Nostalgia

You are damn right

Emily Pollifax YOU GOT IT IN ONE.LOVE IT💝

I feel you!

🎈

Exactly

20 seconds? That's long... most shots seem only to be a few seconds before it's rewinded. But still, awesomely creative!

WHy do you copy and paste a comment that has been there for ages?

@@DemiGod1985 R.E.M was posted this on they Facebook page and that was interesting for me and i share with society on youtube in comment section...

well, I'm thankful for the info. Is the reason why I'm here watching.

There is too much zooming in it. I donT know how much the picture quality could be improved.

I don't ever remember it being anything other than grainy, even when it was on TV back in the day.

HEY! Notice that its done that way. The zooming its on "the video" itself , not on the image. Also , it was 2001 and the monkey is playing mandolin. Why? I dont know, but i think Mike Stipe its cool .

Sooner or later someone will come up with an AI enhanced version... I can only hope

@@RodrigoNishino Unfortunately AI doesn't create perfect images from such low quality. You would just end up with a video that has a very clear "AI" look. The only way for this video to look better would be if it were recorded on film but thats unlikely in 2001.

Nope, that would be "WAP".

whos crying

-tenet-

I know it's so simple, brilliant

I've always love the inginuity behind this video. One of the best music vids ever I.m.o.

i love freddie mercury snd the queen, but rem are unique!

Yeah that's quite something

Nice copy paste of another comment

That (comment) tastes good.

that's you in the spotlight.

He always liked it)

Fat Mike: That's me on the back of the bus

He's in the corner because he thought: Please don't take a picture, it's been a bad day.

I'ts been the same for me until today.. always knew and remembered it since it came out, (and loved it SO much at that time!) but never felt the emergency to buy it or even go for it here on Utube, don't know why.. just enjoyed it when heard on some radio.. and since yesterday I've replayed it 4 times.. and realize this chorus is one of the 5 or 6 best I know.. Sure I'll go humming it for 2 or 3 days now.. that's what I call genius !

same.. the words I was able to google was "cmon cmon no one can see me trying"..

I'm happy for you. Happened to me 2 or 3 times with other songs and it's really satisfying when you finally find it.

I was able to find it just by searching for the line "That's who you are". Those are literally the only words I knew for sure 😅

the words are easy to understand, a google search for "hollywood sugar cane good" will find it easily!!

go keto

@@thecuba15 😂

Me thinking "bread that came sliced is a really bad example because it tastes like an imitation of bread ... oh wait" LOL

This song means a lot to me 👍

Bravo

R.E.M itself is art

Absolutely

Correct.

...and a dark art it is.

Like bosco

Thank u ❤

Simplesmente linda essa música

Greetings from Slovakia

There's so much more to it on a deeper level as well. 20 seconds of life passes by but we see it viewed from many different perspectives. I believe this is one of the most creative indepth music videos ever created.

And then Alt-J redo the concept in their video for "Tessellate". I thought that video was original, until now, now I see where they got their idea. However theirs is more artsy.

@@CelesticaDemonix Crowded House also did it, but only with a choir of kids singing their song. After this song was released. She Called Up. seriously.

@@NZBroadcaster , the woman starting to talk while the video plays backwards at 2 min 43 sec - crazy good :D

@@NZBroadcaster And I can't help to wonder what other stories are buried under the main ones. I would like an aniversary edition where we could zoom at will and not what the director choose to show us. Now we have the technology for that. It won't be as impressive as this one, since the director's work is such a huge part.

+Big_Smoke I don't even want to imagine the effort they had to put into the coordination. The lady sitting on the pool even had to sing in reverse. Golly!

+IkesDaddelbox You're right...and not just her, all who had their singing parts were sung in reverse! You won't even know which scene comes first chronologically. This video was damn hard to make, and the song is one of the band's best! \m/

+Big_Smoke hehe :)

+Tonkurt Joyosa +ikesDaddelbox hahaha! It didn't need to be sung in reverse, it was a matter of carefully planning the video having the final result *in mind*, that is, thinking how the whole video would look like. In the first 15 or so sec of the video, you can see (when is zoom out) some of them singing (or mouthing) their part. In 0:09-0:18 Michael is dancing and mouthing/singing the close up in 2:34 "what you could, come on, come on"♫ Another, in 0:39 the close up is the girl throwing the cup but in the background, it's the lady sitting in the large rock mouthing/singing the close up in 2:46 "this sugar cane this lemonade .."♫

Heidi G. Actually most videos like this are sung in reverse. I've just noticed the woman singing while the boy soared up in the background and everyone danced in reverse in the foreground. Also look at the movement of her hair. No matter how they did it, this is a very well and carefully caculated piece of art.

It's fascinating how sometimes u can wonder what bad you're listening to. And as soon as the singer with the super unique/recognizable voice starts singing it's completely clear haha

Hi R.E.M. & everybody - Good new week 💐💐💐 I love REM 💕💕💕 Hi R.E.M. & everybody - Good new week 💐💐💐 I love REM 💕💕💕

It strums my heartstrings like no other.

Oooooooh does he. I totally agree with you!

Bob Dylan of his generation.

Yeah

I'm here. I just thought about this video after not seeing it or hearing the song for easily 15 years. I *had to* look it up again :)

Yup 😊

Yess, didnt hear it the last 10 years, then yesterday it came randomly on the radio. Reminds me of the long roadtrips with my mother when i was young...

I'm here too,

Oh will never not be 😀

That's an interesting theory 🤔

To me it is the ultimate insult against superficiality.

learning i s equired to undo mistakes

I really find annoying this people that theorize every music video on KZfaq

you here bro? love your channel. More grandpa stories plz

Los of bad songs on this album and on Around the Sun. But this song is a gem.

*and

Happy shiny peope....

@@jpringle1979 Shiny Happy People is one of my favorites

Well it was shot on film, probably 32mm, so it's basically equivalent to 4K in image clarity - you can see it better here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLCimsV025zPk3k.html & kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aqunYKhkz8yvZYk.html - though if the video was shot on something like 70mm IMAX, you'd basically be getting the analog equivalent of 12K, but that wasn't very accessible or affordable especially back in 2001. The tricky thing & reason for blurriness beyond resolution though is that the camera is having to stick to a single fixed focal point as it's all one shot, in a scene with significant distance between the foreground & background relative to the camera, so regardless of resolution, some things are simply going to be out of focus because of how photons work. A modern digital 4K camera would still have this issue short of the method of multiple lenses to shoot multiple viewpoints in parallel & then using some algorithmic slicing to stitch all the elements together. The old tech version of this was split-focus to simultaneously get two focal points, but that's only useful for cutting a whole frame image in two, and the sections of the image in focus can't cross each other both horizontally & vertically at the same time. VHS only has a vertical resolution of 240 lines, so this is definitely not that lol. The colour grading looks like it's done to imitate a home video of the time though so that's probably what gave that impression.

Me emocionei com seu comentário, meus pêsames, seu pai está num lugar melhor

Quem me dera ter uma afetividade assim com o meu pai. Bem afortunado aqueles que tem seus pais como melhores amigos. Não tive tanta sorte.

Que história legal vc teve cm ele.

lembrança muito bacana

bonito :)

valeu seu zé ruela

Thank you for this

Thanks ♡

Thanks

Valeu meu mano 🇧🇷

They use a piano version in my daughters ballet class. There’s something both happy and sad about it.

I feel similarly while listening to most REM songs... Melancholy...

@@goobytron2888 I would be a puddle if I saw that.

@@FredK2929 Gets me every time.

My 2 cents about the meaning of this song: hypocrisy in society... Amen

LOL

Ana Lazovic that will wear off as you get older.......

*****​ what do you mean? My opinion that everything's important? I'm not so sure...

+Morten Andersen I will say "Living with your eyes closed is easy"

***** Easy dosent mean good

+Morten Andersen your assuming im taking a higher moral point of view just from some coments your reading from youtube?

Yeah ! Spot on. It's about values and principles. Leaning towards Kantian ethics .

Absolutely Right. Very much like Pink Floyd for quality lyrics!

Gui Porto show de bola 😎

pure artists..

and you, manu ochenta, need to learn the meaning of "pretty much"

A geração é outra! Mas fomos felizes!

JESPER GRONKJAER AMONG SONGS

It was a decent-sized hit. Not everything on Earth is underrated.

I reply in italian: è una figata di canzone!

@@doodooswaggy3825 La

yep... and then 9/11 happened

​@@DineshJ I adore this song and video, but unfortunately it's inextricably tied to 9/11 for me, because i remember being in college and going to the student union building at the time of 9/11 and seeing this video. Always makes me feel a whole host of emotions and I get weepy every time I hear it.

It took the internet to find someone who feels the same about something as I do. I knew you were out there.

That describes so much of REM's music. A kind of painful nostalgia.

I cry almost every time I listen to this. I don't really know why

​@@QuadrupleAndyreminds me of my childhood and on....brings a tear to my eyes. Innocence lost.

Same! And the video was unsettling to me as a kid

I think Bill Berry actually did become a farmer

😂cool bro. Hows your band going???

Tem eu aqui no Paraná em 15 , 06 , 2024

Ovvio socio

Thank you so much for that!

Garth Jennings & Michael Stipe directed. They must've rehearsed really well before the "Action!" though; so much going on. It's a brilliant concept for a video too ofcourse.

Rock in rio 1985 lo mas

Wow thanks for the explanation

"Pan and scan", as in zooming and moving around.

weltire agreed

I completely agree. I was never a huge fan of REM, but I vividly remember the first time I heard this song (from the music video) playing on TV. I was blown away and deeply moved. I finally understood what people saw in REM, and it was from a single noone else paid attention to.

Fuck yea

I am 👌

memories smoK Classic Video. Very authentic.

@@Shan-mw3bg Totally agree.. :) It taught me to cherish small things in my life. All the best, my friend!

I read that the video is actually only like 9 seconds long. They recorded for those few seconds, and they pan and rewind and such for the whole video. That, to me, is amazing.

At first I thought you were talking about the recording of the song lol. I was going to say "dude, that's how most songs are recorded"

Perfect music Video , also perfect for making a memory game

Parlate della musica dei rem grazie... 😮😅

Okay yeah, but go and watch Russian Ark if you really want to be astounded by such things. Nevertheless, a great video and song.

Same, except not so happy memories.

@@xmunki1389 same :/ haha

For me, that`s the title track to being in Morocco without my family knowing because I was studying in Spain and phone calls were still so expensive we scheduled them by email. That trip when I was the sensible one insisting we should spend the last of our money on water and return tickets instead of weed ;-)

exactly

Who'd you put so many spaces between the letters?

You did not understand a shit.

I think i don't get it, can you explain?

Cane Macchina, as if you do.

Ryuhza When someone asks me about social and love life "Don't worry, no one can see you cry"

R.E.M did it!

I agree. But much as I love the video I still don't really get what the concept is. I guess I'm missing something.

@@fraserbailey6347 I don't know if there is a thematic concept other than suburban things all happening at once, just kind of a dull, middle-America day with tiny dramas happening. But the concept of filming 20 second bits, with several different cameras and having all the actors lip syncing along to different parts of the song, only to have the video focus on them at that exact moment...just a weird idea to try and it worked brilliantly.

Im with you

@@fraserbailey6347it’s about how even in everyday life, not everything is always as it seems. In both good and bad moments, there’s always something to discover about yourself and the world around you.

All the way to Reno. Live

@@robertl2956 Nice! Another great one.

I'm with you on this. I know they have more poignant songs, more pop-perfect songs, more political songs, more _______ songs, but this one persists as my favorite because its got it all.

@@GrizzlePawz Amen. It is more personal. U can get thru it and it is ok to be scared! That is what I take from it.

@@GrizzlePawz sorry to bombard U. Also, Don't go back to Rockville. It is amazing what a song means to the listener as if the artist wrote it specifically for u, but to find out that it was not the same for them. I remember reading that Don't Go Back to Rockville was a mock song because people categorized them as a country band. To me, it is simply amazing...the lyrics certainly!

Boo hoo

Dr. Bombay - You’re right, I’ll try to remember some good memories! There aren’t many things which make me feel sad, but REM always was just one of those things. I think maybe one of the reasons I love them so much is because of the personal feelings behind it anyway.

@@SillyBeggarFilms Fuck off, please.

@Dr. Bombay thanks for being around

Aww that's heartbreaking,I am so sorry for your loss 😢💖

It’s truly amazing

96.7fm local radio station in our province.. they playing this type of music during Sundays "Sunday slowdown" is what it called❤

They will someday :)

+lindz151074 but in another life :(

Me too love Rem

Well, I think NOT. It´s just better to live when u´re alive, today...

+Mika Kärki true

zahir hashim Yes as this is a world that will never be again.

Fairly normal for an REM song :D

Im crying to this song as it makes me remember hearing this song when it was out in 2001 i was just thirteen then

chill out, no one can see you do it

Tdr

I totally agree. Bravo.

Rock n roll? ahhahahahahahahahhah!

Cássio Amaral that good times, that never come back...

Cássio Amaral It reminds me of a great past time too

Cássio Amaral you have all my words b^.^d

Cássio Amaral, :)

Você não está só!! Hoje já dei uma revirada na legião urbana também!!!

tmj

Opa, salve MG

Oh no! Gracias a Dios

Amo❤🍀

You are Great!!!😄😄😄

You are an expert in lyric interpretation 😂👌👏💖💖💖💖

Some people are just blessed with incredible insight...like you

He is talking about drugs.

mehmet ali özütürker Thanks!

Sussed instead of sized?

Thanks.....big hug from a Brazilian bro

Hi I recommend a song here on youtube called 'Looking Into The Mirror'By Robert Nix

It fits with everything you go through

"less industrial" and "little nokias and motorolas in our pockets". Who would thought that brands will carv so hard in our society that someone thinks it's not industrial

The 70s and 80s would have torn your little mind to pieces. The 60s and 50s, well, may as be another planet.

It was easy because you were young and still not as worn down by life as you are today

nothing really matters, anyone can see,

You described this perfectly and I feel that's what this song is about and its pretty dark when you think about it because the people are stuck in the moment and doing the same things over and over

'87 here

Jokes on you loser. It's 21 years old now!! :P

🌹❤️

Belo relato. Fica com Deus.

Se calhar se divorciou por esse seu irmão tar sempre consigo

Você tem não só da adolescência mais sim agora

Você tem lembra agora