotten through high school without these guys. Thanks for listening to me ramble. Happy Holidays to you and your family. God Bless.
GTA series are great to out great music like this, someone Who doesn't know music can know It through videogame. Also i love GTA 4, i was in middle class school when he got It out, also the story Is my favourite, more Better that GTA 5, very Deep.
Yeah..I am 58 but can scare some young ones bc they know I mean it. I will challenge them 2 try me Anyone that was there in the mid 70s will tell u we are the best at " head games". We play them so well my niece still sweats.. she is 26. She will tell u she has learned quite bit. Never show ur hand. Always play chess or be good enough at checkers that those who can't play chess are bluffed n2 thinking u can. BTW..I can play chess.. just don't have the patience unless I am tripping the " champion up". Lol.
@@sheilahayden816 BRAVA! This is 1 of my Fav REM songs & (Agent)~Orange Crush & the 1 with the Rappers! I loathed Reagan (nancy & ron sr) TOO!~WHAT TOOLS &, what a nightmare~(Right out of the box He~Hope the trying to organize A Union Fired Air Traffic Controllers Landed On Their Feet & that was After raygun made a deal with iran etc during the Jimmy Carter campaign to not release The Hostages till right after the election results were official) & i had lived through nixon/kissinger by then. Probly thought the Way Expensive Star Wars Space Defense System would work because it was similar to The/A Movie, raygun was USA president Darth Vader. Bests, dtf.
People always talk about Michael Stipe when they mention REM, but honestly I think Peter Buck has always been so cool, not to mention super talented. What an amazing group though--Please come back!😢
One of the greatest bands of all-time. I really miss them! This song and the whole of the Green album really brings back lots of fond memories for me. It still sounds so fresh and relevant today too.
Does this song remind anyone else of Finest Worksong from Document? The beginning before the chorus sounds exactly like it. Not hating I absolutely love both of those songs and with R.E.M.'s enormous catalog it would be almost impossible not to have any repeats.
I heard this song years before I decided to check out REM's back catalog, in chronological order of course. When Finest Worksong started, my first thought was that this song sounded like it.
Sometimes a great band transcends the industry itself and becomes even greater then just a awesome band, influencing future culture and generations to come, without REM there would never have been the evidence and proof that diy alternative could prosper, REM walked so many could run and indeed fly
One of my favorite bands ever!My stoner buddy in my art class was CONSTANTLY raving about Losing My Religion,I like punk rock but classic(real) alternative music is something I've always liked. After falling in love with that song I bought their album Reckoning on vinyl and fell in love with REM
This was filmed at a little hole-in-the -wall club that is called the Caledonian Lounge now but was the 40Watt in the 80's. I loved that club and went there once or twice a week for years. The cover charge was usually $1 and PBRs were 0.75 cents a can. I lived within walking distance and usually didn't bother to check what band was playing. In '89 I went to see a band just because it had a vulgar name. I walked to the club but then walked on by. Next day I read that the band was actually REM.
Saw rem in concert for their green world tour in 1989 in the bay area northern California. Smack in the middle of my college days in a uc campus. Every song was like its meant specially for you. The venue had such electricity. I will never forget that night. Document and green were during my college days and i believe they were some of the finest work songs of REM
REM are still great. I do miss that unique sound from the drums that Bill Berry managed to do, but I rejoice that I have the CDs, DVDs and RU-vid vids and that the band still lives and rocks.
I listened to to this song while dancing on the hotel room radiators way back in the 90's during my high school All State festival adventure. Oh yeah, fun times...
-Youth is a good thing, until it is no more. Enjoy, while you have. Nothin' lasts forever. Be humble - be real. We were young - now we're old. It happens.
Took me a while to realize that this is both a remake of and a sequel to "Finest Worksong". I already knew that Green was more or less a direct continuation of Document, but the choice to do this lends another interesting touch to Green that evokes a sense of self-awareness to said continuation.
Divide your cultured pearls and paste I'm looking for to lay to waste Of all the things I cannot taste and this not the racy race They spoke loud I believe in what you do I believe in watching you It's what you do I could turn you inside-out What I choose not to do I could turn you inside-out What I choose not to do Given the choice Given the heart Given the tool Given the word Given the cheers I believe in what you do I believe in watching you It's what you do I could turn you inside-out What I choose not to do I could turn you inside-out What I choose not to do
This is a seminal moment in our cultural evolution. The song and the Vid. This marked the last, best statement before the advent of the PC/ Internet age.Learn to withhold, technologies, and media never stop. but what you choose is the message.
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.😢
I've only seen this video a couple times, but there was a technique used here that I'd never seen before (or maybe since) and it's stuck in my head all these years. From around 1:39 to 2:00, it's like the video footage is enlarged to 200% and then sort of randomly pushed around the screen, so you sometimes see the edge, or sometimes get stuck in a corner. The band is singing "I believe in watching you," and it does have sort of a surveillance quality, like some TV detective just said "enhance" to his computer. Seems like this could be used in interesting ways, especially with 4K video...
