Those jangling, beautiful, transcendent guitars, solid drums that are tight as a rock, groovy bass, mumbling vocals, ambiguous lyrics.....God, I love early R.E.M. Reckoning is one of the best albums of all time, in my opinion. R.E.M. was so great in the 80s.

I was 20 years old and working as a waiter at Lake Chautauqua, NY during the summer of '85, and I had purchased this cassette (along with Husker Du's "New Day Rising") before I got there. Those sounds filled the staff quarters for that entire summer. Smoking grass, drinking Black Horse Ale and shots of Ouzo. Sweet and beautiful memories of Kathy.

R.E.M.'s best album for my money

Michael's Mumblin' Era, the best of REM.

i think the remastering sounds great. REM's old stuff was their BEST work

Love this song! I remember reading this book as a child (Seven Chinese Brothers). Takes me back to an amazing time of music in Athens and Atlanta circa 1984. Chet Jameson - drums/ hollyfaith

God I love this song. Like much REM music, it has a subtly mysterious quality.

Reckoning REM's most beautiful album

What a great, underrated song :)

Reckoning was a great follow-up to Murmur. This is a brilliant track.

Best song from their early days. So underrated, overlooked songs. I saw them in 86, I've seen at least 100 concerts. Definitely in the top 5-TJ STRUSKA

been listening since they were on IRS never grow tired of the sound it's ALL GOOD AS IT GETS !

i don't think people would actually understand this music now. its like time captured in a bottle.

Let's all shed a year and have a smile for our long ago youth. Glad I still walk this Earth

So simple, yet so good.

This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy Woman offers to pull up a seat Take in one symphony now We've just begun to battle Wrap your heel in bones of steel Turn the leg, a twist of color Autumn waited hold it to you In the colored come another Seven Chinese brothers swallowing the ocean Seven thousand years to sleep away the pain She'll return, she will return This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy Woman offers to pull up a seat Take in one symphony now We've just begun to battle Wrap your heel in bones of steel Turn the leg, a twist of color Autumn waited hold it to you In the colored come another Seven Chinese brothers swallowing the ocean Seven thousand years to sleep away the pain She will return, she will return This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy

Always thought this was their most beautiful album

I have almost forgotten how good REM are ..... their earlier stuff was some of their best work... BRILLIANT

When I had this on CD back in the 80's, people's eye's would bug out and would "borrow" it without my permission. I first heard them thanks to my roommate Paul- Rest In Peace- Blair Academy 1984-87.

I love that thing that's only found at the very end of the original Reckoning LP, right before the needle enters the trail-off grooves. It almost sounds like some kind of reprise for 7 Chinese Brothers, but with a funkier, ska-like beat behind it...this album is pure genius...raw, pure emotion, with just a little production. I remember feeling a little let down when Fables Of The Reconstruction came out the following year, not because it was a bad album, but it lacked some of the qualities the previous LPs held...

Easily my favorite REM tune. These guys were fxcking brilliant back in the day

Every time I think I might love an REM song more, I listen to this and am reminded the rest are vying for second place.

My first REM album and still my favorite!🎸🎼🎤

R.E.M. had that special undefinable something. There are a million bands but only a few have the sound that compels me to listen.

College girl 85 hipped me to this. Great album

i still dream about purchasing their albums that never existed in reality.

Saw this tour! And a couple more❤

my fave track from reckoning. thanks for the remaster, it sounds good

Been listening to them a Long time !

I could listen to 7 Chinese Brothers and Voice of Harold back to back over and over for the rest of my life!!

"Voice of Harold" was first and better.

i used to rove at the shopping mall singing this song aloud in public. magic feeling.

Early REM were incredible.

The best album of all time .My first serious girlfriend broke up me and this tune especially helped thru the...horror. 🐒

THIS is REM. This song captures their early greatness before they went too pop and Stipe's arrogance became obvious.

Have loved this one since back in the day. Just a sucker for those jangly guitars!

A MUST...

Sounds great!

REM was soooooooo good in the 80s 😱😱😱😎

This album nursed me through my first serious girlfriend breakup. She returned for another kick though...

i walked into a gymnasium in binghampton, 1983, and there playing this music was a band i had never seen but only heard, and in watching them i was not sure how they were doing it, a four piece with quirky everything, how they pulled this out of the bag was the best audio magic trick i ever saw.

voice of harold voice over crushes this imo

A strange, mysterious and beautiful song.

A must!!!

The sound is great. I heard this song so many times but I heard some background voices for the first time :)

She will return

Yep best one

9 thumbs down?! Lol. Sad gits. This is R.E.M. at their greatest!

heaven can pass within the span of but a few minutes

My friend stole a gold CD of Reckoning from a store down the shore called The Wall a very long time ago

i made a mix tape of this and Voice Of Harold dubbed together. good scene.

The Goog has "Voice of Harold" listed for the upsale. This makes me lol. But just a bit.

Great video Thanks!

Agreed !!!!!

Perfect.

One of their best songs! This mellow sweet short hair boy....

I stole this album from local library in Glasgow at the hight of UK punk. It changed my mind. I went back and stole Lanark by Allistare Gray. I still have the REM album :)

Savannah Georgia memories ...

Looking back, it’s like they confronted their folk roots-perhaps deeper than their hippy protester dabbling predecessors- back even further than John Renbourne and the like-to A darker, ancient and more naive sensibility. It certainly had a new depth a lotta 80’s bands might have missed…. And with an Americana twist…

I like groovy bass too!

twin song of Voice of Harold they go good together.

Este remaster .belleza😍 y si los hubiesen traducido también al español?

i remember this story when i was in kindergarten

I love the guitar in 2:23

For me it sounds like the kids book that I loved as a child

De brillenreclame hey.

🌬️💋

buy a CD or two packs of smokes. It's up to you.

Did you produce the video portion too?

Voice of Harold!!!!

Why you zooming on it what? Like this editing i am sorry but it is not good editing i' m sorry but that how i see it.

7 Chinese brothers died of coronavirus

Stipe,you're a bad person.

been listening since they were on IRS never grow tired of the sound it's ALL GOOD AS IT GETS !

This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy Woman offers to pull up a seat Take in one symphony now We've just begun to battle Wrap your heel in bones of steel Turn the leg, a twist of color Autumn waited hold it to you In the colored come another Seven Chinese brothers swallowing the ocean Seven thousand years to sleep away the pain She'll return, she will return This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy Woman offers to pull up a seat Take in one symphony now We've just begun to battle Wrap your heel in bones of steel Turn the leg, a twist of color Autumn waited hold it to you In the colored come another Seven Chinese brothers swallowing the ocean Seven thousand years to sleep away the pain She will return, she'll return This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy Woman offers to pull up a chair Take in one symphony now I guess we lost that battle Wrap your heel in bones of steel Turn the leg, a twist of color Autumn waded seven seas Swimming colored come another Seven Chinese brothers swallowing the ocean Seven thousand years the commune I did reign She will return, she'll return, she will return

Looking back, it’s like they confronted their folk roots-perhaps deeper than their hippy protester dabbling predecessors- back even further than John Renbourne and the like-to A darker, ancient and more naive sensibility. It certainly had a new depth a lotta 80’s bands might have missed…. And with an Americana twist…

been listening since they were on IRS never grow tired of the sound it's ALL GOOD AS IT GETS !

been listening since they were on IRS never grow tired of the sound it's ALL GOOD AS IT GETS !

been listening since they were on IRS never grow tired of the sound it's ALL GOOD AS IT GETS !

been listening since they were on IRS never grow tired of the sound it's ALL GOOD AS IT GETS !