Happy birthday Michael Stipe: Whats your favorite song from REM?

a very happy birthday to you, michael!

it's so hard to pick - let's just run through the catalogue:

stumble (chronic town, 1982)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcX-YM-5yqY&feature...

still one of my all-time favourites - the sign of epic brilliance to come

sitting still (murmur, 1983)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGNGEqtKoQ

7 chinese brothers (reckoning, 1984)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWrHO2om64U&feature...

green grow the rushes (fables of the reconstruction, 1985)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW6d0uv1pW0

these days (lifes rich pageant, 1986)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBRyrhzaaLw&feature...

we are young, despite the years; we are concern, we are hope despite the times. amen, michael.

disturbance at the heron house (document, 1987)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CP006UylGg

the wrong child (green, 1988)

if only there was a decent link available...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctRf7USgy4I

one of the most beautifully emotional songs i've ever heard

texarkana (out of time, 1991)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP--MxYzTuo

ignoreland (automatic for the people, 1992)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuknsRV5kDI

bang and blame (monster, 1994)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdx1DjXPFU&feature...

new test leper (new adventures in hi-fi, 1996)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnIIpTGmEuo&feature...

walk unafraid (up, 1998)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGeq5v7L3WM&feature...

i'll take the rain (reveal, 2001)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDJubHFlZAE

leaving new york (around the sun, 2004)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBFxmx6Pi2E

hollow man (accelerate, 2008)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF6orK28QFo

just a few highlights of a brilliant career. thank you very, much michael. and your mates.

hope you have a wonderful 50th

50? I hope the midlife crisis results in R.E.M.'s most interesting album in fourteen years. lol

Seriously, though, I love Michael. He's an icon! "Nightswimming" was my favorite song by any artist or band for a few years in high school. It almost brings a tear to my eye.

More obscure Stipe fact: he executive produced the film Velvet Goldmine, based in part on Bowie's rise to fame and set in the London glam scene. It stars Christian Bale, Ewan McGregor (playing a character based on Iggy Pop), and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (as the Bowie-esque main character). If you haven't seen it, do!

Happy birthday, Michael, and I anticipate your next musical move!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEwI3yKMxkI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj3ibm95zzc

Begin The Begin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ3WxDM0vdU

1. South Central Rain

2. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville

3. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

4. Driver 8

5. Losing My Religion

Yes yes, happy bday my dear Stipe! I'll see you again in front row (as usual) as soon as you're on tour here ;) Been listening to your music for 21 years now. (I am 21)

R.E.M is one of my fav bands, so I cannot just name one song. I'd say that most of my favorites are on Automatic for the People. Everybody Hurts, Drive, Man on the Moon, Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight, The One I Love, and countless others.

REM is so dam good. Night Swimming, Perfect Circle, Losing My Religion, Monty Got A Raw Deal, Laughing, You Are Everything

:o where is ''orange crush''

hmm best performance was ''country feedback'' on jools holland.

what can i say about Stipe, he's a legend (he's gonna be a star:P)

supposedly gay but f*ck that the guy has an amazing voice. haha i love in The Simpsons when he breaks the bottle & the band are like ''NO michael that isn't the way

your right lets go recycle these broken shards of glass''

Losing My Religion

Supernatural Superserious

Mr. Richards

I like most of what I've heard by REM.

My three favourite songs by them are;

The One I Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F0HsszEiwg

Crush With Eyeliner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUoOX1SOyuc&feature...

Strange Currencies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQuWuqZ4SGs

I can't believe he's 50 . happy b-day Michael !

Hollow Man

I'll Take The Rain

Try Not To Breathe

Leaving New York

Electron Blue