R.E.M. - Driver 8

[MrBlahdiblahdi]

Yeah I probably never even really heard of REM when I started college in '86 but I can still remember hearing that lyric for the first time (we were probably getting stoned in the dorms); "the power lines have floaters so the airplanes wont get snagged." and I really started to let my mind wander... when I woke up it was 1998 and I was married and paying a mortgage, wtf happened?

[heapbigtalk]

perhaps we farted ~ yall reckon ~

[LaughingMan0960]

Great song. Perfect video.



[TirochVideos]

Chessie System, one of my all time favorite Railroads, you can never go wrong by using the Yellow-Red-Vermillion of the Chess-C!

[inmytree1982]

in a funny way, reminds me of the movie super 8.

[pseudohipSTAR90]

I wish I would've been a college kid in the 80's. All the best music was coming from the college rock scene.

[spartandude45]

2 people Are Driver 9

[BlackWolfessUSCM]

Classic Chessie System Footage... And my all time favorite REM song.

[zimbalatti]

Like others here, this was the song that made me first notice a band called REM. I personally think the earlier years of REM made the best music. Sad to see music like this slowly fading.

[travisnealtodd70]

The very first song I heard by R.E.M. The next day I walked to my small town's only music store and bought Fables of the Reconstruction on cassette. Initially about 90% of the album was over my unsophisticated head but it initiated a years-long love affair with this band.

[KOSMICKEN09]

One of the first songs I ever learned on the guitar was this one..r.i.p. R.E.M.

[mrgalaxia12]

I love this song, i love this band, the funny thing about this is that i was born 4 years after that song was recorded

[fvalen001]

@mrgalaxia12 Thanks. I feel old. :P

[laendeavor]

REM at their BEST

[Aideen73]

This is the song that got me into REM, I first heard it around the time when it was released. I was young then, but it stuck with me and I still listen to REM 25 years later :)

[prettyfacen2wings]

My house is in this video at the end!!!

[12inchvertical]

is that opening monologue Michael Stipe's voice?

[Aideen73]

@12inchvertical Yes, it is

[cbeatty551]

@12inchvertical Yes it is

[huddscudd]

The 80s, the Greek system and REM made for such a period.  Was a magical time to be a young person.

[huddscudd]

The 80s, the Greek system and REM made for such a period. 

[jonboyjon1976]

I like the fact that Bill very clearly has a mullet in this vid, and yet I still think he's very cool.

[noisepuppet]

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

[ajb2dance]

Hey, GreekGuy, that was filmed in my home town area...it's beautiful there..it's in the Alleghany Mountains..Clifton Forge, VA. Breathtaking. The town's ecomony relied hugely on the train business (CSX and C & O). So to me, it's a beautiful video because I can relate to all of those trains and tracks.

[GreekGuy9999]

Terrible video for such a stellar song.

[simpleplanfanluvr]

Im seriously inlove with these guys. They've always been so talented.

[ginaraquel]

This is my absolute favorite. Reminds me of my sophomore year of high school.

[BorgKing001]

he's gay yuck

[tranurse]

@BorgKing001 and? who cares? i am more upset that they announced they were breaking up, than by the fact that michael stipe likes to sleep with men.

[princessof1984]

@BorgKing001 I'm gay. Do you have a problem? 

[BorgKing001]

@princessof1984 no, I'm straight

[Tiza123m]

@BorgKing001 You`re an IDIOT . That`s way more YUK!

[Suicyanide001]

Shame they're calling it a day, this was the first album I heard by them, and it still has a special place in my heart, I agree with unbridledid great atmosphere!!!

[pele6922]

RIP Chessie System!

[thuriferthecenser]

Walk around virtually any college campus in the fall of '85 and you could hear 'Fables" coming from a hundred windows

[Chickendoc]

YEP, and mine was at 122 E. Cloverhurst Ave, right in the middle of Athens. If I had a way-back machine, I'd head straight there, instead of ancient Egypt - Athens is much cooler anyway!

[jpcmd]

@thuriferthecenser So true. Especially in Athens, Georgia where I was a student from 1983 to 1987. They were ubiquitous. REM forever.....................

[shelleyinthecity]

@jpcmd You had Herschel Walker, R.E.M., and Dominique Wilkins at UGA all at the same time in the early 1980's. A good time to be at UGA.

[12inchvertical]

beautiful lyrics, beautiful singing, beautiful riff

[Scottydont66]

Love the Song

Love the grainy video

reminds me of late Sunday nights watching 120 minutes!

[RobotAbeRevolution12]

only 1 driver decided to take a break

[ShigureTukana]

Will driver 8 ever take a break?

[uneedtherapy42]

this band.... part of the soundtrack of my life... all I can think of to say is...Thank You...

[austrich83]

First tune I ever heard by them.

[threadgillb]

@austrich83 Not the first song I heard them sing, but it certainly was a profound tune, back when they still had talent.

[squaresandzeros]

I simply cannot stop listening to Fables at the moment. Dark, Melodic, Dense.

[unbridledid]

@squaresandzeros

I think Fables is their best album. It figures that the band thinks it is their worst.... I love the atmosphere that the album has, nothing that have done after comes close.... Old man Kensey is superb !

[jsav1972]

@unbridledid Fables is a great record. It has such a dark quality...kind of melancholy....a record of where they were at the time......Fables is underrated in my view.

[cythera431]

@jsav1972 I agree, "Fables..." was/is awesome, and, to me, really established REM as one of the truly original American bands of the '80s, if not the very best, and "Life's Rich Pageant" cemented this status.

[hinolatino]

the opening riff grabs you and doesnt let go. luv it.

[Schumitastic]

One of their best songs ever in my opinion - even though the list is endless.

[WastedDaze78]

@Schumitastic agreed



[comedywhacked]

320 views? :(

[GAdawgsfan93]

@comedywhacked i know man. I think this and Green Grow The Rushes were the best songs off of FOTR.

[Nightwish0712]

@comedywhacked now 565 =D