Having gone crazy with the artificial additions on Feeling Gravitys Pull, I felt the need to atone for my sins and return to the original ethos of this channel (which is, in essence, "what if the band did all their songs on Unplugged"). So this is "live" in the sense that it's just two takes, undubbed and untouched other than a tweak of the EQ knobs and a bit of the 'verb.
It's a song that really doesn't need a lot adding to it, extremely simple but extremely effective, especially with a 12 string. On a good day this makes it into my top 10 R.E.M. songs.
It's fair to say there were a few swear words uttered in the making of this video. While the backing vocals are very simple, singing them over that melodic bassline took a few takes. And then when I did get it right, I find that somehow I'd very slightly adjusted the camera so it needed a bit of video magic to line everything up :facepalm: I wasn't about to do it again - the family had already heard "maaaaps aaaaand leeeegends" for a solid hour or so by that point.