REM: Classic or dud?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUdVeADoPOY

I did not expect that to make me tear up a little bit. <3 these guys still and that was such refreshingly honest interview. Like clearly still some feelings, but they all seem able to appreciate the bigger picture.

Gosh. There was a charm and unexpected sadness to that.

Ah man. I was at that Glastonbury show in the video!

the all-time champs of Band Dynamics

CBS' Sunday morning show has consistently the best interviews.

yeah, Mason is clearly a mega-music fan ... with exactly the taste you would expect, but still. at least they're making time for music.

<3

that was really cool and honest

Well well well

https://www.facebook.com/REMhq/posts/pfbid031VDjWwKEGKMTJGZgLWn7k4y4SSvRZ38AKVkjRsn8XsCVuRqaDDh3eZtTPCb4ebVNl

Me just now: "I wonder if setlist.fm has been updated."

And of course:

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/rem/2024/marriott-marquee-hotel-new-york-ny-3b57a878.html

It’s funny how the CBS anchor refers to them as “the iconic indie-rock group R.E.M.”

i did laugh at the fact they played just about every REM song most REM fans have no interest in hearing again.

Really? I would have thought that for most REM fans that would be their #1 choice for them to play. It's certainly my favourite of all the songs they've ever done.

"oh wow, they're playing "Shiny Happy People" / "Its the end of the world" / "Wolves, Lower" "

I still love Losing my Religion

they sounded fantastic, very impressed

jeez, talk about ambushed by unexpected emotion, i'm filling up here

shared the interview with my dad - rem were one of the few bands we could agree on when i was a teenager

wild to realise the four of them haven't been interviewed together in 30 years

losing my religion casts a spell that makes it totally resilient in the face of being massively overplayed, it never gets tired for me. i wouldn't have asked them to play any other song and i couldn't have asked them to sound any better playing it now, i found it moving

the Youtube above is US only, but i can play CBS's own video in Canada (41min): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/r-e-m-discusses-surprise-reunion-at-songwriters-hall-of-fame-reveals-why-there-wont-be-another/

not sure where the performance is on their site though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATHHACcw3Q4

I'm in the UK and this link to the full 41m works for me

no performance in that video

i googled "rem songwriters hall of fame performance" and a recording by someone in the crowd that's on youtube came up

Same

sheesh what a song

so nice to see bill just floating along on the hand percussion

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8MbXgutzbT/?igsh=bjl3MDFkeXh2dnN6

Stipe still sounds great

xp michael sounds amazing. lyrics still a rich enigma 40 years later. i loved how they described it as a "bumblebee" as in it shouldn't fly at all but it did.

the song gains something from the frailty of age. its shot through with the decrepitude of southern gothicism, so a patina of time and loss does it good

is that Clive Davis in the audience? That guy will never die.

repeating from upthread for anyone who missed it: if you love this band or these people or the song "Losing My Religion" you should watch the Song Exploder episode on it. it's on Netflix and it's like 15 or 20 minutes long, as i recall? some great detail about the song, some great Bill Berry stuff and some of the love, respect, admiration and emotional resonance you get from that CBS interview.

watching through the longer interview now :) love these guys

stipe is one of my favorite interviews ever, he's just so funny, would love to interview him myself one day

He has the most original timbre.

Alex In NYC has a nice story on his blog
https://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2024/06/busy-week.html

this long Mike Mills interview with ILM fav Rick Beato digs deeper than the CBS interview into the band's music, how it was made, and how they handled their business:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRfhX-XAIiY

Great interview thx for posting

Yep, very good

Harris/Walz doing full court press for the Gen X/college rock vote by trotting out Michael Stipe in Athens, GA to sing "Wendell Gee" for the first time since 1985 https://t.co/Chyu35CDk0 pic.twitter.com/Gen6PMb1Tw

— Matt Sebastian (@mattsebastian) October 11, 2024

Not crying

Lol “My dad loves you”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ftacKGmn6Q

love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKiS7QYDV4M

I'm enjoying the hell out of the new Peter Ames Carlin biography. Apart from its excellent reporting, the book documents (heh) the band's changing finances as they ascended, and to me I can never read enough about publishing, touring, merch, royalties, and so on.

I enjoyed it for the most part. Seems that he kind of runs out things to say as the book goes on. I still just love them so much.