R.E.M. • "Orange Crush" • LIVE 1989[Reelin' In The Years Archive]

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[@j.goebbels2134]

I was 16 and me and this girl was walking around outside, we didn't even know who REM were. This dude came up and try to scalp tickets. We said no, because we didn't have any money. Then you could hear the place start to get noisy inside and cars honking outside, so he got angry that he didn't sell the tickets, so he just gave them to us and left. We went in and snuck down to floor level, 20 rows back!! It was this show!!!!! It was AMAZING!!!!!

[@ulcolandheer5431]

Sure? It looks a lot like the footage from Pinkpop festival in the Netherlands.

[@bouledeberlin8741]

Michael Stipe dances like one of these inflatable stick figures.

[@vincentbrannelly8786]

Thats pre attitude !

[@TUKUMZ]

🤣

[@erichill5762]

No, those inflatable stick figures dance like Michael Stipe

[@phildo7pt9]

pure awesomeness

[@DairwoodBarton27]

That’s how they danced in the 80’s 😂

[@carolinewest9151]

Can't believe I've been in vietnam nearly fortnight and it's the first time I've played this song......

[@samaelcoral7297]

I like how mike mills embodies the quiet counteract to the erratic savagery of mr.Stipe on stage

[@kernelab]

dead set looks like a computer programmer

[@samaelcoral7297]

@@kernelab indeed.that 's the beauty of...

[@kernelab]

@@samaelcoral7297 yeh it’s awesome, zero fucks given. Yet to me he looks cool as fuck

[@DanielleBachmann-v2n]

It's fire. Love Michael Dancing 💓💚

[@hugolaguna5669]

One of the first Songs I Heard from REM... They Really were Great Live... Greetings from PERU

[@DairwoodBarton27]

This song really drawed attention to the effects of agent orange, and forced the government to do some thing and to admit they fucked up

[@carolinewest9151]

Am sat watching the sun rise in vietnam. Is that right?

[@anthonymusto3537]

Not really they stopped using it in 72 and I remember plenty of news articles and lawsuits all thru the 70's.But nice try😂

[@joelhicklin38]

?? This had nothing to do with any action taken over agent orange. I doubt anyone who listened even cared about the soldiers. REM fans are just entitled rich kids who thought this made them edgy when they were in college. Now they ARE the people they were supposedly railing against back then. How pathetic. I make a good living but I never bought into this 'alternative' fake movement that REM were the poster boys for. I bet they love their piles of money they made criticizing everyone else who made money.

[@PONY3113]

Back in the early 80s I rescued a rat and named him Stipe Hibtone. Early fans will get it.

[@ReelinInTheYears66]

@@PONY3113 nice reference to their first single.

[@mikedeveer1047]

Mike Mills awesome

[@cinzanobianco1]

Cracking song and some live performance great band rem

[@Clodoveoll]

Fantastic!!!

[@kernelab]

bill gates on bass guitar

[@klepetar]

playing it pretty good .. this is awesome

[@Everyman.0314]

Brilliant!

[@John-wb2jl]

Best American band ever!

[@curly_wyn]

That they are!

[@giorgiamarino1584]

Best band ever!

[@louiszippittelli8855]

Thier ok orange crush and man on the moon are great songs

[@rickymiles9018]

I totally agree

[@francisregala3604]

Dance like nobody’s watching

[@rinibos7146]

I was there

[@zackyoder7359]

Michael Stype and Lorde should do a duet and dance together they dance the same

[@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777]

yikey mikey what's the lead singer on ? LOL sounds just as good as the version on the record!

[@j.goebbels2134]

He was always herky jerky on stage. Check out their first music videos.

[@joelhicklin38]

He is on an overdose of "smug". He's been addict since REM first started out.

[@j.goebbels2134]

@@joelhicklin38 Dude was so unassuming and shy when they started out he could not even talk to interviewers. The smug didn't come till later.

[@Torgo1969]

@@j.goebbels2134 It's a smuggy smuggy day! Would have liked to hear Peter Buck louder in the mix in this recording, IMHO. But I always love me some Mills vocals and bass.

[@BFinks]

So much energy. stipe in his element.

[@patrickmoore2894]

This is how they opened the show when I saw them on that tour. Powerful stuff.

[@slcutus]

Props come, props go... 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@kevinw.4129]

What happened to Mike Mills' glasses at the end that he was wearing at the start?

[@kernelab]

i always wondered that too

[@dudewithacowboyhat7620]

He often will take them off before performing. I am assuming he didn’t do so that time but wanted to take them off halfway through. At 2:39 there’s a break in his playing, and you seen him walk back, and then the next time the cameras on him the glasses are gone. I assume he just went and sat them somewhere, or put them in his pocket. Typical Mike Mills to play without his glasses😂

[@Torgo1969]

Missed them on this tour due to a Physics exam that night! Never did see them in concert, arrrrgh! But I play this song on the bowling alley jukebox these days.

[@masterajr6163]

Thay are british? Or Americans?

[@ddfjejk5003]

Americans. They met at the University of Georgia and formed the band there

[@kennethozelie2082]

​@@ddfjejk5003Athens Georgia, specifically.

[@masterajr6163]

​@@ddfjejk5003 tnx . I thought these guys were British. No wonders almosts white Americans has a English and Northern Irish roots. 2nd Germans and Irish .

[@The_Crow78.]

@@kennethozelie2082 i thought Athens is in Greece 📢🤠

[@The_Crow78.]

@@masterajr6163 i think they are from Somalia.

[@slcutus]

Megaphone 100% prop. Can't really be on, or the feedback...

[@noname-ib3fe]

That's why he stood back. Many singers used a megaphone. Watch Stone Temple Pilots performing Crackerman. Tool use one too

[@AndrewMiff162]

Prop😂😂😂😂 hes used it for years ffs

[@vincentbrannelly8786]

Not the Smiths is it though ?

[@joelhicklin38]

So brave mocking the sacrifice of those who were stupid enough to say yes to their countries ask for service. REM are not really great guys. Good song musically, but that mocking of the Army by Stipe was uncalled for and really shows him to be the dork that he is.

[@MichaelJoshuaWilliams]

Aight grandpa. Move on.

[@vixo551]

I mean, I'd say sending soldiers to another country for a war in another continent, where the only thing to lose was a country being commie, and ultimately losing it's bad. Let's not forget, the last time the US Military actually did something useful was in WW2, after that they've only made every single country they fight worse.

[@joelhicklin38]

I am younger than Stipe, and yes I am a grandpa to a 3 almost 4 year old. I hope he grows up to realize what those men sacrificed for us.

[@vixo551]

@@joelhicklin38 They sacrificed nothing for you. They were sent to basically die. Vietnam is the most pointless war that americans fought.

[@alexbaker7517]

Lol you do realise he is the son of a US service man right