For a lot of people, R.E.M. had a kind of magic about them back then. If someone asked me why I liked the band, I would show them this. But tonight I try to find here what I used to hear and see, how it made me feel. Where did it go? It's like falling out of love. Guess we're not kids anymore. Time strips away our dreams and illusions, but she never fails to replace them with new gods and goals. Glad to be alive, and even if I didn't find what I was looking for, it's good to see this again.
time has itchy fingers that scratch away at what once was before our media saturated lives we took joy in the moments that come and were left to memory
Jim Herbert who shot this is a genius. It fits the music pefectly, to such a degree they become inseparable. He also did the videos for Low and Its the End of the World. I put this as some of the greatest Southern Gothic aesthetic ever created.
Step back to a time when your phonograph needle touched down on vinyl, and you didn't take it off until the record side ended. "Reckoning" was a revelation and remains as such 40 years later. That's R.A. Miller's whirligig farm and our intrepid foursome working in unison. This is archival footage, and thank goodness it exists. R.E.M. R Awesome.
It’s fall and I drive around with my windows open and the heat on listening to REM and it all makes sense to me even with the future looking so exhausted and pale, even with the past in it’s rightful place.
I'm 18 and sitting in my dorm again. This side of music is the most perfect since the second side of Abbey Road, and this video is so quintessentially R.E.M. Thanks so much for uploading this.
@@DemigodCodex Hmmm...that's a tough one. It doesn't sound like anything from Chronic Town or even Dead Letter Office. It may just be a snippet of an unfinished or unreleased song.
@@OneTimWhatley it probably was another unaccredited studio musicians that played on murmur since the band members took a lot of time to actually learn the material given to them to perform...
Wow this is terrible. The band is hanging out at a Georgia windmill farm. Ooo that’s clever. There’s absolutely no connection whatsoever to the music or the lyrics, the motion is all herky-jerky, and the style is so low-budget and amateurish that you can barely see anything. MTV was smart to ignore this drivel.
Not every band of the last forty years based every decision on what they thought would look good on MTV. Sometimes like in this case it was more like "We've got some time to kill, let's just film some stuff and see what happens." That's just the process of making art, sometimes it turns out good, sometimes not so good. This is just a weird little experimental film capturing a brief moment of time and should be judged on that basis, not whether it represents the music or lyrics or plays well with the teenage demographic or whatever.
@@KenPurchase thank you! through the years i learned about Howard and Kensey and now R.A. Miller’s farm. just read how his work was on the pretty persuasion and drive videos *and seven chinese brothers and time after time! i just love rem ❤️
