REM- Shiny Happy People

[rcrush]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we_bSR3wrgY

Video is freakin hilarious.

[rcrush]

1. And now the muppets version? WTF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gmazKyK6LA&feature=related

[underpants]

5. Shiny Happy Monsters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gmazKyK6LA

[nomorenomore08]

2. Supposedly that one and "Stand" are their only songs that they've basically disowned.

And really, if you took yourself as seriously as they do, wouldn't you do the same? :P

[Arctic Dave]

3. What. As a long time REM fan I like both.

[nomorenomore08]

4. I do too, though I've always thought the best R.E.M. stuff was 'Document' and before.

But I can understand why they'd regret recording something like "SHP," considering both its ubiquity and its fundamental silliness. Tongue-in-cheek, no doubt, but I'm not sure the average listener "got" that.

[peekaloo]

6. the song was put to great use in 'Fahrenheit 9/11'

simultaneous laughter/hissing in the theater to the accompanying video. :-)

[Zomby Woof]

7. "Pull that bus over on the Pretentiousness Turnpike!"

[TheMightyFavog]

8. I want the shiny people over here, and the happy people over there!

I represent the angry, gun toting, meat eating fucking people. Sit down and shut the fuck up, Michael.


One of the few tracks from No Cure For Cancer that wasn't ripped off from Bill Hicks.

[Zomby Woof]

10. Well, Hicks ripped off Carlin

So all is fair.

[Robeson]

9. I think its cute. And Kate Pierson makes me want to stroke, uh, I mean...

...turn up the volume even more...

[Lucy Goosey]

11. I won a contest at a high school dance to this one!

They played the video, and told us to dance like the dancers in the video, and I guess I was the best one. I won a t-shirt and a toque from MuchMusic (Canada's MTV).