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R.E.M. on the Today Show (videos)
brooke and michael stipe (F. Michael Andrew)
I feel that the people are ready to like R.E.M. again. Part of me feels like it's 1985 and we're a brand-new band again. [Mike Mills to Rolling Stone]Today show videos below....
R.E.M. - Supernatural, Superserious on the Today Show 4/1/2008
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion on the Today Show 4/1/2008
(thx Roger)
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Posted on April 2, 2008 11:23 AM
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Comments (26)
who is brooke?
Posted by Anonymous | April 2, 2008 11:31 AM
you don't know who brooke is? sheesh
who is stipe?
Posted by beast | April 2, 2008 11:37 AM
Who the hell wakes up that early, anyway?
Posted by Tim | April 2, 2008 11:44 AM
cool, the band is now robyn hitchcock's backing band.
Posted by Anonymous | April 2, 2008 12:59 PM
^^
yr mom.
Posted by Anonymous | April 2, 2008 1:01 PM
Scott McCaughy is looking like Jerry Garcia these days. Lotta grey on that stage.
Posted by bill p | April 2, 2008 1:03 PM
BROOKE IS THE BADDEST CAKE BAKER IN TOWN.
Posted by faceheadface | April 2, 2008 1:06 PM
having REM around again makes soooo many new "indie" bands look like shit now. i mean, they're from a time when you actually spent time practicing your music before you fucking went out and tried to do shows.
whatever. it's time for my metamucil.
Posted by Anonymous | April 2, 2008 1:20 PM
They were great and they are BACK!!!
Posted by driverdave | April 2, 2008 1:20 PM
i agree, who is brooke and what the f does she bake that's sooooo badass? cookies? does she bake cookies?!
Posted by whoisbrooke? | April 2, 2008 1:51 PM
REM is one of the best, most influential bands of all time. Im 25 now. I cannot tell you how many hours i spent as a kid listening to their music staring out the car window on road trips....
nostalgia for their heyday too. post-cold war, pre-war on terror, pre-credit crunch shenanigans, solid leadership. America!, not America?
*sigh*
Posted by Anonymous | April 2, 2008 1:52 PM
@1:20- Agreed. Though, something tells me early REM "practices" were more of the backyard keg party variety.
Posted by Anonymous | April 2, 2008 2:07 PM
No, MIke Mills, we are not ready to like REM again.
Posted by Anonymous | April 2, 2008 2:23 PM
"REM is one of the best, most influential bands of all time. Im 25 now. I cannot tell you how many hours i spent as a kid listening to their music staring out the car window on road trips...."
Wow, my dog too. I never realised how much influential they were to him! I think I will buy him the new CD.
Posted by Anonymous | April 2, 2008 2:41 PM
"nostalgia for their heyday too. post-cold war..."
The Berlin Wall didn't start to come down until late 1989 and the USSR continued to exist until the very end of 1991.
Posted by your history teacher | April 2, 2008 3:06 PM
F U T U R E M I K E = C O O L S A N D W H I C H
Posted by billyjones | April 2, 2008 3:31 PM
Hey 2:23,
Go to Youtube and watch REM doing "Harborcoat" in Germany in '85. That there is "rock" Mr. Hipster. Go back to ironing your argyle sweater dickwad.
Posted by deb | April 2, 2008 3:31 PM
Cakes. The best damn cakes in the business. Peace out, cool sandwich.
Posted by FMike | April 2, 2008 3:45 PM
I second that notion for 2:20 to get a clue. Ask any of these new indie bands who their inspiration was/is and they'll say REM most of the time.
Posted by driverdave | April 2, 2008 4:28 PM
Despite the strange path the band has followed since Bill Berry's departure, they have one of the best album runs ever. Today most bands are lucky to have one album so inspirational.
Posted by Anonymous | April 2, 2008 6:13 PM
That Brooke looks pretty cute. Anybody have her number? I'd like her to bake me a cake while REM plays me a song.
Posted by ponch | April 2, 2008 6:54 PM
She looks pretty cute? How can you conclude that from such a small, lo-res image? You must be desperate.
Posted by Anonymous | April 2, 2008 7:39 PM
is that rufus taking the snapshot?
Posted by Anonymous | April 2, 2008 10:44 PM
Everything old is new again
Posted by Anon888 | April 4, 2008 10:03 AM
Yeah...maybe "a lotta grey on that stage", but I doubt dude that your YOUNG coldplay bands will still be doing shit when they get some grey hair.
They'll have busted up after 1-3 one hit wonder albums (that made the charts thanks 90% to their producer and 10 % top maybe their actual song writing & real instrument playing !
R>E>M & their music have said it all 10X over already & have their place assured in Rock history. PERIOD !
Posted by DHIIPAK | July 13, 2008 4:39 PM
i wanna meet michael stipe! have since 1994
Posted by Anonymous | November 24, 2008 4:22 AM