I received R.E.M.'s In View DVD for Christmas and finally got around to watching it. It's all videos, many of which I had never seen because the songs never took off as singles. I was surprised by how there were certain images that popped up in several videos, spanning years, such as the moon, turbines, and twinkly lights. Clips of most of the videos can be seen here. I think that the "Man on the Moon," video is really Stipe's biggest movie star moment. He just looks great and oozes charisma on that one. The video for "E-Bow the Letter" was the most interesting to me, and the most filmlike, and Patti Smith just rocks. I had forgotten that the World Trade Center is in the first frame of the "Stand" video; that was a little jarring. The "Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" video is one of my favorites, mainly because Stipe is wearing this sort of early-90s boyband outfit (which I don't think was meant to be funny). It's very funny. He's kind of dressed like Vanilla Ice.
Posted by waking slow at February 7, 2004 12:50 PM