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Posted in TV | music | video on June 21, 2008

R.E.M. on the Colbert Report (videos)

R.E.M. @ MSG (more by Eric Townsend)
REM @ MSG

Michael Stipe, lead singer of R.E.M., spent a great deal of time explicating on Thursday night, good-naturedly turning Madison Square Garden into a lecture hall. "This," he said of "Disturbance at the Heron House," from 1987, "is my rewriting of the novel 'Animal Farm.' " "Ignoreland," from 1992, was his "barely adult reaction to the Iran-Contra scandal." And "Man-Sized Wreath," from this year's album "Accelerate"(Warner Brothers), was inspired, he said, by the day in 2004 when, met by several hundred protesters, President Bush visited -- or, in Mr. Stipe's description, "desecrated" -- the grave of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [The NY Times]
R.E.M. performed appeared on The Colbert Report back in April, but they didn't air one of the songs they played until this past week. Watch all of it including the interview below....

R.E.M. on the Colbert Report (interview) (uncensored)

R.E.M. - Supernatural Superserious

R.E.M. - Hollow Man

PREVIOUSLY: REM played MSG

PREVIOUSLY: REM played Jones Beach

PREVIOUSLY: REM played Sasquatch

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Tags: Colbert Report, REM
posted at 3:01 PM on June 21, 2008 in TV | music | video | Comments (6)

Comments (6)

Michael Stipe referred to the MSG audience as "my people" that he could speak frankly to.

The crowd went crazy everytime he called Bush an idiot.It was great.

Posted by Anonymous | June 21, 2008 4:09 PM

Calling Bush an idiot is like shooting fish in a barrel and like saying, "I hear [name of city in which the band is performing] knows how to ROCK!"

Posted by Anonymous | June 21, 2008 7:19 PM

thanks 7:19. case closed!

Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2008 11:13 AM

michael stripe is a tool

Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2008 12:15 PM

what was uncensored about that? they bleeped out "fuck". same as on tv.

Posted by Anonymous | June 23, 2008 12:17 AM

hello cleveland! bush is a fuck head!

Posted by Anonymous | June 23, 2008 1:29 AM

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