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Mr. Zekley out-Michaels Michael in showmanship in this performance!

I am with you guys!!

"go tell crusade" sneaks in from 1985's "Driver 8" Stipe was chewing on the lyrics for years. Kinda the way we saw Low and Belong on Tourfilm89.

Don't mind a touch of keyboard, but the chorus here doesn't sound as good as on the album, I liked stringy, accoustic guitar sound higher in the mix.

Looking at your watch a third time Waiting in the station for the bus Going to a place that's far So far away and if that's not enough Going where nobody says hello They don't talk to anybody they don't know You'll wind up in some factory That's full-time filth and nowhere left to go Walk home to an empty house Sit around all by yourself I know it might sound strange but I believe You'll be coming back before too long Don't go back to Rockville, don't go back to Rockville Don't go back to Rockville and waste another year At night I drink myself to sleep And pretend I don't care that you're not here with me 'Cause it's so much easier to handle All my problems if I'm too far out to sea But something better happen soon Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back Don't go back to Rockville, don't go back to Rockville Don't go back to Rockville and waste another year It's not as though I really need you If you were here I'd only bleed you But everybody else in town only wants To bring you down and that's not how it ought to be I know it might sound strange, but I believe You'll be coming back before too long Don't go back to Rockville, don't go back to Rockville Don't go back to Rockville and waste another year Don't go back to Rockville, don't go back to Rockville Don't go back to Rockville and waste another year

There's a secret stigma, reaping wheel Diminish, a carnival of sorts Chronic town, poster torn, reaping wheel Stranger, stranger to these parts Gentlemen don't get caught, cages under cage Gentlemen don't get caught Box cars are pulling out of town Box cars are pulling out of town Box cars are pulling out of town Cages under, cages under, cages under cage Cages under, cages under, cages under cage There's a secret stigma reaping wheel Stranger, stranger to these parts Chronic town, poster torn, reaping wheel Diminish, stranger Boxcars are pulling a carnival of sorts Out of town, out of town

Is he singing some of this in German, or just his usual "Stipe" language?

Wow. I've never heard this version. And I'm one of the biggest REM fans out there.

Ewwwwwwwewwwwwwwwwww.

Too Cool for School! 😮

don't underestimate REM - one great band

I was at this show!!

Came here from the Beato interview with Mike Mills. It's obviously REM but still somehow sounds nothing like them. Eerie enough that it's hard to even evaluate it.

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Here I am, in June 2024, loving this song as much now as I did when it was first released.

Happy 39th Anniversary today to Fables of the Reconstruction ✌️💙🎶🔥🔥

Wow. I'd read about this many years ago, but never realised that it had surfaced. I thought that R.E.M. would have destroyed all evidence, given how much they hated it. My opinion? It's actually not as bad as I imagined. The chorus effect that was added to Peter's guitar makes it sound weirdly like early Cure. It's not exactly caked in synths like it was rumoured, but they're still incongruous-sounding and they're unnecessary embellishments that add nothing to the song. The Murmur version - like the rest of that record - sounds weirdly timeless, but the production on this version carbon-dates it to the early-1980s. I think the band were so horrified with it because Hague took something that they made and messed with it to such a degree that they didn't think it even sounded like them. Kind of like if you went to the barber, told him what you wanted, but he then gave you a stupid haircut that didn't suit you for no other reason than because he thought it was fashionable. Ironically, they band became born-again synthesiser enthusiasts 15 years later, but the two records that made the greatest use of them (Reveal and Around the Sun) are by far their two weakest.

The dry drums sound so much better than the reverb heavy released mix!

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Producer mismatch. REM were never going to be Pet Shop Boys at least in 1981. In Hague's i like the drum sound very much. I don't like the vocal sound (way too much reverb), and the background keyboards melt this song into a monotonic mess, to the point that chord changes become jarring after the hypnotising G-Em-D progression. And Berry DID need a metronome - his beat is fast in the "did we miss anything" part. I haven't heard any versions of this song prior to this one, but i think it possible Buck got the little "d-e-f#" riff from this version.

it's a Man Ray kind of sound.

His voice is so beautiful ❤

Was there, about 15th row, center.

A lost treasure and my favorite song.

I remembered when this 1st aired and I recorded it on vhs then hooked my boom box up to the vcr to transfer the audio on a mix tape.

Peter's jangly wild guitar! Love it!

Thanks Mike, for all the wonderful music that became a great part of my youth.

I saw them live in Italy on June 16, 1989. Then I saw them agaib in 1994. The magic had already gone.....

Great

The South can be proud of Stand Watie!

Screwed up the second verse but got away with it.

Nao vou mentir, eu adorei essa versão

Love Mike. Hate those other two knobs.

This popped up in my feed. Regis and Kathy Lee. Rem's secret weapon Mike Mills! Great guy to!

Happy 41st Anniversary to Murmur ✌️🎶💙

I once heard the observation that REM was much better live than their studio recordings captured.

That introductory Song scream ...of stipe I LIKE....he doesnt do that much....its like a call to Arms!!!!!!

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One of my favorite from them. Amazing album.

This band is so awesome and collectively too, has anyone else notice how great a drummer and overall musician Bill Berry is?.

czcams.com/video/67b99x0o_0Q/video.html I sang this cover of "Driver 8" today...will attempt "Rockville" next Weekend.

what is happening? am I insane? where is the sound coming from? how are they doing this? seriously what is going on? there is no way on earth this should be this good. and yet... where is the sound coming from?

Such a masterpiece