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The otherworldly story of how an indie band went global with the unlikeliest hit.. maybe ever… R.E.M. Losing my Religion from their 1991 masterpiece blockbuster Out of Time. Months before 90s grunge took over, REM set the tone with a song about madness using an old southern saying… Michael Stipe masterfully sang the tune, with Peter Buck’s Mandolin and Mike Mills and Bill Berry holding their own…the story of a classic.
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Ever since their formation in 1980 at the University of Georgia campus, R.E.M. has kept out of step with most other bands. In 1983, when synthesizers were all the rage, they released the jangly guitar-driven Murmur. And throughout the 80s these captains of college rock defied industry expectations so they could build a loyal fanbase. It was a slow burn, but R.E.M. couldn’t help but gain traction when they broke into the Mainstream Rock chart’s top 10 multiple times. I have to admit, REM is one of my three favorite bands ever. From 1983 to 1997, every one of they albums were straight A’s...

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@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Poll: 1991 was a phenomenal year in music. What is your pick for the best song and best album?

@johnhamilton2588 2 года назад

For me, Out of Time is the best album of 1991. It was so ahead of its time.. For best song, I have to go with Silent Lucidity by Queensryche, a band from Seattle that wasn't part of the grunge movement. That song is one of my all-time favorites.

@timmedlock996 2 года назад

Ten Badmotorfinger Blood, Sugar, Sex Magic Nevermind Black Album Out of Time

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

@@johnhamilton2588 Guess what? We have a little something coming out on Queensryche! Stay tuned.

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

@@timmedlock996 Great albums to be sure.

@scottymoondogjakubin4766 2 года назад

i remember house party's in the early 90's KLF was prob one of the most played bands that year

@JPMJPM 2 года назад

Thank you, Athens, Georgia, for R.E.M., the B-52’s, and the Indigo Girls! 👏👏👏

@scottbelcher9026 2 года назад

Don’t forget Vic Chesnutt!!! ❤️

@dustinjones8887 2 года назад

and Widespread Panic

@scottbelcher9026 2 года назад

@@dustinjones8887 yes!!!

@dionnpeterson 10 месяцев назад

and the Elephant 6 movement. Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, Apples In Stereo...etc. Athens was a hotbed of talent. It could still be.

@carenhelms8518 2 года назад

I loved REM and we saw them in the 80s when they would swing up to Charlotte to play shows at the Double Door. When I had my second child in 1993, I had terrible postpartum depression (which no one was really talking about yet) and I played REM's Out of Time album on repeat, crying and rocking my baby girl. REM offered me the comfort I couldn't find anywhere else during that dark season of my life. I loved them before that, but I loved them even more after that and still do today!

@mikenielsen8781 2 года назад

"The lengths that I will go to, the distance in your eyes..." Poetic genius.

@728huey 2 года назад

I don't remember if it was MTV or Billboard, but I remember R.E.M. being interviewed after the Out of Time album was released, and the interviewer asked the band how it felt to hit it big in the mainstream. Michael Stipe said, "we never went mainstream; the mainstream came to us."

@marcmarc1967 2 года назад

It's a shame that virtually no one speaks of REM's first 4.5 albums, which are their best works. It's like their existence began with The One I Love in 1987.

@mrsiz218 2 года назад

THANK YOU!! That used to drive me nuts!! Folks treated them like they were new with Out of Time. And I was like ‘you do know they’ve been around for a few years now, right?’ Turn You Inside Out and Can’t Get There From Here always came to mind for me.

@somersetcondosecurity Год назад

Agreed. Personally, I liked them more before Out of Time.

@KargoolElvalie 10 месяцев назад

The IRS era was brilliant, Reckoning was probably my fave album until Automatic For The People came out.

@jeannewise264 9 месяцев назад

My favorite band of all time. Document or Fables of the Reconstruction are incredible!

@user-qc7be1gs7j 7 месяцев назад

They were a much, much better band in their early years. I lost interest after Stand came out.

@DoctorJohnSmith9 2 года назад

Whoooooo! Finally the Prof covers R.E.M., also one of my most favorite bands, right up there with the Beatles! Out of Time was the soundtrack of my senior year in high school. The cassette tape I had was so worn out, barely any of the print could be seen on the plastic, and rarely did it leave my Walkman. One small nitpick: no mention of Kate Pierson!! Rooting for you, Adam, to one day score a long sit-down with Michael Stipe!

@gregoryturner9530 2 года назад

R.E.M. legitimately laid the path for 3 decades of Rock bands to follow

@janet4498 2 года назад

Love REM and "Losing My Religion" One of the best songs of 1991, in my opinion. The follow-up, "Shiny Happy People" was out of the ordinary for the band in terms of how upbeat it was, but a great song anyway, especially with added vocals by Kate Pierson of the B-52s. Automatic for the People and Monster are '90s classics as well!

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

I always liked Shiny Happy People, though the band hated it. It's a fun, uplifting song. Great album. Thanks Janet!

@tdwatts3 2 года назад

And the Sesame Street version "Shiny Happy Monsters"

@cc1k435 2 года назад

@Scoot Beans Happy people holding hands? 😉

@blatherama 2 года назад

@Scoot Beans It was a song I liked until about the third time I heard and then I was like ????? What was I thinking?

@2degucitas 2 года назад

@Scoot Beans Stipe saw propaganda posters in China with the phrase. I'm certain he wrote the song with cynicism.

@travisbunce7334 2 года назад

'Orange Crush' from the 'Green' Album will always be my favorite REM song, 'Losing my Religion' is a close second.

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Orange Crush is phenomenal.

@cherimendenhall3094 11 месяцев назад

i agree

@denisruskin348 2 года назад

Automatic For The People is such a masterpiece, has to be mentioned more often in best all times lists…and the production, man.

@TrashLefties 2 года назад

That was a great follow up. Sadly underrated and forgotten mostly.

@dschlep5474 2 года назад

Agreed, their best IMO. Find the River

@austintrousdale2397 2 года назад

@@TrashLefties Forgotten? Not by the cool kids 😎😁 Although yes, _Automatic for the People_ does often seem overshadowed by more mercurial acts when the Grunge Era is popularly discussed.

@boognish94 3 месяца назад

Easily their best album

@timmedlock996 2 года назад

Texarkana does it for me off this Album but all time favorites are: You Are the Everything, Nigjtswimming, Superman and The One I Love

@ash_durant6071 2 года назад

Oh Yeah!

@mojomusica.0169 2 года назад

I could listen to a whole album of Mike Mills songs.

@deanrobert9953 2 года назад

Texarkana!

@dracodavidius3583 5 месяцев назад

@@deanrobert9953 Forty thousand stars in the evening. Look at them fall from the sky. Forty thousand reasons for living. Forty thousand tears in your eye.

@RhidMorgan 2 года назад

near wild heaven and me in honey are up there with best songs of 90s in my opinion

@AllMediaReviewsPodcast 2 года назад

"Indie" or..."College Rock"?...why I've contended for years Indie = Alternative Alternative = College thus Indie/Alternative = College all of that style of music should just be referred to as "College Rock."

@mysterbear 2 года назад

Greetings from Athens, GA, y’all. 🤟🏾

@pewsterbaby 2 года назад

Hi Professor! I discovered REM Spring Break of 1985 at N.C. State. My friends kept on playing "Can't Get There From Here" at dorm dance parties. Today, I couldn't remember the song's title, so I listened to the beginning of every REM song in order until I heard it. Took 27 tries. There it was - That JANGLY Rickenbacker rhythm. In '85, it sounded lively, so I threw caution to the wind and nervously joined my friends dancing. Know what, Prof? That's the power of Rock. Thank you.

@DukesMusic84 2 года назад

No R.E.M., no Hootie or Rage or Nirvana. They showed guys that you could go through college radio and break the mainstream, and do it from anywhere.

@gsmith207 2 года назад

I’m 54, grew up on these songs by them. If you played one note, I would know it was them. You the man Prof! Love how you said “ jangling guitar”. Nailed it bud…

@caseysaunders3016 2 года назад

Love REM, though, “Life’s Rich Pageant” is my personal favorite. The raw power of “Begin the Begin” really does it for me.

@ianobrien3248 2 года назад

Yeah, Out of Time is a great album but in 1991 I wanted more Rock.

@brianmiller1077 2 года назад

It's not the best REM album but it's my favorite. More straightforward than Fables, not as hard edged as Document. Right in the sweet spot!

@fluidikons 2 года назад

I believe.......LRP is my favorite

@TheNOISENOISEZETLAND 2 года назад

My fav band ever. From Chronic town to present day. Michael Stipe stole my heart with his beautiful face and words, Bill Berry, Mike Mills, Peter Buck to me they were and are perfection. Their B sides and heartbreaking songs that have gone mostly unnoticed. I feel like they are my own personal secret even with their fame. This was my first album of theirs and I was an addict ever since. My brother got me a box set from Europe for my 14th birthday it was the most memorable gift I ever received. I am so glad I got to see them in Concert the last time was Monster tour sadly. I could go on forever. I have used references to obscure things from their history in so many important parts of my life. I prided myself on my encyclopedic knowledge on them, their music, lyrics dates of birth when I was a teen and it was them that brought me to some of my best friends who just happened to be jamming on guitar in a park playing "Its the end of the world as we know it" and I had to go sing with them and we were bonded for life. At 18 I got a secret tattoo dedicated to my love of them which is the title of one of my fav songs (Which happens to be from Out of Time) I cant say enough about my love for this band and what they have given to me. I literally was wondering why you never made a video specifically on them so I went to search and lo and behold 4 days ago you put this up. ETA one of my prized possessions is an original pin badge gifted to me with a photo of the band from a Chronic Town gig a pal had been at.

@Choralone422 2 года назад

The cassette single for Losing My Religion is the only cassette single that my dad ever bought. And he bought it specifically to listen to in the car during a trip to visit my grandmother shortly after the song hit it big. I can still remember listening to it over and over again both ways during the roughly 375 mile (each way!) trip! My dad was not one for listening to a lot of music by the early 90's but he sure did love that song!

@jusbaize 2 года назад

Green, Out of Time, and Automatic for the People are among the greatest albums ever.

@darthXreven 2 года назад

they're a great trilogy..... with songs like this and Drive....just OMG.... me and my mom put the tape of Automatic in my grandma's car stereo one day and were blown away not just by how good the sound system was but Drive was just amazing, i had heard the song on MTV opreviously but hearing it through superior speakers was mind bebnding Grandma drove a 92 Buick Regal at the time, standard AC Delco factory stereo nothing special but we were both shocked...I've never heard a factory car stereo sound that good before or since....

@revsharkie 2 года назад

We didn't even have MTV when I was in high school. If we wanted videos we had to stay up all night to see Night Tracks on TBS (or, for the sensible among us, set the VCR). It was one of those Night Tracks programs that introduced me to R.E.M. the song was So. Central Rain. I was instantly hooked and found the Reckoning album the next day. It had been around awhile, I think; the next album came out a matter of weeks later. In those days, of course, there was no downloading, no online samples; and you took quite a chance buying an album, in case you didn't like some (or most) of the songs. I had a rule that I had to hear and like two or three songs on the radio before I would shell out for an album. But we didn't live in range of any college radio stations. The hard rock station I listened to from Tulsa had no use for R.E.M., and neither did the local "adult contemporary" AM station, so I didn't really have the opportunity to hear their songs unless they were on Night Tracks. But after I got Reckoning, I decided picking up a R.E.M. album without hearing more than one song, if that, was worth the gamble.

@robertcronin6603 2 года назад

Phenomenal...I'll never forget when this tune dropped - walking around singing it to myself and I was taken by it...the words, the mood, everything...it's timeless - does anyone change the station when this comes on? ...I think not... amazing song 🔥

@stanphillips7277 2 года назад

Yeah, I never get tired of certain songs and that's one of them!🎸🎶✌️❤️✌️

@djigor 2 года назад

I just turn up the radio!😎

@brianpattison4603 2 года назад

Definitely part of the tapestry of my youth from "it's the end of the world as we know it" to "everybody hurts". Standards in my playlist to this day. Happy Monday Professor 👍

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing! Happy Monday Brian!

@KAMUI138 2 года назад

Please please do a track by track breakdown of automatic for the people. It was one of the most perfect albums to have ever been made during that time period. Is not a bad song in the whole group. Easily one of my top 10 albums of all time.

@ambikawolf664 2 года назад

I loved REM 1980 to 2011... They never put out a bad album.They wisely quit at the top.

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

I wasn't a big fan of Up or Around the Sun, though both have some good songs. But I agree on everything else.

@ambikawolf664 2 года назад

@@ProfessorofRock Up was am album when Michael said they were like a dog that lost a leg and had to adapt. Bill Berry insisted on that when he was forced to quit by doctor's orders. Around The Sun was a product of its time. REM deeply influenced Radiohead and Coldplay. The lyrics speak volumes...9/11, Bush Jr., etc.

@davidellis5141 2 года назад

REM were my second favorite band of the 80's with Murmur being my favorite debut album & a Desert Island Disc for me. The Cure were my favorite band of the 80's.

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Murmur is a perfect album. Not doubt about it.

@suzannesmith2452 2 года назад

I never heard the term “losing my religion” explained that way. Your analysis is fascinating.

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Thanks! Thank you for commenting.

@garylefevers 2 года назад

Agreed. P.O.R. did the best description of that phrase by a non southern person ever.

@gaywizard2000 2 года назад

Is it like "drive me to drink" ?

@driver4011 2 года назад

lost interest in r e m when outta time came out....pretty much outta gas...their early stuff much better.

@cc1k435 2 года назад

@@driver4011 I do remember a friend of mine going into a furious rage every time Shiny Happy People came on the radio or mTV. 🤔

@AABB-bm9kk 2 года назад

Religious 👼 Songs: 😀✌️ Losing My Religion by REM Religion by PIL New Religion by Duran Duran Bad Religion by Godsmack Religion by Lana Del Rey Religious by R Kelly (Convicts often “find religion” while incarcerated 😉✌️) Religion by Elton Religious Ceremony by Keith Jarrett Religious Vomit by the Dead Kennedys Religiavision by Soul Asylum Religion by Luther

@wvmikep Год назад

My first exposure to REM was at work when some guys came back from college and played the Chronic Town EP, still my favorite REM music. I remember hearing people talking about this great discovery in REM when Out of Time came out. I just chuckled and thought to myself, "welcome to the club."

@mdduckman 2 года назад

This album is in my opinion tremendously underrated. It features not only the classic Losing My Religion, but also 3 of my favorite REM songs ever: Belong, Texarkana, and the absolutely sublime Country Feedback. Yes, it also contains Shiny Happy People, but I don't hold that against the album. :^) Seriously, people seem to dismiss the album and I don't see why. And yes, I'll still hear Losing My Religion and think of 90210 (Dylan and Brenda), but that's not their fault (not bashing 90210 - it was my cheesy guilty pleasure when I was in my 20's!). Is it my favorite album of theirs? No - but it's pretty darn good in my opinion. And it always takes me back to junior year in college. Thanks for the analysis Professor. That's the beauty of REM - the meaning of the lyrics are always open to interpretation. Always enjoy your thoughts!

@jeffstrong7813 2 года назад

Country Feedback👍👍👍

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

I love Country Feedback. Belong is sooo goo. And of course Half a World Away.

@jeffstrong7813 2 года назад

@@ProfessorofRock Could be completely wrong (not uncommon 🙄), but I read an article some time ago that Michael Stipe said Country Feedback was one of his favorites songs.

@savageishbu 2 года назад

Stipe’s dancing reminds me of Ian Curtis during live performances.

@augustosolari7721 2 года назад

García Márquez Is Colombian, not Argentinian. Other than that, flawless as always.

@DominicNicholes 2 года назад

All right, I found this way too late. Sadly. I subscribe right away by the way 😉 So I have a story for you about my experience with REM. I also discovered REM through MTV in 1987. I was living in a small town in Idaho and I remember as a kid I told my mom I was going to the store. Little did she know that I planned to ride 15 miles on a sketchy farm road to the only mall we had at that time to buy the Green album. That started an entire summer of throwing all my money at the back catalog albums of REM. My favorite album at the time was Document. King of Birds was one of my favorite songs that I listened to over and over and over again. Still do. Anyways. In 1989 the green tour came to Boise, Idaho. It is still my most favorite concert I've ever been to in my entire life. I have more REM songs as karaoke go to's on my list to this day than any other artist. Anyways, whether you read this or not I just wanted to say thank you 😏

@henrylazarde8967 2 года назад

Amazing stuff as usual. Gabriel García Marquez, though, is not from Argentina but from Colombia 👍🏾😉

@otgenesis7410 2 года назад

Almost everybody I know knew of REM from Everybody Hurts or Losing My Religion....I started with the entirety of Murmur, and they never failed to disappoint. Nightswimming and The Great Beyond are my favorites.

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Good call Rich.

@alliswede42 2 года назад

🎵🎶 I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing🎶🎵 loved loved LOVED this album in my teens! Got it for Christmas along with Monster and Automatic for the People as I had just started getting into them more. Near Wild Heaven was an underrated cut on there and I will cop to loving Shiny Happy People 😁

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Near Wild Heaven is so BEACH BOYS! Love it. Great comment Allison.

@garytrew2766 2 года назад

Shiny Happy People, that's another one of my favorites. REM was an awesome band, glad Adam did this one. Thanks to you too, music is everything to me, I enjoy POR and all the things he talks about. ✌️&🤘 Brother Gary

@FatherAndTeacherTV 2 года назад

I love this song by these Georgia boys who started out in Athens. Many miles from where I grew up. REM was such a great band. Great lyrics with music that wasn't so typical nor was the leader singer stereotypical. "Man on the Moon" is great too, along with many others and "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" and "The One I Love". Great group!

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Love Man on the Moon.

@stephenhanft1226 2 года назад

With a few exceptions, I never like it when the professor does any episode in the 90s because, in my opinion, most 90s music sucked.. When alternative, grunge, and rap became mainstream in the early 90s , I was disgusted and done following current music. I wish all of those genres I named remained underground and never went mainstream.

@constipatedinsincity4424 2 года назад

Hey ProRo 👋, I saw your advertisement Friday. Mike told me and daughter a different story about the origin of this great song 🎵!

@Michael-bk5nz 2 года назад

I've always assumed the unrequited love in the song is a gay man secretly in love with a straight man, and this is why he is terrified of being found out, as he doesn't want to be outed......go back and re-read the lyrics and tell me that this doesn't make every single line make complete sense

@shanehebert396 2 года назад

When I think "college music", I think of REM, The Cure, and The Smiths. There are others, but those are first.

@geebeeinga 2 года назад

Definitely part of my set list for 80’s music when I was in college. Icicle Works, Echo, Lloyd Cole, Elvis C and Peter Murphy etc.

@LednacekZ 2 года назад

For me this song has always been about one sided love of an introverted person who brought his love into obsession without revealing it to the object of his love.

@FoulOwl2112 2 года назад

My favorite REM album was "Life's Rich Pageant"

@Bunke09 2 года назад

This song led me back into purchasing the Eponymous cassette that led me back into so many great albums when I was 16 yrs old. I bumped into Michael in the stair well of a YMCA leaving a Fugazi show back in 93. He was walking against everyone leaving the show as he bumped into my shoulder I looked up into his face and froze. No one else seemed to notice who he was. It made sence that before the show started I swore to my friends that I saw Peter and Mike down a hall when we first got to the show. I to this day wish I'd gone over and thanked him for opening me up to so much music.

@stanphillips7277 2 года назад

Can't change the past, but it's still a cool story. I met Zack Wylde backstage at Ozzy once. We talked for 10 minutes and I got the sense he liked me but I was too nervous to really say the things that occured to me afterwards. I honestly don't remember what we talked about outside of asking him how he played with his guitar upside down, just letting gravity take it from top to bottom and playing at the same time. He said it was easier than it looked. I tried it and it's just as hard as it looks 😂

@2degucitas 2 года назад

Freezing up in the sudden presence of a music artist we love is a normal thing.

@BillGraper 2 года назад

First view & comment. One of my favorites from the 90's!!!

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Yes!

@TheMusicalElitist 2 года назад

REM weren’t ‘indie’ by that point - they were on a major. Come on, Prof! Get it right…

@jusbaize 2 года назад

11 by The Smithereens is what got me into college or indie or alternative rock. They opened the door for me for REM, XTC and others

@JPMJPM 2 года назад

OMG. I got to see The Smithereens in college in a fairly small venue!

@deanrobert9953 2 года назад

11 is a killer record. Played the shit out of it... I can recall my drunk buddies singing it 'balloons before and after' and giggling their heads off... now that's all I ever hear. Great song. Yesterday Girl is a fave. The well known songs are on Side A but those B side album tracks like Cut Flowers, William Wilson and Maria Elena are just so brilliant. Love it. Thanks for the comment... got me listening to that album again. Cheers

@robertcronin6603 2 года назад

"I think I thought I saw you try" ...one of the best lines *ever*

@gladbagsurgery 2 года назад

This guy reminds me of Peter K. Rosenthal

@leewaken5059 2 года назад

I just like the fact that the core members stayed together for the entirety of the bands existence. Much the same as The Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles etc. That right there keeps the band's "mojo" consistent through out. REM equals awesomeness, good stuff.

@jakfuki 2 года назад

Not really. They became a trio with the Up album.

@scottmbruner 2 года назад

The drummer, who wrote Everyone Hurts (and others), left the band and they still made 4 (very uneven) albums.

@trappedinamerica7740 2 года назад

@@scottmbruner it is funny how losing a member changes bands even if they aren’t a principal songwriter. Look at bands like the smashing pumpkins, even though the other members very rarely got writing credit they sure slipped in quality further and further as they lost members. Bands are a sum of the whole and changing elements changes everything

@commentfreely5443 2 года назад

i'm close to buying a mandolin

@kirbymarchbarcena 2 года назад

You can barely find any hits today that had ambiguous lyrics like this masterpiece of a song.

@Patrick3183 2 года назад

Hits today barely have lyrics

@Mahim1968 9 месяцев назад

The allusion to the angel in the video is based on: A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, a short story by Colombian writer G.G. Marquez.

@cew1821 2 года назад

Brilliant take on this unforgettable tune

@mjproebstle 2 года назад

saw them in 1984 on their Feeling Gravity’s Pull tour. everyone was on their feet from start to encore. truly amazing! cheers!!

@2Nu 2 года назад

I have it on good word that Susanna Hoffs also cut her gorgeous studio vocal track for the Bangles 'Eternal Flame' while in the buff. :: Clutch The Pearls ::

@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306 2 года назад

In the early 90's I was really only into funk, blues, some classic rock and grunge. Now that I have a more open mind to different types of music I really appreciate REM. They were more or less a soundtrack to the times much like the Beatles were in the 60's.

@1jediwitch 2 года назад

In 1991, I was 22, & had lost the love of my life to a vehicle crash, & I was devastated. This song (I didn't know about the Southern term), actually helped me deal with that Soul/Heart shattering pain, & I did feel the pain & anguish of unrequited love, with the choice of musical instruments, & delivery. Great song, & video. Great musical analyses Prof., tyvm for your insights, & great interviews. 💖 👍 👍🎼🎵🎶🤘💖🤘

@V01t2 2 года назад

I spent the entire day - riding the city bus to Silverale. This was back when purchasing such things took all day. Still to this day I love and know each chord and note sung. There won't be another album like Out of Time and Automatic for the People

@stanphillips7277 2 года назад

There will be or did you mean there won't? 🤔

@V01t2 2 года назад

@@stanphillips7277 (won't sorry)

@stanphillips7277 2 года назад

@@V01t2 I thought so, and your right!! That album is up there with albums like "Dark Side of the Moon" or "Sgt. Peppers". I could list more right? But there are some albums that change the game forever. Some might argue that R.E.M. shouldn't be compared to what the Beatles Sgt Pepper's album did to innovative and change things for all future artists but I think "Out of Time" is up there with the best of them! Nice comment and everyone will understand what you meant. I thought just maybe you were saying something like "You ain't seen nothin' yet" but I was 99 % sure it was a typo. My auto correct keyboard makes mistakes for me just like that all the time! See you around Christopher 🎸🎶❤️✌️🙏

@Fakeaorta 2 года назад

Great segment Professor! REM is one of the greatest American bands of all time! Their earlier stuff is my favourite, but they rarely had clunkers and were more influential than I think people realize. When I used to do some busking with friends in San Diego, REM's songs was one of our most popular covers.

@boognish94 3 месяца назад

I'd say R.E.M. is the best Ameican band of all time and it isn't even close.

@jimmyramone5714 2 года назад

I was a fan before that song and album. It still bothers me that they broke up.

@wendyokoopa7048 2 года назад

Same but sometimes retirement has to happen

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Same. But It helps me appreciate them so much more.

@dhpbear2 2 года назад

I was still on my Smooth Jazz kick in 1991. The artists that you listed at 3:05 and 5:07. with the exception of Wilson Phillips, are the reason!

@TheIroncitykid 2 года назад

I don't know what the other 3 are but Automatic For The People is on my Mt Rushmore of favorite Albums. Underappreciated

@boognish94 3 месяца назад

Agreed, I have it #1 of all albums by any artist

@mitakuyeoyasin1043 2 года назад

ALWAYS love when you're rockin the Smiths tee.

@martinlisk9913 2 года назад

Bands and albums like this will never be made again in mainstream media. The R.E.M. albums where you can't make out what Michael is singing about (the hits on the Eponymous CD) is what is missing in today's music ... great highlight Adam

@humanchannel7825 2 года назад

Don’t be so fucking negative old man

@dhpbear2 2 года назад

'Alternative"! Alternative to good music!

@NoCoverCharge 2 года назад

I was lucky to live in Athens Ga during this time and worked for their manager … great band … good people and what a great music scene back then

@dhpbear2 2 года назад

6:09 - To me that sounds like metal scraping together! Very harsh!

@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS 2 года назад

REM and what other two bands make up your 3 favs, Professor?

@rderyk 2 года назад

........Michael Stipe dancing reminded me of Tears For Fears' Roland Orzabals' dance in TFF music videos........ :D

@river2poet 4 месяца назад

Amazing material! Kudos prefessor! One small correction Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian writer, not from Argentine

@RuthlessMojo 2 года назад

Such a great song. As a poet and songwriter the songs theme appeals to me greatly. It echoes the sentiments of the romantic poets. That melancholic hunger has influenced a lot of my own work, particularly the theme of unrequited love and the subsequent pain and heartache that comes with it.

@BubblegumLightsaber 5 месяцев назад

This has been one of my favorite songs of all time since I first saw the music video when I was twelve years old. At the time I was more into pop music (I was a twelve-year-old girl, after all), and REM didn't get me into alternative music per se (that was The Wallflowers in 1997), but I think they might have planted a seed.

@ScottWaldenGuitar 2 года назад

R.E.M. One of my favorite bands. I grew up in Athens and was a freshman at the University of Georgia in 1982. It was a great time to be there.

@MyName-pl7zn 2 года назад

I would put this period of REM right up there with the Beatles and Stones when they were at their most creative. I have always been in the camp of he was having this conversation with himself in his head not saying it out loud on losing my religion. Loved Automatic for the people is still my favorite followed by Monster. Definitely do more REM professor, love your work

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

I agree 100%.

@jeannewise264 8 месяцев назад

REM is my favorite band of all time. Their IRS years were incredible. I first heard about them with Losing My Religion, but I went through their catalog of music and found that their early stuff was even better! Chronic Town, Murmur, Document, Fables of the Reconstruction, Reckoning, and Life's Rich Pageant are incredible albums. Let's not forget about the B - sides collection of Dead Letter Office. All are better than Out of Time. Although I have to agree with the Professor, Automatic for the People is their greatest album. I absolutely love the song "Find the River."

@McGheeOH 2 года назад

god a hated rem so bad

@bostonvair 2 года назад

Great video! I "discovered" REM in 1985 with the "Fables of the Reconstruction" (or "Reconstruction of the Fables") album followed by "Life's Rich Pageant." I loved their obtuseness.

@deborahglover0112 8 месяцев назад

I love REM and I love Losing My Religion. I just thought then as I do now that it was just different from all the songs that were being played on the radio. I haven't said it but I really enjoy watching your channel. Thanks for sharing😊❤

@SangriaSamurai 2 года назад

Albums: REM - Out of Time P.M. Dawn - Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience Metallica - The Black album Nirvana - Nevermind Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik Songs: REM - Losing my religion James - Sit down Pearl Jam - Black Metallica - the Unforgiven REM -Texarkana

@manuelurbina9018 2 года назад

Solamente para hacer una correción en este episodio. Cuando POR nombra a Gabriel García Márquez...habla de un escrito argentino...cuando en realidad García Márquez es de nacionalidad colombiana...gracias....disfruto mucho estos programas

@StepOSX 2 года назад

So many great albums came out in 1991. I bought "Out of Time" the day it came out and met my now wife 11 days later. That album was on constant play when we started dating that spring. My top 5 albums for 1991 and favorite cut from each album - in no particular order - Out of Time (R.E.M.)/"Low", "Space I'm In" (The Candyskins)/"Submarine Song", "The White Room" (The KLF)/"3 a.m. Eternal" [yes, it is very different form what is played on this channel], "Girlfriend" (Matthew Sweet)/"I've Been Waiting" & "Nevermind" (Nirvana)/"Come As You Are".

@SD9Driver 2 года назад

Peter Buck is a pretty good guitar player. A few standouts for me are: Pretty Persuasion, Fall On Me, Superman, So Central Rain, What's The Frequency Kenneth. (too many to list maybe, what a great band). 😎

@Slap_Shot1977 Год назад

REM wasn't my last, but they were my first musical obsession. I can remember collecting anything I could from cardboard cutout ads from Musicland, to every bootleg video I could find to posters, t-shirts, etc. They nearly created the college rock genre on their own, became the best rock band in America per Rolling Stone at one time, and their albums from Murmur to New Adventures were ridiculously varied, exciting and deep. While for this fan they were never quite the same after Bill Berry left, they finished on a high note and quit at the right time as sad as it was. 90 million albums sold speaks for itself. Love, love, LOVE them. Thank you for this.

@7l6f4s9q 2 года назад

Here in Brazil in 91, MTV had just been launched...radios would play "the same structure kinda pop-music" until "Losing My Religion" exploded on every single radio... Withing 2 months max, this song had become a phenomenum...I didn't like music until that...when I became alternative-rock/R.E.M. fan. Even conservative radio stations were playing "Losing My Religion"...you didn't need to have a radio device 'coz you'd hear it outside, anytime. Although MTV wasn't big in Brazil yet, its promo-video was also a huge success that other TV stations created TV-shows to present music-videos...and "LMR" would play everyday. Out Of Time was my 1st album/vinyl ever...I still have it...R.E.M. became so huge that many songs from that album became the opening or main tracks for TV-shows or Radio-shows. There were TV-specials about the story of R.E.M....many Radio-specials about its story or playing all the catalog..."The One I Love" became a hit in Brazil in 91...and some other old songs became hits in college-radios here as well, like: "It's The End Of The World...", "Radio Free Europe", "So. Central Rain", "Fall On Me", etc. Even "Tourfilm" would play 2, 3 times a year on National Broadcast Prime-Time until 95. Newspaper would very often write something about the band...plenty of magazines with pictures and articles about R.E.M. every month...it was simply massive and helped to change Radio-main-paylists for years...

@Gunpaw1958 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for bringing us these stories. Often I enjoy your breakdown of a song more than I ever liked the song. IMHO, this is a rare jewel in a time of pop crap. About this time, I was really craving real rock and went strictly to classic rock stations and talk radio.

@mohammedganai9636 2 года назад

This was their commercial zenith, perhaps, but It would be way more accurate to name "The One I Love" and the album Document as the collective major inflection point for REM. Not just REM, but the alternative scene circa 1987. That was when "college rock" bands started popping up on mainstream radio, scoring major hits (see: New Order, the Cure and Midnight Oil hitting the top 40) and signing on to major labels.

@AVERAGEWHISKEYDRINKER 2 года назад

If you watch the video...and listen.....to me.....it's about gay love, acceptance, and pulling back because of the 1990s at the time where gay love wasn't seen as normal as it is now

@geebeeinga 2 года назад

See a lot of comments capturing R.E.Ms as 90’s music. True, but I graduated HS and went to college in the 80s and their stuff was music magic. Superman, Don’t go back to Rockville, Fall on Me, etc are all part of my 80’s playlist including Smithereens, Smiths, Elvis C, early U2, Big Country, Cars, Cure, etc…An amazing time for music.

@chrisdelisle3954 2 года назад

RE: "From 1983 to 1997...straight A's..." Wow. For me, there's one exception to their straight-A's, and that's "Monster." For me, one of the biggest disappointments in my music listening. I think I liked 2 songs off of that album after falling in love with virtually every song prior to then. Props to you for liking it, though.

@johnnywalker8844 2 года назад

Thank you. I'm enjoying your podcasts. You are filling the knowledge gaps of the songs I heard over the years but may not know their names. We live in amazing times. A couple of keystrokes and the world's knowledge is on the screen. But your connections and filling in the gaps are amazing. Always had music on when working - Starting in the early 60s it was Top 40 AM. Then in the early 70s to the end of the 70s - FM AOR over the purring of a Cummins or Detroit Diesel at 65 to 70 mph with 13 tons of Truck and Product. If driving the F350 & Trailer was hearing the music over a 7.3L Int'l Diesel. During our time at University in Pullman, near Moscow, we got 2 FM AOR stations out of Spokane on Cable in the mid-70s. Otherwise, it was country/western. Being married and both of us going to school, we had little money to buy LPs or Cassettes, though we had a good Stereo and Speakers. At my Business, we had a Boombox tuned to the local Classic Rock Station. I found I got more production out of my employees listening to that. We did not get Cable until 1997. Never home long enough, to justify its cost.

@TheBlackelpie 11 месяцев назад

REM was my religion as a moody teen. Beautiful music, poetry, protest songs, they've got it all. Even disbanded with dignity at the right moment in time. I skipped the part about love :D

@brianjones6210 Год назад

This is why I like the Professor. I had refused to listen to REM for over a decade. When they came on the radio, I immediately changed the channel. I don't know why, maybe I heard them too much. But after watching this, I can appreciate them again. I also felt the same about Van Halen, Guns 'N Roses, The Police, Whitesnake, and more. The Professor always brings me back.

@johnberry6077 2 года назад

The first time that I saw R. E. M. perform LIVE was at the revival of EARTH DAY, in April 1990, on the Mall in Washington DC. In the late afternoon, with the setting sun shining directly into their eyes, the entire time, R. E. M. "owned" the stage. You could even say that it was the singing debut of *Woody Harrelson,* because Woody got on stage and sang with R. E. M., in the course of that same sunny, late afternoon. What made the day seem even more sensational is that, at one point, cable TV screens were set to "split screen", because MTV did a momentary satellite SIMUL-CAST of the crowd on the Mall in Washington DC PAIRED WITH some huge celebratory crowd, somewhere over in Europe.

@komunicador 2 года назад

In 1991 after i got a pirate version of Out of Time i got intrigued with the group and the same year my father gift me for my birthday's present: The Best of R.E M cassette of the IRS era and that was the real thing for me, a new world opened when i owned the early material in 1993.

@sebastianquinchia1840 2 года назад

Excellent as always. One small correction, the writer Márquez (full name Gabriel García Márquez) was not Argentinian, he was Colombian.

@axelnulo8171 2 года назад

Just one thing: Gabriel García Márquez is not from Argentina. He is from Colombia.

@counterpuncher01 2 года назад

Maps and Legends is their best....early stuff was great....when Bill left they lost something but remained respectable.

@jmacd8817 2 года назад

REM are one of the bands that I can always name as a band I love, but can only remember losing my religion. Then, you dig through their discography and it’s like OH yeah, love that song… and THAT song, OH! That song too!!! and that song, and that song…. Part of it is that while I loved some of their music when I was in college, (‘87 to 92) I enjoyed music, but didn’t follow it. Before that I was into classic rock, so missed so much… but the music is still here!