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[Ivana]

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R.E.M. have announced that they will premiere the video for their new single, “Mine Smell Like Honey,” on AOL Music on January 31st. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming album Collapse Into Now, due out March 8th, 2011, on Warner Bros. Records.

The video was directed by Dominic DeJoseph, who has directed music videos for R.E.M, including “Bittersweet Me,” and “New Test Leper” (co-directed with Lance Bangs) from New Adventures In Hi-Fi, tour films for Monster, as well as music videos for Jenny Lewis, Tilly and The Wall, The Stills, Ryan Adams, The Dandy Warhols, and Natalie Merchant. He also directed the documentaries Johnny Berlin (Executive Producer, Michael Stipe), The Heart of America (with Bono), and The One Dollar Diary (with Wim Wenders).

For Collapse Into Now, R.E.M., which is singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, and bassist Mike Mills, re-teamed with Grammy Award-winning producer Jacknife Lee, who produced the band’s acclaimed previous album Accelerate. R.E.M. and Lee recorded the album in New Orleans at the Music Shed and in Berlin at the famed Hansa Studios, where several legendary albums, including David Bowie’s Heroes, U2’s Achtung Baby, and Iggy Pop’s Lust for Life, were made. Additional recording and mixing was done at the venerable Blackbird Studio in Nashville.

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[MurmursAdministrator]

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R.E.M. are not just Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, they're also are one of the most successful video acts of all time, with clips like 'Everybody Hurts,' 'Nightswimming' and 'Losing My Religion' earning them the MTV Video Vangaurd Lifetime Achievement Award.

As bassist Mike Mills tells Spinner, videos have always been important to the group. "We figured if you were going to do them, you might as well do them well," Mills says. "We're also lucky in that Michael[Stipe] has a great visual sensitivity. He's really good with anything in the visual art world, so we started out ahead of the game."

Their latest visual opus is no exception. Directed by Dominic DeJoseph, the clip for 'Mine Smell Like Honey,' the lead single from the forthcoming 'Collapse Into Now' album, is an homage to one of the film industry's all-time greats. "With this one, it's a reference to the old Buster Keaton silent film kind of days of pratfalls and just watching people look like they're getting hurt when they're really not," Mills says.

Where did the concept come from? "There's a lot going on in that song," he says. "It's got a lot of propulsion and moving forward and so I think the idea of movement is what contributed to that video being like it is."

While the new album has fans extremely excited, R.E.M recently announced they wouldn't tour in support of the record. "We've made an album that we really love and I think it can sink or swim on its own, so I think we probably won't be doing any shows at all," Mills says. "We don't have any planned at this point."

"We're doing a bunch of videos for this record and they'll be non-standard; they won't be like the videos you used to see on MTV," he adds. "We had dinner with several of the guys who are making videos for this record and they were excited about it. I don't want to be the spokesman for their ideas; I'd rather wait for their videos to come out and let you see what they were thinking. But I know they're all talented guys and we're going to have fun with it."

[MyNameIsDean]

Any chance us in Europe can get to watch this?




Ok I just read the other thread and there is a link there.

[MyNameIsDean]

I see it mentions a video for New Test Leper. I had a google search for it and could not find it. Anyone care to link me up?

Thanks in advance.

[Driver Nate]

DeanR, on 31 January 2011 - 10:51 AM, said:

I see it mentions a video for New Test Leper. I had a google search for it and could not find it. Anyone care to link me up?

Thanks in advance.

You can watch it at HQ.

[stipeeyes]

Darn I can't watch it because I'm at work.   What an interesting position Michael is in on the still frame.  

[Mellie]

Can't see it. Jeez... it's 2011, why not make videos free to watch for all. Fuck all this.

[mrocks7]

Fantastic video. Another in a long line of great R.E.M. visuals.

[OrangeCrush76]

??


Okay, they're helping Michael up the stairs... oooh what's next?

Oh, they're helping him up some more stairs.

They left him on the floor, now what?

Group of people get him up the stairs...

Hmm, I think I'm missing something here, cause I was more pumped about the lyric video.
Great song, meh video.

[craigp]

fuck aol.  its 2011.

[wagtail]

there's another thread with a global link...:

Mine Smell Like Honey

It's likely to be on REMHQ's YouTube soon too, according to info MAK posted.

[craigp]

wagtail, on 01 February 2011 - 12:23 AM, said:

there's another thread with a global link...:

Mine Smell Like Honey

It's likely to be on REMHQ's YouTube soon too, according to info Paulo posted.

cheers

C

[2headedcow]

I like the video!   To me it's far more interesting than most clips these days.

I love watching REM live DVD's but their music videos only get a run once a year on my DVD Player.

[C.A.]

DeanR, on 31 January 2011 - 10:33 AM, said:

Any chance us in Europe can get to watch this?




Ok I just read the other thread and there is a link there.

What is the other thread called?  I can't find it.

It's annoying that the HQ link takes you to a UK version of the site and then states that the video can't be screened in that region.

[MyNameIsDean]

C.A., on 01 February 2011 - 05:10 AM, said:

What is the other thread called?  I can't find it.

It's annoying that the HQ link takes you to a UK version of the site and then states that the video can't be screened in that region.

If you are in the UK this should work.


http://www.nme.com/n...s-artists/54766

[C.A.]

DeanR, on 01 February 2011 - 06:05 AM, said:

If you are in the UK this should work.


http://www.nme.com/n...s-artists/54766

Thank you.

I must admit, the colour of that green plastic chair really brought out the colour of his eyes!

[Limnophilia]

The idea of having steep stairs with a hole in the middle was pretty clever. Answers the question of how you climb mountain steeper: have 5 arty looking people weird-carry you up it.

I also liked the way the quick shots are not jiggly. No headaches/epilepsy but still a fast video.

[Limnophilia]

Ooh, didn't think of that.

[Kimo]

thorn plucker, on 01 February 2011 - 06:58 AM, said:

I wonder if he was actually carried up the stairs or if he was guided down the stairs and they did something funky with the filming/editing. Similar to Imitation of Life.  It would have been a lot easier that way.

Oh yeah, I think the video is played backwards !! Take it from a Twin Peaks fan !

[evry streetlite]

if it is micheal as michael...the first single, as it is, then maybe he is artist as commodity.  the song may tie in with celebrities doing even mundane things in a "special" way (mine smell like honey).  it's a group of people rolling him up the stairs (not just carrying him)...so is it a sissyphus reference?  he isn't active.  he is an object...like moving a piano.  maybe pulleys would have worked better.  going up the stairs is an ascension, but he is often dangerously close/on the rails and could spiral down the central hole.  finally, he comes to life after they leave.  was he lazy and letting them do the work, or did he have to be carried for a while in order to finally get it together (the recent history of the band and their comeback?)  yes, he ends in a chair, but it's not much of a final destination (a bunck of crap piled up like an attic.)  there's further to go, up or down.it's not a complicated video full of distractions, but it has it's possible points. between the two, though, i'm still stuck on the lyric video. hehe.

oh, on second viewing.  he starts up in the chair.  then, it jumps to the beginngin of his ascent.  is it a flashback or a return?  feels a lot like a music label gearing up for the launch of a new, big album.  what's the frequency introduced bald JMS. this is bearded college professer JMS