R.E.M. - So. Central Rain (Official Music Video)

[@7d7e7f7]

A lot of people don't know old great R.E.M. This is great R.E.M.

[@karltbui]

I agree. Early REM so pure...no politics... just passion

[@riensnijder5712]

This is great indeed. Later rem albums give me (rem) sleep😀

[@anonymousposter6671]

Yes... but is it old??!!??!!

[@michelemueller5827]

karltbui early REM was political. they were just very sly about it

[@rodtaylor5476]

IRS REM is fantastic

[@GaryRine]

this is simply one of the Best songs of my Generation.... go X'ers!!!!

[@gib59er56]

We are a crazy generation. We had the best music ,cars, chicks and combine that . Goin to a concert in a `69 Chevelle with a buddy and your girlfriends` with the music blasting out of an Alpine stereo. Gen X forever!!

[@DillyPutty]

Xer angst in a song.

[@qkanerd]

Wow! 40 years?! Michael had beautiful hair and Mikey Mills looked like he was in high school. Good times!

[@billmiller9145]

There's a video on here, if I recall correctly was R.E.M.'s first time on Letterman? Mike Mills is out there crushing on that bass. His face was lit up like a christmas tree.

[@Treebard]

He always looked like he was in high school.

[@twhelostl61]

It is unbelievable. This was 40 yrs ago. Every time I hear these songs I'm floating on some fluffy cloud. Boy were those times special.

[@Nick-Stewbreeze]

I love this song, Mike mills bass how they weave it all is just rich

[@Smknnfshn]

Greatest American band in history

[@Alan-gi2ku]

I couldn’t agree more

[@adspur]

One of them.CCR did a lot in a very short career.American Beatles

[@FeenyFan]

CCR is more epochal but they never really had time to develop. It was Fogarty’s project. REM had time to breathe and let the Buck/Stipe/Mills chemistry deepen.

[@tru816indo]

My dad told me he heard this song while he was sitting in his friends jeep outside a bar in Pheonix in 1984. It was a college station that played entire records after midnight. He bought this record a few days later and hes been a lifelong fan ever since. He told the story in such detail, i love how music can take you back to a certain time so vividly. I fuckin love REM.

[@vicb7341]

R.E.M. the only other band Smiths fans liked. Totally different, but similar in that they stuck to their vision. + Mike Mills = the secret weapon

[@sharondianneb]

I was at a gas station in Miami in a summer rain storm .. came on while I waited I line .. vivid 80s memory

[@ingenerchik]

Few people know it is a remake of a Chuck Berry’s song

[@ingenerchik]

They have stolen it from Chuck Berrie

[@DOOMJESUS]

@@ingenerchik EVIDENTLY, R.E.M. STOLE MOST OF THEIR SOUND FROM ONE OF THEIR RIVAL BANDS THAT NEVER GOT ANYWHERE CALLED PYLON. AND THEY ADMIT AS MUCH. JUST AS NIRVANA STOLE EVERY TRICK THEY HAD FROM FRANK BLACK AND THE PIXIES. AND KURT COBAIN MADE NO SECRET OF THAT EITHER.

[@dlperk5035]

I literally lived through ALL THE MUSIC VIDEOS OF THE 1980S AND 1990S. Even while training as.a Jesuit priest, I kept up with all the great Rock and pop releases. Having long left the Society of Jesus and married a beautiful woman, I still keep up through Vimeo and many other video platforms. I LOVE MUSIC, A PASSION WHICH DEFINES ME.

[@miken2604]

Sorry to hear you gave up on Christ...Terrible

[@arthurmerchant8016]

Your life story brought me right back to that era. This album had just come out when I began college at a Jesuit/Holy Cross order Catholic college. Best educational decision I ever made. And thx to the school's college radio station, my music horizons broke wide open and these R.E.M. albums were staples at the station. Oh, and a good friend who initiated me to the station's daily newspaper reading show for the visually impaired later became a priest. And a former roommate initially planned to be a priest as well but changed his mind as he realized it was just a way to avoid dealing with his painful shyness. Amazing the memories these tunes bring up.

[@mrbenoit5018]

Talk about the passion

[@make-believe]

Music speaks through me, and I speak through music. I'm listening to this song today for the first time. Christmas day, 2024.

[@sethmoore8484]

The beauty is in the details: Mike's countermelody, the piano rambling on in the background, the extra reverb on berry's drums on the second hit of the bridge.

[@jstohler]

That reverb is such a beautiful touch.

[@mattgilbert7347]

Stipe was at his best when singing Mill's bass lines. Counterpoint (kinda).

[@mattgilbert7347]

​@@jstohlerMitch Easter, Don Dixon.

[@rustheisenberg]

Mike Mills was REM's secret weapon.

[@sethmoore8484]

@@rustheisenberg undoubtedly

[@doulalina]

I was blown away when I saw this was made in 1984. It’s so 90s sounding. They were the future.

[@cellonoxius1]

It''s true!😊😊😊

[@zero-pl3tt]

To be fair a lot of that 90s sound was directly inspired by REM.

[@lolah3838]

Actually in 1984 it sounded like it was from another planet.

[@onesunnyday5699]

​@@lolah3838Very nice analogy 👌 ❤

[@COS947-o2t]

They were a college band.

[@rowanbrooks1007]

Thom Yorke’s favorite REM song.

[@MrsGamgee977]

I just came here for that reason. LOL

[@BennyOcean]

I also came here after that interview.

[@mori1bund]

Ha! Why I'm not surprised that this is the first comment I see here? :-)

[@lukastargazer3089]

I still prefer Shiny Happy People and Losing my Religion better :P

[@markdangelo7949]

lmao yes ugh taste wbk

[@darrenalexander3636]

Mike Mills is the unsung hero in this band. He is the secret weapon that every guitarist or singer wants. Apart from the intro it's the bass doing the main riff. And good backing vocals. As any singer knows, a good backing vocal always makes the main vox sound better. Without him REM would never have been the awesome band they were. Love the other 3 too, of course.

[@mikeoleary1723]

Remi with Stone Roses springs to mind.

[@ChetAziz]

REM in a nutshell. Mike Mills not just an ace bass player, a top backing vocalist, genius songwriter but also a great mine of knowledge on all genres of music.

[@timmyteaching]

They are all the unsung heroes.

[@kjones7561]

Agree with all you have written about Mike Mills. I am still hoping he will come to be a believer.

[@timmyteaching]

They were all secret weapons.

[@spookedhorse]

1:50 when Mills comes in with his accompaniment vocals, I'll always get chills.

[@bamadave83]

Sublime

[@JohnSmith-op1tc]

Got to see them in NYC in '83, during a thunderstorm at Shea Stadium. Worth the soaking, took me a while to shake what I was on that night and recognize Mike's contribution, which is most significant to the R.E.M. sound.

[@spookedhorse]

@@JohnSmith-op1tc NAILED IT.

[@robertreel71]

Mills has so many moments like this. I find myself sometimes choosing to sing along to his background vocals more than the lead.

[@spookedhorse]

@@robertreel71 Indeed! Same here. I always song the backing vox. Drives my coworkers crazy, LOL

[@theknowitall4090]

Rem's best song. Fall 1983.

[@rustheisenberg]

Letterman show, October 6th, 1983.

[@michaelwilson9450]

Mike Mills backing vocals are vastly underated.

[@bobkealing9497]

He's brilliant

[@th3_g0dz_of_Vict0ry]

Harmonizing with Stipe is no small feat ... Mills is an icon.

[@sexobscura]

no they're not

[@asticou04]

He's called their secret weapon in every mention of him, so no.

[@lewisc215]

No, not at all.

[@erndog64]

The early days are the most artistic of REM....THE BEST.

[@richsouthall1937]

The first five REM albums never get old for me; the songs seem to age like fine wine; where I hear new things upon each subsequent listening. They could punch up great rockers like: “Begin the Begin” or “Sitting Still”, but then create gentle, lilting slower ballads such as “Wendell Gee” or this one “Cayahoga”. I can’t name a single new band that has the same depth and reach as REM had. These albums are the soundtrack to my life.

[@TomDavisVideo]

word

[@Alan-gi2ku]

Their next 5 albums were pretty damn good also

[@danielsmith3335]

Totally agree with every word

[@jayinscottsdale2001]

I will go with the first 5 bc i went thru college and first years outta college rocking out. Every album i remember visiting my buddies at other colleges. Either road trips, skiing, beach/ocean or concerts. the soundtrack of my youth.

[@youandwhosearmy6339]

Sometimes I think that this is the best band there has ever been. And sometimes I'm actually right about something.

[@youandwhosearmy6339]

Agreed. That's why I said sometimes I feel that way. How could there ever be a "best" band

[@briandesormeau2643]

To me, R.E.M. and The Tragically Hip were two of the best bands of their time, similar yet not the same :)

[@acommondisaster]

youandshosearmy - tonight is one of those times. congratulations. ;)

[@sofieewing5967]

You ARE.😊💝

[@BusyBeeLeds]

LOL yes Some times. Esp When you want to listen to depressing music all day haha

[@stevewright6290]

I think a case can be made that R.E.M is the greatest American rock band ever..

[@crookedspinemusic]

100%. Their first 8-9 albums are one of the best and most consistent runs in rock history in my opinion.

[@jeffbachman]

You can make a case, but I wouldn't agree with you 😀. I do love them though. Easily top 5 for me. Maybe even in the top 2 or 3.

[@stevewright6290]

@@jeffbachman Who ya got ? For me its R.E.M, 70's / early 80's Aerosmith ( after those years was crap ) , Eagles , Pearl Jam , CCR . i dont count Seger / Petty / Bruce , as I consider them solo artists with a backing band.

[@jeffbachman]

@@stevewright6290 If we can't include solo artists, Dylan, would have been my one or two, it has to be the Grateful Dead 1 and REM 2. I guess I don't like to use terms like "greatest" because music is so subjective, but rather favorites. After the Dead and REM, its a mishmash, Talking Heads, Ramones, Allman Brothers, the various incarnations of The Byrds, Pearl Jam are all up there for me. If you include solo artists, Dylan, Petty, Neil Young (I know he was born and raised in Canada, but has lived in the US nearly all of his career and has US citizenship).

[@ATCguy1973]

Sorry...... ummm....but you may be right 😁👍😂

[@kevinwalker818]

sometimes when you hear a song it takes you right back to a place you thought you had long forgotten all about. this is one of those songs

[@33Luger]

Kevin Walker Freshmen year in college. Good times.

[@baerhomburg6447]

..and places where i probably should had been; i.e. Sea-Tac

[@jeanpennie]

Aren't songs like that great? (Even the sad ones.)

[@ScarletJudoGirl]

Yes! I am currently bawling my eyes out watching this. I am having an intense emotional and visceral reaction to this song, but I can’t remember why... but I know it is there and happened

[@mikeysuzefour]

One of those underrated REM songs you didn't think was out there but there it stands.

[@gulfmarine8857]

Michael might be the most beautiful human being I've ever seen 😍

[@Hqhq-01]

He has always made me think of Michaelangelo's "David", especially when he still had the curls. I've always been amazed that he dared to cut away that beautiful mane. Surprised to see that his sister has virtually the same locks.

[@LouisetheLithead]

Stipe's howl of remorse and pain at the end is one of the most moving wordless utterances in recorded music.

[@mkharvey]

This takes me back to Atlanta in the mid to late 80s. So much live music, Athens was on fire giving birth to amazing artists. My wife at the time and I not missing a single gig. How is it possible this was 40 years ago??

[@Taooflu]

A blink of an eye my friend… a lifetime goes by

[@Heathcoatman]

Same. I lived in Augusta back then and we would often drive up to Athens on the weekend to catch shows. Seems like just a blink of an eye ago until you check the calendar.

[@johnbyrnes9088]

The best band of the college radio era. Love there originality. Nothing like R.E.M.

[@kevn99]

John Byrnes I’ll bet your 52 like myself. 👍🏻

[@donnieramos611]

So true Rem can’t be compared to anything else bc their overall talent is just pure genius in my opinion

[@jerrymccommons6950]

Their... College grad are we ?

[@johnmininger7472]

@@kevn99 - I am 52; bought Murmer in high school the second I heard Radio Free Europe on the radio. REM was the band of my college years.

[@BettinaBalser]

For me, it's R.E.M., XTC, and The Smithereens...that's "college" to me. 1988 - 1992.

[@Riffmaster227]

Fun fact, Michael Stipe is singing this live. He refused to lip sync. So they filmed him recording a new vocal over the track.

[@adspur]

Been listening to this song for over 35+ years.It hits the same way still.You know the chills and outer body experience.

[@realMartinHamilton]

Tons of college bands played REM's music at frat and sorority parties. Women ate this music up! If you were a member of the band....nuff said!!!

[@SkiCourchevel]

How is this not one of the greatest songs on KZbin?!? R.E.M. is arguably one of the top five bands in history.

[@emperomassinencambio...9941]

As much as I love REM (and you bet I do), they're not top 5. A solid top 25, maybe top 20.

[@Kat.Evangeline14]

All that beautiful hair Gone daddy Gone

[@johncalloway3547]

Top 500 maybe .

[@emperomassinencambio...9941]

@@johncalloway3547 they are not the Bangles, lol.

[@venedenn1]

As far as melodies go, only the Beatles and Paul Simon are better

[@wtgardner6914]

One of the greatest songs of all time. Loved this sound from R.E.M.

[@billbranche2257]

Love the early R.E.M

[@annamolina3940]

First REM song I ever heard, back in '84 , instant love. I saw them live in Birmingham a year later, easily one of the best concerts of my life. Early REM were something else.

[@MisterMikeTexas]

The first one I heard was off "Murmur": "Radio Free Europe". I believe it was 1983, and I was 19 at the time.

[@kay00765]

I loved Michael’s hair in this era of REM!!

[@yehoshuabenavraham9706]

I have been following REM since the 1980s, and saw them in concert in 1984. Great band.

[@Slipkid67]

This is the first REM song, I ever hear. After that, I was hooked.

[@crystallowman7552]

One of my favorite REM songs. I miss the 80's and 90's. Good times.

[@htetreau]

Brilliant. Still gives me the chills to this day when I hear it. Goes down as one of my all time favorites. Getting old...but, this one brings me back to that simple, beautiful, happy place of my youth

[@e34eric]

Pure Athens GA genius. So glad I was there in the 80’s.

[@nicoleleary3633]

I never realized how beautiful he really was...always knew his voice was

[@rainbowbriteflash]

Same...agree

[@michaelroche5744]

Early REM was agnostic soul music

[@hodgepodzaline]

It's rare that this song doesn't cause me to cry...it's brilliant that way, and also takes me back to some very specific experiences. So beautifully emotive.

[@1groovygreg]

Early REM has a purity of spirit.

[@iangrubb6470]

R.E.M were raw back then and weren't over produced. That's why I love this era of the band.

[@rebeccasimantov5476]

True... their '80's stuff is much better than their later work...

[@josefinebliss2801]

Rock bands early music is always the best in my experience. For some reason many bands tend to later abandon their raw sound and go very polished instead... I can appreciate the polished sound as well but nothing beats raw emotion and grittiness.

[@mackeydirk8643]

This song is a masterclass in setting a mood and tone with vocals and melody. You just feel it in your soul.

[@sto620]

Totally agree. I don’t know half the lyrics to R.E.M. songs. I just like to zone out to the mood of the tune.

[@bugalooanzal4564]

Yes I agree😊

[@georgeharrison70]

This was released in 1984? Damn.....doesn't sound like typical 80s music at all. So fresh, beautiful, mysterious & timeless.

[@541967]

+georgeharrison70 That's because R.E.M. would specialize in electric folk even if many would mischaracterize that same band as "new wave." Far too many artists were of either the European technopop or hair metal variety throughout the 80's but R.E.M. led a musical underground that ignored many of the most popular trends within that same period. The quartet's material didn't receive a great deal of airplay on commercial radio then but albums such as "Reckoning" (or "Let It Be" by the Replacements for that matter) have aged more gracefully than Twisted Sister.

[@Tracymmo]

541967 There were tons of great guitar-oriented indie bands from North Carolina (Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Raleigh), Athens GA, Austin, Minneapolis and L.A. The early 80s was a great time musically. ("Hair metal" and Twisted Sister, etc., came later, had a different audience just as all the schmatlzy 80s power ballads did. Blech.) I was a college radio dj from 1985-90, and one annoying downside to REM's success was the slew of bands trying to imitate REM or at least Peter Buck in the latter half of the decade. No one could come close to their unique sound. Yes, it took a little while for REM to break commercial markets, but that's why I was able to see them play in an old movie theater in 1984. Then, as now, you won't find anything but crap on the big stations. I still prefer the college stations to this day.

[@aarontempest8983]

Yeah these guys were geniuses but its Michaels voice that is just so sad and for some reason his voice is like a time echo for me theres just this absolute mourning for humanity in his voice and yet the fact that he has also experienced great joy is very apparent as well but his music is painful for me to hear its painful as if ive lost something in the past and can never get it back except in memory alone and yet at the same time is extremely beautiful... lifes so short its like a vapor of mist blown away on the wind... God bless

[@barbarapybus5660]

Love this!

[@francisconavarrete104]

I'd buy a book that begins with this sentence.

[@barbarapybus5660]

@@francisconavarrete104 Im being dense, which sentence?

[@francisconavarrete104]

@@barbarapybus5660 the initial comment :)

[@barbarapybus5660]

@@francisconavarrete104 life’s so short ...??

[@johnleonetti6165]

These times were magical in Georgia 😉

[@cheeseheadwife]

This is still my favourite R.E.M. song.

[@jlgalindop]

Hi Thom 👐

[@andyisdead]

Hi Thom

[@arthurbludgeon]

This has always been my favorite REM song, and this is a great take! The instrumental backing tracks are exactly as they appear on the LP Reckoning, but the vocal take is different, as it is sung live over the backing tracks, because Stipe refused to lip sync during this song. I remember seeing this video on some stupid dance show back in 1984, and being completely floored by it!

[@mattwilliam4803]

-I went to college in the 80's - my best friend, who lived across the hallway in Clement Hall, at the University of Tennessee, turned me on to Reckoning, then Murmur. He had seen them play at a club on "the Strip" a month earlier - Cumberland Ave. - it was Fall semester of '84, I was a freshman - this is my favorite band, ever. -p.s. my favorite r.e.m. song, at the time, was called "Time after Time". another great song they did, that people don't talk too much about, was called "Ages of You". and then there's the "Dead Letter Office" CD.

[@tracymccowan4232]

Matt W, I went to UT around that time and I saw them at UT in the fall of '87. Good times! I lived in Strong Hall then.

[@mattwilliam4803]

@@tracymccowan4232 🧡🎶-nice !!! 🎶🎵✝️

[@33Luger]

REM was the soundtrack for my years at Creighton University.

[@cirestamey9243]

Back when R.E.M. would not allow lip syncing in their videos...

[@JaySmith-pv2mw]

Murmur and Reckoning will forever be my two favorite albums from my favorite band.

[@alantmac]

First heard this tune when they made their debut on Letterman. Loved early REM, they sounded like no one else back then, little did I know that they were time travelers from the '90's.

[@keithcarlson615]

My dad was a conductor on the C and O. Rode rails for 40 years. I miss his smell. Creasote, diesel, lucky strikes, Pabst beer. He put 3 kids through college.

[@mrmedallis]

Check out REM- Driver 8 👊

[@christophershields4215]

High school in a typically dysfunctional American household...welcomed this visual escape. Introvert back then...

[@ellemjay]

I still am.

[@Castaa]

Michael refused to lip sync the lyrics for the music video. This is him singing live in the video. That's why it sounds a bit different than the album version.

[@gmansi]

Good info, and the music is the original from the album?

[@gmansi]

1:38 by example

[@vsander09]

It's cool. Not PIL on American Bandstand cool, but still awesome.

[@Castaa]

I believe so, yes.

[@peterdaigle7249]

Stipe always stood up for what was right. Sure miss these guys.

[@joshuapeterson6072]

Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe. Nuff said.

[@kermunklin7704]

Love this song. It still feels like an ocean of sadness and anger crashing over an entire town.

[@jacquelinedeniston9108]

I’m here for REM, 29years ago. At my small town school, in the country, full of work and dust and a bunch of idiots, REM planted a seed within me and some other kids. It was a big deal. It didn’t make sense to the older folk. We had skateboards, REM, tube socks and awful parents.

[@michaelglucksman147]

Early REM is some of the best music produced.

[@JAIMERDC]

Listening to this song is comforting after a terrible nightmare. Thank you REM for being there😀

[@frankscott927]

And that’s exactly what I’m doing.

[@TravisSinclair-SC]

my fav band since i was a kid in the 80's. one of my greatest influences

[@PixelNotesMusic]

One of Stipe's best vocal performances.

[@541967]

In the footage, Peter Buck is seen with a Gretsch, but he was obviously playing a Rickenbacker to achieve the jangling sound heard in the prerecorded music. It makes me feel old when I see how young R.E.M. appeared then, but I can tell you singles such as this have aged better than say, "We're Not Gonna Take It."

[@hoover728]

He was actually playing Mitch Easter’s Fender Electric Xll (which was also the 12 string on Stairway to Heaven, not a Rick or Gibson double neck as usually assumed).

[@randytaylor220]

Definitely top 3 REM song. Any day it could #1 for me.

[@paulamiles9559]

This video is simply beautiful.

[@marcya-k5161]

Feeling nostalgic...This and many other REM songs were the background sounds of my darkroom photojournalism lab class. Love REM...I wish I had the opportunity to see them live.

[@armandomendes3120]

Best bassline

[@SideShowSlim]

My favorite band of all time - I still have my ticket to see them on 10/17/1989 in San Jose, CA, the day of the Loma Prieta earthquake

[@SideShowSlim]

This comment was meant for the previous fetchin bones video

[@stepinfetchit9394]

This amazing band had the uncanny ability to write beautiful yet not sappy music - all the time keeping it cool and real. Amazing vocals, incredible backing vocals and unbelievable musicianship. They are and always will be one of the best bands ever. Thank you, R.E.M., for the best music a music fan could ever have hoped for! Love you guys!!!!

[@timd8912]

Can't get enough of this. Sorry....

[@vintageport7804]

What a song! "Did you never call? I waited for your call These rivers of suggestion are driving me away The trees will bend, the cities wash away The city on the river there is a girl without a dream I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry Eastern to Mountain, third party call, the lines are down The wise man built his words upon the rocks But I'm not bound to follow suit The trees will bend, the conversation's dimmed Go build yourself another home, this choice isn't mine I'm sorry, I'm sorry Did you never call? I waited for your call These rivers of suggestion are driving me away The ocean sang, the conversation's dimmed Go build yourself another dream, this choice isn't mine I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry"

[@matthewstetson1840]

I love the song but it just occurred to me, he was waiting for a call from someone whose rivers of suggestion are driving him away...Go figure.

[@Skarfp]

My all time favorite REM song. It feeds my heart, so thank you.

[@nmp290765]

First REM song i heard. Stunned. Perfection.

[@HermanWaldorf]

These R.E.M. were something. Perfect pop songs played with an "indie" approach.

[@user-vv7og1gt7t]

Such a great song, some people need to learn to say they are sorry, it’s not always someone else’s fault 🙏

[@davedraft8592]

Noticed that i´m not the only one feels so cool love you guys RADIOHEAD!

[@d.fennessy2341]

It's hard to beleive something so beautiful came out of the same well that made Shiny Happy People

[@neilwilson5785]

I know. This is 10,000, shiny is 43.

[@joannaferris2232]

😆

[@nikosvault]

the riff

[@darcygeorge8411]

So true! After "Losing my Religion", I stopped listening to their stuff. I can't think of another band that their music is completely different with fantastic stuff & then....not so good. I could understand if band members had changed but i don't think they did.

[@Robinson8491]

@@derrickmartin8390 I agree, I am probably younger than you guys and for me Monster and New Adventures in Hifi ('94-'96) are my definite favorite masterpieces I still regularly come back to. Murmur is a masterpiece I found out recently. The other older albums (including the one with this song) meh, except for a few songs

[@letstacoboutit._.]

I've been looking for this song for months. This song plays all the time at my job and the "I'm sorry" was the only lyrics I knew. Glad I finally found it.

[@user-ys9fg4ol9s]

Love the bass line on this incredible song

[@worthwagers]

I never knew that Michael sang this live for the filming of the video. Amazing.

[@jamessullivan4391]

For my generation, high schoolers in the 80’s, who did not want hair bands or pop, this song was an anthem. All across the seaboard the kids were playing it in the early to late 80’s: Replacements, Black Flag, Meat Puppets, Husker Du and these guys from Athens, GA. Damn, was I privileged kid!

[@vjr5261]

I’d say it’s a fav of mine. Saw em play 1984, 40 years ago, June 30, Boise Idaho. Never forget Peter throwing his guitar up off the low low stage ceiling at the Mardi Gras 2 days after my mom committed suicide. It was a trip. Perfect distraction.

[@tapper1477]

Classic. No way around it.

[@neilwilson5785]

I don't even want to get round this one. How do I write a song after hearing this?

[@marciaotero4689]

Michael was a visionary

[@garycasebier7909]

Been in the mood a lot lately to listen to REM, love their guitar sound and music.

[@mpbarr538]

Me too!

[@joannaferris2232]

I always listen to older REM if I get in a crap mood. Usually works ☺️

[@Gordies-World]

Are you F-ning kiding. Legendary song and recording. I'm just so clad to see them in concert in concert in Boulder, CO. with the 10,000 Maniancs back then. I've been a fan since at least 1982. Someone correct my If I'm wrong with the days. Love you all!

[@solitabell8767]

South Central Rain takes me back to the most heartbreaking relationships I ever had

[@manonfire9052]

Me too.

[@sloan-photo-star9746]

Me too..

[@williampettengill5851]

OMG and how...

[@melissa2688]

@@williampettengill5851 me too. I wrote earlier that this song reminds me of what could have been. You take care and stay safe 😷

[@paisleyprincess7996]

Same. I dreamed of my ex this morning, and I feel the pain of that marriage when I hear this

[@thomasbridges4930]

This is to me is a classic song by R.E.M.. I think I can listen to this song everyday it is so comforting and soothing. The video is good too, nothing fancy or out of the ordinary, just a headphone,guitars,and drum and no stinking lip synching.

[@liquidmetal5616]

This is my favorite R.E.M song but that keeps changing.

[@torco1963]

I found the 1st Murmur album in the navy store in Iceland before they became who they turned out to be and loved their music ever since

[@Chrisdougable]

I remember seeing this music video when it came out. Around 1983 (?) or so. Still so much emotion in this song!

[@541967]

+Chrisdougable It was actually in 1984.

[@WSTLNZ]

A delightful stereo, well worth listen too.

[@SuperLovedave]

These guys can fall off a truck, pick up, and play without skipping a beat. Greatest band ever....

[@redadamearth]

It's bewildering to me how you never hear R.E.M. on the radio anymore. I just mean in terms of "oldies" stations that play 80's and 90's, which I listen to in my car - they're just NEVER played. Let alone anything they did in 2000's after Berry left. And I never hear any modern musicians talking about them. I just don't get it. The amount of bands who wouldn't exist without R.E.M. is mind-boggling to think about.

[@redskies4530]

Hi I Recommend an indie song called 'The Bond Villain' By Robert Nix

[@humanonearth1]

Here because of Tom too. I'd say my fav song is "You are everything". Ironically it sounds really like a dream and Tom was talking about the influence of that on his music etc...

[@debrapoole7671]

'Did you never call'? *myheart*

[@MaxellAdGuy]

My fav era of REM

[@Raughwe]

Extremely high quality track. In league with the greatest classic rock/pop.

[@Lyndanet]

I completely agree you can hear “magic” in that added little bit of humming at the end of the track as it is heard as being so intimate as well as intense! It puts the song / video in a league of its own while serving as a tribute to the artistry behind the bands efforts to become the accomplished artists they are at present.

[@timd8912]

This song was awesome.....still is......

[@victorhugomunizamayo6669]

Esta fue la primera canción de REM que escuché en mi adolescencia y todavía la recuerdo con cariño.

[@jeffl.8489]

One of their best off the masterpiece, Reckoning.

[@Mint-yh7uo]

0:54 "Used to know mountain good party frog, limes are down the wise men boo..."

[@mikemills9443]

LOL, as much ans I love this song, a comedian once said Michael Stipe seemed to get his lyrics from reading the menu at Dennys ;)

[@allaboutdatGDA]

+Thel Vadam eastern mountain third part call...?

[@SamAronow]

+Mint℠ I see Todd sent you here.

[@billwilson5341]

Eastern to Mountain, third party call, the lines are down The wise man built his words upon the rocks But I'm not bound to follow suit