R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe

[the44below]

Never been much of an R.E.M. fan but love this tune

[coolguy00442]

Michael Stipe looks like he was always meant to be bald :D

[shadow0106]

Fucking lame audience!, REM is 4eva!

[itsneverbeenlike1]

awesome!

[erickr1973]

know what separated is the easy way no due for all you fans don't go

[rlee64]

I don't know - they mighta been in silent awe of the finest unibrow ever seen in modern pop music.

[GettaRoboG]

1 person prefers Radio Moscow.

[nenevader25]

FUCK YEA

[alabaster30]

Hmm...that's debatable. We won't even get into the whole 'who invented more musical genres debate' here. Wouldn't be fair. The Brits, for the most part, think that punk started in the UK with the Sex Pistols, but it actually goes way back to the American garage groups in the early/mid 60's who were called "punk."

[HeartfeltDawn]

@alabaster30 Is that really what the Brits think? Someone clearly forgot to tell me. Of those American garage groups you talk of, there's also the whole British Invasion shit to consider. No one country invents a genre. Shit gets mashed up from all manner of sources.

[UHandsomeDevil]

MICHAEL STIPE HAD HAIR???!

[shadow0106]

Stipe so fucking young and with hair! hahaha

[fred6059]

Christ they could show poor Bill once in a while stuck behind the drum kit.

[MyCaribBerry]

Hey mongs some of us Brits know decent music when we hear it so f off plonker

[alabaster30]

@MyCaribBerry What's a 'plonker'?



[niteman138]

This is rock history boys and girls, and goddamn michael stipe had hair!

[kebyonatin]

Dear Vevo, Let me start by sayin get your corporate asses off youtube! Ever since these big companies started paying off youtube so they could post their friggin videos we can't post ours. We are flagged for infringement every time we include a song we like in our videos. This is YOUtube the place where w can post OUR videos If we wanted to listen to music from you we'd go to your damn website. To people who want greedy corporates gone thumbs up and copy and paste this on Vevo

[Raubhautz]

Very nice, too bad about the audience. *LAME*

[tonycatman]

Looking back on this, I can tell what happens in the future for these guys. It's like watching telly, but being magic at the same time.

There's not point in watching live telly, because you can't be magic in the same way.

[guffawz08]

Why bicker, just listen to an incredibly kick ass band playing an incredibly kick ass tune. Now back to the video. Fuck Yeah!

[blechtman]

mike looks so cute here. mike mills, i mean. he's older than my dad...so i guess it's weird that i have a crush on him?

[00sven00sven00]

looks like eddie vedder here

[bikemechanic100]

I was there

[stevets01]

Peter is dressed to match his guitar, Bill is dressed to match Peter.

[alabaster30]

Look at these silly Brits! They're not even dancing! (They're probably waiting for Human League or some other bullshit).

[copiga]

@alabaster30 STFU im british and i mosh

[earthboundcruiser]

@alabaster30 considering post punk / new wave started in the UK, it's doubtful.

[wreyoG]

@alabaster30 or some other new romantic shit which no one even remembers nowdays..oh shit but everyone knows REM nowdays..KARMA motherfuckersssssssssss~!!!!

[HeartfeltDawn]

@wreyoG Actually REM were critically popular in the UK despite the relatively small amount of record company promo in the UK at the time and the audiences were pretty fanatical. I think there's a section in the Remarks biography that talks of how one English audience knew the lyrics to Wolves, Lower, better than Stipe did.

[muzza9001]

@alabaster30 Don't stir the fire... not cool

[TofikToficTofic]

@alabaster30

they're waiting the smiths

[Bossness123]

@alabaster30 Give them a break. Hiptonisation is hard to snap out of.

[rickthaluddite]

I guess you spend a lot of time in television studios where they're broadcasting a band live? and it was a couple of years after 1983 before r.e.m. did any genius work.

[zoomazul]

R.E.M. have always been genius!!!!!

[rickthaluddite]

where's the genius in 'shiny happy people'? puh-lease I love this band.

[zoomazul]

who is your favourite band? Radiohead? Nirvana? Placebo? They wouldn't be here without R.E.M. Murmur is the most influential album of the alternative music.

[rickthaluddite]

my favouritie band is the rolling stones from from _exile..._ to _undercover of the night_ (after that they lost their way) But since 1981, r.e.m. is the best band america has to offer. I just think 'radio free europe' reveals some of r.e.m.'s potential for genius but without such future releases as, _reckoning_, _fables of..._ et al, this song wouldn't have gone as far as timbuk3 and 'the future's so bright...)' peace

[zoomazul]

I love the Rolling stones too! But I think R.E.M. have always been more interesting and mysterious and... I can't explain why but I love them. I know they have had bad moments (I hate Around the sun) but they will always be the best band of the world...to me.

[francopersicurezza84]

where is the genious?listen to losing my religion and see the video then fuck you and the rolling stones

[zoomazul]

How old are you? the Rolling Stones are your parents and their satanic majestics.

[rickthaluddite]

'losing my religion' isn't even the best song on _out of time_-- that honour goes to 'country feedback' so no, fuck you dickwad

[francopersicurezza84]

losing my religion is the best song ever written by rem...you can't talk about the thing you don't know...country feedback is a great song too...

[rickthaluddite]

here's a short list of r.e.m. songs I prefer to 'losing my religion'-- 'driver 8', 'swan swan h', 'turn you inside out', 'e-bow the letter', 'departure' (especially the lyric, what a fuck up, what a fighter,) 'fireplace', 'me in honey', 'texarkana', just because we disagree on 'losing my religion' it doesn't mean I don't know anything-- I've been listening to this band for more than 25 years so I do know something, stupid

[wesker53]

There is no doubt that losing my religion is a good song and very digestible but not necessarily the best song this because if we see the technical side "REM" is best composite compositions.

[atheistphilosopher]

Check out the zombie audience that has no idea they are hearing musical geniuses. Fucking sheeple.

[surge2k7]

@atheistphilosopher Agreed

[idospeakenglish]

@atheistphilosopher

either that or they just had their minds completely blown away and are unable to move.

[davidzysk]

@atheistphilosopher

What if their just enjoying the music?

What would you have done?

[DrMichaelHfuhruhurr]

@atheistphilosopher some philosopher you are LOOL

[atheistphilosopher]

@DrMichaelHfuhruhurr My comment was posted 2 years ago. It may have been the first one. I honestly didn't know they were British. No offense meant but hey, how can you not dig the shit out of this song? R.E.M. = Genius.

[DrMichaelHfuhruhurr]

@atheistphilosopher it was a double-edged joke, your comment was right, but, as far as philosophy goes, it was obvious and not insulting to Britain ( reading your first comment and mine, neither of us mentioned it, I don't know why you brought that up ) and REM are genius, thanks again for the insight XD

[atheistphilosopher]

@DrMichaelHfuhruhurr LOL I meant the first comment for this video.