Things I love about this collaboration a list in no particular order
- Stipe borks the first line of the first chorus
- Adam Clayton’s ENTIRE look
- Mills’ harmony when they hit “When all you got is hurt” is the stuff of legend
- This lineup would now have to be called Songs of Now or Collapse into Experience
- Mills Stipe Mullen Clayton is the only way a U2 and R.E.M. lineup could work. Truly.
- Stipe’s hat
- MTV used to play music. I know this is a tired trope at this point but I miss old MTV
- “One” is an incredibly depressing song about relationships ending so….
- Clayton just casually smoking a cig on tv. The 90s, man.
- Mills being under dressed for the occasion which he will soon over correct for
- Mullen looking somewhat relaxed and just vibing on bongos
- The one Youtube comment that says Bill Gates on Guitar
- My two most favorite non-Pylon bands in the world, together, performing
- BRB having a minor meltdown that Stipe was 33 when he was doing this (what have I DONE WITH MY LIFE?!)
- Knowing that backstage, Don Henley was being a diva about the whole thing
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