Coldplay Nightswimming with Michael Stipe

Austin City Limits 2005

[@waziotter]

For once in his life Chris Martin is right. The best song ever written.

[@positivecommenter1]

What do you mean, "for once in his life"?

[@gregkiteos1936]

Nightswimming, but with anxiety.

[@nando7789]

Better song ever written, totally agree.....

[@MyNov09]

I remember my secondary school playing Nightswimming on their radio the year it came out. I didnt know who it was by but it became a precursor to me listening to a lot of REM.

[@julianwallace1165]

Totally agree. Best song ever written. Bar none.

[@wackpanic1]

Yes. Slow it down Chris. It's not a race, let's enjoy it.

[@take1994]

Butchering Mills’ masterpiece.

[@gregkiteos1936]

@@take1994 hear hear!

[@BloxyAdventure-]

No doubt. Make love to that piano don’t rape it

[@catherine711]

needs richard ashcroft calm down

[@j.c7719]

@Jimmy Carolina I would be nervous playing that song in front of him, I’m sure that was a huge moment for him.

[@JOESMITH-yt7uf]

It is my favourite song ever & Michael's voice makes me tremble like nothing else. It's just a bit too fast - the slower parts in the original are some of the highlights

[@nataliegraves3977]

Night swimming .. just so peaceful..🥳🥰🙏

[@MustardKingCustard]

Epic Nightswimming speedrun.

[@mycatscalledalfie5665]

I agree, the best song ever written.

[@witchblade1969]

Nightswimming is my favorite REM Song

[@PB.JACKSON]

I am not a fan of either REM or Coldplay. However, this has to be one of the most beautifully haunting songs ever...In my opinion.

[@CincyPharmer]

great answer!! i agree.

[@luisorihuela8156]

Should listen more to rem songs... true jewels

[@themorgueTV]

He wrote it in one take

[@boabskinner3237]

So you are a fan of R.E.M.?

[@alanshepherd4304]

Love REM, never really listened to Coldplay. I'm currently laid up after a knee operation so I'm going to indulge myself and listed to lots of music that simple passed me by, plus my wife waiting on me hand and foot!! Bliss!!;😂😂😂😂😂

[@aeronwolfe7072]

wow. most of the time when i see these "older" rockers come out and do their old songs, it sounds REALLY bad... and though i would have slowed the tempo down just a smidge, i cannot believe how good this sounds!!! good on everyone involved in this. it sounds marvelous!!!

[@katanaki3059]

Such beautiful lyrics

[@Liofa73]

It’s definitely one of my favourite songs.

[@LibyanSoup]

Adjust the Playback speed to x 0.8 and enjoy it all the more. You're welcome.

[@jivebunny3765]

0.9 for me.

[@bent.5062]

I actually like the faster tempo, I think it highlights what Chris Martin has taken from the song pretty well. It makes it sound more like a Coldplay song. It also seems to put Stipe in a place where he has to rush a bit and brings an interesting, less monumental performance out of him. I prefer the original, but this version explores some new parts of the song

[@badboys1769]

It was written in a certain tempo for the affect,which I like better if had to choose rem 1 better

[@gregerskine4160]

Its just not the right tempo for the song, Stipe looks rightly pissed off at the end. Butchered by chris martin

[@andyvamdemon6125]

Original tempo in this song, it's like this.. Non lamentarti

[@situated4]

This song played Brandon Walsh out of the 90210 series on November 4, 1998.

[@eduardwalhout1740]

what an amazing thing to remember

[@spackretired]

Once, when I was 18, off the coast of Yugoslavia, I swam stark naked out into the Mediterranean Sea so far in the middle of the night that I couldn't see the lights on the beach. Below me was only the blackness... and the moonlight reflected in the bubbles my movements created in the water... It looked like I was wearing an elf dress.

[@JohnHF1957]

Off that coast, (Where exactly, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia or Montenegro?) it would be the Adriatic, not the Mediterranean. A very technical geographic point but worth making.

[@spackretired]

@@JohnHF1957 The Adriatic Sea, also known as the Adriatic for short, is the elongated northern side basin of the Mediterranean Sea between the Apennine Peninsula and the Balkan Peninsula. As an American, you probably don't know your way around there.

[@JohnHF1957]

@@spackretired Well, Mister incorrect speculation, as an Englishman who taught secondary school geography for 33 years (which is why I can confidently correct you) and has visited Italy's Adriatic coast on six occasions since 1987, I in fact do know my way around there. I am aware that it is an arm off the Mediterranean but it has a separate name, just as the Ionian Sea, Aegean and Tyrrenian do and other "arms" of the other oceans. It is therefore always referred to as the Adriatic, not the Mediterranean. It might be an idea to humbly accept an accurate correction rathe r than make assumptions that lead to more errors. Also, just for curiosity's sake, why did you assume that I am American? You might want to go back over your last few days to see how many things you have managed to get correct, as your recent error count is rising. PS It would also be a good idea to make sure that you know where you are swimming in future, so that, for instance if you ever visit Sydney and swim in the Bondi Icebergs Pool, you don't mistake it for the Pacific Ocean, even though it is clearly separately walled off.

[@spackretired]

@@JohnHF1957 As a rule, it's Americans who act like schoolmasters. But being a geography teacher explains a lot. I really feel sorry for your surviving students.

[@JohnHF1957]

@@spackretired No need to feel sorry for them, as, unlike you, most of them weren't too arrogant to learn from their mistakes and many of them would feel sorry for you because you don't seem able to accept an error. My last 30 years of teaching was in the same school in a small rural town where I still live. I taught the kids of kids I had previously taught,. I see former students nearly every day and I am humbled by the respect they show. I normally wouldn't bother to mention this but I feel the need to stick it up your further incorrect assumptions. During my time teaching, I was nominated for a national teaching award, so I must have been able to do the job appropriately. PS I'm not interested in a further reply of more incorrect assumptions and comments based on stereotypes from you. Just wallow in your own conceited arrogance. To end though, I'll have a shot at the sort of association your Mediterranean comment brought to mind. When you drink tea or coffee or milk or beer or cola do you refer to them as water because it is the main element in those liquids?

[@tjb25587]

I never knew that Chris Martin had good piano playing skills.

[@86Rikki]

Came here to see if the comments were all about it being too fast.

[@tullulah5294]

Same 😄

[@extremeoverclockingyobbo5467]

This and "You are the everything"

[@alanshepherd4304]

Gosh, the stress of playing Mike Mills piano part must have been enormous. Well done!!😂😂😂

[@patricia382]

Still got it

[@glenndowling8383]

Evocative

[@petersnyder1241]

Perfect

[@gregerskine4160]

Erm no

[@kathrinpost5731]

Yeah...beautiful...

[@JS45678]

Uploaded this into my mixer app then slowed the tempo a bit….PERFECT! ♥️😊♥️

[@patrickmckeirnan3056]

Hes So honest

[@Themanwhocameback2]

Chris Martin should have laid off whatever substance thatis rendering his playing hyperkinetic. Poor Michael is too polite. I would have laid my hand on the keys and yelled, "Stop!"

[@trhin402]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@garryfield5319]

piano is way to fast for this.

[@101commentary]

I feel like he was probably quite nervous

[@glenndowling8383]

Just too fast. But the feeling was spot on

[@fabiangonzalezchiruchi36]

Too fast tempo,but it doesn't lose his beauty at all.

[@jackmcca87]

def faster than the original, but that's what's great about a cover: a different take on the original: and agreed on the beauty!

[@flemwad]

Les Dawson plays nightswimming

[@MS-sy8ls]

Yup, waaaaay too fast 😐

[@situated4]

That's what she said.

[@pwfortner]

If you play it on .75 speed it’s pretty good

[@robinm2604]

Great tip. I found 0.82 was optimum

[@AquaXC]

Good thing mobile KZbin doesn't let you fine tune the speed other than .25x increments. Damn it

[@pescadotacos]

0.9 is perfect.

[@landoiseduardo8754]

Too fast :/

[@steve_bal4]

Michael should've cuffed him one upside the head! 😄

[@SweetBunny706]

Eduardo Landois yep

[@serh0777]

Why song is so fast?

[@thenoobpolice3002]

Oh dear. Compare and contrast with the sublime performance by MM and MS on Later With Jools Holland.

[@vincestevenson]

Yes - big fan of both - but piano too fast Chris, relax man.

[@gonnahavemesomefun]

at 0.75 speed it's much better

[@michaelwakeman6508]

Too quick Chris!

[@johnmurzycki5148]

lol I kind of like this fast version though.

[@ruvikulan]

He plays it too fast:(

[@aidanconey9303]

Slow down Chris!! 😅

[@musgrave6886]

you'd think chris disrespectfully rushed michael.

[@DrewD55]

I don't disagree with Chris Martin that this song is amazing, except to point out that (and I don't know when this was shot, other than it was posted in August 2005) in July 2005, he said the exact same thing about The Verve's song "Bittersweet Symphony" at Live 8 London when introducing Richard Ashcroft, who was the singer for The Verve and came out to sing "Bittersweet..." with Coldplay...

[@thebossman80s]

I was thinking the same thing but I believe chris said Richard ashcroft is the best singer in the world

[@DrewD55]

@@thebossman80s He said both, and I quote "This is probably the best song ever written, and here's the best singer in the world: Mr. Richard Ashcroft." There's no shortage of KZbin clips of it...

[@monkeychu420]

Night swimming but you drown at the end

[@yiannisclerides9782]

little fast -

[@stevel2812]

Too fast. Didnt anyone tell him !

[@TheRebel1917]

A bit too fast

[@Thomasringpetersen]

To fast Chris

[@BEKim-eb9rz]

I admired her throughout high school, but the courage never came to me. I only watched her shine amongst others, and pined for her under the moon. Six years later, I returned to my hometown for a summer job. She was there. The light in her eyes was “replaced by every day” and the uncertainty of serious mental health issues. Photographs kept turning in my memory, and I recalled her understated persona, culture, and athletic glow. This time, I summoned the courage. Our time together put some of her misfortunes in reverse, and I could not describe my feelings when her fair smile returned. But “these things, they go away”, and I knew that come September, life was going to call us elsewhere. My mind and heart turned endlessly between our quiet laughter and tender moments-how can this work?? Late one evening, she took me swimming at a park that meant very different things to each of us. I floundered by the shore- “you, I thought you knew me”! She, the varsity swimmer, took fluid laps across the lake and back. She I marvelled at in the moonlight. I gathered her heartbeat into my arms; it was so strong, even, and sure-“you, I thought I knew you”!? It became clear that I could not know her, and knew not how to handle her fragility with the right strength, nor her strength with the right fragility. Quite some time after that summer, I heard “Nightswimming” for my first time. Especially when the song comes to two moons, “side by side in orbit, around the fairest sun”, I remember that time together. Ever so brightly.

[@jamesnawrocki8722]

Maybe rehearsed and intentional? To give it a different energy from everything heard previously. Why play it sober, otherwise Chris Martin is a hired saloon act.

[@patrickcoppens2164]

Too fast

[@hmmminteresting2451]

Chris played the piano way too fast,

[@damienlott]

As a crappy piano player I get the need to play this faster. (I dont like the guitar licks over this)

[@gregerskine4160]

Nightswimming, deserves a better pianist.

[@thebossman80s]

Chris trying too hard there, ruined it

[@user-kq8wn2gi8q]

Play too fast the piano

[@jgriletz]

How many "best songs ever written" does Chris Marten have? Haha. Granted both are in my top 5 songs but both can't be the best song ever written. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZOponyIiL1poNU

[@MrWindowman1]

played to fast he should have said calm it I would have coldplay my arse

[@cosmic__lemon]

Too Fast, no likey...

[@alessia81ish67]

How to ruin an amazing song, thanks Chris Martin!