For a lot of people, R.E.M. had a kind of magic about them back then. If someone asked me why I liked the band, I would show them this. But tonight I try to find here what I used to hear and see, how it made me feel. Where did it go? It's like falling out of love. Guess we're not kids anymore. Time strips away our dreams and illusions, but she never fails to replace them with new gods and goals. Glad to be alive, and even if I didn't find what I was looking for, it's good to see this again.
time has itchy fingers that scratch away at what once was before our media saturated lives we took joy in the moments that come and were left to memory
Jim Herbert who shot this is a genius. It fits the music pefectly, to such a degree they become inseparatble. He also did the videos for Low and Its the End of the World. I put this as some of the greatest Southern Gothic aesthetic ever created.
It’s fall and I drive around with my windows open and the heat on listening to REM and it all makes sense to me even with the future looking so exhausted and pale, even with the past in it’s rightful place.
Step back to a time when your phonograph needle touched down on vinyl, and you didn't take it off until the record side ended. "Reckoning" was a revelation and remains as such 40 years later. That's R.A. Miller's whirligig farm and our intrepid foursome working in unison. This is archival footage, and thank goodness it exists. R.E.M. R Awesome.
I'm 18 and sitting in my dorm again. This side of music is the most perfect since the second side of Abbey Road, and this video is so quintessentially R.E.M. Thanks so much for uploading this.
Wow this is terrible. The band is hanging out at a Georgia windmill farm. Ooo that’s clever. There’s absolutely no connection whatsoever to the music or the lyrics, the motion is all herky-jerky, and the style is so low-budget and amateurish that you can barely see anything. MTV was smart to ignore this drivel.
Not every band of the last forty years based every decision on what they thought would look good on MTV. Sometimes like in this case it was more like "We've got some time to kill, let's just film some stuff and see what happens." That's just the process of making art, sometimes it turns out good, sometimes not so good. This is just a weird little experimental film capturing a brief moment of time and should be judged on that basis, not whether it represents the music or lyrics or plays well with the teenage demographic or whatever.
@@KenPurchase thank you! through the years i learned about Howard and Kensey and now R.A. Miller’s farm. just read how his work was on the pretty persuasion and drive videos *and seven chinese brothers and time after time! i just love rem ❤️
So great to see this again. It’s been so long but it reminds me how much these early REM years meant to me.
For a lot of people, R.E.M. had a kind of magic about them back then. If someone asked me why I liked the band, I would show them this. But tonight I try to find here what I used to hear and see, how it made me feel. Where did it go? It's like falling out of love. Guess we're not kids anymore. Time strips away our dreams and illusions, but she never fails to replace them with new gods and goals. Glad to be alive, and even if I didn't find what I was looking for, it's good to see this again.
BeautifullyPut☆
It is as fresh today as a Cezanne painting is. I will never get tired of those first 5 albums...
time has itchy fingers that scratch away at what once was
before our media saturated lives we took joy in the moments that come and were left to memory
I could never quite explain the affect REM had on my youth, but your comments on this video really nailed it! Thanks!
35 years on, i still feel it like it was yesterday…. the times may change but nothing is lost
Jim Herbert who shot this is a genius. It fits the music pefectly, to such a degree they become inseparatble. He also did the videos for Low and Its the End of the World. I put this as some of the greatest Southern Gothic aesthetic ever created.
This is the holy grail of REM. Period
It’s fall and I drive around with my windows open and the heat on listening to REM and it all makes sense to me even with the future looking so exhausted and pale, even with the past in it’s rightful place.
Step back to a time when your phonograph needle touched down on vinyl, and you didn't take it off until the record side ended. "Reckoning" was a revelation and remains as such 40 years later. That's R.A. Miller's whirligig farm and our intrepid foursome working in unison. This is archival footage, and thank goodness it exists. R.E.M. R Awesome.
Not Finster's farm. This was shot at R.A, Miller's in Rabbittown, GA.
@@jude999 Thanks!
Man, do I love old R.E.M. Such a golden era for music.
I'd love Succumbs to get a digital or physical re-release. It was SO special when I bought it (on VHS). Like a window into a world unknown.
I can never go out in the cold without my harbor coat
Every now and then i return to the early REM days and its a nice cosy place to be.
I'm 18 and sitting in my dorm again. This side of music is the most perfect since the second side of Abbey Road, and this video is so quintessentially R.E.M. Thanks so much for uploading this.
Raise your hand if you were convinced that you knew every lyric, the higher you got.
I've been looking for a complete version for a long time! Thank you!
wow, I never thought I'd see this. thank you!
Thank you !!!
Mo' mumble! Mo' mumble!! Mo' mumble!!!
GRAIL
whats the opening track called?
Wow this is terrible. The band is hanging out at a Georgia windmill farm. Ooo that’s clever. There’s absolutely no connection whatsoever to the music or the lyrics, the motion is all herky-jerky, and the style is so low-budget and amateurish that you can barely see anything. MTV was smart to ignore this drivel.
Not every band of the last forty years based every decision on what they thought would look good on MTV. Sometimes like in this case it was more like "We've got some time to kill, let's just film some stuff and see what happens." That's just the process of making art, sometimes it turns out good, sometimes not so good. This is just a weird little experimental film capturing a brief moment of time and should be judged on that basis, not whether it represents the music or lyrics or plays well with the teenage demographic or whatever.
This is better than at least 95% of "proper" music videos I've ever seen.
20 minutes of this is a bit repetitive.
This is a thing called "art". You probably weren't aware that the members of R.E.M. were art students from UGA and Macon, GA
R.E.M. back then was anti music video and MTV.
Listen
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Is this at Howard Finster’s place?
No, it was R.A. Miller's Whirligig Farm in Gainesville, GA
@@KenPurchase thank you! through the years i learned about Howard and Kensey and now R.A. Miller’s farm. just read how his work was on the pretty persuasion and drive videos *and seven chinese brothers and time after time! i just love rem ❤️