R.E.M. (Rapid Eye Movement), es una banda que nació en los ochentas integrada por Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills y Bill Berry e impulsora de hasta entonces el “nuevo movimiento musical”, resultado de la combinación de géneros como rock alternativo, jangle pop y post punk. Su disco debut “Murmur” grabado en 1983, obtuvo muy buenas críticas, tanto así, que la revista Rolling Stone lo declaró como el mejor álbum de ese año, pero su verdadero éxito fue logrado con “Out of Time” del año 1991 y en especial con el single “Losing My Religion”, vendiéndose millones de copias, por otra parte, el videoclip fue premiado y criticado, generando polémica entre la MTV y la iglesia católica. Otro disco exitoso fue “Automatic for the People” de 1992, de donde se extraen singles como "Everybody Hurts", "Man on the Moon", "Drive", "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" y otros; este álbum es considerado además, como el mejor disco del grupo. En 1997 Bill Berry, decide dejar la banda y en 2011, REM anuncia su separación, poniendo punto final a su etapa como grupo; con lo que nos queda recordar y agradecer la buena música que nos dejaron.
AT MY MOST BEAUTIFUL (Up, 1998)
I've found a way to make you, I've found a way, a way to make you smile. I read bad poetry into your machine. I save your messages, just to hear your voice... You always listen carefully to awkward rhymes, you always say your name like I wouldn't know it's you, at your most beautiful... At my most beautiful, I count your eyelashes, secretly with every one, whisper I love you. I let you sleep, I know you're closed eye watching me, listening, I thought I saw a smile.
BEACHBALL (Reveal, 2002)
Tonight's alive, the beachball is set to fly those well-tequilla'd guys, who smile at strangers. Á tes souhaits á tes amours chéri. You give a little sneeze and dance the rhu-rhumba... This life is sweet. You're dancin' in the street. Who knows who we might meet? You're too fine... The little weekend's here. Thursday has an ear. Her coffee-clash career, she talks to strangers. And kissing by the sea particular to me. 'ti punch, mojito, sling and dance the rhu-rhumba... This life is sweet. You're dancin' in the street. Who knows who, you and me. You're too fine... We flash the seaside sky with starfish butterflies to cast a spell and welcome locals weekenders and strangers. You're too fine...
DAYSLEEPER (Up, 1998)
Receiving department, 3 a.m, staff cuts have socked up the overage. Directives are posted, no callbacks, complaints, everywhere is calm. Hong Kong is present, Taipei awake, all talk of circadian rhythm... I see today with a newsprint fray, my night is colored headache grey, daysleeper... The bull and the bear are marking their territories, they're leading the blind with their international glories. I'm the screen, the blinding light, I'm the screen, I work at night... I see today with a newsprint fray, my night is colored headache grey, don't wake me with so much, Daysleeper... They cried the other night, I can't even say why, fluorescent flat caffeine lights, its furious balancing. I'm the screen, the blinding light, I'm the screen, I work at night, I see today with a newsprint fray, my night is colored headache grey, on't wake me with so much. The Ocean machine is set to 9. I'll squeeze into heaven and valentine, my bed is pulling me, Gravity, Daysleeper...
DRIVE (Automatic for the People, 1992)
Smack, crack, bushwhacked, tie another one to the racks, baby. Hey kids, rock and roll, nobody tells you where to go, baby... What if I ride? What if you walk? What if you rock around the clock? Tick-tock, tick-tock. What if you did? What if you walk? What if you tried to get off, baby?... Hey kids, where are you? Nobody tells you what to do, baby. Hey kids, shake a leg, maybe you're crazy in the head, baby... Maybe you did, maybe you walked. Maybe you rocked around the clock. Tick-tock, tick-tock.Maybe I drive, maybe you walk. Maybe you try to get off, baby... Hey kids, shake a leg, maybe you're crazy in the head, baby... Ollie, ollie in come free, baby... Hey kids, where are you? Nobody tells you what to do, baby. Smack, crack, shack-a-lack, tie another one to your back, baby... Hey kids, rock and roll, nobody tells you where to go, baby... Maybe you did, maybe you walked. Maybe you rocked around the clock. Tick-tock, tick-tock. Maybe I drive, maybe you walk. Maybe I try to get off, baby... Hey kids, where are you? Nobody tells you what to do, baby. Hey kids, rock and roll, nobody tells you where to go, baby...
E – BOW THE LETTER (New Adventures in Hi-Fi, 1996)
Look up, what do you see? All of you and all of me, florescent and starry some of them, they surprise. The bus ride, I went to write this, 4:00 a.m. this letter fields of poppies, little pearls all the boys and all the girls sweet-toothed, each and every one a little scary, I said your name. I wore it like a badge of teenage film stars hash bars, cherry mash and tinfoil tiaras dreaming of Maria Callas, whoever she is this fame thing, I don't get it I wrap my hand in plastic to try to look through it Maybelline eyes and girl-as-boy moves, I can take you far this star thing, I don't get it... (I'll take you over, there...), aluminum, tastes like fear adrenaline, it pulls us near, I'll take you over it tastes like fear, there, I'll take you over... Will you live to 83? Will you ever welcome me? Will you show me something that nobody else has seen? Smoke it, drink, here comes the flood anything to thin the blood, these corrosives do their magic slowly and sweet. Phone, eat it, drink just another chink, cuts and dents, they catch the light aluminum, the weakest link... I don't want to disappoint you, I'm not here to anoint you, I would lick your feet but is that the sickest move? I wear my own crown and sadness and sorrow and who'd have thought tomorrow could be so strange? My loss, and here we go again. (I'll take you over, there...), aluminum, tastes like fear adrenaline, it pulls us near, I'll take you over it tastes like fear, there, I'll take you over... Look up, what do you see? All of you and all of me, florescent and starry some of them, they surprise... I can't look it in the eyes seconal, Spanish fly, absinthe, kerosene cherry-flavored neck and collar, I can smell the sorrow on your breath the sweat, the victory and sorrow the smell of fear, I got it... (I'll take you over, there...), aluminum, tastes like fear adrenaline, it pulls us near, I'll take you over it tastes like fear, there, I'll take you over... (Pulls us near, tastes like fear...)(Nearer, nearer, over, over, over, over... there, there, baby, yeah)
ELECTROLITE (New Adventures in Hi-Fi,1996)
Your eyes are burning holes through me, I'm gasolina, I'm burnin' clean. Twentieth century go to sleep, you're Pleistocene, that is obscene, That is obscene. / You are the star tonight, your sun electric, outta sight, your light eclipsed the moon tonight, electrolite, you're outta sight. / If I ever want to fly, mulholland Drive, I am alive. Hollywood is under me, I'm Martin Sheen, I'm Steve McQueen, I'm Jimmy Dean... If you ever want to fly, Mulholland Drive, up in the sky. Stand on a cliff and look down there, don't be scared, you are alive, you are alive... Twentieth century go to sleep, really deep, we won't blink. Your eyes are burning holes through me, I'm not scared, I'm outta here...
EVERYBODY HURTS (Automatic for the People, 1992)
When your day is long and the night, the night is yours alone. When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on... Don't let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries n everybody hurts sometimes, sometimes everything is wrong, now it's time to sing along... When your day is night alone, (hold on), if you feel like letting go, (hold on), if you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on... 'Cause everybody hurts, take comfort in your friends, everybody hurts... Don't throw your hand. Oh no, don't throw your hand, If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone... If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long, when you think you've had too much of this life to hang on... Well, everybody hurts sometimes, everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes and everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on... hold on... everybody hurts, you are not alone.
HIGH SPEED TRAIN (Around the Sun, 2004)
When I look into your eyes. Your drop like an anchor eyes. I scudded and clipped the sky just shy of making it. And you almost got away. I told you I was afraid. Did I really want to try, you're holding me to my claim... I jump on a high speed train, I'll never look back again, I flail like the antelope, who jumped from the building?... And you caught me on the sly, you've taken me by surprise. You've mirrored my best disguise and turned it back on me. / I jump on a high speed train, I'll never look back again, I flail like the antelope. Who jumped from the building? I jump on a high speed train, I'll never look back again to Berlin, Kyoto or Marseilles, I'd go anywhere for you. / I'll bring you a big bouquet, I picked it myself today it compliments your eyes, there's love at the end of the line... And that's what I always knew, I'd like to have hung the moon. I'd wrestle you for a spoon inside your sleeping bag. Just us. No war, no hate, no past. It's real. I'm here. I'm yours. I'm fast. I'm long in the eye, I'm cry when I try, I just want to fly, Just you and I, together.
I'LL TAKE THE RAIN (Reveal, 2002)
The rain came down, the rain came down, the rain came down on me. The wind blew strong, the summer song fades to memory. I knew you when I loved you then the summer's young and helpless. You laid me bare you marked me there the promises we made. / I used to think as birds take wing, they sing through life so why can't we? If you cling to this and claim your best if this is what you're offering, I'll take the rain, I'll take the rain. / The nighttime creases summer schemes and stretches out to stay. The sun shines down, you came around you love easy days. But now the sun, the winter's come. I wanted just to say that if I hold I'd hope you'd fold open up inside, inside of me... This winter song, I'll sing along, I've searched its still refrain, I'll walk alone, I've given this, take wing celebrate the rain.
IMITATION OF LIFE (Reveal, 2002)
Charades, pop skill, water hyacinth, named by a poet, Imitation of life. Like a koi in a frozen pond, like a goldfish in a bowl, I don't want to hear you cry. / That's sugarcane that tasted good, that's cinnamon, that's Hollywood, come on, come on, no-one can see you try. / You want the greatest thing, the greatest thing since bread came sliced, you've got it all, you've got it sized. Like a Friday fashion show teenager, freezing in the corner, Trying to look like you don't try... No-one can see you cry. That's sugarcane that tasted good, that's freezing rain, that's what you could, come on, come on, no-one can see you cry. This sugarcane, this lemonade, this hurricane, I'm not afraid, come on, come on, no-one can see me cry. This lightning storm, this tidal wave, this avalanche, I'm not afraid, come on, come on, no-one can see me cry. That's sugarcane that tasted good, that's who you are, that's what you could, come on, come on, no-one can see you cry.
I'VE BEEN HIGH (Reveal, 2002)
Have you seen? Have not, will travel. Have I missed the big reveal? Do my eyes, do my eyes seem empty? I've forgotten how this feels... I've been high, I've climbed so high but life sometimes, it washes over me... Have you been? Have done, will travel. I fell down on me knees. Was I wrong? I don't know, don't answer. I just needed to believe. I've been high, I've climbed so high but life sometimes it washes over me... So I dive into a pool so cool and deep that if I sink I sink and when I swim I fly so high. What I want, what I really want is just to live my life on high. And I know, I know you want the same, I can see it in your eyes... I've been high, I've climbed so high but life sometimes, it washes over me. Washes over me, close my eyes so I can see, make my make-believe believe in me.
LOSING MY RELIGION (Out of Time, 1991)
Oh, Life is bigger, it's bigger than you and you are not me, the lengths that I will go to, the distance in your eyes. Oh no I've said too much, I set it up. That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight, losing my religión. Trying to keep up with you and I don't know if I can do it. Oh no I've said too much, I haven't said enough. I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing, I think I thought I saw you try. Every whisper of every waking hour I'm Choosing my confessions. Trying to keep an eye on you, like a hurt lost and blinded fool, fool. Oh no I've said too much, I set it up. Consider this, consider this, the hint of the century, consider this, the slip that brought me to my knees failed. What if all these fantasies come flailing around, now I've said too much. I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing, I think I thought I saw you try... But that was just a dream, that was just a dream. That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight, I'm Losing my religión, trying to keep up with you and I don't know if I can do it, Oh no, I've said too much, I haven't said enough, I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing, I think I thought I saw you try. But that was just a dream, try, cry, why try? That was just a dream, just a dream, just a dream, dream.
MAN ON THE MOON (Automatic for the People, 1992)
Mott the Hoople and the Game of Life, yeah... Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match, yeah. Monopoly, twenty one, checkers, and chess, yeah. Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mask, yeah. Let's play Twister, let's play Risk, yeah. See you in heaven if you make the list, yeah. / Now Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch? Hey Andy, are you goofing on Elvis? Hey baby, are we losing touch?... If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon. If you believed there's nothing up his sleeve, then nothing is cool. / Moses went walking with the staff of wood, yeah. Newton got beaned by the apple good, yeah. Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp, yeah. Mister Charles Darwin had the gall to ask, yeah... Here's a little agit for the never-believer, yeah. Here's a little ghost for the offering, yeah. Here's a truck stop instead of Saint Peter's, yeah. Mister Andy Kaufman's gone wrestling (wrestling bears), yeah...
NIGHTSWIMMING (Automatic for the People, 1992)
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night. The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago, turned around backwards so the windshield shows every streetlight reveals the picture in reverse. Still, it's so much clearer I forgot my shirt at the water's edge, the moon is low tonight. Nightswimming deserves a quiet night, I'm not sure all these people understand, it's not like years ago, the fear of getting caught, of recklessness and wáter, they cannot see me naked, these things, they go away, replaced by everyday. Nightswimming, remembering that night, september's coming son, I'm pining for the moon and what if there were two, side by side in orbit around the fairest sun? That bright, tight forever drum, could not describe nightswimming. You, I thought I knew you, you, I cannot judge, you, I thought you knew me, this one laughing quietly underneath my breath, nightswimming. The photograph reflects, every streetlight a reminder. Nightswimming deserves a quiet night, deserves a quiet night.
ORANGE CRUSH (Green,1988)
Follow me, don't follow me, I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush. Collar me, don't color me, I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush. We are agents of the free, I've had my fun and now its time to serve your conscience overseas (over me, not over me), coming in fast, over me... High on the roof, thin the blood, another one came on the the waves tonight, comin' in, you're home... We'd circle and we'd circle and we'd circle to stop and consider and centered on the pavement stacked up all the trucks jacked up and our wheels in slush and orange crush in pocket and all this here county hell any county it's just like heaven here and I was remembering and I was just in a different county and all then this whirlybird that I headed for I had my goggles pulled off I knew it all I knew every back road and every truck stop... High on the roof thin the blood, another one came on the the waves tonight, comin' in, you're home.
SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE (Out of Time, 1991)
Shiny happy people laughing... Meet me in the crowd, people, people. Throw your love around, love me, love me. Take it into town, happy, happy. Put it in the ground where the flowers grow, Gold and silver shine... Shiny happy people holding hands, shiny happy people holding hands. Shiny happy people laughing... Everyone around, love them, love them. Put it in your hands, take it, take it. There's no time to cry, happy, happy. Put it in your heart, Where tomorrow shines, gold and silver shine...
STAR ME KITTEN (Automatic for the People, 1992)
Keys cut, three for the price of one. Nothing's free but guaranteed for a lifetime's use, I've changed the locks and you can't have one, you, you know the other two. The brakes have worn so thin that you could hear, I hear them screeching through the door from our driveway... Hey love, look into your glovebox heart. What is there for me inside? This love is tired, I've changed the locks. Have I misplaced you? Have we lost our minds? Will this never end? It could depend on your take... You, me, we used to be on fire, if keys are all that stand between, can I throw in the ring? No gasolina, just fuck me kitten. You are wild and I'm in your possesion, nothing's free so, fuck me kitten. I'm in your possesion, so, fuck me kitten.
SUMMER TURNS TO HIGH (Reveal, 2002)
Mercury is rising still, turn the fan on high. I won't step on my own shadow, no one wants to cry... Someone put a pox on me, I spit in their eyes, summer turns to high... Lift my bed sheet keep in sandles, circle search and there are candles. Summer's here but night is raising hopes and dragonflies... If those hopes are overshadowed cotton-candy, caramel-wafer. Summer turns to high, summer high... After wine and nectarines the fireflies in turn. Move like syrup through the evening with the sweet resign, I won't fight for what can't happen, I'm preoccupied... Summer turns to high, summer high.
THE ASCENT OF MAN (Around the Sun, 2004)
So hesitation pulled me back, I'm stronger when I don't attract, in your eyes I'm a lamb without a rack and I am getting confused. I'm a cactus trying to be a canoe as you pan for ore in the desert, floored, I say to you... That I could never imagine a place so beautiful, I could never steal your gold away. Yeah... [I try to walk like a big wham bam, I came across like a battering ram, I try to float like a telegram sam, I'm trying to divine you.]... My book is called "The Ascent Of Man", I marked your chapter with a catamaran the accent's off But I am what I am. Yeah... I looked for you, it's my last grandstand a motorscootered goat legged Pan, figure eighting in quicksand... Yeah... So hesitation pulled me back, I'm so in love I don't attract and with my hands tied I won't crack ['Cause in my mind I called you back.]
THE ONE I LOVE (Document, 1987)
This one goes out to the one I love. This one goes out to the one I've left behind. A simple prop to occupy my time. This one goes out to the one I love... Fire! This one goes out to the one I love, this one goes out to the one I've left behind. Another prop has occupied my time, this one goes out to the one I love... Fire!
THE SIDEWINDER SLEEPS TONITE (Automatic for the People, 1992)
This here is the place where I will be staying. There isn't a number. You can call the pay pone let it ring a long, long, long, long time, if I don't pick up, hang up, call back, let it ring some more. If I don't pick up, pick up. The sidewinder sleeps, sleeps, sleeps in a coil... Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her... There are scratches all around the coin slot like a heartbeat, baby, trying to wake up, but this machine can only swallow Money, you can't lay a patch by computer design, it's just a lot of stupid, stupid signs. Tell her, Tell her she can kiss my ass, then laugh and say that you were only kidding, that way she'll know that it's really, really, really, really me, me... Baby, instant soup doesn't really grab me, today I need something more sub-sub-sub-substantial a can of beans or blackeyed peas, some Nescafe and ice, a candy bar, a falling star, or a reading from Doctor Seus... The cat in the hat came back, wrecked a lot of havoc on the way, always had a smile and a reason to pretend but their world has flat backgrounds and little need to sleep but to dream the sidewinder sleeps on his back... Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her (I can always sleep standing up)... We've got to moogie, moogie, move on this one.
TONGUE (Monster, 1994)
Call my name, here I come, 90 to nothing, watch me run, you call, I am ashamed to say. Ugly girls know their fate, anybody can get laid, you want a room with a fire escape, I want to tell you how much I hate this. Don't leave that stuff all over me. It pains me, please, just leave it. I should toss that vanity license plate, toss that make-up painted face. Box those poems, chocolate cake, scratch that name on the record player, please, just leave me be. Don't lay that stuff all over me, It crawls all over, all over me... Call my name, here I come, your last ditch lay, will I never learn? Caramel turn on a dusty apology, it crawls all over me, you turn all over, it pains me, please, just leave it.
TRY NOT TO BREATHE (Automatic for the People, 1992)
I will try not to breathe, I can hold my head still with my hands at my knees these eyes are the eyes of the old, shivering and bold. I will try not to breathe, this decision is mine. I have lived a full life and these are the eyes that I want you to remember, oh... I need something to fly over my grave again, I need something to breathe. I will try not to burden you, I can hold these inside. I will hold my breath until all these shivers subside, just look in my eyes. I will try not to worry you, I have seen things that you will never see, leave it to memory me. I shudder to breathe... I want you to remember, oh (you will never see). I need something to fly over my grave again (you will never see). I need something to breathe (something to breathe), Baby, don't shiver now. Why do you shiver now? (I will see things you will never see)... I will try not to worry you, I have seen things that you will never see, leave it to memory me. Don't dare me to breathe, I want you to remember...
WE WALK (Murmur, 1983)
Up the stairs to the landing, up the stairs into the hall, oh, oh, oh. Take oasis, Marat's bathing. We walk through the wood, we walk... Take oasis... Up the stairs to the landing, up the stairs into the hall, oh, oh, oh... Into the hall, into the hall.
WHAT'S THE FRECUENCY, KENNETH (Monster, 1994)
"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your benzedrine, uh-huh. I was braindead, locked out, numb, not up to speed. I thought I'd pegged you, an idiot's dream, tunnelvision from the outsider's screen... I never understood the frequency, uh-huh. You wore our expectations like an armored suit, uh-huh... I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines. Richard said, "Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy." A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth, you said that irony was the shackles of youth... You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh. I never understood the frequency, uh-huh... "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your benzedrine, uh-huh. Butterfly decal, rearview mirror, dogging the scene. You smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth, you said that irony was the shackles of youth... You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh. I never understood the frequency, uh-huh. You wore our expectations like an armored suit, uh-huh. I couldn't understand. You said that irony was the shackles of youth, uh-huh. I couldn't understand. You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh. I couldn't understand. I never understood don't fuck with me, uh-huh.
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