🎵 R.E.M - The One I Love - REACTION

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[@brent4770]

Lead singer Michael said - "It's a song about using people over and over."

[@KenWins1]

I’ve always liked the classic sound of this song, almost like a throwback

[@cameragod1]

I was briefly in a covers band and you would not believe the live reaction from the audience when we played this. So simple but so much passion.

[@willmolina7395]

As a retired musician, I stand by your comment 🤘🏻

[@pauljansen1137]

"Night swimming" might be a song you would like from these guys!!!

[@ThePrincepiggy]

Driver 8, Fall on Me

[@williamsoule6498]

My favorite REM song. Still makes me cry.

[@kyleg334]

A favourite

[@ShawnKavanagh]

Yes Automatic holds a dear place in my heart

[@LuCkySLiCk]

He had love, it came and went. He tries to occupy his time with distractions so he doesn't think about it. This goes out to the one lost love that never escapes the mind. It's a burning passion kind of love...

[@lovedc4ever678]

I met this band outside a tiny venue in Denver, Colorado where you could only buy "general admission" tickets for the whole place, which seated about 500 total. My best friend and I were out there very early. This was before anyone ever really heard of R.E.M. They are an ASTOUNDING band and I can send you a long way down the R.E.M. rabbit hole.

[@spankycooper]

When I was in High School I hated their song Man on the Moon... now its one of my favorite songs.

[@CarlosTehJackal]

Try "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" - Same band, different vibe and more to get your teeth into.

[@Ednerd]

I think this was called / considered "Alt Rock" at the time. they were pretty unique. I love "Orange Crush", "Stand" and of course "Losing my Religion"

[@williamsoule6498]

I think at the time they called it "College Rock" but it later came to define the alternative genre. They were a huge influence on the landscape of music for the next 30 years.

[@vanhattfield8292]

"I am Superman" and "Swan, Swan Hummingbird" a couple more that I would add to your list of my fav's...

[@SPG-lv7wk]

Don’t see many orange crush mentions. I adore stand. It’s their most underrated song

[@dougman23]

Lyrcs of earlier REM songs were rarely literal. This is almost an eyeroll at the idea of writing a love song. Michael Stipe said the song is "incredibly violent" and added, "It's very clear that it's about using people over and over again"

[@scottwhitlock9201]

I got that the first time I heard it.

[@virtualsnake1994]

some lyrics are just abstract.

[@mattcalifornia7318]

@@virtualsnake1994 Exactly right. Brad is too focused on looking for the literal meaning of every lyric. Sometimes it's opaque poetry. Sometimes it just evokes a feeling. Sometimes it is left intentionally vague so that it means something different to each listener. And sometimes it doesn't mean anything, and you just have to groove to the sound of the music and the sound of the words. I really wish these guys would stop watching lyric videos and just listen to the music. Lex at least tries to hear the song, not just parse the lyrics like a lawyer parsing a contract.

[@billhicks6449]

"ok, that song didn't go anywhere". Exactly my friend, exactly.

[@tedcole9936]

Meta

[@risenfromthepyre]

REM Reckoning. Awesome album.

[@lisajohnson521]

"Everybody Hurts" is another you guys need to listen to. SO beautiful.

[@jasonmgomez]

Ive always interpreted the FIRE! shout to be analogous to him actually releasing the song into the world. He cant give the song to her personally because he left her behind. Shouting FIRE! like a gun prompt, shooting the song or the feeling into the world.

[@scottstewart5784]

that's how I see it

[@yensilluap]

Good thought - always wondered and that makes sense

[@jasonmgomez]

@@yensilluap Thinking on it a bit more, the music swells like a cannon shot right when Stipe sings FIRE!, an ascending pattern, a cymbal crash right at FIRE! then a ringing drone guitar line like your ears ringing after. Its amazing how music can wordlessly paint a picture.

[@1monki]

It's a primal scream. And fire in the context of the song means a lot, passion, lust, destructive potential

[@rhoetusochten4211]

3:08 the moment when Brad realizes the third verse is the same as the previous two. 😆

[@ronaldmilner8932]

I saw REM in Chicago when this album came out! Another fun fact: my wife & I worked at an art supply store in Chicago, and a woman applied for and got a job, it was Linda Stipe, Michael's sister! My wife hired her! Linda was cool!

[@robs715]

Where was the fun fact?

[@tugglesthe1st85]

isn't every fact fun ??

[@davidhutchinson5233]

I'll only say this. If I was as wealthy as Mr. Stipe my Sister wouldn't have to work. It would be her decision and her decision alone. But she wouldn't have to out of necessity.

[@inexplicablyleft2729]

This one had all of the words it needed, I think. The strangeness is part of the message, and so is the music. Great songs like Driver 8 and Can't Get There From Here have more words without losing the strangeness.

[@doctor8342]

Last REM reaction I said how they influenced the grunge bands that came after them especially Nirvana that includes both bands lyrics not being literal or even at times having any meaning at all... great band one of my favorites.

[@sagnhill]

I first heard REM back in 1982 on a tv show.

[@JMD1965]

This band is a Southern legend (from Athens GA)!! I remember seeing them in a small club (The Pier in Raleigh NC) and have followed their music ever since. This is my FAVORITE period in their storied decades long career! Try 'Orange Crush' another great song from this time.

[@maidenfan237]

REM played colleges for years then made it big they were awesome live

[@joesmith8725]

The western sounding is jangle rock, jangly guitar playing style. But, also like Lex explain the other western tone, is like country music style guitar lick. Good ears! REM is one of the pioneers of indie and alt rock, college rock groups that crossovered to mainstream radio and tv back in the '80s. Back then these kind of groups were mainly underground on college and alternative radio and videos only shown on MTV shows for underground groups. The shows were 120 Minutes and The Cutting Edge.

[@dathorndike4908]

Mike Mills background vocals on the choruses really make this song magical

[@diogenesagogo]

The Occupation is my favourite track off this album. Makes me think of a dream I never actually had.

[@joeraymorton2414]

Yes, I love this album. I thought it had the best overall sound of any of their albums.

[@BestofItMoviedoc]

The key line, “The one I left behind. A simple prop to occupy my time.” It’s a anti-love song. It doesn’t surprise me at all they don’t get R.E.M. This band has depth that isn’t necessarily going to be too understood by reactors who randomly pick a song here and there. R.EM. flourished in the day when you’d get a band’s D.N.A. after listening to the entire album.

[@weissfussindianer]

Right. Lyrics became more and more cryptic. Michael Stipe doesnt like to talk about his lyrics in interviews. i guess they are not really ment to be recovered. they have poetric vibes but its up to the listener what they could mean. I for myself enjoy the sound and the feel of the songs and try to not think too much about those words. ;-)

[@MackerelCat]

@@weissfussindianer well also he was in the closet all those years.

[@kylekyger7735]

Chill out Mr. High horse. This song is pretty basic without context of REM as a whole, give them a break

[@sira.scottascot8865]

To me, this song stands on it's own without even considering all that. They know it has to and they handle it like the awesome band that they were. Kind of an unsung rhythm section these days, too. Mike Mills has such a friendly, melodic style on the bass and Berry is powerful and steady af.

[@allensaunders449]

Every word in every rock song isn't easy to understand. Some words are metaphors some words are poetry sometimes just words. Can't try to easily define every song

[@larryharmes5826]

Everybody Hurts is a must with R.E.M. you really need to experience the video that goes with it. It adds SO much more to the song.

[@auralfixxation6702]

I loved their early stuff which has almost a folk vibe at times. Check out the song DRIVER 8.

[@simonsmith3060]

I always liked to believe that his "Simple thought" is what he's firing out to the one he loves.

[@artis1969]

Gotta love the Gump head tilts. Sometimes a song is just about sending a song out to someone you care(d) about. Sometimes simple is best.

[@sgtscene3545]

Fact check! Michael Stipes actually wrote this as a break up letter for his partner. They had been planning this trip and it was supposed to be amazing. Michael was really eager to go but his partner had doubts. This was before Nirvana and the whole alternative scene so there wasn’t really a lot of money around. Michael really went out of his way to make the trip. When his partner didn’t show up at the airport he knew it was over but went anyway. He wrote the lyrics on the plane and when he landed he had the song figured out. After being accommodated in a tent with a cheese sandwich (after especially asking for a vegan alternative), no toilet and sleeping on a lousy mattress Michael went home. He changed the lyrics from Fyre to Firestorm to hide the shame. The song is featured on their album “13 songs”, released on Epitaph/Victory in 1983.

[@floorticket]

Stipe's lyrics are sometimes hard to parse out, enigmatic, downright weird. "This one goes out to ..." sounds like a song introduction at a concert.

[@MackerelCat]

It is the kind of phrase that used to be said on radio.

[@LearnToRefine]

I prefer this old style REM. The lyrics might make you think "WTF?", but they always draw you in and make you listen.

[@happymethehappyone8300]

The Payolas "Eyes Of A Stranger"

[@shawnk7832]

This is one of their early releases... They rocked much harder back then! Rockville, or Orange Crush are a couple other early hits for them! 😁

[@clbdyc]

Alton Brown directed the music video. The backup singer is the one from B52s

[@Tbass-yy8uc]

Here's a genre you guys have never looked into it's called cow punk. Country rock with the energy of punk rock. Try starting out with the godfathers of cowpunk, Jason and the scorchers something like both sides of the line or absolutely sweet Marie

[@ianpark1805]

Early to mid REM featured dense, enigmatic lyrics that were hard to decipher (especially on the first couple of albums) and interpret, and I loved them for it!

[@matthewhudson5685]

Listening to REM is kind of like eating sushi. First you're a bit of shocked, maybe confused. Then you take another bite and get "something". After that, you just enjoy the experience.

[@shanehebert396]

This is getting back into their college music days. Great stuff. I was actually in college then so...

[@marcmarc1967]

Just the opposite. This was off their sixth album, and actually the first album that put the college sound behind them, and replaced it with the big-production, big-drum, over-produced sound.

[@xcrazyhorsex13tiger35]

Psychedelic furs-love my way

[@iamontherock5225]

If you want to hear a BANGIN' song by R.E.M., try "WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY KENNETH?". It's more rock based than most of their other songs. It's great!

[@auerstadt06]

R.E.M. lyrics are enigmatic to say the least, and often inscrutable.

[@Joshuadgog]

Micheal the singer of rem regrets writing this song based off its dark lyrics. As a quote "The song is about using people over and over" Still one of the greatest songs of all time.

[@steveyoung2317]

Forgot this song. I bought CD because of this song and its end of the world as we know it back in 90s

[@mahonie3002]

One of my favourite albums ever.

[@Nevets1073]

Much of R.E.M.'s early music is pretty circumspect in terms of lyrics. It's meant to make you think about the song in a time when songs weren't thought of too much. This is a song about a person who uses others for sex, but a lot of people would request the song on the radio for their bf/gf or play it at weddings only knowing the title. That reaction really put Stipe's efforts as a songwriter into focus. For me, the allure of the band was trying to figure out not just the words, but what the words meant. This is because Stipe uses words often in very indirect ways to build whatever story he's telling. "Fire" in this song, can refer to a lot of things. The album it's from had the note "File Under Fire" on it because a lot of the songs on the album referenced fire. So it could be tied to that mini-theme or it could be the fire of lust/love/jealousy or any other emotion that can easily become all-consuming. I think you should listen to "Fall On Me". It's about pollution and acid rain, which was something that was a lot worse in the late 70's and 80's due to air pollution. The lyrics are somewhat circumspect but the vocal arrangements are nice and there is a three person counterpoint on the last chorus where Stipe, Mills, and the drummer, Bill Berry are all singing different parts.

[@willmolina7395]

Steven, you're awesome.. thanks for the info..this song reminds me of my teenage years.. funny how it was R.E.M and CRANBERRIES the only alternative bands I would listen to.. everything else was heavy metal 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@doughbafett]

Old school R.E.M. is preferable to what came later. Although Automatic For the People is a great album.

[@zalmute423]

I am a big fan of accelerate myself. Love that album.

[@jasonmgomez]

@@zalmute423 monster and hi-fi are my 2 favorites. right in between your preferences!

[@scottfrench4139]

"New Adventures in Hi-Fi" is their masterpiece.

[@bestreactionvideoswithstyl2242]

LOVE LOVE LOVVVE alllll this! Congrats to you and your team. KEEP THEM COMING!! Respect ALWAYS. - BZ.

[@htt232101]

First real "band" outside of those I grew up with in the grunge movement that I really connected with...I feel absolutely lucky as hell now to have seen them live as they have a catalogue of music very few can hold a candle to.

[@guillermoperis1673]

That's what it's all about: a little hypnotic, elusive lyrics, VERY well crafted songs, a punchy sound with an edge and always restless in their search for something not quite run of the mill. That they were able to do all this with such quality for so long is just incredible. Keeps one coming back for more. That's why they're so special for so many people. It's a long list of very special songs: ""Man on the Moon", "Driver 8", "Gardening at night", "living well's the best revenge", "I believe"...sorely missed.

[@fidoz2370]

Just make sure you get the Eponymous version of Gardening At Night.

[@jeffreyaverett1800]

So many great tunes from this band. Definitely worth going down the rabbit hole 🕳. Saw them perform at Bridge School, such a great acoustic performance.

[@BlackJar72]

When (and where) I went to high school Alternative and R.E.M. were treated as practically synonymous -- R.E.M. being the only band the local radio stations both played and called alternative. At least that was how it was until the middle of my senior year when Nirvana introduced us to grunge and started the 90s alternative boom. Lead singer Michael Stipe, btw, called this a "mean" song about using people / people being used -- just props to kill time with when bored. (I liked the sound of it but didn't think much what it could be about.)

[@jal051]

In my university alternative meant Pixies, tbh.

[@dannford-premiersothebysin9057]

Love, love me some REM.

[@xenogenesis9635]

Just wanted to throw down some words of appreciation. Your whole style from thumbnails, logo, background and reactions in general is amazingly consistent and one of the reasons this has become my favorite reaction channel. Also you two are just the cutest couple! Much love from Germany, keep it up! :)

[@BradAndLex]

Thank you so much 😀

[@Mr62Lincoln]

RADIO FREE EUROPE

[@tradeladder146]

He says ,maybe he set her on Fire, i cannot stop Friggin Laughing !

[@DM-hk4cw]

Was at UGA in Athens during their beginnings. Saw them in some of my art history classes. Even though this is great, their earliest stuff is better. They would play Legion Field for free....Great energy!

[@SargNickFury]

Life's Rich Pageant is probably their best album (in my opinion) Try Began the Began, and Superman (their silly pop song) kinda defined the alternate music scene for awhile. They were great live during that period. Even though it wasn't my usual thing (metal head kid) I enjoyed seeing them live in HS.

[@scottfrench4139]

"Begin the Begin" is incredible.

[@SargNickFury]

@@scottfrench4139 Yeah it'd be my favorite REM song.

[@colemandias3212]

This is actually a prediction of Alec Balwin firing the prop gun

[@BrankoRaskov]

R.E.M forever

[@Music-tg5is]

'Oasis - Morning Glory' song shares a similar guitar riff to this song's chorus.

[@boognish94]

"What's The Frequency, Kenneth?" is a must song by R.E.M. for you 2 to react to.

[@dr4782]

This is not a love song. This is a song sung from the perspective of a man who uses women as "props" to cure his boredom, pretending to love them. Then, when he gets bored with one woman, he leaves her behind in favor of another woman. The backing vocals in the second and third "Fire!" choruses are singing, "She's coming down on her own now." This was omitted from the lyrics in that video. "The One I Love" was R.E.M.'s big breakthrough onto Top 40 radio. They'd had some alternative rock hits from 1983-1986, but this song crossed over to the Top 40 in the fall of 1987, when it peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. That "Wild West" sound that Lex talked about is often referred to as "jangle-pop," which is basically pop-rock with some folk and country influences. The term originated in the 1980s as a nod to Bob Dylan and The Byrds. In 1965, The Byrds covered a Bob Dylan song called "Mr. Tambourine Man," and their style of music had a direct influence on many alternative rock acts from the mid-1980s through the mid-2000s. The Byrds were the originators of the sound, with hits like "Mr. Tambourine Man" (1965), "Turn! Turn! Turn!" (1965) and "Eight Miles High" (1966). R.E.M. later became the torchbearers of the sound, with several Top 40 hits from 1987-1995, and alternative rock hits all the way until 2004. Another great jangle-pop band from the late 1980s and early 1990s is The Smithereens. Songs like "Blood And Roses" (1986), "House We Used To Live In" (1988), "A Girl Like You" (1990) and "Too Much Passion" (1992) are excellent songs by them, the latter two crossing over to Top 40 radio. Other examples of jangle-pop include more radio-friendly alternative rock acts from the 1990s and early 2000s like Live, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, Counting Crows, Matchbox Twenty, and The Wallflowers. Also, the Goo Goo Dolls mellowed out from a punk-rock band in the 1980s and early 1990s to a jangle-pop band from the mid-1990s onward. And speaking of The Wallflowers, they brought jangle-pop full circle. The lead singer of The Wallflowers is Jakob Dylan. Guess who his father is? Other excellent but more obscure jangle-pop songs from the 1990s include, but are not limited to: "Being Simple" by the Judybats (1993) "Slackjawed" and "74-75" by The Connells (1993, 1995) "And Fools Shine On" by Brother Cane (1995) "Angeline Is Coming Home" by The Badlees (1996) "Live Through This (Fifteen Stories)" by Mighty Joe Plum (1997)

[@Trifler500]

Oh man, they played this on the radio so much I got sick of it. lol This song was so huge in the Alternative scene.

[@todvball]

....to me "Fire!" comes after the phrase "...this one goes out to..." "This one..." might be a huuuge canon... where he's "letting out" his emotional frustration... and he steadys the Canon and 💥 boom "FIRE!!!!" It's a metaphor... right???

[@billsavage7361]

This song is about their favorite club in Athens, GA that burned to the ground in the 80's.

[@bminturn]

Serious 80s goodness!

[@grendalnewgod]

Georgia grown. You'll notice Kate Pierson of the B-52's on backing vocals. 🎶🥰Rome,Georgia🥰🎶

[@bradgordon3760]

You really need to do Everyone Hurts by REM. I want to get Brad's take on the lyrics. Also a very almost haunting song.

[@vermontmoocow]

Sometimes songs are good because you like the sound of them. I've heard this song thousands of times but never bothered to look up the lyrics. I had no idea he was singing "Fire" - in my mind it was either someone's name (like Ahra or something) or he was saying "I am".

[@harleyanne3720]

The song is about a scorned lover. He’s plotting revenge.

[@artao5]

I suspect he just wanted to yell something, and "fire" came out LOL

[@dud3man6969]

This is one of their best songs. Also Fall in Me.

[@osmankovacevic6135]

I always saw this as a critic of love songs in general

[@rgractor]

I think you’d love Driver 8 by them.

[@ShawnKavanagh]

Perfect for Kids in the Hall

[@dannykent6190]

There's a lot of comments on here talking about it being hard to understand REM lyrics, which is frequently true... but this song is pretty much in your face with the meaning. I was 2 when this came out and I'm sure slightly older when I first heard it, but even as a child I never had any illusions of this being a love song... on account of the words very clearly saying the opposite.

[@Chatta-Ortega]

It doesn't really matter what the writer meant...it only matters what you think it means. REM is a deep rabbit hole. Try Nightswimming next, then Radio Free Europe.....

[@Damiana_Dimock]

Now this discussion is interesting, because if the speaker in the song is Michael Stipe, REM’s singer, then there are a few things to consider: 1.) This album was released in 1987, Stipe would have been living as a closeted gay man at the time. Stipe came out as gay in 1994. 2.) Quote from Stipe in an article from 2019, "You can never find a single picture of me pretending to have a girlfriend or being somebody that I'm not." 3.) REM is one of those bands that give equal songwriting credit to all its members, (it’s usually because of the distribution of revenues can also be equal and no one is left out,) because of that it puts the question of who the lyricist is in question. Unless specified somewhere, I am assuming it is Stipe who penned the lyrics. Now, that calls the into question, i.) Is the “love” romantic love ii.) is Stipe playing a character. 4.) Metaphor & personification, is the fire literal fire, is the speaker burning something down, is the burning a metaphor, and is the object being burned personified, and why a “she?” Nonetheless, Brad is correct, not much to work with lyrically.

[@canaldoadelton6614]

Please do REM - Drive Saludos from Brazil 🤘🇧🇷

[@skygazer858]

I've always thought this song is like Hook by The blues travelers that you reacted to a couple of months ago.

[@T.F.B.Enterprises]

Great song. Congrats 200k.

[@BradAndLex]

Thanks Thomas!

[@fabian4ever69]

I still have the Document cd. Love this song. 👍

[@jorel80]

"Fiiiiire!" is a "burn" at the "One I Love". It's a song about using someone over and over and then ditching them. The word "Love" is used sarcastically. Like alot of R.E.M. lyrics, the meaning isn't always obvious

[@user-ux1vj9vx7s]

Lol 3:07 He’s like Didn’t I just here this same verse twice already.. What the fuck?

[@lesliemeola8209]

Sometimes a word just sounds good

[@reneortiz5216]

Get your beer mugs ready and say this one insert (. ) fire 🔥

[@deancardon4586]

Just found this reaction... awesome song!! You guys are all over the place in the songs you pick. And thats great for me cuz i'm all over the place too : ) Keep up the good work !!

[@chetcarman3530]

Adapting to early Grunge/pre-alt/whatnot can be a little difficult. Think of REM & their peers as Post- GenesisRushForeignerFleetstadtMacEagles, lavish, overproduced, studio effects, 70s Prog & Pop. Getting back to stripped-down, jangly guitar, clear vocals of Folk Rock '60s like The Byrds, etc. This track is standout.

[@longfootbuddy]

i can tell brad liked that story

[@mtabernac]

All these years, I thought he was singing "I am" (not "fire"). I recommend "Can't Get There from Here" and "Orange Crush" from R.E.M.

[@lauz-im3ov]

I'd like to recommend At My Most Beautiful by REM... a really gorgeous song and a bit more lyrically for you to get your teeth into.

[@jacobjones5269]

It’s “fired,” not “fire”.. He’s a transactional dude who burns through relationships.. They’re just props, and he simply fires them when he’s done with them and moves on to the next..

[@olddrummerguy]

Finest work song is a good one.

[@neilknight3794]

Prop is the song that's occupying his time and he's firing the song out to the one he loves.

[@sacramento60]

Just to clarify he didnt "leave his girl behind" Michael Stipe is gay. He is also the God Father of Kurt Cobain's daughter.

[@timt3566]

I always took it as the song itself was the simple prop. He was writing music while bored and came up with this catchy tune that occupied his time. The fact that in the last verse he says "has occupied my time" tends to bear this out I believe

[@Nimno74]

Lex just grooves so hard. She is a light. Btw, not western .. them's Georgia boys.

[@Prone2Thrill]

The Green album was my highest peak of REM

[@jlouis4407]

Great album

[@willybubba]

It's amazing that only 3 Lines of "lyrics" and the 1 word FIRE x2, is the song. I never even paid attention to this before! This is like modern Pop music or every Taylor Swift song! I dunno what I am saying, but I think you all get my point.