R.E.M. - Strange Currencies (Official HD Music Video)

[@remhq]

“Who else came here from The Bear?”

[@daveypayne5988]

Me!! Jesus....that opening shimmered in out of nowhere and took me right back to 1995 and 15 year old me. The timing of the dialogue in that scene was beautiful ' you know with love comes strange currencies' I only realise how lyrically perfect this track is as a 42 year old. Had it going round my head all day at work

[@sickofitallization]

Some of us have been fans since the beginning of REM..but I agree, if that show brought you here..welcome!

[@Rohan34698]

I literally did after I finished season 2.

[@Red-Pony9]

Perfect song for Carm and Clare. ❤️

[@samisproductions8979]

Okay the guitar rift was cool but where’s the main part from the bear episode?

[@LemonTree9280]

When the opening riff started on The Bear I was instantly transported back to when I was 13 playing this CD over and over...thanks for the time machine Carm

[@mandyrolens632]

Same.

[@katehanna4680]

Me,too. Just a little order than 13. Lol.

[@jessicarickman3319]

Omg same... love affair with it all again

[@baldpolarbear3332]

Yess

[@LL-mw1zu]

For sure. REM is great!

[@rallabhandiprabhakar4750]

REM is one of the few bands that rarely made a bad song . Most of the REM songs rate from good to outstanding and this song is outstanding

[@ksmart8332]

This album turns 30 this year (2024) geez I feel old! Thank you to The Bear for bringing back into my consciousness. Just the sound of the intro transported me back to 1994… sighs… good times! Welcome to the decade of REAL MUSIC kiddos … enjoy & you’re welcome!

[@kevinkendle9533]

30 years old and still one of the greatest songs ever written..thank you R.E.M.. These words haunt me, hunt me down, catch in my throat Make me pray, to say love's confines, oh

[@juliecourville8227]

What an absolutely beautiful song. It gives me chills everytime. Thank you R.E.M. for such incredible music.

[@WHJeffB]

Soulful song for sure... Raw and full of emotion. Came at a time in my life when I was pretty hung up over an old girlfriend. Very appropriate, but at the same time sad and depressing.

[@kristinesanta6971]

Totally! All of the hairs on my arms just stood straight up!! Thelis song represents perfection!! ❤❤❤

[@adspur]

This should have more views.Perfect song man!

[@secretsausage1]

Underrated song. One of their best.

[@kristinesanta6971]

Totally!! I love Pretty Persuasion, also!

[@johannsimonot]

Underrated? You should read the definition of this word on a dictionnary... Just read some of the comments, you will understand its not underrated... Maybe by your Pootify acount 🤔😂

[@1985lsf]

Miss these days.. thanks Bear for bringing me back .

[@chrism5159]

Me too

[@SpaghettiKillah]

OMG this song....after 25 years...it's like coming home to a safe place...to a better world.

[@jaynehanna4713]

SpaghettiKillah yes! That’s how I feel now that we are all stuck at home

[@terrywilkerson5598]

That is why I looked this video up today. I needed to feel back there again.

[@kingkucing274]

Are you still alive or was died by covid?

[@SpaghettiKillah]

king brajamusti Still alive and thriving thk you. Take some english lessons

[@kingkucing274]

@@SpaghettiKillah oh really?/You are great!!

[@jacobfloyd6975]

Thank you REM for getting me through the shitty depressing years of my teens and twenties. I've always suffered from depression, and I'm finding out I have a few other issues. Sometimes, it was your music that kept me from jumping off a fucking cliff. And your work still fills my heart today.

[@Kianmur]

My cousin was a huge REM fan who sadly lost his battle to depression in 2002. Miss him every day. Its tough going. Stay strong, much love always

[@craiggreen6251]

Stay strong brother. ❤🔆☮

[@kieransimpson4965]

💓

[@bryancaughey7507]

Find the sayings/songs/thoughts that help you in dark times - keep them close to you. We share lonely times with a world full of lonely people, so you are really never alone - just need to find the ones with the love and comfort for you - you don’t need the rest (save the haters for themselves). Sometimes dealing with healing is a process that unravels over time, you can’t rush it, just let it unfold with time. Be strong/safe and loved.

[@walidbena947]

Stay strong bro💪🏽

[@Mst3000113]

The world could use an REM tour right now.

[@Jojo-o6o6w]

omg what a good idea. I wish I was smart enough to realize how good they were back in the day when I was 19

[@themaster-jp6sp]

god damn yes! im praying bro!

[@javagal65]

I wholeheartedly agree. I've seen them 5 times live. Always an amazing time.

[@abc-bu7nr]

I've been stuck in an REM loop for days now I love it when this happens

[@iainhalstead1261]

I'm stuck in one right now. About 4 weeks in. It's excellent.

[@Yveyd]

Omg me too...been a fan since GREEN...obsessed over again ❤

[@Theghostdiaries]

Always, starting with Murmur all the way thru to Up and Reveal

[@LasloPferg-ru2vt]

Me too. Fun, isn’t it?

[@RicksonAmbrose]

Heard this for the first time on the second season of The Bear. Made me feel so nostalgic, i can't describe.

[@bryandean8262]

How could you feel nostalgic for something you never heard before?

[@bigmuggs123]

Michael Stipe’s voice is truly epic. What a band. Fantastic.

[@marimon2313]

I don't know why you're mean to me When I call on the telephone And I don't know what you mean to me But I want to turn you on Turn you up, figure you out I want to take you on These words, you will be mine These words, you will be mine, all the time Now fool might be my middle name But I'd be foolish not to say I'm going to make whatever it takes Ring you up, call you down, sign your name Secret love, make it rhyme Take you in and make you mine These words, you will be mine These words, you will be mine, all the time I tripped and fell, did I fall What I want to feel I want to feel it now You know with love comes strange currencies And here is my appeal I need a chance, a second chance, a third chance A fourth chance, a word, a signal A nod, a little breath Just to fool myself, to catch myself And make it real, real These words, you will be mine These words, you will be mine, all the time These words, you will be mine These words haunt me, hunt me down, catch in my throat Make me pray, to say love's confines, oh

[@ThegreatCommando]

Thanks for lyrics

[@carlos66965]

Thanks

[@secretsausage1]

The fool might be my middle name. As in Michael "The Fool" Stipe... it's an old expression, but very poignant. Stipe's lyrics hit hard.

[@cynthiaheath9556]

❤❤❤

[@erinsperin]

Thanks for coming through with the lyrics ✨️

[@dpack810]

THANK YOU The Bear for this great blast from the past!!!!!!!!

[@The_Brew]

The Bear’s music is incredible - via Chicago via Athens via Scotland via love and loss and life everlasting

[@yayakelley7771]

My favorite R.E.M. song. Pure bliss 🎼

[@PeteGibbons1]

That voice. Those lyrics! That melancholy yet upbeat guitar sound. Just amazing. It’s like a time machine. Listening to REM is like being in my late teens again. Full of hope and sadness.

[@TheVanillatech]

What an odd pairing...

[@PeteGibbons1]

@@TheVanillatech , you either understand or you don’t.

[@TheVanillatech]

@@PeteGibbons1 Surely one can learn?

[@laptopmaltese]

This is lovingly passionately sincere so much it brings tears to my

[@laptopmaltese]

eyes

[@stipegal]

One of many favorite R.E.M. songs.

[@keithjones6023]

Great choice!

[@Francloy1]

This one is pretty high on the list

[@ramonflores377]

Yo amo esta canción ❤️

[@careful...Icarus]

I'm here because I am an REM fan and love this song. Nothing or no one convinced me to be here.

[@pedrocubano133]

Always liked REM. This song came out as I was turning 30 and was busy with career, starting family etc. So I never heard it. This past Holiday Season my son was in MSK hospital when his cancer returned. One day on ride home, amongst the holiday music on radio, I heard this song and not knowing what it was about felt how sad it was and it was about missed love. It stuck with me and I would play it every time on way home from hospital as my son’s health deteriorated. He passed in late January and this song always reminds me of my son and that time. Love you forever buddy. 🥲

[@pepeadri]

Hope you find peace

[@LourdesJRTerapeuta]

🙏🏼💐

[@pedrocubano133]

@@pepeadri Thank you. 😊

[@simoneo5483]

It's hard to admit but deep pain often changes our perception of this life. Very sorry for your kid. R.i.p.

[@soontobexpat]

Condolences brother, I have a soon to be 18 year old son and I can't imagine my life without him . Life isn't fair 😢 .

[@8145cc]

Stipe’s voice one of a kind

[@triciacairns9137]

Always will be amazing ❤

[@RobertBrown-ew5er]

Velvet

[@adyg5402]

Hits your SOUL.

[@rudypolo5008]

R.E.M. Is my favourite band and the singer Michael Stipe Is magnific and he has got a fantastic and beautiful voice.I' m like also Mick Mills and the guitar of Peter Buck.R.E.M. Is a great Band.

[@thoroughbredcrazy]

This song will never get old!! Just as good now as when it was first written

[@timdunlop4953]

Monster was an awesome album. I miss those days where the world made more sense

[@ferm8103]

Think of all the guitar players over the years who get trotted out when talking about the greats, listen to Peter from every era and tell me that he's not one of the best that's ever happened to play the thing, he is immense.

[@iainmacaulay8081]

Yes.

[@adyg5402]

YES1

[@docsavage8640]

So awesome everybody dumped it as used CD stores within a year

[@docsavage8640]

@ferm8103 no he isn't

[@davidw2567]

The Bear brought this great song back into my consciousness. So grateful for this.

[@michaeldematteis3409]

Bro,me too..can’t believe how much I needed this song right now.im actually in aww of the so many great songs on that show.fuck me.someone has good taste

[@seanbrady1303]

I seem to be always discovering new r.e.m songs...was a teen in the 90's ..grew up with this stuff...ive known and loved alot of there songs for decades...but i only just discovered this gem last year..I cant get enough of it

[@ryano1076]

Same for me man. I'm 41 and just heard this for the first time (that I can recall) last night at the end of an episode of Barry. Better late than never right haha

[@cletus0812]

The Bear really likes this song. Made it to Season 3 too.

[@ClerigoPC]

I just need one chance to tell you guys: I will live forever with your music in my soul.

[@debjones60]

António Pinto Well said my friend ‼️‼️‼️ same goes for me..... Timeless music .... love it 🥰

[@stephanieinman1551]

Always and forever, what a great band, lyrics amazing!

[@marklynch5284]

I can say yes sir to that

[@enieponymous]

I love R.E .M. the best band ,their songs will live forever, I am from Brazil / Rio de Janeiro

[@firstlasterson1213]

Ah , thats beautiful. Friend .

[@TheSteveTell]

What a great song. My favorite band ever.

[@kop1986]

You have great taste Steve!

[@luizahm]

Agree with you!

[@DavosSeaworth]

life regrets: trusting Melisandre not protecting Shireen never getting the chance to see R.E.M. live

[@philsmith3188]

My favourite too. Their music stands the test of time. Such a shame they aren’t recording and performing together still

[@squierstrat9502]

Definitely

[@augustogarcia7149]

Impossible to describe the emotions REM is able to generate with songs like this.....

[@DanGrindey]

I don't know why but even after all these years this track makes me well up inside. Stipe's voice just on this song does it for me every time.

[@eduardosantosrocha2198]

Mark Romanek the greatest music video director!

[@raisa_cherry35]

❤❤

[@AdMortem77]

Bella canción

[@lisamanic4822]

So beautiful! REM one of the greatest bands ever! I'll never forget the day I saw them live. My heart was singing out of pure happiness and joy.

[@maddie8415]

I never understood why this song didn't get more attention, it's really one song that I loved on first listen. I still love it all these years later!

[@brendanmaher5275]

It never grows old

[@davidmitchell6873]

Haven't listened to this in so long. I just watched an episode of the Bear and this was in the soundtrack and here I am.

[@WHJeffB]

My wife and I just saw the episode featuring this song and it brought me right back to when it was released. It came at a time when I was still very hung up on an ex-girlfriend (despite having a few pretty good ones in between). It really hit home back then and it still conjures up long dormant emotions. Thankfully everything worked out... Found the love of my life, 26yrs and three great kids later, but this song still brings me back to that lovesick 25yr old self...

[@kevinguziec2497]

This song hits me on many different levels

[@Cinema_Enthusiast-e4n]

"Because you’re the Bear and I remember you” 💙

[@mikelawson6456]

I am 60. I was a freshman in college when these guys hit the scene...and I have loved them ever since

[@muratacikgoz1375]

True art never gets old .

[@ryanpanek215]

This fucking song man…just…damn.

[@Angela-jb5bn]

Brilliant band that voice wow😮. 💙

[@corey-bird3489]

I only hope people think my voice has half that power even though I don’t sing. I see you’re new to KZbin, welcome!

[@adrianstrugariu6795]

Still one of my favourite songs ever. Great lyrics, great guitars, great Mike and the team...

[@lgibbons58]

Fun fact: at 2:46...the man running in the leather jacket is a young Norman Reedus...who, years later, plays Daryl on the Walking Dead.

[@biglove1941]

nice catch

[@WHJeffB]

@@biglove1941 Wikipedia... The model/young woman at the end of the video is River Phoenix's girlfriend at the time he overdosed.

[@galvinatrix1984]

This should have been the 1st single off Monster. The best track off the album. Love it!

[@stephensams9784]

Monster is my favourite album

[@WHJeffB]

Definitely...

[@Arturo-sm1tb]

God I love you REM. Millsey and the boys, never stop these re-releases and surprises. We miss you terribly.

[@debjones60]

After watching this clip for the 5th consecutive time, I just realised how damn good it is. Love the choice of B&W and the lighting. REM were always ahead of their time and not just with the music.

[@delboy20091]

30 years ago today, Monster was released 🎸

[@kenscar]

I was 25 when this song came out and only heard it for the first time tonight while watching "The Bear." I was not a huge fan of REM back in the day, but keep coming across wonderful songs of theirs like this one and "Nightswimming." I'm starting to get why they were such a big deal. With age comes wisdom lol

[@willownightspeed4618]

Under the silver lake!

[@digitalingot5523]

This song always evokes bittersweet feelings of my youthful days and it reminds of the dream I was dreaming at that time. Even now, I might be living imitation of life.

[@kristenhenry3342]

i never read comments...just never really had any interest...idk why...dont really care what anyone else thinks but me...probably...fkd up of me i guess...but honest. I JUST READ YOUR COMMENT, I DONT EVEN KNOW WHY ..was looking for the only other reply/comment iv ever written on here...HAPPENED UPON YOURS, HAD TO READ IT TWICE. THANK YOU FOR SHARING. YOUR WORDS, SO SIMPLE SO DEEP SO HONEST. AND U MIGHT THINK IM EXAGGERATING, BUT I HAVE TEARS IN MY EYES AS IM WRITING THIS- IDK WHAT TO SAY- YOU TOUCHED ME CUZ I TOTALLY RELATE TO WHAT YOUR SAYING...NOT ABOUT THE SONG BUT ABOUT LIFE IN GENERAL. I NOTICED U DIDNT GET ANY LIKES OR COMMENTS SO THAT TOO COMPELLED ME TO SAY SOMETHING. idk i guess i dont relate much to what others say. but your words sounded like my own...and quite frankly, tho im thrilled at the kinship, i think we both have issues! "Even now, i might be living imitation of life." Made me think for u and for me, that our thoughts, tho introspectively luminating, its good to question life, reality, our perception....but is it really?? cuz what if whatever we say is true or we decide or come to understand, conclude ...for all intensive perposes LITERALLY IS or becomes TRUTH (our truth). sorry for my lengthy attempt at expressing something that feels much simpler. basically this: when u say even now i might be....ACTUALLY CREATES THAT REALITY..to think it to say it, etc It is in the thinking that we might be living an imitation of our lives, we create that specific reality. much the same as rose colored glasses make everything pink, blue glasses make it blue. look thru a kaleidescope see the fractals, look through a prism see rainbows. so maybe, and i am saying this to me too, we should CREATE WHAT WE WANT TO SEE instead of wondering what we are seeing. cuz the more we think that things could be this or that or something else, the more we are litterally creating that reality into existence. "i got to believe it to see it"... I dont like to use the word doubt..or even question...but i get it. i think we both just want to know the truth. what is real? But through YOUR words i heard myself speaking, and it gave me the opportunity to be on the outside looking in to i guess come to this different perspective and hopefully, if i keep it holy i can change my life before i die.

[@paulh.5643]

I have been an R.E M. fan for over 40 years! Yes, an old guy still loves the best band that EVER existed.

[@williamhickey5296]

Just hearing this song for the very first time and already it's one of my all time favorites! Wow! Just so good!

[@milehighmelomaniac]

REM was seminal in the formation to rock we’ve heard for decades now. As a GenXer that grew up with REM as one of the soundtracks to my youth, I’m so grateful to have these wistful teenage memories remembered and brought back to the limelight from The Bear. So many of us that are new or have been brought back here 💛 There will never be another R.E.M.

[@abhiskekrachit1411]

This was David Foster Wallace's favourite song! That's how I was introduced to it RIP peace☮️😭😭😭😭

[@LitGaming999]

Love REM met some of the members when I lived in Athens GA for a bit. Wish they would do one last tour but Michael said hes done. They said all they had to say and he doesn't want to repeat himself. When he said that i felt it cause i knew he meant it. He has a presence when he talks.

[@animal_boy_]

One of the greatest ballads ever!

[@andrewmdk9038]

I love this song. Personal fave from Monster 🤘

[@deblas722]

Very few songs where each verse gets BETTER. But this song is a rare one, where each verse completely builds on the previous. That last verse is KILLER. I need a chance, a second chance, a third chance, a fourth chance......

[@WHJeffB]

This will be one of those songs that 100yrs from now, some lovesick teen or twenty something will listen to and it'll really hit home. Timeless...

[@bigbattenberg]

It's totally brilliant indeed!

[@edgreen8140]

Michael you decided the industry had to many hoops to jump through. I totally agree.

[@dirkrichter1773]

Ohhh my god...what a great time it was when this Album Released.....one of the best ever Album...great musicians....love it...

[@redrocks1983]

As a fan of R.E.M. since 1985, I can honestly say their album/song output in a ten-yr span was/is second to none...Up there with U2. ❤️

[@Alan-gi2ku]

OMG i couldn't stand U2. So pretentious. Couldn't even use their real names. Bono and the Edge, ugh.

[@iainmacaulay8081]

Ease up, if it helps Michael Stipe and co. were always more likeable but then REM were better then most.@@Alan-gi2ku

[@smoothtubeforyou]

Great song, one of their best.

[@belltolls1984]

To me, this is the greatest song that was ever written.

[@LuckyAlaska13]

Thanks to the season 2 trailer of The Bear for introducing me to this masterpiece

[@bhikkhu]

Give her your real number, Carmy!

[@manunitedskm]

Just an absolutely gorgeous song that I can never hear enough. I love all the art direction in REM’s videos.

[@brianfugate2822]

I really can't write anything that hasn't been written already. One of my favorite albums of the 90s👍👍👍🤟🤟🤟

[@patricia382]

His voice is just fantastic

[@danstar455]

Killer chord progression.

[@rufust.firefly6810]

Love'em all - the Daves, the Eddies, the Freddies, the Chris' ... but there's something with R.E.M. that's digging even deeper in my soul and comforting me in a state of bittersweet nostalgia than those beloved teenage and adolescence friends above...

[@That60sGuy]

Such a cool, unique-sounding song with the Hammond B-3 humming underneath ...

[@Sarah-fc5zv]

Turn it up!!! Love this song thirty years later!! This song, and many other REM songs, take me back to the afternoons of my high school years. Good times!

[@Dirk29er]

Heard this song randomly the other day. I’d Completely forgotten about it. I downloaded it immediately. Such a great song.

[@Lassetersreef555]

These words… you will be mine.. all the time ❤

[@amyschmidt3151]

As perfect as the first time, a million times later. ❤️

[@alexpossebenitez3452]

Soy fanático de REM desde sus inicios, es mi grupo favorito, son muchos los temas que forman parte de la banda sonora de mi vida, siempre soñé con agradecerles personalmente su música, se que no sucederá, pero quiero destacar este tema, me parece un temazo, lo pongo en el top 3 y siendo REM es mucho decir, pero es que entro en bucle cada vez que lo escucho, increíblemente infravalorado para el gran público, no así para los reales fanáticos. Desde España, millones de gracias por vuestra música.

[@gabrielantoniocharovsky5984]

Time pass, music, lyrics, some voices, persists!! REM is part o my life, this kind of songs are SO poetic, pleny of feelings, good in every time, each year!! Thank you, always!!!!

[@AlFrBu]

Monster was not appreciated in its day. Yet here we are decades later.

[@paulmoon8312]

UK Monster Tour lol i was still at high school me and 2 mates went to Huddersfield McAlpine stadium to watch these must have been what 1993 94 ? Making me 14 ish , Beautiful South on the undercard too wow wjqt a year

[@realmorgan3075]

These guys have been killing it for decades

[@starlightfury4252]

thanks The Bear S2 for introducing me to this beast

[@BubblesBubbles]

This song HAS to go to #1 NOW!!

[@danielmelo7146]

Masterpiece.

[@balung]

The ex wife turned me onto REM, never really listened to them up until that point, glad she did, thanks Choobie.

[@thevoid99]

i first heard the song when the album came out in 1994. i was 13 years old. it's still one of my favorite songs.

[@charetacanady3588]

I remember having this on cassette . Seriously underated song!

[@williamhaynie9827]

This is my favorite REM song, what a awesome relaxing and true song.

[@raisa_cherry35]

I was a kid in the early 90s,so I never got the chance to consciously enjoy this gem of music. But thankgod for KZbin's existence,I can get to taste what I have missed 😍😍💖💖💖

[@WHJeffB]

Great song... Extremely well done video. Great lighting and cinematography. That they could take four not exactly traditionally good looking guys and peg the "cool meter" is a huge accomplishment. Great band... Miss those times.

[@denisefreitas6727]

Great, beautiful song. Monster is an amazing album.

[@ceesummers9467]

Grew up listening to them gotta love the 90ies

[@FlyingKeo045]

I don`t how I missed this gem of a great song from one of the most original bands first time around. Now a favourite !

[@RedyPiper]

My favorite song of all time ♥️

[@markrigg6623]

I've never been that into REM, but I gotta say, this is an awesome song.

[@ProjectCodeSound]

One of my biggest influencies. I love R.E.M. songs.❤

[@pablokerpk]

Gran série el Oso 🐻 !!! 2023

[@catherinebonnici5572]

This is the first time I have ever heard this tune. A very dear friend and I share tunes..today he shared this one with me..I listened to it about half a dozen times already..👏 Amazing. thank my dear friend and REM for an awesome tune.