Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Inducts Nirvana at the 2014 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

[@aarond9563]

Wait what? This has 0 comments? This has 9 views? This was an amazing amazing speech!

[@matthewhunter6421]

Probably because Nirvana is overrated

[@MeNtaL_kAse428]

Darn tootin this was a speech

[@Ozgur72]

​@@matthewhunter6421 go away

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

RIP Kurt 🙏❤️☝️ great band , thanks Michael

[@StefanieNettke]

I love Micheal Stife, Nirvana, AIC, Sound Garden, ect. Long live the 90's

[@gintonika]

Best speech in R&R HoF ever, hands down..., is not just a speech, it's a hearthfelt eulogy for Kurt and a master class for art itself, all at the same time.

[@HankFinkle11]

It was Lefty psychobabble.

[@eduardoantoniodicavalcanti]

Volta , R. E. M. ! Voltem ao 🇧🇷 !

[@eduardoantoniodicavalcanti]

🇧🇷

[@YusukeKnight]

We miss you Kurt

[@michaeldonovan3959]

There's a speech for the ages. All the beauty and fury of Nirvana and Stipe's articulate account of those times, and look at Amerika now.

[@amangogna68]

Fantastic !

[@MrFoai]

Great educational speech for young generations.

[@claudineharvey8738]

Mr. Stype is AWESOME- a beautiful man with a beautiful mind AND beautiful eyes ❤️❤️❤️

[@aminavGM]

💯

[@searing7549]

Love Stipe!

[@elisavetailieva301]

"These are a few artists who rubbed each other the wrong way in exactly the right way" - no better artist to induct Nirvana than Michael Stipe❤❤❤

[@Shalanaya]

Stipes politics are mere reflections of great heart, wisdom and intelligence that few could match, this man operates far beyond the duality of this world, and R.E.M.'s music only reflected it, it came from another world, so did Kurt Cobain's music. Kurt resonated with R.E.M. because these two men were very much similar in many ways.

[@sophieso8476]

So emotional ☺️a great speech to be heard by the new generations

[@alexb0171]

Very well said and great speech by Stipe

[@lcceo22]

Imagine being good enough to get inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame….. Michael Stipe is the one who inducts you. IMO he’s the single most criminally underrated vocalist and songwriter in rock history.

[@billdauphine951]

It was like RnR was just waiting for someone/something to come along....and then they DID !!!❤

[@BenAck912]

0:41 "Entertain us."

[@JasonLehto-x4r]

Unique to come up on my feed since that was ten years ago..

[@paolacelletti2056]

4:47 5:01 Heartbreaking

[@serendipity2018]

Amazing speech…

[@adrianj78]

A great speech

[@shamarduque]

We miss you Kurt 🤍🌷 Te amo Kurt

[@JonBlackstone]

I was a waiter in Nashville in the 90s. One day I served Michael Stipe and Natalie Merchant together. They barely spoke a word to me. The only exception was when they ordered. I didn’t inform them that I knew who they were. The entire time they were there they silently surveyed the other patrons in the restaurant as if they were a king and queen perched on their thrones looking down on the lowly peasants below them. I waited on countless famous people and I’m not being hyperbolic when I say they were the most unpleasant people I ever encountered. Seeing Michael’s joyless countenance in this speech reminded of how arrogant and rude he was that day.

[@sambourne4923]

That sucks. Although, is it possible that’s just how he comes across then? Considering he has the same expression here delivering a speech in front of other famous people as he did when you were serving him in a restaurant? Can imagine him being quite awkward and reserved.

[@jdawson4810]

I’m sure you’ve had to deal with being noticed every moment of the day.

[@JimmyBhoy71]

Maybe they'd just had an argument. Or were stoned.

[@davidmurray2539]

Maybe they were about to drive all the way to Reno. Waiters, like school teachers, can't afford to be so narrow-minded as to be fixated on a first impression created by someone they're serving. Not only are they paying your salary, they're challenging your effectiveness at doing your job objectively and perhaps revealing to you that serving others is simply not the right gig for you. Then again you might be in a permanent Axl Rose state of mind, musically speaking. Mr. Stipe, by contrast, is one of the very best songwriter/vocalists in modern popular music history.

[@davidspisak7494]

0:06. "Jets waive Tim Tebow after one season"...'un-bow tied'

[@stephanevillatte5970]

Lately,I've heard several sites wonderin' if their legacy was overrated,talking about a moment in time,just gone...thinking than glam rock impact was stronger in the long run...that said not everybody can be as sensitive and smart as Mr Stipe...and kids will continue to buys Nirvana records for decades...

[@JohnDoe-tm9wz]

Yeah, we really miss you Kurt.

[@yvonnefreckleface]

Gen X is the luckiest

[@jamesmohline6281]

We are, no doubt

[@davidspisak7494]

0:44. Gary Winston's recruitment speech [AKA: "YOU are either a 1 or a 0" - (2000 or 2001)].

[@davidspisak7494]

2:35. Xerox > Xerxes. Robert James Woolsey Jr. (born September 21, 1941). Woolsey excavation season 1928-9: "The Ram in a Thicket is a pair of figures excavated at Ur, in southern Iraq, which date from about 2600-2400 BC. One is in the Mesopotamia Gallery in Room 56 of the British Museum in London; the other is in the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, USA. Genesis 15 and 22. Abraham meets God (18 inch fireflies?) Rufus T. Firefly. "Lightning Crashes" 1994 Live.

[@giuliana2610]

Moving and true

[@jlambert12013]

How does this not have 14 👍’s

[@tiagofrotavandame]

this is a not listed video. It means, just people with a link can see it.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

thumbs up number 79 👍🏻

[@davidspisak7494]

1:20. Børns + Bangerz Tour = "Wrecking Ball" (WTC) - to pseudo-quote Keith Urban {Australian}

[@davidspisak7494]

2:07. Cyrus Roberts Vance March 27, 1917 Clarksburg, West Virginia, U.S. Died January 12, 2002 New York City, U.S.

[@Blisteryn]

I hate how heroin took away such a good person from us, but heroin took so many friends of mine, i almost took a chance with a needle, but i thought about the friends it killed and i would never do it

[@davidcantu3753]

I'm gonna kick tomorrow🤞🏼

[@JimmyBhoy71]

This speech nails it. It would have been funnier if he had just came up and incoherently mumbled for 6 minutes though.

[@tetol.v6166]

19 secs ago?

[@ChristinaSpringsteen-on5vm]

That's right, Dave Krist and Kurt where Nirvana, Courtney not you

[@redskywalker3374]

It's the future saying .... HERE WE ARE -WE QUIT ... right Mike ? 🤣🤣🤣

[@Reminiscity]

dave kinda had it easier?

[@tstar99]

rock is rock and roll not any other format. rock and roll hall of fame does not stand up for rocks own contributions. and inserts garbage that doesn't deserve to be there.

[@GuyMason-bj1wu]

He's talking more about REM than Nirvana. "...Love Buzz was about US politics..." nah.

[@bpbrowning78]

RNR Hall of Fame is a joke

[@jonnysongs]

Why does he have to bring his crappy politics into it

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

it matters bro ☝️ as does everyone expressing an opinion 🙏 if you believe they put a man on the moon 👉🤠 and that type of thing 😔 the man is an absolute legend 📈🔭🐥 get your motor running 👉🔥🚬🐨 “born to be jesus” 🙏

[@peteraustinnoto142]

Thats not micheal stripe

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

“stipe” not stripe ☝️ yeah yeah yeah it is 🚬🤠 one of Kurt’s best friends..

[@meganbettenhausen7339]

How odd. You're right, though. It's not Michael Stripe 😂. It is indeed Michael Stipe.

[@justmadeit2]

Micky Stip, Mick Stope, Michael Stoop

[@kenfryer2090]

But boring the speech.. He's better at song writing than speech writing. I got bored and fell to sleep half way through and it's only six minutes long

[@Jackferrett6781]

1:48

[@wandafischetti1186]

greatest american Group R.E.M.!.