Played this song at husbands furneal 3 weeks ago. Forever 39 i love you my darling💙💙💙💙💙

This is an utter masterpiece.

NO one gives Mike Mills enough credit....he is a legend

michael appreciatively watching mike play the piano tells you everything you need to know about rem

Automatic for the people was a Masterpiece

This group and this song means so much to me. This song helped me through my divorce after many years together, my heart breaking to every word while I played it in the car going back and forth to work.

This gives me all kinds of feels that I can’t explain. It’s part nostalgia. Part pain. Part love. Part longing.

I can´t even begin to imagine how can it feel like having Michael Stipe look at you the way he looks at Mike at the end of the song. You can see all over his face how proud he is of his bandmate and friend, an incredibly talented musician. I love this version of Nightswimming. I miss R.E.M. so much.

This song is my secret. Too good to play for the unworthy, not sure they would understand. It is pure nostalgia, pure pureness, so bittersweet. Sadness and euphoria at the same time. Deeply important and nonsense at the same time. A fraction of a lifetime that sums nothing up and makes it all complete in a few minutes. Thank you REM for making this piece of art.

It feels like I hold my breath for the entirety of this beautiful performance. Timeless perfection.

This is the most perfect version of this song. Michael Stipe and Mike Mills flow together like a endless river. One of the best live performances

This song is that period from maybe 13 to 25, it's that every big night out where you've stayed up till the sun rose the following day with people you would kill for and swear you'll never part with, but ultimately you do because time and growing up means you do. There is a scene in a film called Marie Antoinette where they are partying at sunrise laughing and joking and being awesome and invincible. This song is for that time in your life, you won't no your in it while your living it, so you'll only ever appreciate it 20 years after the fact. Love and peace from London to you all

It’s the middle of the night and I have just rocked my newborn daughter to sleep to this beautiful soundtrack, and tears of joy rolled down my face.

At about 3:57, Michael Stipe looks at his old friend and bandmate, Mike Mills, with so much love and appreciation ...no words... it is just so heart-warming. It makes me smile and well-up in my eyes at the same time.

“Cause things they go away, replaced by everyday”. My heart hurts every time Michael sings that. What a genius lyric. 💔

How perfect could this be.

As good as it gets....this is the sort of music that gets you in the HOF and will be respected forever.....current so-called 'artists' should take note.....

This performance saved my life once.

... March 2020 .. the world is going to hell but this beautiful song remains the same. Deep Sigh ✨

The way Michael Stipe looks at his friend and fellow bandmate Mike Mills at the end is EVERYTHING. This one of the best versions of a truly beautiful song.

Nobody in the crowd is moving... they’re afraid to breathe because it’s so good

If this isn't poetry I don't know what else is

The 365 tour became 366 when Mike Mills was rushed to hospital in Sheffield England. I’d waited years to see this extraordinary group of guys. Stipe, in tears, gave us the bad news that we would have to come back to be the 366. But he did an impromptu a Capella of 5 songs and ran off stage to be taken to the hospital. We kept out tickets and Months later we were all back to be the last concert of the tour. They played for hours, literally hours and it was one of the best nights of my life.

If I could only write a song one-tenth this good, I would die a happy man. Beyond words.

Even after all those years, you can still see the love and friendship with Michael looking at Mike playing the piano at the end. Great band, great album and great song.

When you get to the end of a song and the tears are streaming down your face, you know the song has touched you on a spiritual dimension. This version of Nightswimming just did that. Love.

This song got me through some really difficult days when I was a teenager, and some of those days I was really close to ending it all. However, because of this song and other great songs like it, I am still here. It's hard to believe I'll be 40 years old next year. Where does the time go? I wish I knew. Peace and love to all. Cheers.

In my humble opinion one of the best written, evocative songs ever recorded. A perfect match of voice and music.

I love this band so much. I miss that time in my life! Michael's voice is home to me. So calming. Love my R.E.M.

Woah. Had a really emotional day, end of a 13 year relationship, moved out, kept my composure all day. Until I played this.

The perfect and, for me, the definitive version. Brings a tear to the eye and that ending is too much. 💔

How did i not get this at the time

This song is so beautiful.. I feel like I’m 25 again listening to it. Thankyou REM

God I miss REM.... Genuine love for Michael and the boys. They do not make music like this anymore and the world is a colder place as a result...

This simply steals from your youth.

The way Michael looks at Mike in this song makes my heart burst

Love the way Michael Stipe watches him near the end. You can tell the band members are close and truly care about each other, and it comes through in the quality of their music.

One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard...in the midst of chaos this song brings me peace everytime..

I love how he watches his friend enjoying his playing at the end.

I drug my wife to see R.E.M. when they came thru Kansas City in 2003 when she was pregnant with my daughter. Michael sang this song and the place was dead quiet...it was like he was singing to us individually. I had been a fan of R.E.M. since 1986 and it was the only time I saw them live....I'll never forget it.

this is what talent sounds like

Me and my husband...so many memories surrounding that song..❤

This song is what I listen to when I think about my father - nightswimming, september is coming soon. Happy Birthday dad - one of the best.

I feel sad and nostalgic when listening to this. I guess I just miss the 90s.

Watching this every day helps oneself to become a more human being.

My favorite R.E.M. song on my favorite album. Automatic For The People is perfect in every way. Stipe really gets to show off his voice throughout. 👍🍻

I admired her throughout high school, but the courage never came to me. I only watched her shine amongst others, and pined for her under the moon. Six years later, I returned to my hometown for a summer job. She was there. The light in her eyes was “replaced by every day” and the uncertainty of serious mental health issues. Photographs kept turning in my memory, and I recalled her understated persona, culture, and athletic glow. This time, I summoned the courage. Our time together put some of her misfortunes in reverse, and I could not describe my feelings when her fair smile returned. But “these things, they go away”, and I knew that come September, life was going to call us elsewhere. My mind and heart turned endlessly between our quiet laughter and tender moments-how can this work?? Late one evening, she took me swimming at a park that meant very different things to each of us. I floundered by the shore- “you, I thought you knew me”! She, the varsity swimmer, took fluid laps across the lake and back. She I marvelled at in the moonlight. I gathered her heartbeat into my arms; it was so strong, even, and sure-“you, I thought I knew you”!? It became clear that I could not know her, and knew not how to handle her fragility with the right strength, nor her strength with the right fragility. Quite some time after that summer, I heard “Nightswimming” for my first time. Especially when the song comes to two moons, “side by side in orbit, around the fairest sun”, I remember that time together. Ever so brightly.

Excellent song voice lyrics and piano. I love it.

Probably the best live performance ever, I'd hate to be the band following this masterpiece

The most beautiful version of the most beautiful song of all time. I wish someone would look at me in the same way that Michael looks at Mike playing the piano.

Thank you for making this song. Perfection.

Being from the California Desert area, this song reminds me of being a teenager, high school, at my aunts house. She had a swimming pool at their house while we didn't at home. My uncle and her will always invite everyone to use it. One cold December night, I decided to be brave enough and circle around the pool with my BMX bike, only to loose balance and fall into the pool. It was cold!! At night!! And yes, sometimes we would swim late at night with my cousins just talking about high school stuff and listening to the radio with beautiful songs like these as our backdrop. Miss those days..

The smile that Michael gives to Mike at at end says it all for me

I,m currently introducing my 14 year old son to REM. It,s a wonderful experience.

4:00 Micheal looks at Mike just so lovingly😭

Just beautiful ❤

Automatic For The People.....one of the best albums of all time.....

Absolute perfection. There is nothing so pure as this melody paired with these simply sublime lyrics.

It's 2019, I'm a sophomore at the University of Georgia. It's a Thursday night and I have a big exam tomorrow. I've just spent the night studying with friends on campus. We head to snelling for a late night breakfast before going our separate ways. We have not only prepared ourselves for the test but strengthened our bond of friendship. With heavy eyes, I sit at a red light on my way back to my apartment. A cold January rain falls and the light dances across my windshield with each drop. This song comes on and I think to myself, "I will never forget this night, this moment, this chapter in my life." And I never will.

Met him in New York 11 years ago. Michael is such a humble guy, really shy

Back in the mid-90s I’d often find myself in the front passenger seat of my cousin’s car on a Friday night, rain pattering on the windshield, right about the time that my brother and all my old school friends were falling away into their own lives at uni and in relationships, and for some reason, on those rides home in my cousin’s car, this song was always playing. It seemed to reflect the mood perfectly. That sense of life changing in ways I didn’t really want it to and wasn’t really ready for but there being nothing that could be done about it.

One of the best song ever wrote from one of greatest bands of all time ☺☺☺🎸🎸🎸🎸👍👍👍👍👍

My Dad used to come In from pub on Friday night then hit the bath. He used to always put R.e.m. album on c.d. Will always remember. Absolutely class

There is no album in the world that has more positively impacted my life than Automatic For The People. When I am down, it sits in the dark with me. When I am up, it celebrates with me. When I'm somewhere it in the middle, it enjoys the peacefulness with me. Automatic For The People is art at its finest.

Is it just me - I saw in this performance that Michael Stipe is a humble man, and a seeker of grand experience.

Breaks my heart every time I hear it. Longing for a sweeter time gone by. " I'm pining for the moon". I request this to be played at a memorial service any of my friends might hold for me.

This song always brings back a very specific memory for me. 50 years ago away on holiday for the first time as a callow 17 year old. We were in Newquay in Cornwall, my brother, my best mate and me. After a few beers we stripped naked and ran like loons down the beach in the dark and into the freezing water…it was exhilarating. My best mate is now fighting for his life against blood cancer…he beat one version but a more intense form has surfaced. Thinking of you buddy.

This was our Emma's favourite song rest in peace Em love dad

I remember living off of a value jar of strawberry jam for nearly a month at uni, just so I could afford tickets to go see REM in June 2005...damn I'm old! 😂

My favourite song of theirs and my favourite song of all time. I have grown up with R.E.M in my life and my emotions and memories are married to their music. I miss them eternally like a lost friend, but am forever thankful for knowing them.

I was in my senior year of high school when this album came out. The time when everything is possible and you can dream big. So many memories.

"September's coming soon and pining for the moon.." - a brilliant version of a fucking masterpiece x

This came out my senior year of high school. God, I listened to this album so much the tape wore out.

Snuck into a wealthy neighborhood pool in high school. Me, a buddy who died of prostate cancer years later, the hottest girl in high school and a waif like skater chick. We swam and laughed and played and talked all under a night sky. The girls just wore their bras and panties. Despite houses all around the pool, I think parents saw us having a good time and let us be. That’s what this song means to me

I remember the first time I heard this - it was like the world stopped.

Michael truly appreciates his multi-instrumentalist friend.

My dad started a security company at gigs in ireland when I was about 14, I got to spend 2 nights just keeping the above stage area free from fans. I literally got to see REM from 10 feet away 2 nights in a Row. The second night me and a gárda (Irish police) had a ball talking about our musical taste literally 10 feet from the band. It's one of my favourite memories.

absolutely tearing up at the way michael looks at mike from 3:57 onwards.. i love this band more than anything. such an incredible performance, it's truly beautiful beyond words. they are such wonderful souls and i'm so grateful to have their music.

how can this video does not have a million views

I love this version so much because you can see Michael Stipe just being present and communicating the song together with Mike Mills. He looks like he is enjoying the moment and loving Mike's performance. Expression and enjoyment.

Tearing up from the beauty of this all of these years later. Thank you, Michael

I'm almost 45 and have been a fan since I was 12. My musical style has changed a lot over the years. From rock and metal to grunge and punk to ska and rockabilly to folk etc. But the constant has been and always will be REM.

I am absolutely speechless

There are no words.

Come on man. You’re making me cry.

Stipe is a great man.

THE best song ever from REM...so pure 👌

One of the best songs ever written, timeless!

They played night swimming at the Bowl of Brooklyn, New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand. It is a huge park with beautiful trees and a pond in front of the stage. Gorgeous moonlit summer night, and half the audience jumped in the pond. Night Swimming.

Lovely to see the obvious joy on Michael's face listening to Mike's playing at the end there. Beautiful song and just possibly my favourite

Well done Stuart C for introducing me to this loveliness!

When a singer can actually sing live 👌❤️

A completely original band , REM I love you guys and I miss you, thanks for all the great music and memories.

This little song is my favorite REM song. It gets me everytime. It is so pretty, but not too pretty. Nostalgic, yearning of a time gone by.

The piano gets me every time

Two geniuses. “I’m pining for the moon, and what if there were two” might be the most perfect line in the history of music.

One of the most beautiful pop songs ever.

Very little brings tears to these 50-year old eyes- the love in Michaels eyes for his old friend!

That just makes me smile!

Surely this is proof that as a species we are worth saving