R.E.M - Blue (with Patti Smith) 2011

[Ciche007]

I like this song, but isn't it just a remake of "Country Feedback" from "Out of Time" ?

[sodiumoxybate]

I have to confess to not being a big R.E.M fan, apart from one or two tracks. This track, however, is absolutely amazing. I have no idea what the lyrics mean, nor do I want to know. As they stand, strange, mysterious and enigmatic, they are just perfect.....

[killcaptainstupid]

I remember when I first heard this album - I put it on in the background whilst I was trapped on TVTropes (we've all been there!). The songs started and finished and I didn't really take any particular notice of any of them until this one. When that first vocal line came in I stopped what I was doing; my jaw dropped; my blood froze. Just...wow. Thanks for all the music guys, what a great way to end a blinding career!

[leafthebrave]

this song is a perfect wrap up for all of R.E.M., best band to ever exist. Period.

[blokey8]

I'm not fussed about the post-Collapse song. As far as I'm concerned, this is their parting shot. Reduces me to teary mush every single time.

[froggo66]

Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but viewed in the aftermath of R.E.M.'s break-up, this album -- and particularly this song -- was recorded with the knowledge that this would be their last recording. From the album title to the breezes of earlier songs that waft through this album's tracks, R.E.M. was looking back, looking forward to a new type of life, and collapsing into now, now. That's what the reprise of Discoverer at the end is meant to symbolizing -- a re-beginning...

[MrTybach]

That ending, where this track seemingly blends into Discoverer (4:15) just really gets to me. In a good way.

It's like even though they've split up, and it feels like the end of an era. They've left behind an entire legacy of music spanning three decades. I get the feeling the band don't want us to be sad at their departure, rather to see the happy side of it.

Thanks R.E.M. Thanks for everything....

[natchilupin]

that's amazing, I just can't shake it off me. for me it's the best in the whole CD. ha ha.

[MusicFann213]

i dont understand why on this song and some others on the cd..when it fades out another song begins..instead of just letting this great song fade to nothing

[SymmetryBroken]

This is life changing.

[mariusuma]

what is the meaning of blue???

[MrHuracanhambulante]

@mariusuma sad

[JeboJaJubitoImena]

What a way to end a career... What a requiem. This is absolute brilliance.

[StinkiwinkiPoo]

rapid eye movements never die!

[curlygurlyxo]

thanks guys! :')



[IronCornflake]

Sweetness Follows with over 20 hours of itunes REM. The vinyl's in the attic with the toys.

[gpeddino]

Somehow, R.E.M. came to be after Stipe decided to be an artist, while listening to Patti's "Horses". Fittingly, she was there for their final number.

Thanks, R.E.M.

[minichapman]

This feels like it's R.E.M.'s epitaph.

The sadness of R.E.M. splitting but then the reprise of Discoverer at the end is like telling us all that it'll be alright.

Damn. I'll miss them.

[Sphinx8472]

So, this is it. :(

[YogurtYard]

closing number

[mairkh]

Maybe ...........And I do say MAYBEEEEEEEEEE Another automatic for the people

or is that one push too far ?

[StinkiwinkiPoo]

at the intro i hought its another version of " country feedback"....

[justincampaign]

I have been waiting for this Album Since 1993. The mandolin baby that's were its at. You know that. Love this Album like Automatic.

[kinnetic73]

Michael rips this up!!!

[lena13b]

Loving the album... bought it when it came out... love it

[rare2species]

good old times are back!!!

[tnxble]

Fantastic song!

[cerra74]

Simply stunning.Incredible

[williamcardno]

The best part about REM is that I feel they are speaking directly to me, on an emotional level, even though I know the songs are not about me at all.

This song encapsulates that so well.

And I hate REM for every moment that I think I have really gotten somewhere as a songwriter and musician - Buck, Mills and Stipe put out another album reminding me that I have mountains of progress ahead of me.

Truly the greatest band today... by far.

[jiju1719]

I love it!!!

[finitenoir]

smells like The Who there @ the end....

[uselink85]

My blood turn blue each time i listen this.

[bovkasa]

startrack

[Aluka69]

great, great, great song!!! love it!!!

[Lizardcuckoo]

Amazing bluesy Patti Smith vocals, wonderful guitars... Probably my favorite track off the new album, and a great FINAL track!

[colinone12]

Wow what a great song.....back to form

[JoseBerry]

AMAZING TRACK!

[RadicalAlternative]

Lets be honest- this is disappointing

[thrynkat]

@RadicalAlternative I disagree, but I'll upvote you because there's no call for this comment to be quashed.

[aharon1980]

Don't know why but I strated to cry when Patti started to sing.. maybe because it's such a perfect ending for the album

[Evance4]

Very powerful combo. Two of the best musicians in the last 20 years!

[finitenoir]

@Evance4 two?  just two? :)

[fred6059]

Funny how Peter steals his own music

[3219willian]

2 assholes

[1000888JR]

at 2:58 i cant believe thats a girl singing that, it sounds like michael stipe

[eezlewax2]

Best one on the album... love R.E.M but jurys out on new album.. heard it all before bah bah :|

[Michaelpe]

wow, I read this song looks like ebow, belong, country feedback, live for today, turn you inside out,...

they are really genius to mix all this songs into one...

[jasperpie]

Country Feedback....Ebow The Letter = Bliss= Patti and Michael

[TheWojciechG]

good song but nothing new...nothing original...it reminds too much of E-bow The Letter, construction of this song is exactly the same

[Zappafaux]

reminds me of the Velvet Underground - The murder mystery

[Reveal32]

Definite tones Live For Today which they did with Pearl Jam as a Christmas Single back in the day...

[kevsul47]

@SaintPhoeniix .no.

[MrYourTubed]

I need this ...I neeeeed this...

nice song tho

[MrYourTubed]

I need this ...I neeeeed this...

It's crazy what they should have said??

[stationarychaos2]

Dancing for joy with this song. I love REM and PATTI SMITH

[XYlophonetreeZ]

@darcy2002: I thought exactly the same thing.

[groundfxdude]

Actually, sonically it resembles a cut off the very first Mercury Rev album. Matters not though, it's a great song, by a landmark American band, whose voice was quiet for far too long. Welcome home REM...

[SAFFIREmusic]

GO PATTI !!!! we love you!

[Furiousopoetic]

I was laying back, listening to this, thinking of Belong and E-Bow.

No real comparison, just like I wouldn't compare me now to younger me.

[fixedstarsrise]

There is a poem of nature's sexual liberation posted here, entitled "A Bouquet of Exotica." Its meaning is explored more deeply in the book, "Fixed Stars Rise."

[fred6059]

Listen to the last part which is part of 'Discoverer'. It sounds like 'Turn You Inside Out'. Did Pete not realize he was recycling old music into this new album?

[freewilly1990]

I love REM but as people have said this sounds like Ebow the letter and country feedback- but IMO its nowhere near as good as those 2 songs =[ its quite boring- Discoverer is a good song though =]

[lorenzolotito]

Naaaaa, this reminds me a lot "Going Nowhere" by The Cure.

[SMThomasson]

R.E.M. paint pictures in my head of the entire history of America and its people. I see slavery, foundries pumping out black smoke, iron ore and metal being forged in fire; impossible sunsets over vast deserts, sunshine, rain, snow and sand all in the same continent. Working classes under the might of sleazy politicians. Fast-food culture, streaking lights and devastation yet somehow beauty. One day I wish to visit this land. I will smoke drugs on a mountaintop and lie back; collapsing into now.

[BlameItOnThePenguin2]

@SMThomasson Very insightful. I'm wondering if this isn't about a person but his entire life, what he was referring to in the line "I like you, I love you... etc. It's all blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue."

[only4tsc]

@SMThomasson perfectly put, and I only just realised that. I probably knew before, but it was in my subconscious. R.E.M. are America's band, a band the entire nation should be proud of. Much loves from over here in the UK!

[dueftli72]

very good song, cool and very relaxed. The new album is realy one of the betters from R.E.M.

[mariuscar]

This song remembers "murder mistery "of the velvet underground; the magic voice of michael stipe is very similar to those of john cale and lou reed in this song that is included in the 3rd faboulous album of the velvet underground.

In any case blue is a great psychedelic song.

[fred6059]

Omg I had to check the title while this playing as I thought I accidentally turned on Country Feedback! Don't care for this song though. 'Feedback' is 1,0000 times better.

[rimbaud108]

Beautifull!!! Cinderella boy you lost your shoe...

[darcy2002]

I don't have much but what I have is gold!!!!

[darcy2002]

Country Feedback meets E-bow for sure but that's definitely not a bad thing.

[bfdhvcnvvbjdn]

@darcy2002 Also there's a bit of 'Belong' in there too.

[williamcardno]

@bfdhvcnvvbjdn And Saturn Return. It's like the best underrated REM songs had a lovechild.

[cleophee69]

Love, love, love....Beautiful...

[rubentus1980]

reminds Country Feedback. Great track.