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  • The first time I heard this I thought it was about the soda...

  • Oh, where to begin with R.E.M? Many things to say and not enough time. Well, wonderful band, fierce band, intelligent band, and band who had many things to say in their music. And this song, sublime and powerful :)

  • i listen to this song like every day(if not every hour)

  • I luv this song

  • greetings from Yomashos, Japan!

  • Occupy Monsanto!

  • I used to hear this song on the radio, and its a good song. It was on the radio when I was a little kid.

  • me and my bro like this song

  • Not the best Quality...... D:

  • i love the way he sings ''thin the blood''. his voice is awesome

  • Im a bit takin aback at why people keep talking about orange soda. WTF is wrong with people. this song has nothing to do with anything good or sweet and especially not soda. WIKI may help. do some research plz.

  • what does rem stand for

  • @TheRiderman7 Really Epic Monkeys

  • @TheRiderman7 rapid eye movement? (that's also a medical term for eye movement during sleep)

  • One of the last great bands.

  • realy do what gumballa said search what agent orange is ...

    i think most of ya realy did not understood about what this song is

  • K-K-K-Kel likes orange soda!

    

  • When I had to walk somewhere on stupid-hot summer days, I would buy an orange Crush drink and sing this. It was so epic, I was distracted from the heat exhaustion XD

  • Want to play a game? Search 'agent orange' on Google images with safe search turned off.

    Now you know what this song is about.

  • I could use some Orange crush.

  • its 5:05 in the morning and im singing loudly the wriong lyrics very bad and its epic

    greatings from ger ^^

  • epic

    

  • If Bono and his buds could play.

  • GOD DAM GOOKS STILL AROUND

  • My favorite R.E.M. song. Sorry to see this band end. :-(

  • i love this song!!!!

  • Classic REM

  • i got my sprite...... i got my orange crush...

  • Great song!

  • i was singing this whole song while playing it on rock band 2 and well i even did that speech thing 2

  • i just think of reservoir dogs when i hear this uwu<3

  • An instructional video? Got enough of them at work!!!

  • I always thought this song was about heroine...now it makes more sense.

  • 18 people crushed their spine!!

  • thumbs up if your drinking orange crush now :D

  • my uncle suffers from the effects from agent orange and he is gonna eventually die from it he fought for his country an we kill him for it

  • @wind2040 So did my uncle, he was suffering from the effects of being exposed to agent orange. Dead now.

  • @IlluminatReptilian That's one reason you sign away all of your Constitutional Rights when you enlist/get drafted. :-(

  • @wind2040 thus the main reason i wont join any of the armed forces, they sent those men and women to Vietnam to help the people and then slowly kill them with that Agent orange shit. But much respect to your uncle for his braveness

  • @ZodiacBryan that is a reason why i hate this corrupt goverment but i am considering joining the navy but thanks for the respect towards my uncle and i agree wit ya

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  • This song was stuck in my head back in 1990 when I was in basic training!Even though it is about Vietnam the theme of imposing American Ideals and using immoral tactics in the millitary is somthing that I witnessed in Bosnia is Timeless!!!

  • @Xathor1 Did u live in Bosnia????

  • 0:45 thats what she said xD

  • @xGGZxsoldier *hold finger on nose* ORANGE!

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  • @xGGZxsoldier Grow up you fucking brainless monkey.

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  • @Santana030 Rapid Eye Movement

  • what did the name R.E.M stand for???

  • Greatest of all time (g.o.a.t) songs list

  • I will remember REM for their MTV video's in Evrybody Hurts and Losing My Religion. I understand that this song was supposed to be against Monsanto when they were a defense contractor in the Vietnam War and Agent Orange was used against civilians.

  • i can ROCK this song on rock band. just sayin. ive got my spiiiiiiiine ive got my orange crushhhhhhhhhh

  • R.I.P to a great band who sadly broke up <3 repost this on your favorite REM song so they can always be remembered!

  • ive got my sprite, i got my orange crush.

  • ive got my sprite, i got my orange crush.

  • Certainly the best band from States for the last 30 years: Radio free europe opened my head when I was a young boy. Wow what was that... Greetings from Portugal.

  • why aren't there any bands of this calibur anymore? kings of leon are the only one that come close

  • @MrMadness87 check out apex 13 its rough but its all original

  • @MrMadness87 Kings of Leon? lmfao

  • @IridiumDragon nah, LMFAO aren't very good

  • sucks for me, ive got a dr pepper

  • no comment about the end of this band? ok then i go first :D nice band and end of a great pice of music history . sry for my english greetings from kiel, germany ;)

  • @VivaLaFlaem Your English isn't bad. Better than most lazy ass Americans. Greeting from SLC, UT.

  • @VivaLaFlaem Your English is a lot better than the few words of German I know I can speak a little Spanish just from growing up on the streets of NY more than taking Spanish in school This was always R.E.M. favorite greetings from NY long the crossroads of the world and now greater metro NY has a popualtion of 22.5 million

  • This war was horrible because the pesticide got into the water and civilizations drank it so that's why so many people died in this war. Really sad.

  • @jorock01

    I think more people died from all the bombs and bullets, than the herbicides.

  • @charlesvan13

    And you think this shit was only used somewhere far away where it can't hurt you you idiot?

  • @cautleen

    Grow a brain. They bombed the shit out of North VN and Vietcong supply lines. That killed many thousands.

    And yes, I do live far from any place where agent Orange was used.

  • Vietnam was the bloodiest war besides Antietam so many people died

  • RHCP FORTUNE FADED...similar for a bit haha kinda caught me off guard

  • When I first heard this nearly 7 years ago, my mom who was IN the military told me that they sprayed orange soda to kill plants reduce hiding spots for enemy forces.

  • @JackDenter9291

    Not soda. It is a defoliant, also used in the US in the past. Our leftovers were generously donated to VN, Cambodia, oh, pick a spot. Bother to go to a site--maybe even a VA site, and see what it does, not just to those in VN, but to US citizens and soldiers exposed. Then remember that we're still at war, only Gulf War Syndrome doesn.t exist either.

  • #5 on my top 10 favorite songs!

  • In my opinion, this is one of the best songs by R.E.M. Thanks for posting it.

  • Vietnam was a horrible war. But damn if it didn't make good music. 

  • For those who don't know Orange Crush refers to Agent Orange, a chemical agent used in Vietnam.

  • @nwPwn it say that in the beggining of the vid...

  • i think war is purely bullshit... i respect those who did fight for our freedom but really if u look at every war its jsut cuz the human race is dumb and greedy.

  • @thewolfdancers That's a gross and ignorant oversimplification.

  • @TytusTolshemLives if u look at human histroy its all the same.. and if we could just be fine with what we got or get along war wouldnt be needed..and what good has war ever done?

  • i thot it was about orange crush soda

  • in my opinion its their best song.....i love it..

  • the war in vieatnam was stupied becuase

    very americans die

  • @GreekRocker00 Derp.

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  • @FlyBoyzScore Many thanks for deciphering the full lyrics for this. I'd wondered for ages what Stipe said between 2:10 - 2:43! Were they memories of a Vietnam veteran? He does it in his finest Southern accent too. (You seem to be a native of Philly. Cool city, South St. is ace.)

  • War is a racket proclaimed the most highly decorated Marine to date.

    Smedley Butler...

    %$#@ all you clones and drones and your short memories...

    The ones who treat our soldiers badly are the tyrants who make war for profit and nothing is new under the sun!

  • i prefer grape or strawberry crush

  • @ChuWanggAmes: I'm a Fanta man myself

  • @ChuWanggAmes I PREFER YOUR BANNA JUICE

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  • The first time I heard this song, I thought it was about the soda.

  • @greenorange75 HaHa I thought it was about the Chronic

  • @greenorange75 I think it sort of is. obviously the main thrust of it is about Agent Orange though. I remember reading somewhere ages ago that the troops in 'Nam consumed Orange Crush by the bucketfull as it was the only canned drink you could get out there. I'm not sure how accurate that is though. I don't know any guys who served out there to confirm it either!

  • Why. Talk. About. Truck. Stop. What. Is. The. Diference. Truck. Stop. And Orange. Crush. Somebody. Explainme thanx.

  • @coyote7272 I'm just going to assume that you have a pretty easy job. By that I mean you don't risk your life every single day in order for douchebags like you to accuse you of terrorism. I despise people like you, because you have no idea what you're talking about. You're lucky people like my brother serve our country just so it can be a place where people like you can just trash them. Go starve in a ditch, you fucking prick.

  • @oshaun6 someone needs some more Ambien...or had too much already, and got the insurance cancelled recently? i hear that happens >.>

    killing for a living doesn't give you the right to take out your anger and aggression on the very people you claim to kill for. or has everyone become The Enemy in your eyes? think about it.

    i realize your training makes it hard to distinguish real people from paper targets, but please try. we're living in a society here, and it's already violent enough =P

  • so this is about orange crush, its a decent drink and all but you dont have to make a hit song for it geez......

  • @TimeisMoney164 its about Vietnam war a spine wuz a nickname 4 a rifle an ornge waz poisin

  • @mynervesbad i know it was a joke........ i thought most ppl would be able to get it but apperently not 0_0

  • @TimeisMoney164 fuctard

    

  • i went looking cuz this song plays at my work everyday XD

  • I say fuck our soldiers, not all of them, but I see things like millions of chicks that are basically single cuz they got guys overseas that were sweet to them right before leaving and asked them out, just to get some action when they got back, I've seen over a million civilian casualties making me think we're the terrorists, I've seen ignorant civilians here in america believe every word the government tells us, I've seen the womanizing roughneck scumbags they let into the military, I was there

  • @coyote7272 not fuck the soliders themselves fuck the military and war but otherwise spot on fella spot on and we are the teorrists have been since the revolutionary war when you think about it

  • And don't forget the traitor - Jane Fonda! Ask McCain.....

  • yes i did its also on gutar hero I dont rember witch one though but i have it

  • I would love to go to that museum. i'm sure you've seen it, but the movie Platoon is a probably a decent representation of some of the crap that went down over there. rape, killing innocent civilians, burning villages, etc. it probably doesn't even scratch the surface though. it's a little harder to cover up these days because of surveillance and other technology out there. it still happens though. guantanamo, abu graib. cheers!

  • 11 people dont have their orange crush

  • thumbs up if rock band goy u here

  • @SAMMY333222111

    thumbs down, bitch!

  • @kingcahoj fuck u

  • @SAMMY333222111

    Ever been killed?

  • @kingcahoj yep,ever been hated?

  • @SAMMY333222111

    no. I love you, friend. LOLZ. Me & Jesus apologize. Good song. Good food, good world, good happy.

  • @kingcahoj ???what??? PLZ,STOP COMMENTING 2 ME BECAUSE WHEN I LOOK AT MY HOME PAGE I SAY "hey cool some1 commented 2 me" AND IT IS JUST U!!!

  • @SAMMY333222111

    ok sorry friend

  • Ok rem, here you go, here's a world stage too say what ever you want too about anything you want too, OHH the vietnam war? GREAT IDEA, sing away boys - - WTF . . damit guys, who passed out the lsd/peyote/goofballs before you wrote/sang this derranged broken rambling half concept that says basically nothing? Damit guys grow some balls and have an opinion or at least make a complete sentence/concept.

  • really, what's the point in having a comment debate its a song for god sake!!! just listen.

  • @LeRoYbLaH That's right!!! Just listen and enjoy...yeah.

  • I'm totally addicted to this now! *replays*

  • It's about a herbicide. TheAtmos is right so BlueSoda you're wrong. Agent Orange cause Children of Thialidomide

  • herbicide is a poison that kills crops. helicopters would spray this in the rice paddies of the peasants to stop supplying food to NVA troops and to demoralize the north. but because it has harmful chemicals and stuff and it was in the rice(heavily eaten in everywhere) it caused birth defects in a good portion of the population of north vietnam. it has since been banned from use in the us

  • oh man i love soda!

  • nothin better than some dioxin and 2 4 5 t ester or 2 4 D

  • nothin better than some dioxin and 245t ester

  • Whatever bye.I'm not gonna sit here and talk to you losers.My opinion now bye.If you reply I will block you.

  • good song, In case you ppl dont know yet, this song is about a herbicide called "agent orange" used in vietnam by american troops. just in case any dumb - fucks werent watching the fucking video.

  • good song, In case you ppl dont know yet, this song is about a herbicide called "agent orange" used in vietnam by american troops.

  • I've my pipe, i've got my Orange Kush

  • @BlueSoda79 It's about a toxin called Agent Orange, not the soda.

  • Thank God I was born in the '90s.

  • uber ales inderwelt u faking kike

  • This song is stupid.It's like a commerical or something..=.=,

  • @BlueSoda79 If you payed attention to the video, you'd see that it explains what it's about in the first few seconds

  • @Jabbermouthrulz Dude I did.Your point being?This song is the stupidest song.Bye now.

  • @BlueSoda79 Well no one here is ever going to agree.

  • @dudeegg274 I wasn't talking to you.^.^.Tell me the point to this song and I might agree.:)

  • @BlueSoda79 okay agent orange was one of the rainbow herbicides used against Vietnam. agent orange was the deadliest and most toxic. understand?

  • @BlueSoda79 do you even know what the song is about dumb-ass?

  • @BlueSoda79 do you even know what this EPIC song by REM is about dumb - fuck?

  • @BlueSoda79 No, it's about a herbicide...

  • @theheadshot45 Dude I think "I'VE GOT MY SPIN, I'VE GOT MY ORRAANNNGEE CRUSH" is advertising for an orange drink.I don't know what a "herbicide" is.All my friends thought the same.my opinion not yours.=.=

  • @BlueSoda79 *spine.

    Seriously? Why does it say we are agents of the free then? R.E.M. have even said in interviews that the song is about the vietnam war. It even informs you at the start of this video! " serve your conscience over seas" from america to vietnam?

    Oh, and a herbicide is a toxic gas kind of thing that destroys plants. Agent orange is probably the most powerful.

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  • @BlueSoda79 Everyone has the right to their own opinion However his intentions WERE to protest the Vietnam war and agent orange. Look it up if you don't believe it. It was devastating and they tried to cover it up.Many of our own people had problems because of it and because of the denial They weren't being helped. Look it up

  • how could you not know that. I mean thank you for informing the ignorant, but it strikes me as impossible to love this song unless you get the meaning. They were a pretty political band, yk...

  • REM must really like their soda ;)

  • @SatenzaofRT this isnt about soda.

  • did anyone else find this song on rockband ?

  • @tinymonster97 yes i did its also on gutar hero I dont rember witch one though but i have it

  • @tinymonster97 yup

    

  • strickin mi nein ista no vember

  • RB2

  • From "In Time 1988-2003, The Best Of R.E.M":

    "I must have played this song onstage over three hundred times, and i still don't know what the fuck it's about".

  • @Alucard9318 There is actually 2 reasons that i found, one is about Agent Orange, and the other is that were sending young Americans over to fight without a good reason.

  • @Alucard9318 lol

  • On memorial day let me say that that was a fucked up war. Our soldiers were shackled by politicians and the unpopularity of the conflict back home. They were spit on when they came home because they answered the call of duty. My uncle was a grunt in that war and to this day he will not talk about it. The vietcong knew they had us by the balls and they took advantage of it. Sad state of affairs. Fuck those who treated our soldiers badly!

  • @avzeolla I Agree, the reason is that many Americans did not know the reason that why they are in vietnam anyways, their goal was to follow commands only.

  • @avzeolla thank you!

  • @avzeolla As an Englishman, and neutral on the subject, the popular opinion of that war was that America should never have been there in the first place. Your soldiers were victims and abusers in equal mesure for every spat on G.I. there was a Veitnamese child with Napalm burns (or worse) the true criminals were the American gov' and Military command. Shame as a nation you don't have the will to try the administration for war crime

  • @Dementat very good point. i agree it was an atrocity for all involved. we never should have been there in the first place. my point was directed to the american people who blamed and ridiculed the soldiers who, like my father and uncles, were drafted and went over there unwillingly. in no way do i overlook the war crimes committed against innocent civilians. your point is well made and well taken.

  • @avzeolla

    And also fuck those who committed the numerous war crimes when they were out there. I realise that most of the soldiers were conscripted there, and most behaved themselves. But I'd like to know why the US government failed to prosecute those responsible even though they had all the evidence.

  • @dimflamingo like i said, it was messed up... incidentally a couple days ago an american soldier was just sentenced to life for killing an afghani civilian.

  • @avzeolla

    I wasn't having a go at you; just expanding the point.

    I've just been to the War Crimes Museum in Saigon and some of the stuff there is sickening.

    As for the point I was making, some of the people involved in the My Lai massacre were never sentenced despite evidence and testimonies. I think that was an attempt by the govt to cover it all up and to carry on giving the illusion that the US were the "good guys" in that war.

  • @avzeolla Sentenced by who?

  • @avzeolla that was an evil war and more kids were coming home in body bags than anything else.

  • @avzeolla that was an evil war and more kids were coming home in body bags than anything else.

  • @avzeolla that was an evil war and more kids were coming home in body bags than anything else.

  • @avzeolla I saw this funeral home with a sign in the front that said,"We would rather do business with 1,000 muslim terrorists then 1 American soldier." It was awesome!

  • @avzeolla hey now, Im viet, and if those brave men didnt go in there and do sumthing then a whole lot more of us wouldnt be here today. My grandpa was a southern vietnamese soldier who fought along side american soldiers, after the war, they would round up as many southern soldiers as they can and incarcerate them in "re-education camps" the next best thing to a nazi death camp.

  • @avzeolla the higher the rank the longer the person is to be imprisoned. my gandpa was a colonel... a pretty high rank. each