REM Out of Time and Losing their Religion
March 15, 2016 12:19 PM   Subscribe

"March 12th marks the 25th anniversary of Out of Time’s release, which will be celebrated this fall in the form of a deluxe reissue from the band and Concord Music Group. Pitchfork decided to celebrate in our own way, speaking with R.E.M.’s Mike Mills — as well as friends and collaborators on the album and beyond — to recount Out of Time’s creation and the band’s central shift in the early ‘90s." An Oral History of R.E.M.’s Out of Time
posted by josher71 (74 comments total) 23 users marked this as a favorite
 
I was 14 when this album came out and my then best friend in 8th grade made me a copy of it on cassette.

In related news: holy cow i am oooooooooold
posted by Kitteh at 12:27 PM on March 15, 2016 [11 favorites]


Never understood the hipsters who jumped ship when they signed to Warners. They were amazing, right up until Bill Berry left. I've even come around to Monster.
posted by entropicamericana at 12:27 PM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]


I was a senior in high school when this album came out. It has such emotional resonance for me... very much the sound track to that year. It's still one of my favorite R.E.M. albums, and I think it has stood the test of time.
posted by kimdog at 12:32 PM on March 15, 2016


...and, as usual, nobody talks about "Texarkana", which is one of my top 5 favorite R.E.M. songs of all time.
posted by mykescipark at 12:35 PM on March 15, 2016 [23 favorites]


They were pretty amazing the whole run (except for Around The Sun ). I know people who believe everything after Chronic Town was a sell-out, though.
posted by Joey Michaels at 12:39 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]


I meant to post this recent interview with Peter Buck, but I'll drop it here: Peter Buck on Life After R.E.M.: 'I Hate the Business'
posted by purpleclover at 12:42 PM on March 15, 2016 [5 favorites]


IIRC, their IRS Records contract expired at the absolute opportune time for their solid-gold-house-and-rocketship-car prospects, as they had just broken into heavy rotation, arena filling status.
posted by thelonius at 12:44 PM on March 15, 2016 [3 favorites]


One MTV tidbit about this album that always stuck in my head. Mike Mills said the name "Out of Time" came from the fact that they had actually run out of time to give it a name, and that was fine because his suggestion had been "Trolling for Olives". Eventually, a fan compilation of rarities and B sides used that name.
posted by kimdog at 12:45 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]


"Trolling for Olives" sounds like a mid-nineties third-wave ska band.
posted by murphy slaw at 12:47 PM on March 15, 2016 [9 favorites]


A great album, and a real imprint of a certain time and place for me personally. That said, it started my drift away from REM, not through any fault of theirs, but because suddenly they were everywhere. Not to be anti-populist, but rather that being exposed to them all the goddamn time meant I no longer brought them into my personal space anymore. Same with Achtung Baby at about the same time.
posted by Capt. Renault at 12:54 PM on March 15, 2016 [3 favorites]


I was 14 ... In related news: holy cow i am oooooooooold

For my part, I was in grad school and recently divorced when it came out. (It helped me a lot.)
posted by aught at 12:56 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]


I've even come around to Monster.

That's because Monster is a great album. Facepalm to teh haters.
posted by echocollate at 1:06 PM on March 15, 2016 [12 favorites]


Monster is okay, but it's not as good as Furry Happy Monsters.
posted by oulipian at 1:09 PM on March 15, 2016 [7 favorites]


my then best friend in 8th grade made me a copy of it on cassette.

Oh, that's what killed the music industry.
posted by 7segment at 1:14 PM on March 15, 2016 [7 favorites]


and that was fine because his suggestion had been "Trolling for Olives".

IIRC (it has been a very long time since I maintained the rec.music.rem FAQ, after all), one of the other less-than-serious candidates was "Cat Butt."
posted by aught at 1:28 PM on March 15, 2016 [3 favorites]


one of the other less-than-serious candidates was "Cat Butt."

(And there is another fan compilation of rarities that appropriated that name as well, of course.) :-) Ctrl-F "Trolling for Olives" and/or "Catbutt" for details. Ah, the good old days of the internet.
posted by aught at 1:33 PM on March 15, 2016


That's because Monster is a great album. Facepalm to teh haters.

14 Year Old Me: Wait, REM isn't just all about mandolins and shit? They can rock the fuck out? Cool!
posted by leotrotsky at 1:37 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]


14 Year Old Me had a mouth on him.
posted by leotrotsky at 1:41 PM on March 15, 2016 [7 favorites]


Same with Achtung Baby at about the same time.

REM is like U2 in that respect--there are like six times over the course of their career that a significant number of people are like 'well, that's when they sold out.'

(Not that selling out is necessarily a bad thing, but I'd place it at Joshua Tree and Document.)
posted by box at 1:50 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]


I was at the rock-bottom point of the worst bout of depression I've had in my life when this album came out. I was 19 and had very unwisely stayed in town to go to college locally, and I was down to only a few friends left who had also stayed and could stand me. One of them invited me on a trip with him and his mom to check out an out of state university he was considering transferring to, and I think we may have listened to this one album for the entirety of the 14-hour drive up and back.

The songs on this album drilled through the perpetual fog and reminded me that things could change, and tricked my brain into thinking about things again, and the trip got me thinking about how I had choices. I somehow got the multiple sets of paperwork done to apply to a different school - a much cooler school in a much larger general urban area, four hours away - and started there the following August.

Most of those songs still kind of nail me in the raw feely places. It's a great album.
posted by Lyn Never at 1:53 PM on March 15, 2016 [9 favorites]


R.E.M.’s Out of Time is the most politically significant album in the history of the United States. Because of its packaging.

tl;dr -- the album's longbox packaging was among the first used to advance the Rock the Vote campaign.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 2:01 PM on March 15, 2016 [7 favorites]


14 Year Old Me: Wait, REM isn't just all about mandolins and shit?

14 Year Old Me would have said the exact same thing, to be honest.

Much Older Me will not, however, "PLAY THAT MANDOLIN THING FROM 'LOSING MY RELIGION"" as requested by That Drunk Guy/Gal Standing in Front of the Stage.*


* This is not one individual but a whole category of people. "Losing My Religion" is "Freebird" for mandolin players. **

** And no, you won't hear "Battle of Evermore" either. I love Zeppelin. But don't ask again. Ever. ***

*** Nobody ever shouts out "Mandolin Rain" because, despite its name, it contains no discernible mandolin whatsoever.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 2:02 PM on March 15, 2016 [6 favorites]


Metafilter: contains no discernible mandolin whatsoever
posted by chavenet at 2:06 PM on March 15, 2016 [8 favorites]


"COPPERHEAD ROOOAAAAD"
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 2:07 PM on March 15, 2016 [8 favorites]


the album's longbox packaging

I love explaining that longboxes were a thing to young people.
posted by Rock Steady at 2:09 PM on March 15, 2016 [6 favorites]


I've always been positive that Cat Butt was an actual contender, or at least a big in-joke in the band. There's a picture of a cat butt in the interior album art.
posted by the phlegmatic king at 2:09 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]


I was in a band, about 1992, in Atlanta. One night we were playing at The Point. There were lots of people there, so it must have been a show were opening for someone. A not-unattractive-at-all woman approached my side of the stage and slid a note up there, next to the Korg tuner pedal. So I waited a song or so, to act like I had been there before, and bent over to retrieve it. It said: "We're from out of town. Can you play some R.E.M.?"
posted by thelonius at 2:10 PM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]


The front covers of those longboxes looked pretty sweet taped to your high school locker, I'll give them that.
posted by The Card Cheat at 2:16 PM on March 15, 2016 [6 favorites]


... which will be celebrated this fall in the form of a deluxe reissue ...

Hopefully I won't have to wait 25 years for the reissue of Accelerate, ie. the version WITHOUT the shitty mastering.

Accelerate actually has a lot of great songs; unfortunately, the original release is completely unlistenable.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 2:19 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]


The front covers of those longboxes looked pretty sweet taped to your high school locker, I'll give them that.

Fuckin'-A!
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 2:23 PM on March 15, 2016


Holy crap did I ever hate Losing My Religion. I can't remember if it was an instantaneous thing or if it came later because you could not escape that fucking song. Ugh, it was just so maudlin and melodramatic.

But yeah REM was good. And Shiny Happy People remains as good and catchy as anything from the 1990s ever was.

longboxes

how did those ever make sense? They were big enough to house multiple CDs
posted by Hoopo at 2:23 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]


They were created so music retailers could use LP racks to display CDs and they also (poorly) served as a theft deterrent due to their size.
posted by entropicamericana at 2:25 PM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]


Longbox (99% Invisible)

Artists, however, objected to the wastefulness of the longbox. In 1991, R.E.M. had a record coming out, and they did not want millions of trees cut down just to create this extra packing. The Warner Brothers sales department knew that this album absolutely had to come out in a longbox if it was going to do well in retail, and that’s when Jeff Gold realized that he could merge the two projects he was working on. Jeff Gold realized that he could convince R.E.M. to use a longbox if they could use the CD longbox to advance the Rock the Vote campaign.
posted by Lyn Never at 2:31 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]


LP racks? Hmm, I guess...I just don't remember there being many LPs around the average record store when CDs came out. It was almost all tapes back then, though I suppose they may have used LP racks for those too. They had those great big long plastic sleeves they had to take off at the cash
posted by Hoopo at 2:31 PM on March 15, 2016


I've always thought of Out of Time as a companion piece to--or maybe a remake of--Green.

Uptempo openers: "Pop Song 89" and "Radio Song."
Poppy blatant singles: "Stand" and "Shiny Happy People"
Confessionals: "World Leader Pretend" and "Losing My Religion"

When Out of Time came out I was surprised that "Losing My Religion" was widely considered the "Michael Stipe opens up" song. I thought "World Leader Pretend" was more revelatory.
posted by kirkaracha at 2:43 PM on March 15, 2016 [8 favorites]


I was 14 when this album came out and my then best friend in 8th grade made me a copy of it on cassette.

In related news: holy cow i am oooooooooold
posted by Kitteh at 12:27 PM on March 15


With all due respect, screw you. Screwwwwwww you.*

I was 22 when this came out, and I skipped a college class to run down to the record store to buy it.

holy cow you made me feel oooooooooold

* I mean this in the nicest possible way. But still.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 3:15 PM on March 15, 2016 [4 favorites]


REM is like U2 in that respect--there are like six times over the course of their career that a significant number of people are like 'well, that's when they sold out.'

I have no problem with selling out -- I have a problem with overplay. I can't fault anyone for selling out.
posted by Capt. Renault at 3:22 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]


...and, as usual, nobody talks about "Texarkana", which is one of my top 5 favorite R.E.M. songs of all time.

I always include "Texarkana" on any road trip mix I make. It's my second-favorite REM song behind "Nightswimming."

Another 19-year-old here grappling with post-high-school confusion and collegiate discontent. This album was a lifeline out of the mire.
posted by sobell at 3:24 PM on March 15, 2016 [3 favorites]


I love "Me in Honey" and "Belong" and I cannot lie.
posted by straight at 4:02 PM on March 15, 2016 [7 favorites]


I'll say this: this thread has prompted me to go to Spotify, create an "All the R.E.M. songs I loved from my superfan era" playlist, and subsequently:

1. Immediately re-feel every emotion I experienced in 1991 upon looking at Out of Time's track listing
2. Marvel at the damn near unequaled 100% killer 0% filler of Life's Rich Pageant
3. Embark into "Hey! R.E.M.!" conversations on every social media channel available.

Hey! R.E.M.!
posted by the phlegmatic king at 4:22 PM on March 15, 2016 [10 favorites]


I was never a huge REM fan*, but I went to university between 1992 and 1996 and their music is intertwined with a lot of my memories from that time. Because it was everywhere.

* although I loved "What's The Frequency Kenneth?" when it came out and once danced so vigorously to it with a full belly of beer that I had to dash to the washroom and barf mid-song
posted by The Card Cheat at 5:16 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]


I don't remember ever jumping ship, but there was just so much interesting stuff going on in the early '90s -- R.E.M. got me through the '80s, and that was pretty great indeed.
posted by saintjoe at 5:18 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]


I was 22 when this was released, and fresh out of school and trying to run a theater company. I didn't like it when it was released, but it's grown on me since then. Back then I wanted everything they did to sound like "Wolves, Lower".

(My first REM experience was seeing them perform on the Reckoning tour in Rochester, NY when I was 15. Time does sure fly.)
posted by frumiousb at 5:20 PM on March 15, 2016


I discovered REM with Green - and yes, it was Stand being played on the radio that did it. They were also the first band I was really into.

I doubt there's anything I listened to more in high school than Green and Out of Time.

Though Automatic For the People is still my favorite. Love that album from beginning to end (oh, Find the River... *sigh*)
posted by evilangela at 5:21 PM on March 15, 2016 [3 favorites]


Alvy Ampersand, I can do a pretty mediocre version of "Galway Girl", which I think is a better mandolin part than "Copperhead Road".

On the other hand, mandolin conspiracy, since there's no mandolin in "Mandolin Rain" (Bruce, woo!), I can't mangle it too badly.

I am not a skilled mandolin player.
posted by wintermind at 5:34 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]


One MTV tidbit about this album that always stuck in my head. Mike Mills said the name "Out of Time" came from the fact that they had actually run out of time to give it a name, and that was fine because his suggestion had been "Trolling for Olives". Eventually, a fan compilation of rarities and B sides used that name.

IIRC, Bill Berry suggested "Trolling for Olives" as a name for every album but was always outvoted by the rest of the members.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 5:42 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]


Some of my earliest internet activities centered around rec.music.rem and participating in lots and lots of [cassette] tape trees to share copies of REM bootlegs. Love that internet!
posted by homesickness at 5:56 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]


Oh, neat! I have to let the author of this piece know we're talking about him over here, he's an old friend of mine from high school and was super excited about this piece.
posted by KingEdRa at 6:02 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]


Just to show how much staying power REM has, I was 4 when Out of Time came out but managed to get into REM through a VH1 Behind the Music show when I was in middle school. Out of Time was the first album of theirs I bought, circa 2000, and I listened to it non-stop from ages 13-15 or so.

They were the first band I got seriously obsessed with that wasn't a boy band. A band that I could share with my dad that he wouldn't roll his eyes at. (It turned out he had LPs of Murmur and Life's Rich Pageant he'd never really listened to; my playing Out of Time around the house inspired him to dust those off.) It's interesting to hear from so many of you who grew up with Out of Time being ubiquitous, because for me REM was one of my cool secret bands that made my music taste so much better than everyone around me. (Note to 7th grade me: get over yourself.) Sure Reveal came out not too long after, but that didn't get much, if any play on the stations my classmates were listening to and didn't count in my eyes. Out of Time was outside their collective consciousness, and it had all this gay subtext if you looked for it, and all those bright jangly guitars, and it was mine.
posted by ActionPopulated at 6:04 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]


Would like to hear more about the gay subtext if you'd care to elaborate? Lots in the lyrics and video for "Losing My Religion" for sure; what else?
posted by absqua at 6:24 PM on March 15, 2016


(My first REM experience was seeing them perform on the Reckoning tour in Rochester, NY when I was 15. Time does sure fly.)

Mine was seeing them at Summerfest in Milwaukee for the same tour, frumiousb. It was actually the day after my 15th birthday. It feels like only yesterday that I was sneaking to Summerfest to go see them.

I have all the albums, but I feel like I dropped off as a superfan after "E-Bow The Letter". I couldn't with the dirge-y stuff. I couldn't go where they went. I'll have to reassess, I suppose, after all these years. At the time it was released, I found Out of Time to be a lot more pastoral than what I usually listened to. It actually got me a little more into folkier sounds, and I still like it a lot.
posted by droplet at 6:34 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]


25 years? Oh, that hurts my old, old heart.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 6:41 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]


More like Out of Ideas amirite, cause

mumble mumble *Rickenbacker arpeggio* mumble yodelHOWwwwl
posted by petebest at 6:51 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]


In related news: holy cow i am oooooooooold

It feels like there have been a rash of make-me-feel-old articles recently, which is probably a predictable aspect of getting, well, old.

I liked REM's music when I first heard it in the mid-1980s. It was distinctive and interesting. I don't know if I ever owned a legal copy of their music, but I know I had some tape copies of their music from friends. I'd have to go back through album listings to see where the turning point exactly was, but by the early 1990s there was a turning point in their music, which became both inescapable and less appealing to my tastes.

I still like it when I chance across one of their earlier songs -- for me, that music has held up very well, though I don't listen to it often these days.
posted by Dip Flash at 8:27 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]


Hands down the best track on Out of Time is "Country Feedback" ("Texarkana" is a very close second place, though.) Supposedly it was a demo the band wisely decided to not alter and release pretty much as is, and Michael has mentioned a few times that it's his favorite song. Also the video is absolutely breathtaking.
posted by Hey Dean Yeager! at 11:40 PM on March 15, 2016 [7 favorites]


This might be the thread where I point out that you only need to change the word "religion" to "erection", not change any others, and the song totally still works.

Trying to keep it up for you, and I don't know if I can do it... Uh oh, I've said too much...
posted by hippybear at 12:15 AM on March 16, 2016 [2 favorites]


I was 14 when this album came out and my then best friend in 8th grade made me a copy of it on cassette. In related news: holy cow i am oooooooooold

I was 25 and... I think I was in Mexico at that point, doing dangerous and drunk things on the pointy ends of boats. I am even ooooolder.

But a quarter century later, I feel just as good as I did back then. Most days, anyway.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:21 AM on March 16, 2016 [1 favorite]


Their first three albums are phenomenal. And very good up through AFTP, which is phenomenal. Good through Up, which is underrated. Speaking of, so is Bill Berry.
posted by persona au gratin at 2:27 AM on March 16, 2016 [1 favorite]


"Trolling for Olives" sounds like a mid-nineties third-wave ska band.

Trolling for Skalives you mean.
posted by the christopher hundreds at 4:12 AM on March 16, 2016 [2 favorites]


although I loved "What's The Frequency Kenneth?" when it came out and once danced so vigorously to it with a full belly of beer that I had to dash to the washroom and barf mid-song

congratulations, you found the frequency
posted by escabeche at 5:51 AM on March 16, 2016 [9 favorites]


I too am old, because I remember driving through the streets of Richmond, VA listening to Murmur.
posted by JanetLand at 6:32 AM on March 16, 2016


“Country Feedback” is the song that I most wish Johnny Cash had covered.
posted by nicepersonality at 7:40 AM on March 16, 2016 [7 favorites]


Oh my god. That would have been incredible.
posted by entropicamericana at 7:57 AM on March 16, 2016 [2 favorites]


I remember my RA yelling "I know what this song means" at one of the tracks as he walked past my open door, but I don't remember which one. "Country Feedback," maybe? Also that same RA's flameout later in the year predicted my own flameout as an RA a year later, so hey. R.E.M. fans make terrible resident advisors, I guess.
posted by fedward at 8:26 AM on March 16, 2016


Well, 25 years. To celebrate, I will tell you all of my REM-themed memories. Watch out, because there are a lot of them.

1. Lying in a half-filled bathtub at my father's house in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1985, smoking a cigarette. I'm 15, depressed. I wonder for the first time, seriously, if I should just kill myself and get it over with. On the other side of the closed bathroom door, my best friend, who was living with me at the time, puts Murmur on the turntable. I hear "Talk About the Passion," a song I've heard hundreds of times, but this time the lyrics "Not everyone can carry the weight of the world" sound like they are meant just for me. "Nope," I think, putting out my cigarette in the bathtub and standing up. "Don't kill yourself. Just go outside and listen to Murmur with your friend."

2. I'm 15, still depressed. My friend Jeff Totty's older brother lives in Athens and Jeff invites me to go up there with him for a while so I can "work things out." I stay with his brother in a house on Grady Ave, and, amazingly, Michael Stipe lives right next door. He is our neighbor! I am a HUGE REM fan but try to play it cool by sitting on the front steps every afternoon, shucking corn or snapping beans. "I'm not out here to see Michael Stipe," I lie to myself, "I'm just helping prep dinner!" After a few days of this, I see a man riding his bike down the sidewalk. He's wearing these weird glasses that have rubber skin in the frames, in the shape of Chinese eyes. He pulls up in front of me and I see that it is Michael Stipe. "Hey," he says, "We're having a meeting to protest the radio tower that's going up in the neighborhood. Why don't you come?" I do go, and that is my first introduction to local politics. A year later, I read an article in Rolling Stone where they ask Stipe about how he's handling his new-found fame. He says, "The fans are OK, but I worry about the kind of people who will sit on their front steps shucking corn just to get a glimpse of me."

3. That same trip, my friend Jeff and I go to a new place in Athens that has just opened, out by the train tracks. It's called The Grit, and all they serve is muffins and lemon-grass tea. It's Thursday night, and this is sing-along night, it turns out. There's a circle of chairs in the main sitting area, and two of them are empty. I surprise myself by going to sit in one of them, even though everyone else is ten years older than I am. I'm sitting there, waiting for it to be my turn to sing, and finally it comes around to me. "What are you going to sing?" all the cool Athens people ask me. I open my mouth to say something and the bathroom door opens and out comes Michaels Stipe, He sits next to me, in the only empty chair available. "Uh," I say, "Knoxville Girl." I sing the song and then it's Michael's turn. He picks up a guitar and a folder that was next to his empty chair and turns to me. "Will you hold my lyrics while I sing?" he asks. I wish that lightning will strike me so I can die right now, because it's not going to get any better than this.

4. 2009, after living all over the place for decades I find myself as a 39-year-old living in Athens, GA. I go to an X show at the 40 Watt and am so happy and excited that I drink too much and dance wildly all night (that's me at the end there, crashing into people). After the show ends, I walk backstage to talk to John Doe, who somehow is my friend. To my surprise, Michael Stipe is back there, too! Overcome with nostalgia and the way life sometimes loops around to where it started, I try to explain to Michael that I've been running into him since I was 15. On Grady Avenue! At the Grit! Radio towers! I am sort of drunk, and he is having none of it. A stranger interrupts us and asks if he can have a picture with Michael and Billy Zoom. At the very last second I leap into the picture, smiling like a sweaty, red-faced lunatic. Everybody shakes their head, but I don't care. REM has been with me since the very beginning, since I first discovered music at age 13, and they'll probably be played at my funeral.

Happy 25th, Out of Time, and thanks so much to REM and all they've done for this community, and for me.
posted by staggering termagant at 10:30 AM on March 16, 2016 [26 favorites]


"The fans are OK, but I worry about the kind of people who will sit on their front steps shucking corn just to get a glimpse of me."

That is fantastic. Great stories, staggering termagant.
posted by straight at 12:13 PM on March 16, 2016 [1 favorite]


Hey Dean Yeager! Thank you for making me listen to Country Feedback again. I still get chills.
posted by Constant Reader at 2:32 PM on March 16, 2016 [1 favorite]


"Stand" was also the opening theme for Get a Life. It seemed just right for that show.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:06 PM on March 16, 2016


“Country Feedback” is the song that I most wish Johnny Cash had covered.

Just popping back in to say, I can't get this awesome idea out of my head, and I also need to hear Johnny's version of "E-bow the Letter" with June doing the Patti Smith parts.
posted by entropicamericana at 7:38 AM on March 17, 2016 [3 favorites]


Michael Stipe taught me the word "jizz" through an interview in Sassy magazine.
posted by joannemerriam at 12:22 PM on March 17, 2016


I hope he was referring to the style of music played by the Mos Isley Cantina Band.
posted by straight at 6:06 PM on March 17, 2016


I hope he was referring to the style of music played by the Mos Isley Cantina Band.
posted by straight at 9:06 PM on March 17


So eponysterical I'm losing my erection
posted by wabbittwax at 8:18 PM on March 19, 2016


Michael Stipe performs Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World on Jimmy Fallon.
posted by oulipian at 11:53 AM on March 30, 2016 [2 favorites]


1) Wow, that's great

2) Stipe looks like he should be presiding over an medieval Benedictine abbey these days
posted by the phlegmatic king at 12:02 PM on March 30, 2016 [2 favorites]


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