R.E.M's Michael Stipe embarrasses himself.

[itchyfiddle]

if you can be offended by something michael stipe says, it is time to quit the internets and re-evaluate your life.

[7d7e7f7]

I often wonder why people say women have softer, calmer voices. Men obviously have deeper softer calming voices.

[dreadedwheat26]

irish scumbags.

[pixiesarah1]

@dreadedwheat26 

[dreadedwheat26]

@pixiesarah1 i was only jokin.im irish,live in cork.

[VistaBoner]

how is this embarrassing?

[kuwaimaha]

@VistaBoner he mentioned a blowjob in front of his family members.

[VistaBoner]

@kuwaimaha

No shit. Big deal.

[kuwaimaha]

@VistaBoner calm down mate, all I was doing was answering your question.

[kymully1]

00:16 my girl laughin <3

[crazyxmarine]

TSU: Oh God yes, and Axel Rose; never a more pretentious, silly, over-rated prick existed!

[crazyxmarine]

rock stars should never talk, just sing; they are all, without exception, fucking morons we adore when they read their scripts, just like the actors we adore; they should be kept on some island and forbidden to voice their imbecilic opinions, and only engage us when they are acting or singing, because they are all, without exception, stupid pathetic intellectually inept fucktards!

[Tsugaheterophylla]

@crazyxmarine I'm pretty much in agreement with you, although Hendrix had some amusing stage patter.

[mattthecat03]

Pretty embarrassing.Not exactly one of the smartest musicians ever .Or greatest,lmao

[rem299]

embarrasses? man, your a pretty nasty depressing person if you take pleasure in thinking that what you see here is a man embarrassing himself. read very carefully AT NO POINT DID HE EMBARRASS HIMSELF. he is one of the greatest musicians who's ever lived.

[newnewly]

...he may be embarrassed now...probably wasn't then

[Phishean]

harbor coat...love that song...!!!



[silentdread]

Whether this was regarded as funny or just plain awkward, Michael Stipe appears to be the single most boring frontman ever - at least in between songs. Even if this type of "introduction" is somehow a beloved staple of R.E.M. concerts, it is not worth wasting three minutes of set time.

[lovez2eat]

oh michael, watch out what you're saying :D

but come on, there are much worse things kids hear than this

[geridg]

what is the writer's name he mentions? anyone?

[joanixxxx]

I'm sorry, but when i go o a cncert, i go to hear music. I never liked when the vocalists don t stop talking... I love rem, but i don t pay to hear somewone talk, i pay to hear good music.

[savantiflag]

it's a rehearsal.

[twochaudio]

,,no talking just play blow hard

[vancleaveterry]

Hellman was the worst kind of Stalinist communist hack. Before Pearl Harbor, as a member of the League of American Writers (with Dashiell Hammett), she had served on its "Keep America Out of War Committee" during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact... supporting a position that allowed Hitler to over run western Europe. Why would Stipe celebrate this woman?

Harbor Coat is a great song though.

[mystro810]

haha.. his face turns purple

[fondoogle]

shite band.

[dastipe]

take a long walk of a short cliff asshole

[milesofsmiles2]

i'd play drums for these guys. would be alot better than some generic L.A. yuppie douche they probably hired.

[ultrakool]

she had an aneurysm just like bill berry

[Danklin24]

i dont get it

[rhapsodier78]

@Danklin24 Neither do I... Can anybody explain me what he's talking about & wthat that stupid woman is screaming? =/

[redpaul79]

@rhapsodier78 I cant understand the drunken idiot either (think it might be a dude in drag), but Stpe says that the song Harborcoat is somehow vaguely about the late Lillian Hellman giving Dashiell hammett oral sex with her mouth full of snow at a train station. Then Buck reminds him someone's little kids are in the audience, and Stipe turns red as a tomato.

[lainwate]

Who the hell is James Frederick?

[04081919]

i dont get it

[cliffsheets]

If you met him once every second, it would take you almost 32 years to meet him a billion times. Do you think you might be a tad bit exaggerating? :-)

[cadetstarnoodle]

boring

[celloprofundo]

Who was the screetching, crazy bitch at the beginning ?

[zerochance01]

this is hilarious

[ILoveMikeyStipey]

What song is it at the end?

[geridg]

@ILoveMikeyStipey Harborcoat. Great weird song off their 2nd album Reckoning...

[ProJanitor]

penis sandwich.

[mfishrules]

He tells a sexually explicit story with family members in the audience. Kinda awkward for the guy...

[xeroxsuesforcopy]

come on this isn't embarrassing at all. lose your sense of shame mick walsh

[ILoveMikeyStipey]

It is embarrising, awkward at the very least. You would be embarrsed if it happened to you!

[rhapsodier78]

@ILoveMikeyStipey But pls I'd like to know what?? I can't understand all he says.. and neither that crapy girl screams aaarrg!!

[kewlguyCL]

oh theres some akward conversations comen

[correctopinionator]

he's a grown man. i'd interpret dat as funny, n not embarrasing. his family knows he's a rock star. also, i used to play in a band n our vocalist loved to talk to d crowd also at d middle of our set. it gave the band some time to take a break n i really appreciated it.i think d crowd appreciated d rapor our vocalist establishd also.

[geridg]

@correctopinionator he was embarrassed because some of their kids where there, and they are still just children....

[navajo5150]

That's really not embarrassing. Dude that guy has done so many shows and so many public appearances it's rediculous. He is a pro.

[rixenbixen]

Jes I sow agray. Toopid peepel spellint argh dis is hord. XD

AMen.

[ObliviaNeutronXian]

Stipe has no class. He yelled at that poor drunk woman, "Siddown, you cocksucking whore! Where was I?"

[ObliviaNeutronXian]

The woman at the start was telling REM they cannot keep getting away with stealing all her ideas. She wrote the first six albums, lyrics, music and all. Time the truth be told. Stipe and co. are just overgrown adolescents talking about blowjobs.

[AdamWersky]

what the hell? that wasn't embarrasing for him. he's pro. why'd you cut the song, you should have let it play

[ILoveMikeyStipey]

What was the song? I realy wanna know coz i like the start.

[grantjohndexter]

Harbourcoat, off Reckoning.

[Kessiejo]

Harbor coat.

[DMMP28]

Who the hell is that dumb ass yelling in the back ground? I guess they wanted to be heard. Lol.

[macfan9000]

I hate it when that happens, I had a lady do that right behind me at an Eric Clapton concert

[DMMP28]

Me too. I like when you're at a movie theater and getting into a the movie and people start talking really loud or start laughing at nothing. It's really annoying. I'll give Michael credit. He didn't get rude.He brushed it off.

[DrummerGrrrl]

I know. That's why I never go to the movies anymore. Fucking morons running their big traps... or talking on their cellphones during a movie!

[DMMP28]

Thank you. It's like I came here to watch the movie not listen to you fucking talk. If I were in that crowd I'd be pissed. I would've yelled Shut the fuck up! Do you think Michael cares about what you have to say? Shut up!

[MrGrnJns]

AGREED... i saw REM in lexington, ky in 1984... and Michael was trying to explain green grow the rushes.. and some dumbass yelled, "sing"!!! he stopped his story and gave the guy a cold stare.. and just sang the rest of the night.. shut the f up when you are at a concert and enjoy the moment. that really sucked for everyone.. it only takes one asshole to mess it all up...

[DMMP28]

I know man. It's like people you're at a concert! Michael Stipe is talking to you! Directly to you! Don't scream at him to sing! I'd love to go to a R.E.M. concert. If he wanted to talk I'd listen!

[f4kadak]

MrGrnJns i really feel bad for him........

[rhapsodier78]

@MrGrnJns C'mon!! really?? jerk!! (not u, that guy) I could be talking & talking to Michael the whole night.. His mind is unique! and surely it would be one of the most interesting conversation of my life... What a blue look he has aaaww... ;D

[DrummerGrrrl]

I had some stupid goth hag talking behind me at an Echo & The Bunnymen concert. She was realllly annoying and then she stuck her chewed-up gum in my hair! I wish I could run into her again...LOL.

[macfan9000]

omg I would die

[mariannora]

very hard to understand for the non-english. can anyone write it down, please?

[retroreds]

hard enough for the English to understand it !

[rhapsodier78]

@mariannora Yes, pls do it!

[ivanooze13]

he turns briiiiight red!

[Compy01]

haha quality

[VeroniqueAccount]

I think its not embarrassing, its just a joke, thats all . . .

[Clumpygreen]

Harborcoat

[levure]

He speaks very fast. Can anyone write what he says? What happens? Thanks:)Gracias :)

In September I see them on tour!! in Spain

[musicbrain5]

The first time I watched this, I thought he said the writer would give Peter Buck a blow job with a mouthful of smoke, which is a little disturbing to me lol, but Michael actually mentions her lover or something right? Great video anyways!!

[HagerTX]

Classic!

[seans10]

It's funny how n audience will laugh at anything a rock star will say no matter how unfunny it is.

[rohiogerv22]

he also made a blowjob joke later in the video.

[knrblk]

what was it i can hardly tell what he is saying

[gambla153]

all i saw was he stuttered

[rohiogerv22]

th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-­th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th...

[boltonmerlin]

the blow job joke as his family was there... or one of the bands family

[Octillery63]

uh, yeah. I don't believe that performers are trying to "make themselves appear more important than they actually are." They are in front of a very large audience........ALL of whom came to see THEM. That's why the audience is there and most are THRILLED when the entertainer speaks directly to them.....my two cents.

[raamonk]

amen.

[rhapsodier78]

@Octillery63 Amen! ;)

[JohnnyTarHeel84]

Eh. Yeah. Used to be a fan, not so much now. Why do musicians feel the need to make them self appear so much more important in the scheme of things than they really are?

[PennyClownWise]

jajaja his band put him in a really awkward position...i would have done the same

[fignon]

One thing that struck me about micahel wa show genuine and funny he was when you saw them live

[Langkawi05]

FAKE

[bloodysnowmun]

I don't think he nessessarily felt embarrassed. I can't even spell Embarrassed.

I should be embarissed. But I'm not. The Poster who wrote that Stipe was embarressed should feel embarrassed.

[mickwalsh2783]

Not alone can you not spell embarrassed but you cant spell necessarily either. Back to school fool.

[rhinoceros333]

Bet you had to look it up.

[j0hngann0n]

lol

[Himom2032]

Who cares? Not many people spell necessarily online. Embarrassed, he typed it right a few times, who cares.

[AtariMaxiToriyama]

It's reely a sham when peepull cant spel properlee onlin.

Just becuz its not skool doesnt meen you shood forgit how too rite!

[robken0174]

@mickwalsh2783 Your punctuation and grammar are wretched. Perhaps you could sign up for the same classes.

[kathyannk]

@mickwalsh2783 I just sed tu my boyfrend peeple dont no how too spell anymore

[queeniefox]

I had to watch that twice because I thought he said SNOW, not smoke. That was an interesting mental image for a moment there...

I think kids learn that word at like, seven, now, so I'm sure he didn't corrupt anyone. :-P

[RandomRobot1]

2:57, the color of his head to the color of his arm. XD

[embassy1010]

Wow. Even at the height of feigned embarrassment Stipe has the presence of mind to

let the audience know that he doesn't own a television (lest we mistake him for a commoner.)I loved R.E.M. back in the day, but Stipe's always been too precious by half.

[musicjunkie207]

I love him lol I'm doing my music report on REM because no one in my class knows who they are so i decided to educate them lol

[rhapsodier78]

@musicjunkie207 well done!!

[songmakegohaha]

thats amazing how they can go from an awkward moment to a song without even trying...they are gods!

[MyNameIsSaintJimmy]

Ooooh my god thats adorable/hilarious. you see his head turn bright red

[mmaverrick]

haha cute.

[geridg]

Wow! Harborcoat is about a writer giving her husband a blowjob while smoking? Hmmmmmmmmm......

[TheFrowningClown]

Okay now that I understand a little more I can just say he is really funny (and, yes, cute). When you seek for quotes by him on the internet you find great things, too. One of my faves? "Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around."

PS: The vision of Mike eating broccoli haunts me every night now.

[rhapsodier78]

@TheFrowningClown "The vision of Mike eating broccoli haunts me every night now." Hahaha ;)

[TheFrowningClown]

I didn´t understand a word but:

ISN`T HE CUTE???

[YouAreTheEverything]

He should have become a stand up comedian, real talent. Hes wasted himself in rock business;)

[Issicra]

Hilarious... too bad we couldn't see the whole version of Harborcoat.

[Lioppaschen]

How cool is that xD

[geoffwode1]

How were REM playing such a small venue?

[gitchigoomi]

It was a live rehearsal for a tour. They play with minimal equipment and no props in front of a small LUCKY invited audience to work out kinks.

[upforlastnameleft]

Kinks? ;-)

[jessie647]

Lol totally :)

[thunter34]

how funny. you can not only tell through the stage makeup, but through the lights and low video resolution how much he was blushing. cute vid.

[slackmaster2000]

What? Michael Stipe is human?!? No way...

[donidg]

please...is there someone who writes what michael and the lady say? I'm italian and i don't understand well what they say...thank u so much! Michael Stipe always number ONE!

[rhapsodier78]

@donidg Agree!!

[thefinewino]

Hahahah. That was adorable.

[classicrocker1965]

haha its funny how at 1:20 michael's talking and in the back peter comes over and randomly toasts mike.

[classicrocker1965]

o my god that is hilarious...look at him blush!

[KareKare77]

hehehehe LOL. Great that they played Harborcoat too... off to find the rest of it now! :D

[coppernutles]

i think he says 'i'm sorry mom...' just before he talks to adora and the rest of the family. that is so sweet. He's such a lovely guy isn't he.

[fatuesque]

wHO WAS THAT NASTY FILTHY SOUNDING SCREAMING SHOUTING HAGGARD OLD BINT SCREAMING>?

[glueberry]

I totally agree with you, she is the one who embarrassed herself ;)

[consonantplease]

The bit about not trying to rhyme every line is promising...

[rodikkoles]

that quite a joke actually and he didn't embarass himself at all. the crowd laughed at the joke...

[melora72]

He said something about Lillian Hellman givinh Dashel Hammet a blowjob with a mouthfull of snow. The Adora he referred to later is Mike's mother.

[melora72]

Woops! That should have been a mouthfull of SMOKE.

[BucksStudent]

Very funny... To translate some of what Michael said, he was talking about some poet or writer lady who was a hero of his in the early REM days. I don't know if he was talking about when he was writing Harborcoat, but he said he had an image in his head, while writing some song, of her coming to Peter (?) or someone and giving him a blow--- while smoking.

[wuffs]

The writer was Lilian Hellman

[sixpence1969]

It wasn't about Peter... well I hope not, Lillian Hellman was born in 1905 and died 1984! so, like, eww... though I thought that was what he was suggesting the first time I heard it! But you can just hear Michael say something about Dashiel Hammett, who was Lillian's lover..

[wuffs]

Having already heard about this, it is absolutely hilarious to hear it. Poor Michael - HA!

[brenoanunes]

Sorry, guys, my English is not good enough yet and I didn´t get a word Stipe said... Can someone plase transcribe what was that that left everybody laughing? Thanks a lot for the help guys!

[classicrocker1965]

basically michael was talking about how he got an image of lillian hellman giving dashiell hammett a blowjob with a mouthful of smoke in his head and then peter reminds him there are family in the audience and michael gets really embarrassed

[remgreeneyedgem]

That was cute but that woman yelling was sure annoying.

[Joeantboy]

Michael asked the Nutty woman if she needed a doctor later on. He was very funny that night.

Thanks for the upload.

[rhapsodier78]

@Joeantboy Well done it, Michael.. He kicked her ass in a polite way ;D

[aginghipster]

In a 1986 Spin interview Peter Buck was pretty adamant about not ever playing harborcoat live for some reason. 21 years later he obviously changed his mind.

[Vinelihbe]

I want to know who that crazy woman is at the beginning. She sounds like a nutty French woman or something.

[wuffs]

I think it's the same woman who was behind me on the 30th - she was absolutely out of it that night.

[electroliteangel]

no sorry i was not at this concert the

30th, just the 4 and 5 ! play again

[electroliteangel]

HELLO

it was a french angel

[feedbackinhibition]

ahahah i read about this, thankfully someone put it up! :)look how red he is!

[hamros]

it is funny....:):)