I’m not putting this on here for the reasons you might already be thinking of. I did hear it on the radio yesterday, and that was definitely for those reasons, but I’m steering clear of all that stuff on here (at least for the moment).
It is a great song – one of my favourites by REM – and deserves to be highlighted, regardless of the current global political machinations.
And this is albeit that the band themselves volunteered it as an anti-Trump song last year in yet another move which didn’t destroy him.
This is a longer live version, complete with a really young Michael Stipe (hey, it was filmed in 1989!), plenty of stick and chair action and a cinematic video. It takes a while to get going.
Be patient. Trust me.