@the4lacedshoe - thats the thing with this lame band--they take themselves and their gay politics, regressive multiracial beliefs, their egalitarianism, their leftist/Judeo politics, their belief in "diversity", their chutzpah, their "we're liberal diversity mongers and the rest of you are 'racists'" attitude, their rainbow coalition promotion-------they take themselves and all of their sick politics way too seriously.
For example before you wrote your post it was thought! It's impossible for me to see your thought but it must of exist because you wrote your post. I think their for I am! I believe in God therefore for me he exist! No experiment can disprove this!
Well thyczko, it's impossible to argue with circular logic, and I'm not inclined to try. However, I do want to say that, while I respect your right to express your opinion, your grammar is absolutely atrocious and that will always affect others' reactions to what you say - I mean, I even spelled "metamorphosis" correctly for you, but you still went with "meathmorpois."
Meathmorpois is change from one form to another. Evolution is change over time. The point I was making that change does happen. Why not over time? All fish came from baby tunicates that lost the ability to methophsis
Translation: If you can't handle life as it is, you can always fall back on long-standing mythology and simply stop thinking. This is known as "faith."
Also, "captillars" changing into butterflies is not evolution, it's called "metamorphosis" and is completely unrelated to evolution.
Also, "intended" starts with an "I."
Also, if you want to try an experiment that disproves God's existence, try this: Look around. See God? Doesn't exist. Look around. See wall? Exists.
I think people read to much into some songs, maybe politics was the inspiration but I don't interpret anything environment related in the lyrics unless it's regarding AlGore and carbon credit trading, but not likely given the age of the song. Anyone ever think that maybe they just stringed the lyrics together because they sounded cool rhythmically and went with the music, or are you going to say that Shining Happy People has deep meaning as well?
At first listen back in the mid-80s, Michael Stipe sounded kind of like Johnny Rivershere and Mike Mills sounded like 1960s background singers...........I have always liked this piece and it's conscientious message long before sustainability became a buzzword and green was fashionable. REM carried the alternative music scene with songs like this in the 1980s.
Saw them when they were just a travelling college circuit band back in '83...was blown away by their original at times mellow but sometimes manic neo-punk style...been a fan ever since!
Fletch, it does relate to the economic downturn... That's the beauty of this song... it is timeless and its metaphors can be applied regardless of the decade. This is the mark of good art.
@JustWorkFFS In 5 billion years, the sun will use up all it's hydrogen and become a supergiant. It will grow and engulf the rocky planets and implode killing all life in our Solar System. So, the Earth will eventually not be here.
Per coloro che se ne fossero accorti, questo é il primo video che, Micheal Stipe, ha girato tenendo, la telecamera sottosopra come il mondo in cui, allora, si stava vivendo. Altro motivo... E' il primo video dei R.E.M. dove compare il testo della canzone
All this talk about gravity gets me down....as for dinosaurs..check out the Republicans in the US and The Conservatives in the UK. They still exist but by rights they should be extinct!
There aren't any real conservatives in the U.K, the British Conservative party is just a coalition of neo statists, country squires, and semi socialist putzes.
Evolution is a theory. Creation is a theory. The earth being "seeded" by aliens and DNA being manipulated by aliens is a theory. Just depends on what circles you run in.
But we really don't know which theory, if any, is correct.
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if u ever watched the discovery channel you'll learn how and what will happen to Earth in time...they also say that Earth may eventually end up like Venus
even if humans do die out some scientists speculate that we as humans are aliens and did come from space as organisms.
@NonHtau My teach said the sun well be gone in 2 billion years. With the rate of pollution and toxic everywhere, were probably not gonna last for about another 100 years. Hell, 20. or 10 or even 5.
Darwins theory is a theory. I'm tired of hearing everyone refer to his findings as fact. They're theoretical. For example "survival of the fittest" rule out- animals follow that rule, not all humans do. For example there are people who are willing to sacrifice themselves for another, 'the strong FOR the weak' as opposed to the weak willed rule out.
Darwin had a THEORY. Speculation that we came from space as organisms is no more far-fetched than religion or evolution.
No, the Evolution theory of MAN is, and you might have picked this up due to the "theory" behind it, Theory. There is NO conclusive evidence outlining that man evolved from primate. There is THEORY.
you obviously do not understand darwin or evolution at all. man and primates trace back to a common ancestor. man did not evolve from "primates" as you like to think but rather an earlier ancestor that man and primates evolved separately from. for example you have a species that splits and becomes 2 different species. these 2 different species split and become 4 different species. this theory as you like to call it is not a theory at all but a fact and the evidence is called DNA.
that the Bible is the revelation of an omnipotent and omniscient Creator whose Word is more reliable than the speculations of men. Both evolution and creation, however, can be compared for their compatibility with what we do observe of the facts of nature. In the months ahead, we will see that creation by intelligent design is a vastly more reasonable explanation for the origin of the complexity we see in living things than is evolution by mere chance and the intrinsic properties of nature.
As a side note, if you accept that offspring will not be identical to the parents, that animals with the best adaptations to their habitat will survive (and pass on their advantages) and crucially, that the planet is constantly changing than evolution is not "mere chance". When talking about life over 2 billion years, its by far the most logical conclusion to make.
Im not quite sure what you mean by 'in the months ahead' but it'll be interesting to see if anything happens I guess.
Evolution is a valid theory the same way gravity is a valid theory... im afraid you're confusing scientific theory, with a random idea you have when drunk in the pub. Scientific theory is backed up by evidence, experiments and cross-checking across the scientific community so to compare evolution to religion, where the only evidence is basically a book, is just wrong.
Also, I've never heard anyone claim we "came from space as organisms."
evolution is not observable, repeatable, or refutable and thus does not qualify as either a scientific fact or theory. Evolution must be accepted with faith by its believers, many of whom deny the existence, or at least the power, of the Creator. Similarly, the Biblical account of creation is not observable, repeatable or refutable by man. Special creation is accepted with faith by those who believe
Repeatable as in recreation in a lab? Then no it's not. But it has been observed. Google "lizards rapid evolution." They didn't change species, but in only 36 years their digestive system, and their head size changed noticeably - imagine how much could change in 36 million years
And evolution is also definitely refutable. All it would take is fossils in the wrong layer of rock, fish fossils with beaks/fur. And thats not counting transitional fossils, or the DNA evidence. Evolution =/= religion
It's kind of both. Newton devised the law of gravity, which describes what gravity is - that all objects with mass attract each other, but he couldn't explain why this was the case - it's the general theory of relativity that explains how it works.
@444bethany444 It will actually supernova and collapse in upon itself and shoot two beams equally opposite to each other which will shoot across the universe destroying anything in their path until they eventually die out. But that's not for a long time.
i think it's more simple, like the fact that we destroy the world as fast as possible and then wonder why it affects us negatively. then again, i could be wrong
i think the world isn't being destroyed. When the dinosaurs roamed the earth it was very hot. Global warming don't make me piss. The earth is not being destroyed, we are.
very true. the fact that we think we can actually destroy the world is a joke. when you think about it, it is almost like the world is a body and we are the disease and the body is using a fever to kill us off, reject us. I am in no way an environmentalist so fuck if i care lol, just commenting on the song
Great song by the kings of college radio ! Excellent musicians. For something different check out the "Shake For Me Now" video in my site. It's for adults only, no children
"fall on me": a metaphor for the effects of gravity? the inevitable demise of humanity? the recent economic downturn? global warming? Armageddon? the parallels are staggering...
nope, its from the story of chicken little, when an acorn fell on his head and told everyone that the sky was falling. nothing big.how could it relate to the recent economic dowtnurn as its over twenty years old?
very subconscious lyrics...almost like you're reading a dream...only consciously, since it is a music video...very political..."buy the sky and sell the sky..." a time capsule of a song...
classic REM...takes me back to my high school years...the 90s...what's memorable about this video is the flashing of the words on the screen...seemingly random...poetic...the black and white background adds to the mystery of the music..."fall on me"...WTF? some sort of sexual euphemism?
I refuse to reveal the true meaning of the meaning. As I said, so has M.Stipe said, that these are just "Dumb words", as Bob Dylan, "they mean so much, but nothing at all" Just a song. True art in a vocal form. All is well, but man the towers. Be watchdogs for the future, but remember The Troggs. Also give creedence to "The Hindu Love Gods/w Warren Zevon as front man. Find the time to be there, find it everywhere. Driver 8, we've been on this trip too long-JW
Poetry and music -- what's not to like? Probably my favorite REM song, but there are so many good ones... Saw them a buttload of years ago when I was in college and they were an alternative kind of college band. Still brilliant after all these years.
I remember when back in the early 80s with my finger on the pulse of college radio that REM and U2 where the champs. Alas no matter how brightly they burned..........No band has the power to eclipse the BEATLES. p.s. MJ is Dead..........good pedophile king op pop my arse.
they had way bigger hits than this, but 'fall on me' has always been my favorite. IMO, Stipe can be too whiny about their "issue" songs, and they got a bit too cute for their own good musically. Here, it was more pure, simple, and just fucking good.
If I remember right, Michael Stipe called this his favorite REM song (at the time) when they did their MTV Unplugged concert. He didn't need the lyrics sheet for this one (like he did for "End of the World (and I Feel Fine)". That was a good show.
"Fall on Me" is a song by R.E.M. from their fourth album, 1986's Lifes Rich Pageant. I bought it on Vinyl when it first came out.
The song is about acid rain. Acid rain was a huge problem in 86. I remember cars that were shipped from Japan got damaged by the acid rain... paint peeled right off of the hoods.
Incredible song. I think it was ahead of its time by a few years. I'm not sure why I feel this way. I remember it around the time it came out, but I seemed to hear it a lot more later on, about 1990 or so. Did this song have a resurgence later on? Is that why many people seem to know it AFTER it came out?
It evokes a general vague feeling of dread, some unnamed, unknown threat that's coming. Maybe an environmental disaster or war, coming from the sky. The song's like a desperate melodic hymn or prayer for salvation from what's inevitably coming. Yet hearing it on radio or youtube always makes me happy. Guess I'm just a pessimistic emo happily contemplating my own oblivion. That, or it's just a freaking great song.
one beautiful but one question, in your opinion, what the song means? everytime i hear it i get sad, a bit depress and nostalgic. songs mean something different to everyone and i would like to know what it means to you? thanks
Love this video. It was made around the time that Michael Stipe's singing was starting to improve. I was so glad that the band flourished in the early to mid-Nineties. I know they've had a bad run the last few years with Bill Berry gone. But I heard their latest album and it sounds pretty good.
I agree... I remember when REM had a genuinely mysterious quality to them, and how difficult it was to find good pictures of them in the early 90s!
Of course, that was back before the Internet and 24/7 news coverage of everything on earth, when people like Stipe & Co could avoid the spotlight if they chose to.
i started with the band in '83, but green in '89 wore off very quickly and the band lost their mysterious quality along the way. thank you for the reply. :) john
This song always reminds me of wonderful times years ago. This song is indicitive of the time and of how alternative rock was king in the 80's-90's!!! I miss those days! Beautiful song, beautiful melody!!!!
Great,great song but all the artificial man made canyons even in the smallest of cities is pitiful and the pure waste. Were I live of all things that happened the guy fell and fell in the nitrogen pit. What in the heck is a nitrogen pit doing at a construction site?
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@the4lacedshoe - thats the thing with this lame band--they take themselves and their gay politics, regressive multiracial beliefs, their egalitarianism, their leftist/Judeo politics, their belief in "diversity", their chutzpah, their "we're liberal diversity mongers and the rest of you are 'racists'" attitude, their rainbow coalition promotion-------they take themselves and all of their sick politics way too seriously.
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This song is just beautiful!
beatlefanallison 1 year ago
This song is just beautiful
beatlefanallison 1 year ago
shuuut up and listen to the music, please sky dont fall on me!!
mcgowan311 1 year ago
For example before you wrote your post it was thought! It's impossible for me to see your thought but it must of exist because you wrote your post. I think their for I am! I believe in God therefore for me he exist! No experiment can disprove this!
thyczko2 1 year ago
@thyczko2
Well thyczko, it's impossible to argue with circular logic, and I'm not inclined to try. However, I do want to say that, while I respect your right to express your opinion, your grammar is absolutely atrocious and that will always affect others' reactions to what you say - I mean, I even spelled "metamorphosis" correctly for you, but you still went with "meathmorpois."
MultiNickDanger 1 year ago
Faith is personal. You can believe in a God or not. The choice is yours. I believe in God! The point is that you can't experiment a belief system!
thyczko2 1 year ago
Meathmorpois is change from one form to another. Evolution is change over time. The point I was making that change does happen. Why not over time? All fish came from baby tunicates that lost the ability to methophsis
thyczko2 1 year ago
God created the world through evoultion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you don't believe me ask the captillar that change into a butterfly!
Their is no experiment that can disprove that God exist! So the person has to make a judgement by faith ...............like HE always entended
thyczko2 1 year ago
@thyczko2 Were you performing some kind of test on your spell check? It failed.
jluke68 1 year ago
@thyczko2
Translation: If you can't handle life as it is, you can always fall back on long-standing mythology and simply stop thinking. This is known as "faith."
Also, "captillars" changing into butterflies is not evolution, it's called "metamorphosis" and is completely unrelated to evolution.
Also, "intended" starts with an "I."
Also, if you want to try an experiment that disproves God's existence, try this: Look around. See God? Doesn't exist. Look around. See wall? Exists.
MultiNickDanger 1 year ago
don't fall on me...
vajack35 1 year ago
REM when they were cool! I think they've gone off the boil!
wessexdroid 1 year ago
A poignant expression, like Zen poetry!
totallyremiss 1 year ago
Song is actually about "acid rain" and what it does to the enviornment, hard to believe it is almost 25 years old already.
hrm219 1 year ago
@hrm219 this was the first time i heard of the environment movement, 25 years, already, we didnt fix it yet?
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v74Bvdmp 1 year ago
I love everything about this song, the backup harmonies are great, the lyrics make you think. What else could you want from a song?
greenjello74 1 year ago
Wow, this sounds a lot like The Smiths o.o
Gakitsuki 1 year ago
@Gakitsuki
For sure man! If Morrissey was American and had started a band, I imagine it sounding exactly like this.
RainJetSprinklers 1 year ago
dont really know what this is about but i have my ideas
doesnt' matter anyway this is just a beautiful tune with fantastic harmonies
iwontshareyouify 1 year ago
I think people read to much into some songs, maybe politics was the inspiration but I don't interpret anything environment related in the lyrics unless it's regarding AlGore and carbon credit trading, but not likely given the age of the song. Anyone ever think that maybe they just stringed the lyrics together because they sounded cool rhythmically and went with the music, or are you going to say that Shining Happy People has deep meaning as well?
OlegKostoglatov 1 year ago
Love the Bill Berry "woooos" and " It's going to fall" buried way down in the mix. We miss you Bill!
arizonabay15 1 year ago
WHO THE FUCK DOESN"T LIKE THIS SONG? GOOD GOD...get your head examined!
jen68 1 year ago
The earth will be gone, because there will be a war for the last raw materials.
dreske3 1 year ago
I feel great emotion in Stype's lyrics.
RainJetSprinklers 1 year ago
At first listen back in the mid-80s, Michael Stipe sounded kind of like Johnny Rivershere and Mike Mills sounded like 1960s background singers...........I have always liked this piece and it's conscientious message long before sustainability became a buzzword and green was fashionable. REM carried the alternative music scene with songs like this in the 1980s.
BigMoe96 1 year ago
I love the agon allstars!
huddscudd 1 year ago
how is this not more popular
couldcarexless 1 year ago
the best rem song, even micheal stipe said that
rancidrancidrancid33 1 year ago
great song great band.
76flappy 1 year ago
ar, i, em son la puta leche me encatan!
SOLFERI 1 year ago
Not a big fan of The R.E.M...but i really love this song. I know.
twinoak170 1 year ago
the beginning sounds like the smiths
shambler92 1 year ago
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denistaha10 1 year ago
Probably,this song talks about the Reagan era,which era received mixed feelings.
shadow0106 1 year ago
ah..whatver happened to them
stankler 1 year ago
What if CAT spelled DOG ?
bigdsears 1 year ago
@bigdsears
The world would disappear into a massive black hole!
REMLostmyreligion 1 year ago
@JustWorkFFS its not about whats going to happen but when its going to happen
jet2612 1 year ago
Enonynomous
DelPescatore 1 year ago
Saw them when they were just a travelling college circuit band back in '83...was blown away by their original at times mellow but sometimes manic neo-punk style...been a fan ever since!
eli4pr1219 1 year ago
This was their best song by far.
hdregmore 1 year ago
This fantastic music bring me back sad memories! But I still listening!
Herege 1 year ago
i am glad they use the Helvetica font
lapsus5 1 year ago
@brainsparkles This song is from the album lifes rich pageant,of 1986.
shadow0106 1 year ago
Does anyone know what album this song is from?
brainsparkles 1 year ago
My favorite vid of REM.
noerbie07 1 year ago
I love them.
mrmonkeyisland1 1 year ago
This song was recorded 25 years ago in Bloomington, but it makes me think of the oil spill in the Gulf Coast.
bmeggles 1 year ago
Totally a great song.
So many memories attached to it.
seansurlow 1 year ago
Fletch, it does relate to the economic downturn... That's the beauty of this song... it is timeless and its metaphors can be applied regardless of the decade. This is the mark of good art.
prossman 1 year ago 2
@prossman nice to hear an intelligent comment!
brainsparkles 1 year ago
Humans will rise to the level of their incompetence ... that is all.
tasarith76 1 year ago
I'm not sure.. I love REM though
ladydeci 1 year ago
Such a wicked band!! amazing live!!
fauldsa 1 year ago
@fauldsa Agreed with R.E.M. live! Amazing.
NIGUSPLEASE 1 year ago
@fauldsa : AMEN
NIGUSPLEASE 1 year ago
we....and everything we know is temporary, and will be burned up eventually. and the solar system won't even notice.......will it.?
123avdb4 1 year ago
@JustWorkFFS In 5 billion years, the sun will use up all it's hydrogen and become a supergiant. It will grow and engulf the rocky planets and implode killing all life in our Solar System. So, the Earth will eventually not be here.
JJKingy22081994 1 year ago
Sublime, absolument sublime !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fanrem 1 year ago
Per coloro che se ne fossero accorti, questo é il primo video che, Micheal Stipe, ha girato tenendo, la telecamera sottosopra come il mondo in cui, allora, si stava vivendo. Altro motivo... E' il primo video dei R.E.M. dove compare il testo della canzone
TheMorandiniPaola 1 year ago
:-)))))))))
aviadmei 1 year ago
All this talk about gravity gets me down....as for dinosaurs..check out the Republicans in the US and The Conservatives in the UK. They still exist but by rights they should be extinct!
pastaface100 1 year ago
There aren't any real conservatives in the U.K, the British Conservative party is just a coalition of neo statists, country squires, and semi socialist putzes.
OlegKostoglatov 1 year ago
Brings me back 20+ yrs. ago this song.
oldedrum 1 year ago
Just another REM hit, love this group.
MrHablopablo 1 year ago
I knew they were special when I first heard driver 8
lycanthrope1962 1 year ago
i love REM anything they do is great by me xxx
hibeegirl17 1 year ago
Indeed one of the best unforgotten perfomances
streamtide 1 year ago
LOL just like the mistake i made below yeah I know its spelled knew not new see how easy it is to make a mistake
JumpnCflash 1 year ago
FORESIGHT not FORSIGHT Michael Stipe new he made that mistake right after the video was released thou
JumpnCflash 1 year ago
Evolution is a theory. Creation is a theory. The earth being "seeded" by aliens and DNA being manipulated by aliens is a theory. Just depends on what circles you run in.
But we really don't know which theory, if any, is correct.
MrPinksBane 1 year ago
@MrPinksBane great comment
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alexhatesu1 1 year ago
great SONG
Ssssupermom 1 year ago
what the fuxx about haitai
decadesnail1 1 year ago
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decadesnail1 1 year ago
if u ever watched the discovery channel you'll learn how and what will happen to Earth in time...they also say that Earth may eventually end up like Venus
even if humans do die out some scientists speculate that we as humans are aliens and did come from space as organisms.
NonHtau 1 year ago
"some scientists speculate that we as humans are aliens and did come from space as organisms. " Then they are retards, ever heard of Darwin?
Besides, the sun will devoure the earth when it becomes a red giant
94Films 1 year ago
well that sucks if there are still people on earth when the sun does go..and who knows..maybe the earth won't even be here when the sun goes.
NonHtau 1 year ago
@NonHtau My teach said the sun well be gone in 2 billion years. With the rate of pollution and toxic everywhere, were probably not gonna last for about another 100 years. Hell, 20. or 10 or even 5.
PhioenixPinion 1 year ago
Darwins theory is a theory. I'm tired of hearing everyone refer to his findings as fact. They're theoretical. For example "survival of the fittest" rule out- animals follow that rule, not all humans do. For example there are people who are willing to sacrifice themselves for another, 'the strong FOR the weak' as opposed to the weak willed rule out.
Darwin had a THEORY. Speculation that we came from space as organisms is no more far-fetched than religion or evolution.
BleedCountry1 1 year ago
@BleedCountry1 darwin/atheism is all and the same a religion of its own
whitestar111 1 year ago
atheism is not a religion
SEYMORDICK 1 year ago
@SEYMORDICK ya it is the only thing that isn't a religion is spirituality
whitestar111 1 year ago
evolution is a fact not a theory
SEYMORDICK 1 year ago 2
No, the Evolution theory of MAN is, and you might have picked this up due to the "theory" behind it, Theory. There is NO conclusive evidence outlining that man evolved from primate. There is THEORY.
BleedCountry1 1 year ago
Have you ever seen dinosaurs? If not, then evolution is a theory.
shelleyinthecity 1 year ago
I have seen dinosaur fossils skeletons bones etc. Seems like you have never seen the insides of a science classroom.
SEYMORDICK 1 year ago
@shelleyinthecity you don't understand evolution. dinosaurs are extinct.
sashwap 1 year ago
you mean all that DNA and fossilized evidence of dinos are fake?
Jazzyteach65 1 year ago
fossils... and the reason we don't see living dinosaurs today is because they have EVOLVED dip shit...
ShezzzDog 1 year ago
you obviously do not understand darwin or evolution at all. man and primates trace back to a common ancestor. man did not evolve from "primates" as you like to think but rather an earlier ancestor that man and primates evolved separately from. for example you have a species that splits and becomes 2 different species. these 2 different species split and become 4 different species. this theory as you like to call it is not a theory at all but a fact and the evidence is called DNA.
SEYMORDICK 1 year ago
that the Bible is the revelation of an omnipotent and omniscient Creator whose Word is more reliable than the speculations of men. Both evolution and creation, however, can be compared for their compatibility with what we do observe of the facts of nature. In the months ahead, we will see that creation by intelligent design is a vastly more reasonable explanation for the origin of the complexity we see in living things than is evolution by mere chance and the intrinsic properties of nature.
BleedCountry1 1 year ago
As a side note, if you accept that offspring will not be identical to the parents, that animals with the best adaptations to their habitat will survive (and pass on their advantages) and crucially, that the planet is constantly changing than evolution is not "mere chance". When talking about life over 2 billion years, its by far the most logical conclusion to make.
Im not quite sure what you mean by 'in the months ahead' but it'll be interesting to see if anything happens I guess.
Sarahykinz 1 year ago
Evolution is a valid theory the same way gravity is a valid theory... im afraid you're confusing scientific theory, with a random idea you have when drunk in the pub. Scientific theory is backed up by evidence, experiments and cross-checking across the scientific community so to compare evolution to religion, where the only evidence is basically a book, is just wrong.
Also, I've never heard anyone claim we "came from space as organisms."
Sarahykinz 1 year ago
evolution is not observable, repeatable, or refutable and thus does not qualify as either a scientific fact or theory. Evolution must be accepted with faith by its believers, many of whom deny the existence, or at least the power, of the Creator. Similarly, the Biblical account of creation is not observable, repeatable or refutable by man. Special creation is accepted with faith by those who believe
BleedCountry1 1 year ago
Repeatable as in recreation in a lab? Then no it's not. But it has been observed. Google "lizards rapid evolution." They didn't change species, but in only 36 years their digestive system, and their head size changed noticeably - imagine how much could change in 36 million years
And evolution is also definitely refutable. All it would take is fossils in the wrong layer of rock, fish fossils with beaks/fur. And thats not counting transitional fossils, or the DNA evidence. Evolution =/= religion
Sarahykinz 1 year ago 6
Out of curiosity, isn't "gravity" a law? Or is it a theory that has laws, or something else?
PadraikKasier 1 year ago
@PadraikKasier
It's kind of both. Newton devised the law of gravity, which describes what gravity is - that all objects with mass attract each other, but he couldn't explain why this was the case - it's the general theory of relativity that explains how it works.
Sarahykinz 1 year ago
@PadraikKasier I've written a 5000 word essay on that for my masters, and i can safely tell you i don't know.
I think it's a descriptor personally.
kellmano1 1 year ago
Wait, do you mean your masters degree or you wrote an essay for your slave masters?
PadraikKasier 1 year ago
@94Films darwin all it is a theory
whitestar111 1 year ago
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wasbeert 1 year ago
It's called exogenesis, a quite interesting theory if you ask me.
wasbeert 1 year ago
Agreed. The earth is here and will always be here. As for us.
"We are Progressing ourselves to Extinction"
Hitit59 2 years ago 6
@Hitit59
the sun is a star and one day it will fall out of the sky
444bethany444 1 year ago
@444bethany444 It will actually supernova and collapse in upon itself and shoot two beams equally opposite to each other which will shoot across the universe destroying anything in their path until they eventually die out. But that's not for a long time.
WillieWallace92 1 year ago
@WillieWallace92
i bet you a fiver it dont x
iwontshareyouify 1 year ago
i think it's more simple, like the fact that we destroy the world as fast as possible and then wonder why it affects us negatively. then again, i could be wrong
noneyageorge85 2 years ago 2
i think the world isn't being destroyed. When the dinosaurs roamed the earth it was very hot. Global warming don't make me piss. The earth is not being destroyed, we are.
NicenEasyuk 2 years ago 2
very true. the fact that we think we can actually destroy the world is a joke. when you think about it, it is almost like the world is a body and we are the disease and the body is using a fever to kill us off, reject us. I am in no way an environmentalist so fuck if i care lol, just commenting on the song
noneyageorge85 2 years ago 2
@NicenEasyuk and we've earned it. why d'you thing all those ancient centers of civilization they call the fertile crescent are desert now?
AhliAnggur 2 years ago 3
Oh Look...I'm here too...LOL
smithy2402 2 years ago
me encanta la cancion
chibikaleido 2 years ago
This is so apt for the summit in Copenhagen at the moment.
tsaok123 2 years ago 2
what is it up in the air for?
kevsul47 2 years ago
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Great song by the kings of college radio ! Excellent musicians. For something different check out the "Shake For Me Now" video in my site. It's for adults only, no children
FOXMANMUSIC 2 years ago
***** !
newmediaformat 2 years ago
is great !
enmaflo67 2 years ago 2
Lyric From Song In Video:
"Tell the sky, don't fall on me"...
Non Lyric Seen In Video:
"It's Going To Fall." & "If It's There For Long." & "It's Over It's Over... Me." & "Bury Magnets."
houseoforange0 2 years ago
& "Swallow The Rapture."
houseoforange0 2 years ago
"fall on me": a metaphor for the effects of gravity? the inevitable demise of humanity? the recent economic downturn? global warming? Armageddon? the parallels are staggering...
oolong631 2 years ago 2
hence "The End of the World As We Know It..." (another REM staple;)
orbulon999 2 years ago 4
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lyrics describe 9/11
sludgedozer 2 years ago
written in 1986
khasperg 2 years ago 3
nope, its from the story of chicken little, when an acorn fell on his head and told everyone that the sky was falling. nothing big.how could it relate to the recent economic dowtnurn as its over twenty years old?
fletch1701 2 years ago 15
I think that songs relate more to what people need them too in their personal circumstances than what the artists intend.
revelinabandon 2 years ago 2
@fletch1701 Sorry, man. It was about acid rain.
llama24230 1 year ago 7
acid rain?
lordtrax8 2 years ago
@lordtrax8 Gravity.
PhioenixPinion 1 year ago
All That And More oolong631... Much Love And Respect M8..
MarLas420 2 years ago
very subconscious lyrics...almost like you're reading a dream...only consciously, since it is a music video...very political..."buy the sky and sell the sky..." a time capsule of a song...
invisibility99 2 years ago 4
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milatheton 1 year ago
@invisibility99 your interpretation gave my soul diabetes. I bet that you're a scholar.
milatheton 1 year ago
classic REM...takes me back to my high school years...the 90s...what's memorable about this video is the flashing of the words on the screen...seemingly random...poetic...the black and white background adds to the mystery of the music..."fall on me"...WTF? some sort of sexual euphemism?
who cares...it's REM...
ignominious79 2 years ago 3
I refuse to reveal the true meaning of the meaning. As I said, so has M.Stipe said, that these are just "Dumb words", as Bob Dylan, "they mean so much, but nothing at all" Just a song. True art in a vocal form. All is well, but man the towers. Be watchdogs for the future, but remember The Troggs. Also give creedence to "The Hindu Love Gods/w Warren Zevon as front man. Find the time to be there, find it everywhere. Driver 8, we've been on this trip too long-JW
jarwick 2 years ago
Poetry and music -- what's not to like? Probably my favorite REM song, but there are so many good ones... Saw them a buttload of years ago when I was in college and they were an alternative kind of college band. Still brilliant after all these years.
BelindaKyle 2 years ago
I remember when back in the early 80s with my finger on the pulse of college radio that REM and U2 where the champs. Alas no matter how brightly they burned..........No band has the power to eclipse the BEATLES. p.s. MJ is Dead..........good pedophile king op pop my arse.
cmomgonutz 2 years ago
...Wow. This is...original.
Alton753 2 years ago
Very esoteric lyrics. Hardly makes any sense at all. Odd how that doesn't detract from making it a good song anyway, huh? LOL
SirWolfgaar 2 years ago 6
It's about air pollution bro... and yeah, it's an awesome track!
ParkerMonster 2 years ago
esoteric...good descriptor...perhaps cryptic???
scorpion13179 2 years ago 2
Great song. R.E.M. RUles1!
Andres256 2 years ago
they had way bigger hits than this, but 'fall on me' has always been my favorite. IMO, Stipe can be too whiny about their "issue" songs, and they got a bit too cute for their own good musically. Here, it was more pure, simple, and just fucking good.
badgernation74 2 years ago 9
If I remember right, Michael Stipe called this his favorite REM song (at the time) when they did their MTV Unplugged concert. He didn't need the lyrics sheet for this one (like he did for "End of the World (and I Feel Fine)". That was a good show.
stevepwood 2 years ago 2
the backup singing in this song is amazing
OnlySleeping89 2 years ago 3
it's Mike Mills on back-up vocals right? thinking so
badgernation74 2 years ago 3
"Fall on Me" is a song by R.E.M. from their fourth album, 1986's Lifes Rich Pageant. I bought it on Vinyl when it first came out.
The song is about acid rain. Acid rain was a huge problem in 86. I remember cars that were shipped from Japan got damaged by the acid rain... paint peeled right off of the hoods.
theresa113 2 years ago 7
Life's Rich Pageant may be their best album. It wan't very long if I remeber right.
stevepwood 2 years ago
Incredible song. I think it was ahead of its time by a few years. I'm not sure why I feel this way. I remember it around the time it came out, but I seemed to hear it a lot more later on, about 1990 or so. Did this song have a resurgence later on? Is that why many people seem to know it AFTER it came out?
SeeDavRun 2 years ago
such a pretty tune.
suziebhoney 3 years ago
such a great song
AlecKronicle 3 years ago 3
my very fave rem song. thanks.
johnhrunion 3 years ago 2
I think it's just a freaking great song.
jenifermcmillan 3 years ago 3
The song is about acid rain.
theresa113 3 years ago
@theresa113 How can you tell? This song is based around chicken little, who was hit by a acorn. So its on gravity.
PhioenixPinion 1 year ago
It's a really strange and beautiful song.
It evokes a general vague feeling of dread, some unnamed, unknown threat that's coming. Maybe an environmental disaster or war, coming from the sky. The song's like a desperate melodic hymn or prayer for salvation from what's inevitably coming. Yet hearing it on radio or youtube always makes me happy. Guess I'm just a pessimistic emo happily contemplating my own oblivion. That, or it's just a freaking great song.
patty7beth 3 years ago 2
one beautiful but one question, in your opinion, what the song means? everytime i hear it i get sad, a bit depress and nostalgic. songs mean something different to everyone and i would like to know what it means to you? thanks
elsoda 3 years ago
Stipe called it a protest song about nothing in particular; whatever cause you might think needs one.
ThingyBlahBlah3 3 years ago 2
I heard it was about acid rain. Maybe not. It sounds right to me though
MrRick1970 2 years ago
Love this video. It was made around the time that Michael Stipe's singing was starting to improve. I was so glad that the band flourished in the early to mid-Nineties. I know they've had a bad run the last few years with Bill Berry gone. But I heard their latest album and it sounds pretty good.
poughkeepsiejohn 3 years ago
Simply beautiful.
xmvirus202 3 years ago 3
The chorus still gives me goosebumps even after all the years. Fantastic song for a great band.
celebratedsummer88 3 years ago 5
the IRS years were R.e.m's most prime years, it will never be the same thats when they were the top indie group in the world.
pauleyh 3 years ago 2
What happened? They used to be able to make a point and jangle it into your soul- and this is easily in the top 5 in their canon.
Now Stipe is a shrill knucklehead- I'm sure doing fine charity work- but he lost the mystery and subtlety that made them so unique.
Did he neuter Mike Mills?
As we inch ever closer to 9/11, this song always pops into my head.
saguaroboy 3 years ago
I agree... I remember when REM had a genuinely mysterious quality to them, and how difficult it was to find good pictures of them in the early 90s!
Of course, that was back before the Internet and 24/7 news coverage of everything on earth, when people like Stipe & Co could avoid the spotlight if they chose to.
ThingyBlahBlah3 3 years ago
i agree 1,ooo% pauleyh!
johnhrunion 3 years ago
Amen 2 that. i purchased the 4 CD box set issued by IRS records. titled REM the IRS Years 1980-1988
pauleyh 3 years ago
i started with the band in '83, but green in '89 wore off very quickly and the band lost their mysterious quality along the way. thank you for the reply. :) john
johnhrunion 3 years ago
Maybe they were mohels?
gregzsidisin 3 years ago
Beautiful song, thanks again for posting! Such a gem!!! One of a kind sound and song by REM.
Jmriccitelli 3 years ago
This song always reminds me of wonderful times years ago. This song is indicitive of the time and of how alternative rock was king in the 80's-90's!!! I miss those days! Beautiful song, beautiful melody!!!!
Jmriccitelli 3 years ago 2
Great,great song but all the artificial man made canyons even in the smallest of cities is pitiful and the pure waste. Were I live of all things that happened the guy fell and fell in the nitrogen pit. What in the heck is a nitrogen pit doing at a construction site?
Sinneloa 3 years ago