Even he doesn’t know it. I remember watching REM unplugged back in college. They came to that song and Michael pulled out a sheet of paper from his pocket, unfolded it, and sat it on his lap. He looked up and said, “I couldn’t remember the words, so I had to look them up on the internet.”
Then, instead of singing “Jellybean, boom”, he sang “Jellybean, (static-sounding unspellable noise)”.
jodi
25.Apr.01 at 11:43 am
ha! now i don’t feel so stupid, i suspect orange tim might know the words. but i’ve listened to that song about 93,948 times and still don’t knwo them all. but i do know all the words to all the songs on motley crue’s shout at the devil.
at one point in time i did in fact have it memorized. it took the entire 3.5 hour drive up to school the first time my first year of college. it involved lots of rewinding on a pink boom box because my car stereo had just been stolen. i think i had it down by the time i passed the meat place in macon, which means nothing to anyone reading this i’m sure.
also, anyone who doesn’t know the words to a classic like “bastard” really just is not rawknroll at all.
Even he doesn’t know it. I remember watching REM unplugged back in college. They came to that song and Michael pulled out a sheet of paper from his pocket, unfolded it, and sat it on his lap. He looked up and said, “I couldn’t remember the words, so I had to look them up on the internet.”
Then, instead of singing “Jellybean, boom”, he sang “Jellybean, (static-sounding unspellable noise)”.
ha! now i don’t feel so stupid, i suspect orange tim might know the words. but i’ve listened to that song about 93,948 times and still don’t knwo them all. but i do know all the words to all the songs on motley crue’s shout at the devil.
and proud you should be…
at one point in time i did in fact have it memorized. it took the entire 3.5 hour drive up to school the first time my first year of college. it involved lots of rewinding on a pink boom box because my car stereo had just been stolen. i think i had it down by the time i passed the meat place in macon, which means nothing to anyone reading this i’m sure.
also, anyone who doesn’t know the words to a classic like “bastard” really just is not rawknroll at all.
i am the very definition of rawknroll.
I just sing along and mumble the parts I don’t know… just like Michael Stipe!