R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (Countdown, 1991)

TV performance by R.E.M. with ‘Losing My Religion’ on Dutch popshow “Countdown”.
The television show was broadcasted by Veronica from 1976 to 1993 and was "Europe's Number 1 Rock Show" with performances by the greatest artists from all over the world like Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Janet Jackson, Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, George Harrison, U2, The Police, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, Lenny Kravitz, Depeche Mode, New Order, Whitney Houston, Duran Duran, R.E.M., Frankie Goes To Hollywood, The Cure, Run DMC, Cyndi Lauper, Iron Maiden, New Kids On The Block, LL Cool J.
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Het Nederlandse televisieprogramma "Countdown" was van 1976 t/m 1993 “Europe’s Number 1 Rock Show” en werd uitgezonden bij Veronica. Later werd het programma ook uitgezonden in het buitenland en was het op z'n hoogtepunt in meer dan 20 landen op televisie te zien.
Gedurende deze 17 jaar muziekgeschiedenis zijn er opnames gemaakt met talloze internationale sterren, zoals Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Janet Jackson, Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, George Harrison, U2, The Police, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, Lenny Kravitz, Depeche Mode, New Order, Whitney Houston, Duran Duran, R.E.M., Frankie Goes To Hollywood, The Cure, Run DMC, Cyndi Lauper, Iron Maiden, New Kids On The Block, LL Cool J.
Uiteraard kwamen Nederlandse top-acts als Doe Maar, Andre Hazes, Herman Brood, Frank Boeijen, Spargo, Golden Earring, Time Bandits, De Dijk, De Raggende Manne, Hans de Booij, Gerard Joling, Drukwerk ook langs voor een optreden in Bussum.
Countdown werd gepresenteerd door oa Lex Harding, Erik de Zwart, Adam Curry, Simone Walraven Wessel van Diepen, Jeroen van Inkel, Rob Stenders, Simone Angel en Jasper Faber.
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#REM

[@Thatboyallan]

This song just feels like it was way ahead of its time for me. Timeless masterpiece

[@caballein3961]

Despite performing the song from memory, he sounds and moves just like in the video, its rare to have an artist be able to perform live exactly how they do in a studio. Simply awesome, a timeless song.

[@vermontmike9800]

It’s not live. It’s play back

[@a1m598]

lmao

[@AntonioTorres-mo8bp]

It’s play back😅

[@OscarMDK]

the 90s were definitely a thing, I wish I was there...

[@Григорий-э5ж]

А мне нет... Ублюдочный запад в 90 процветал на войнах и грабеже.

[@LucyForever]

2

[@Zimbokasa]

Same, man. Same.

[@z0m813]

The biggest thing I remember growing up in the 90's is I will never forget where I was when I heard Kurt Cobain had died.

[@palebluedot8733]

I want 90s clothing fashion to come back 😂

[@Mansou-e9t]

Past, present and future this great song will never die

[@JimmyBhoy71]

Love how Michael's depressed tone takes the bounce out the crowd in about 15 seconds. They were probably all on Xanex before the chorus never existed.

[@Malcolm-p4r]

It was a great album to kick off the nineties and it is of course out of time🇺🇲🇺🇲😭

[@pedropenduko2714]

2024 this song still a banger! Old school music never dies!!!😎😎😎👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🫡🫡🫡

[@madameenpointe]

Right !

[@goosefarm3602]

agree...talent never dies!

[@Kaido_928]

I never liked this song and never will. It's depressing, crybaby song, hear it 10.000.0000 times on the radio. I don't think the singer ever likes it.

[@jefersoncavalcanti5070]

Brasil 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@LosDoggies]

Who's still listening in 3032?

[@francescomarzano7834]

Wow beautiful song and a magical voice. Simply outstanding!

[@dynjarren8355]

Brilliant use of Mandolin! I always liked the sound of Mandolins!

[@squonk86]

Like Styx with Boat on the River that Tommy Shaw plays

[@massimolombardi1569]

Spettacolare ragazzi che musica, veramente emozionante, siete un gruppo meraviglioso e di straordinaria luminosità. Coinvolgenti.

[@hardikgjjr219]

love the way clapping of audience synchronizes!

[@marilync9291]

I have this like on a crazy loop, over and over, can't get enough of it.

[@sidharthrao9005]

Man the 90s were a time I wish I was in. This kind of raw performance, near perfect and just beautiful.

[@francescomarzano7834]

What a magical voice ⭐👍

[@dominicaaaaa5547]

One of the first bands that I got into aged about 12 with their in time album and one of my favourite bands still now in my 30s ..love REM always ❤

[@bradplath4948]

If anyone is wondering the mystery 5th member on guitar is Peter Holsapple wearing the hat

[@senormedia]

dB in the house! Also a secret weapon for Hootie and the Blowfish

[@Pobsta-de7hb]

One of my fav songs of the past, even rocking some clubs I hit with bass remixes. Timeless song that will be loved forever man

[@tsooooooo]

love your avatar as a fellow pob enjoyer

[@Pobsta-de7hb]

@@tsooooooo lol thanks! I now have my little son watching pob, so Pob lives on through us! Spits all over my monitor and writes his name. (I never) It is funny watching it now though, so basic and so short and yet we loved it huh! lol

[@suleymankovanc6019]

Feels like heaven

[@CanyonWanderer]

When I had just acquired a second hand bass guitar, I think this was one of the first songs I attempted to play, so fond memories 👍🏼❤

[@mabelhernandez5462]

Esta canción es lo más!❤❤ unas de mis favoritas! Son y fueron lo más grandes de la historia!!

[@Mesmancer]

"Losing My Religion" mag dan in 1991 de eerste hitsingle van R.E.M. in Nederland zijn, het kwartet uit Athens Georgia heeft dan al zes albums op zijn naam staan. Het nummer gaat niet over religie, maar over onbeantwoorde liefde. In het Nederlands komt de uitdrukking "Van je geloof vallen" nog het dichtste in de buurt. "Losing My Religion is in feite een stijlbreuk voor R.E.M., zeker nadat gitarist Peter Buck de gitaar inruilt voor een mandoline. In de studio zingt Michael Stipe het nummer in één take in. Het zorgt voor de definitieve internationale doorbraak. Drummer Bill Berry stopt in 1997 wegens zware gezondheidsproblemen, de band zelf houdt in 2011 op te bestaan, aan de breuk liggen geen ruzies of andere meningsverschillen ten grondslag wat in de muziekwereld toch wel redelijk uniek genoemd mag worden.

[@user-kutak]

спасибо, мы в России , в 1991 году смотрели горячую 20 ку , молодость😊

[@RoddyBezerra]

This song burns here in Brazil. Me as child just balbuciava. Hoje em dia olhamos pra trás e vemos o poder dessa canção.

[@RedLgb-df9ob]

Losing my religion is a mostly southern US expression that means losing your temper.getting angry.

[@celia6876]

Pues yo creo que habla de religión fijaos en el vídeo oficial:diferentes figuras religiosas,y el cayendo de rodillas al caer de unas alas.Muchas religiones.

[@Moondoggy1941]

Golden era of Georgia Rock.

[@HectorBaigorria-z7k]

Que lindos dias ... Agradezco haber podido disfrutar de esta música!!!!!!!!!

[@alfredschaffer2755]

They even flew in an extra bandmember to make the playback look more authentic. Good times!

[@juancarlospaolinitrujillo5808]

Para mi, la mejor versión de REM de su éxito en los años 90, impresionante.

[@eduardopiva9482]

Playback

[@magnumdongsen2141]

such a banger, such a cool era

[@fredmoto1866]

Écouter encore 2024 j adore cette musique chaud au cœur 🫶👍🏻❤️😍

[@gplunk]

Anthem for that era....

[@АлександрИванцов-ф2б]

Блин как он выкладывается на все 100,зто полный улет!!!!!

[@ronaldo57704]

His voice is very good

[@yadrak2354]

Don't know why I love this band but I do. I hope everyone is alright today.

[@roselisantos7403]

Simplismente maravilhoso.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@glaux2131]

Отличная музыка! Интересно, что все эти песни в таком количестве пришлись на перелом эпохи. Ламповой и мягкой. И сейчас может где-то жизнь и лучше, но эти мягкие и ламповые времена ушли. Теперь все резкое, обостренное. Как например песня "Марс наш". Боюсь такими времена будут где-нибудь через тысячу-другую лет.

[@tahjmahall5246]

Love this song ❤❤❤

[@Tom-ze8fn]

My first 45 vinyl….I was 10. Gosh … time flies

[@snigdhanag4522]

What an excellent first record!

[@Mauro_B._Vieira.]

Those were my youth days and weeks and months and years listening the radio!

[@lennybruce6476]

Stipe was so cool circa 1991.

[@mareebrocklehurst9370]

Brilliant song

[@ccmaniak6267]

Oh life is bigger It's bigger than you And you are not me The lengths that I will go to The distance in your eyes Oh no I've said too much I set it up That's me in the corner That's me in the spot-light Losing my religion Trying to keep up with you And I don't know if I can do it Oh no I've said too much I haven't said enough I thought that I heard you laughing I thought that I heard you sing I think I thought I saw you try Every whisper, of every waking hour I'm choosing my confessions Trying to keep an eye on you Like a hurt, lost and blinded fool, fool Oh no I've said too much I set it up Consider this Consider this the hint of the century Consider this the slip That brought me to my knees, failed What if all these fantasies come Flailing around Now I've said too much I thought that I heard you laughing I thought that I heard you sing I think I thought I saw you try But that was just a dream That was just a dream That's me in the corner That's me in the spot-light Losing my religion Trying to keep up with you And I don't know if I can do it Oh no I've said too much I haven't said enough I thought that I heard you laughing I thought that I heard you sing I think I thought I saw you try But that was just a dream Try, cry, fly, try That was just a dream Just a dream Just a dream, dream

[@firstbornjordan]

One of my favourite for karaoke, and do REM proud.

[@davidpaul4405]

Anthem of the 90s

[@horistur8935]

PASARAN AÑOS AÑOS Y SIEMPRE SERA MUSICA DE ALTO NIVEL

[@pckelembagaan1802]

ini gak pasaran kali bang, pasaran darimananya? ente kadang kadang ente

[@annedurant6000]

Omg I forgot all about this song I love it , very talented band and I love the lead singer voice 😍I just googled them I know and love lots of there music ❤

[@teddyb4168]

FYI this is playing to a tape, not actually live music but they are "playing all the notes". The drums are covered with mats to prevent loud sounds on the stage.

[@LosDoggies]

Everything on Countdown is mimed.

[@lycanx900]

I love this band

[@wesleigurgel3815]

Primeira vez q vejo ao vivo, e fiquei impressionado. Fantástico

[@Shea03865]

Best part of this, no smartphones :)

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Michael Edward Mills (Orange County, California, 17 de diciembre de 1958), conocido como Mike Mills, es un músico estadounidense, exbajista de la banda R.E.M., principalmente conocido por encargarse del bajo y del piano, pero también en ocasiones instrumentos de percusión, cuerdas y teclados. También contribuyó en la creación de las letras de la banda.

[@nicolaspoutot6642]

Still crying ! 🥹

[@orionvasquez4177]

Saludos desde Colombia tierra de campeones!!!

[@tallpoppysyndrome9578]

I miss good music, the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.

[@Gontran_Courtjoie]

Me too, I miss when Europe was christian

[@Fazzrito]

@@Gontran_Courtjoie same

[@thetrashycan]

aughts had better music than all of those combined

[@tuckerbugeater]

So you enjoy being a victim? @@Gontran_Courtjoie

[@epicmetod]

"Oooh i miss the 80s" - 12 year olds

[@bigjun913]

Masterful live performance...

[@CJARTUK]

lol

[@4sc0]

its playback

[@shinradragon]

Definitely not live

[@PlatonicPurplePanda]

His voice sounds like butter with seasoning.

[@LosDoggies]

It sounds exactly like the recording!

[@mariosotaofficial]

@@LosDoggies it is.

[@davidquisperocca3797]

La mejor cancion de mi epoca 🥺😊

[@StephanieRogina-lx1pt]

WONDERFUL!! SO INCREDIBLY CUTE!! MICHAEL IS!! 😊

[@francelinauriza6383]

Hermoso hermoso hermoso su bello tema y el autor,😍😍😍😍😍💝💝💝💝

[@KimTHRC]

más el autor ....

[@nelja3186]

R.E.M. - GRANDIOS !!! 💯🔥 ❤❤❤❤❤

[@jonielrodriguesjotag7915]

música que nos transporta por bons tempos,época boa que saudade

[@marcoguillen1815]

that's music who in 2024, Eso es música quien en 2024 🎵🎹🎶

[@swimlaps1]

Takes me back to living in the SF Bay area, in tech! Cool & happneing area, then.

[@lllmaybelll2141]

Esta musica es de las que uno, nunca se cansa de escucharlo una y otra vez Año 2023 y seguira sonando.

[@Dude-etiquette]

One of my all time favourite songs.

[@richardhenry5961]

BRAVO!

[@Santos-u5o]

Beautiful song 🎶

[@1970rafalon]

Perfecto................. Saludos desde Envigado.

[@furkanaydogmus96]

What a great performance. I really love them!

[@alexisc4922]

Great mime artists

[@josiplozic962]

​@@alexisc4922it's normal to use playback for TV performances for technical reasons

[@evanmarlowe4722]

@@josiplozic962 No it's not, they just did this back then because they were worried about people hearing mistakes, there is no technical reason to use playback. Most artists don't do full mime performances anymore.

[@Clintscollectiblez]

I miss those days everyone i loved was still alive

[@salomesandroshvili6711]

😢😢😢

[@mareebrocklehurst9370]

Including me

[@newyorkskier]

Brilliant . Great music, Enigmatic lyrics

[@luisalejandrodeabreu2895]

Pueden pasar mil años y los sigo escuchando los AMO

[@dynjarren8355]

REM went from playing Pizza Parlors and small Pubs to becoming the biggest band in the world at one time! An amazing gradual climb to the top! Their first album Murmer was a good start with song Radio Free Europe and then they slowly got better and better with each album until the broke through with Green. Green as in Greenbacks they were raking in! A perfect album and then Out of Time which was even better and then they were headlining all around the world! 🌎 At one point they signed a deal for $70 million. That’s heady stuff for a band from Athens! Now they’re legends! Those 3 albums are my favorites plus New Adventures in HiFi! 😊

[@dlys2216]

Oh le beau playback ! Alors qu’ils sont tellement bons en concert …

[@Genocide_2a36-vx2mq]

Love that song!

[@HATTRICKKELLETT]

I love the 90s. They're dancing like its a bop (it is) but consider this, it brings me to my knees

[@Старовойтова-р3о]

Вы посмотрите как народ в зале кайфует,-настальгия о нашей молодости

[@margaritabrown4714]

Very nice. Singing ....... congratulations...🎉😂❤

[@javierosses8020]

Eccelente 👍🖐️👌

[@Val_Miralvez]

Essa música nos remete para um lindo passado mágico.

[@solangecoelho6263]

I LOVE.

[@ericcarvalhomartins]

Hello from Brazil!

[@adaireugenio5054]

As músicas boas já foram feitas Saudades...

[@WildRover1964]

wow great memories of that year and that album. Amnd how come this is in such great quality? So much stuff of this vintage on youtube looks like it was filmed in the age of steam

[@ayeshparanawithana5592]

❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thank you for sharing. This revives a lot of memories

[@killerext8358]

Sinto falta também ❤ muito boa música

[@cesarcunha4949]

One of the best songs ever writen

[@Gontran_Courtjoie]

One of the odd ones for sure...

[@nevillesukul8800]

beautiful!!!!

[@araujoVM260]

trip to the past, man it's chilling........

[@discoduckgandolf]

Damn that's a really FIRE crowd

[@AymaraelviraZerpatirado]

Me encanta esa melodía me lleva a mi década ochenta y noventa me fascina 😊

[@HenrykProwizor]

SUPER MELODI🤩🤩🤩

[@sacred1827]

Monstrous performance

[@ThatChrissyGirl]

My all time favourite song ❤

[@MadalenaDoNascimento]

Essa musica mim fez feliz amo

[@WhiteDove73-888]

This song is deeper than anyone knows

[@magg93]

do you know?

[@sirchristopher7684]

@@magg93 No one knows

[@justletmegame]

@@sirchristopher7684 -Queens of the Stone Age

[@Sinic818]

It's not.

[@rdhudon7469]

"Losing my religion " is a southern expression for losing your shit . It's about unrequited love.

[@clipper333]

GOLD!

[@saigonKT]

Agree. But weird thing is only 1 mill views. Should be like 500 million because they were pioneers of the alternative genre.

[@SpiritualStuntman]

I just can’t with the clapping I just can’t

[@cityboyee]

Wait which clapping? Stipe’s or the crowd? If you mean the crowd I’m totally with you. I’m sure they’re being hyped up by the producers of the show but it’s way overdone for such a melancholy song lol.

[@emilcioran7160]

you guys will never know what music is about. Literallyeverybody was clapping, the sound producers didnt do sh!+. You know how hard is that? How hard is to get everyone sing and jump and enjoy your song? American and some european crowds are the coldest public you can perform to, you will never understand the real spirit of a live perfomance.

[@andylogan3718]

On the 2 and the 4 please.

[@BryonLetterman]

same, I hate when the audience claps, they never stay on beat and if they do it still sounds terrible

[@KM-zw9qb]

@@emilcioran7160 ok clapper. also they're miming in this performance

[@EliPili-q8g]

Шедевр на все времена.

[@edgarsuarezquichiz6528]

Esta canción gusta a todas las generaciones..... Leyends

Inédito! Amo essa música👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Um vídeo muito bem trabalhado uma plateia belíssima!

[@MarcosBrito-tc5vk]

Love MB 🥰

[@bubuli]

still a great song and a great band...too bad this isn't live.

[@aidanhinshelwood]

I don't like the live version as much, the note he hits on the lines "losing my religion", "and you are not me", etc, combined with the chord that the mandolin plays is amazing on the studio version and for some reason he refuses to sing those notes that make the studio version so powerful