Music video by R.E.M. performing Feeling Gravitys Pull. (P) (C) 2010 Capitol Records, LLC. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by IRS Catalog,
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@yohei724 жыл бұрын
Gorgeous and weird. One of their most unfairly underappreciated tracks.
@TemploSagital5 жыл бұрын
One of the best guitar works of Peter Buck
@batboy37464 жыл бұрын
R.E.M. made the 80's great.
@HenkjanOlthuis_Neste Жыл бұрын
and the 90's as well :-)
@georgeharrison7011 жыл бұрын
Fables of the Reconstruction is R.E.M.'s best album. Can't believe that people don't like it that much.
@RahimRahmat4 жыл бұрын
20 years ago, my favourite album was probably Out of Time. Fast forward to 2020 and my favourite album is actually Reconstruction.....
@MrMmnngghh4 жыл бұрын
Mine is "Life's Rich Pageant". "Fables" is ace though, and under - appreciated.
@SiLatics563 жыл бұрын
Mine is Document [first 9 songs and then the last two just drag a bit], closely followed by Green, Automatic and Murmur.
@SiLatics563 жыл бұрын
@Bass Man I think the problem is more how that and Oddfellows Local don't work together as number 10 and 11 on the album. It just creates a slightly anticlimactic feeling for me, to what is a pretty invigorating and quite aggressive album before that. The last two songs have grown on me and I like them now, just not as much as some of the others.
@ElliotRose3 жыл бұрын
Listened to Fables until my cassette player ate it. The best album they ever produced
@v-town19802 жыл бұрын
Ha! Reminds me of Christmas 1987. My twin and I were 13 and just discovered these guys. We dove head first. He asked for this album and DLO. I asked for Murmur and Reckoning. We received all. There is indeed a Santa!
@annelouisemaclellan485 Жыл бұрын
DLO?
@happiness1772 Жыл бұрын
@@annelouisemaclellan485 Dead Letter Office.
@dumbpnut86882 жыл бұрын
Amazing that this song was written in the 1980s. This band was way ahead of their time.
@codern13 жыл бұрын
this has to be one of the coolest songs of all time
@ExiledStardust11 жыл бұрын
Classic late-night kind of song. Weird, spooky goodness.
@cynthiaslusher52122 жыл бұрын
My entire teen life 1980 through 1989 was listening to REM. That and Cocteau Twins, Joy Division, Violent Femmes, Bauhaus, The Clash, The Jam, The cure, X, Dead Kennedy's, The Germs, Black Flag, Fear, minutemen, Sonic Youth, Iggy Pop, Souxie, The Specials, The English Beat, The Pretender's, Elvis Costello, 45 Grave, The Rain Parade, Dream Syndicate, Social Distortion, Husker Du, The Cramps, T.S.O.L., Crass, The Fall, The Talking Heads, Mud Honey, Fugazi, Buzzcocks, Green River, Bad Religion, Bowie... Just to name a few. I'm sure I missed many.
@TSeeker1 Жыл бұрын
How could you miss the Smiths?😁😉
@dcxxx68502 ай бұрын
Lol … yeah if your goal was to name every band you listened to in the eighties you probably did.
@mathildaweir2 ай бұрын
The smiths
@Frequency9512 жыл бұрын
This is the first song I ever heard them play live, through the walls of a soundcheck as we were waiting outside. I'm sure you can imagine the chills of excitement that went through the line as we all heard this opening riff.
@mysterirhys4 жыл бұрын
I remember when they used to open the show with this one. Incredibly jarring and beautiful.
@ninelifetimes4 жыл бұрын
Damn, I'd forgotten about this song. This is beautiful.
@melbatozt11 жыл бұрын
This was REM at their best (imho) and it shows in every aspect of the song, from Michael's haunting tenor to Pete's awesome guitar work; from Mike's incredible bass work to Bill's perfect percussion work. Mesmerizing is the only word that comes close!
@markdamn45568 жыл бұрын
1985, My First REM Album !.. Groovy all these years..)
@subwaygoddess13 жыл бұрын
Peter's guitar makes my insides dance.
@yaggayaggaya99187 жыл бұрын
Love the violin at the end.
@pant-hootingchimp89178 жыл бұрын
Still sounds amazing and fresh after all these years. Great song.
@MrGenXer Жыл бұрын
What a freaking amazing song and album. It was the first REM record I got into.
@dmlevitt3 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love it. those were the days. my fav rem song.
7 жыл бұрын
As far as the I.R.S. period, this album and Document are easily their 2 best.
@kylanbowden61256 жыл бұрын
Eh, I'm partial to Reckoning
@hernanbusso16094 жыл бұрын
Document, Lifes Rich Pageant and Murmur.
@dcxxx68502 ай бұрын
Their first five albums were so different and great compared to what other bands were doing. But the 80’s in general was an awesome decade for musical experimentation.
@MrUndersolo4 жыл бұрын
When I was eleven years old, I stayed up late one Friday night and watched a local music video program... And I saw this. A part of me thought I imagined what I had seen (the cutting is very jumpy, like in a dream), but I could not shake it or the song from my mind. And I think this made me a fan of a group that would challenge whatever I thought a song or video should be. Thank you, Buck, Berry, Mills and Stipe. 👍🏾
@sydglover48423 жыл бұрын
you where so lucky! I can't believe you could just watch this on t.v :) its a shame i have to put up with so much awful music...What has happened?
@sydglover48423 жыл бұрын
oh sorry for the typo by the way
@sydglover48423 жыл бұрын
typos
@themusic52292 жыл бұрын
Hi R.E.M. & everybody, have a nice day 💜💜💜💜💜 I love REM ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥 Hi R.E.M. & everybody, have a nice day 💜💜💜💜💜 I love REM ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥 Hi R.E.M. & everybody, have a nice day 💜💜💜💜💜 I love REM ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥 Hi R.E.M. & everybody, have a nice day 💜💜💜💜💜 I love REM ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
@MrUndersolo Жыл бұрын
@@sydglover4842 MTV has happened. And then it stopped other things from happening.
@janllh244 жыл бұрын
I haven't listened to this song in 30+years, can at once remember and can't recall how it used to move me - an elusive tonality of the soul forever beyond reach in a vanished decade
@daverobinson61109 жыл бұрын
one of their greatest
@buretehudesi7 жыл бұрын
me, my bicycle, and this song on my walkman in early nighties...remember exploring early rem stuff after hearing out of time - this was so entertaining.
@MrVoodemar7 жыл бұрын
R.E.M.s I.R.S. period is epic 🙌
@stoplight25547 жыл бұрын
yes! they should have stayed with I.R.S instead of selling out to warner brothers.
@tommyhaynes5217 жыл бұрын
Maybe they were afraid IRS would audit them
@df52955 жыл бұрын
Those IRS records changed my life!
@benringenberg23676 жыл бұрын
My opinion, best REM album, by far.
@BeetleswithanA Жыл бұрын
Wiithout a doubt!
@Debonair197735778 жыл бұрын
My favorite R.E.M. song. A very pronounced Television/Soft Boys/Dream Syndicate influence.
@drodawig3 жыл бұрын
Eerie opening song from their ‘86 tour. Saw them in Iowa City at Hancher. Sublime!
@OllieInArlington Жыл бұрын
I remember that! It was a great tour. Saw them in Memphis!
@shay08060612 жыл бұрын
Saw them in the Royal Court in Liverpool in 85 when they were promoting Reconstruction. They made me realise life was worth a go, along with The Smiths and Prefab Sprout and others. I know they had a tough time recording this album and it maybe isn't among their favourites but this my introduction to REM and I wouldn't have it any other way
@lmdeak111210 жыл бұрын
yep, best song, best album....one of the best concerts of all time
@tommyhaynes5217 жыл бұрын
Yes ! Definitely thier best album. Reckoning is second
@Frankincensedjb1236 жыл бұрын
Lois Deak no
@anthonynavarro60745 жыл бұрын
Lucky u. I was supposed to see them first time on this reconstruction tour but my friend screwed me over. Saw them on green , out of time and monster tours.
@fineanwilliams37318 жыл бұрын
This album is so unnerving... I love it
@stoplight25547 жыл бұрын
my favorite from it is this and wendell gee.
@williamkinsey49796 жыл бұрын
Fables is a fascinating hybrid of the proto-rem demonstrated on murmur and reckoning. And the more accessible sounds that they would show on life's rich pageant. This was were they started to head for the stars. And by Automatic they had achieved it!LOL
@beckyschade23595 жыл бұрын
Polly Ann how funny. Fables is my favorite! Automatic is my least favorite.
@funwithpeatandsherry4 жыл бұрын
This and Pageant were the zenith, by my Reckoning.
@fredh17204 жыл бұрын
@@beckyschade2359 Wow, Automatic being your least favourite. Fair enough I guess, although to me it's close to perfect in the way it flows and each song touches you in a different, but still profound way.
@BrokerCast3 жыл бұрын
Green is my favorite for how sincere the songs were. But I know I'm in the minority on that and I know that album alienated IRS fans. I think Green, Fables, Monster and New Adventures are under appreciated and often written off, especially Fables and Monster.
@BeaverK1ng6 жыл бұрын
It is crazy to me that this only has ~190K views. This is real music.
@robertbradley24207 жыл бұрын
The beginning of a blindingly brilliant album. A towering achievement.
@carolecorns60779 жыл бұрын
This, and Driver 8.
@matthewstetson7118 жыл бұрын
+Carole Corns And Maps and Legends, Live and How To Live It, Old Man Kensey, Green Grow the Rushes, Kahoutek, Auctioneer, Good Advices and Wendell Gee. Oh yeah and Bandwagon. It was a B side. My favorite LP by them.
@stoplight25547 жыл бұрын
driver 8 and Rockville and wendell gee and little america and this. "reason has harnessed the tame" is a line found both in little america and feeling gravity's pull
@tommyhaynes5217 жыл бұрын
Not a bad track on it
@connguy1466 жыл бұрын
Take a break Driver 8. Great song but their top two!
@funwithpeatandsherry4 жыл бұрын
Maps and Legends too, beyond doubt.
@alancornelius1ghf9 жыл бұрын
They were a great band.
@alancornelius1ghf7 жыл бұрын
I've covered REM songs on my channel.
@perrymickle29466 жыл бұрын
The best
@Frankincensedjb1236 жыл бұрын
Paul Desca Are they dead?
@thenewyorkethoms13126 жыл бұрын
Frankincensed rem broke up in 2011
@jasonkeith93175 жыл бұрын
Absolutely!!! There will never be another R.E.M.!!!
@progforever3 жыл бұрын
REM are my favorite band of all time, this album sound so great also thanks to the good job by Joe Boyd, as he done with Nick Drake and many others UK band...we miss him.
@CarlLikes12 жыл бұрын
I'll never be able to thank you enough for awakening the odd peaceful corner of my subconscious that has stayed with me for over 20 years, now. Your music has touched my mind like no other. Knew it had to end someday, but why NOW? :,(
@MrGildo7310 жыл бұрын
Great song. I've had it stuck in my head ever since I started seeing ads for Gravity on TV.
@rdingo113 жыл бұрын
Wow, first comment. How odd. The first time I made out with a girl this song came on the radio in my dad's car. Loved this album, loved that girl.
@JohnnyBGoode2153 жыл бұрын
They opened with this when I saw them at the Leroy Theater in Pawtucket, R.I.. It was the Fables tour. Great show. Overall, I had seen REM 8 times. Stopped at Green tour.
@melyndagenrich856710 жыл бұрын
Nor can I. This song is one of my favourites.
@mrsurety13 жыл бұрын
Tin Gym. University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa. November 1985. 10,000 Maniacs opened. One of their best songs ever. Never heard it on the radio. Very little air play on MTV (yes, they really use to play videos!)
@JR-lb7iw Жыл бұрын
I saw them on this tour in 1985, love this song
@antonyphysio6 жыл бұрын
What a perfect ending....
@bennyshambles Жыл бұрын
Always thought the Gang of Four influence was heavy on this one, but I really love how they incorporate cello and other touches which make it their own. Fables of the Reconstruction is my favorite R.E.M. album because of it’s the one where they seemed to take the most chances. It’s also the darkest they got.
@wilcoja82311 жыл бұрын
Indeed! Probably my fave album of theirs.
@richardamos3932Ай бұрын
Thanks for all the memories and great music lads
@daleywhaley3 жыл бұрын
I love all of REM's back catalogue, you can really hear them getting better and better from album to album -can you imagine a band being given the chance to develop like that these days? It would all be over by Murmur!
@sydglover4842 Жыл бұрын
nah
@jamesswigart30327 ай бұрын
Their first two albums are considered by experts to be their best. Murmur got a ton of critical acclaim not long after its release
@Oliviacaptain Жыл бұрын
I fell asleep and read just about every paragraph Read the scene where gravity is pulling me around Peel back the mountains peel back the sky Stomp gravity into the floor It's a Man Ray kind of sky Let me show you what I can do with it Time and distance are out of place here Step up, step up, step up the sky is open-armed When the light is mine, I felt gravity pull Somewhere near the end it said "You can't do this", I said "I can, too" Shift sway rivers shift, oceans fall and mountains drift It's a Man Ray kind of sky Let me show you what I can do with it Step up, step up, step up the sky is open-armed When the light is mine, I felt gravity pull onto my eyes Holding my head straight (looking down) This is the easiest task I've ever had to do I fell asleep and read just about every paragraph Read the scene where gravity is pulling me around Shift the swaying river's shift Oceans fall and mountains drift It's a Man Ray kind of sky Let me show you what I can do with it Time and distance are out of place here Step up, step up, step up the sky is open-armed When the light is mine, I felt gravity pull onto my eyes Holding my head straight (looking down) This is the easiest task I've ever had to do Reason had harnessed the tame Holding the sky in their arms Gravity pulls me down
@hangingwithmatty94659 ай бұрын
Ty🍻
@themusic52292 жыл бұрын
I love R.E.M. ❤️️❤️️❤️️...they were so talented, too bad they have broken up now & are no longer together to give us even more great music.😢 I love R.E.M. ❤️️❤️️❤️️...they were so talented, too bad they have broken up now & are no longer together to give us even more great music.😢
@dougroling73033 жыл бұрын
Love this album...time and distance are out of place here
@jimvilain84205 жыл бұрын
I feel so hypnotised by this one ........
@silkywellman3156 жыл бұрын
REM is an amazing band!
@xopowo6913 жыл бұрын
Hard to believe the coolest song in the world only has 7,000 views
@richsouthall193714 күн бұрын
I was 23 when I first heard this album. I think it changed my life. This song appears to be the illegitimate child of The Band and Black Sabbath. Heavy, dark and reminiscent of a Southern, gothic novel. Okay, maybe that’s a stretch, but you get my point. REM’s music resonates deeper now than 25 years ago when I first listened I think, now, I find their songs are less about standard musical art forms; I.e., melody, harmony, bridge, etc.; and more akin to dreamscapes; where the song enables us to float on a breeze or smell the wild grass growing on the roadside or revel in the soundscape of a river full of toads, crickets, birds and waterfalls. This music paints indelible images in my mind; of places seen or remembered or perhaps yet to occur. They chose to eschew standard musical forms and did not write to please an audience; but rather to please themselves. And what a payoff that achieved. For instance is ‘Feelings Gravity’s Pull’ a modern song about technology and yearning or an old dirge about lost seamen and castles? I don’t know and I don’t care, and maybe that’s the brilliance of their musical choices - the listener is free to interpret these songs in any way we desire, which is the true essence of great art.
@NoCoverCharge2 жыл бұрын
Murmur , Fables, Document best 3 albums by REM
@jorgeno-remix6795 жыл бұрын
Oh my... this song!!!! Listening again after years of having it on CD sleeping in the shelves. Amazing song. Thanks KZbin by the way.
@crystalblur311 жыл бұрын
Fables is seriously underrated.
@usmcfutball7 жыл бұрын
Mid nineteen eighties. Heard this...then Maps And Legends. Was hooked......
@jimmybootz12775 жыл бұрын
Saw them when they were promoting FOTR one of the best live bands ever!!!✌
@stevenhines55504 жыл бұрын
My favorite REM album
@blurr4129 жыл бұрын
I love the sound of this song. Probably R.E.M.'s best song but then, i haven't heard the Collapse into now album yet but almost all of their other albums ive listened to a lot.
@RLow675 жыл бұрын
I want to overdose blissfully along to this song
@Schlapinski16 жыл бұрын
some are bound to pull out a message, some are bound to listen and calm down. Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
@tailendcharlie12 жыл бұрын
awesome guitar
@jbg489 жыл бұрын
Recorded yards from where i used to live in a particularly shitty part of London. They hated it there. This record 'made' the band. They should have moved there permanently.
@matthewstetson7118 жыл бұрын
+Anthony Meursault 'Just because people put things in quotes' 'Doesn't mean they have any significant meaning.' 'While this is my favorite record of there's, very few bought it so I don't know what it made for them.' 'Outside of it being my favorite of there's.'
@julia.245 жыл бұрын
i'd say it was life's rich pageant and document which "made" the band in terms of popularity and chart success, but this was a really good album that differed from murmur and reckoning and helped proved that they could differentiate themselves. it's one of my favorites they made, but i'd imagine if they'd gone through that recording process again, there wouldn't have been many more albums to follow.
@tomikazi75076 жыл бұрын
Great job on this video...........
@warriorskilledcyrus3 жыл бұрын
Remarkably cool video made in a time when so man videos were cringeworthy. Fantastic song as well, by the greatest American band in history;
@Frankincensedjb1236 жыл бұрын
I love a good reconstruction fable.
@printisalive6 жыл бұрын
there was a time that i thought bill berry was the lead singer because they never showed the bands photos on their albums, now you cannot escape Stipes face.
@aaronjschaefer10 ай бұрын
I am not happy. Leaving this world behind while listening to this song seems like the only solution.
@zmi0602004 жыл бұрын
How will be the reconstruction of this world? It'll be told to the grandsons of our grandsons in beautiful fables...
@MarshalTennerWinter6 жыл бұрын
It's a Man Ray kind of sky.....
@styxcreek6 жыл бұрын
great line
@yohei724 жыл бұрын
Oh, I always heard "It's a memory kind of sky." The real line is a lot better. Thanks for educating me.
@lovemrj4ever4 жыл бұрын
yohei72 I had heard “It’s a mandrake kind of sky”
@yohei724 жыл бұрын
@@lovemrj4ever "'Scuse me/While I kiss this guy" -Jimi Hendrix
@lovemrj4ever4 жыл бұрын
yohei72 😁😆😀
@themusic52292 жыл бұрын
Hi R.E.M. & everybody, have a nice day 💜💜💜💜💜 I love REM ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
@mikehersh619227 күн бұрын
My first tour seeing them in Seattle 85
@kennyphoenix29899 жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@highheartwellness4 жыл бұрын
Step up, step up, step up the sky is open-armed....
@sav8887 жыл бұрын
Does ANYBODY notice how much alot of Cobains songs sound like he might have been influenced by this song? I does!
@AlexLopez-kt4hg6 жыл бұрын
shane Ares I was thinking the same thing.
@_spacegoat_5 жыл бұрын
Cobain kind of hero worshiped Michael. Michael was really torn up when Kurt died.
@kingsleymanthando55885 жыл бұрын
was thinking the very same thing that im reminded of KC
@df52955 жыл бұрын
Kurt was a REM fan.
@sabbracadabra83674 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite REM songs and Nirvana is so much like this! In fact without this song, I doubt if Heart Shaped Box could exist.
@morild12313 жыл бұрын
Fantastic song
@DolefulLions13 жыл бұрын
R.E.M. RIP
@torco19634 жыл бұрын
Still feel gravity's pull
@streetspirit9564 жыл бұрын
My favourite REM album. I just love the melodies and feel of this album. Only one dud song (Auctioneer). Just wish the production was better.
@RahimRahmat4 жыл бұрын
Dud Song?? WHAT???! Auctioneer is my certain favourite song in this album. Just because you can't appreciate the song, you called it a DUD?? ........
@jasonmorris8583 жыл бұрын
When your whirled is A monster.
@ottostintson52053 жыл бұрын
Stomp gravity into the floor
@CoachDave123 жыл бұрын
The bass, drums, and guitar should not go together but they do.
@anthonynavarro60745 жыл бұрын
Best ever.
@nemozack3767 Жыл бұрын
Mine are "Lifes Reach Pageant" and "Reckoning".
@bcb871311 ай бұрын
Great
@21hazza9 ай бұрын
OMG, it sounds so Cure
@melyndagenrich856711 жыл бұрын
I shouldn't have taken the bait, either. I just get really tired of people bringing such irrelevant topics up. The music is amazing. Appreciate and enjoy it, and be happy.
@legandrydirk12 жыл бұрын
@Frequency95 Love the song brings back good memories as a teenager.Hanging round out side with my friends,drinking cider and super lager,and feeling gravity pulling me down.I saw them to on Glasgow Green.Best gig that I have been to.Lets hope they find retirement boaring.
@delboy200918 жыл бұрын
Classic ...
@quicksilver15999 жыл бұрын
Uncanny how much that pic looks like Kurt Cobain who I heard was a close friend of Stipes.
@synergyadvaita96968 жыл бұрын
+Cobain Fan Est 2002 (HGUA IGUA) uh - no. every Nirvana song is a 2-4 chord progression, once with distortion, once without.
@LanDaw196913 жыл бұрын
Stock Pavillion. Madison. May 1985. No finer opening song. Anyone else?
@kenyonkoselke11105 жыл бұрын
Up N we called this Fables Down S you called it Reconstruction. M1R,VA