Has Michael Stipe joined the Soggy Bottom Boys?

Who did you see on the list?

Kareem Abdul-Jabar
JJ Abrams
Alan Alda
Christiane Amanpour
Jon Batiste
Big Bird
Cory Booker
Tom Brokaw
Ken Burns
Bill Clinton
Andy Cohen
Francis Collins
Cookie Monster
Bob Costas
Katie Couric
Bryan Cranston
Mark Cuban
Jeff Daniels
Bill DeBlasio
Maureen Dowd
James Franco
Thomas Friedman
Vince Gilligan
Doris Kearns Goodwin
David Gregory
Terry Gross
Mike Huckabee
Arianna Huffington
Dean Kamen
Toby Keith
Henry Kissinger
Nicholas Kristof
Paul Krugman
Alexi Lalas
Cyndi Lauper
David Leonhardt
George Lucas
Yo Yo Ma
Barry Manilow
Senator Claire McCaskill
Tim Meadows
Willie Nelson
Randy Newman
Grover Norquist
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Ric Ocasek
Keith Olbermann
Mandy Patinkin
Stone Phillips
Samantha Power
Pussy Riot
Charlie Rose
Dan Savage
Smaug
Shane Smith
Eliot Spitzer
Gloria Steinem
Jon Stewart
Patrick Stewart
Michael Stipe
Andrew Sullivan
Matt Taibbi
Jeff Tweedy
Neil Degrasse Tyson
Sam Waterston
Elijah Wood

(http://www.vox.com/2014/12/19/7419893/colbert-finale-song)

So does this mean Michael Stipes isn't gay anymore??

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Stipe certainly has a nice vocal quality to bring to this song.

She also performed this song as a duet with Michael Stipe (REM), which is even better IMO

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/search/songs/?query=your%20ghost%20stipe

>> ^Truckchase:
>> ^silvercord:
I hate to be negative, but really, Trent:
Stoppit

Really? You're going to side with Mrs. Cheney on this one eh? I'm sure you'll find plenty of popular support on that....


I'm not "siding with Mrs. Cheney." I'm responding to the sentiment regarding the positive influence that Nine Inch Nails have had on American culture, i.e. " . . . all the awesome musicians who have enriched American culture . . . " and all the other indignation over at the NIN hotline. If it had been Michael Stipe, I wouldn't have said a word.

>> ^wagthedog1:
I was kind of waiting for the telling of this guys moment of reform, but it never arrived. Is he still a practicing KKK member or not?
Read the rest of the interview transcript and see for yourself. There is also a Rev Wade Watts tribute on Johnny's website.


From the tribute page:

"On another occasion, he went into a cafe in Ada, Oklahoma with his friend, Oklahoma State Senator Gene Stipe, where he was stopped at the door by the waitress. She proceeded to tell them they did not serve Negroes there! Wade told the woman, "Ma'am, I don't eat Negroes anyway, just give me some ham and some eggs!""

:} Sounded like a real genuine, loving, funny guy.

>> ^laura:
Anyone else heard the rumour that the people who appear on Sesame Street are doing so because they were court ordered to community service? Or is it just me...I've always wondered if that was true.


Yes, it's true. Feist, Michael Stipe, Tyra Banks, The Backstreet Boys, Jack Black, James Blunt, Tim Robbins, Noah Wyle, Blair Underwood and about one hundred other celebrities were all only on Sesame Street to honor a court order. I mean, it's a rumor you heard, it MUST be true!

they're so clever, mixing the bababababa in with the other words like that.. and stipe's 'ahh' bit... sexier than a kitten in a rectangular box.

Maybe the English subtitles are for karaoke purposes?

I like the part where Michael Stipe sings "Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba."

This is the version I remember seeing on MTV. I thought REM was just having fun with censorship. According to Wikipedia, MTV made the request.

'In the music video, MTV asked Stipe, who directed it himself, to censor the three topless women with whom he was dancing in the video. Instead, Stipe superimposed black bars on the chests of all four dancers, himself included, and stated, "a nipple is a nipple."'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Song_89

For those who want to see the UNCENSORED version, here it is on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PlhXLu-ebc

Yeah, I can't believe it didn't get more votes, either. *g*

You're off to a good start with that 3-D face morphing software, leeweek. And everybody dupes, sometimes. </stipe>

look at Stipe's hair! My hubby plays this on his guitar all the damn time,ha.. we're old.

Their first television appearance.

Yes, they DID once have energy and passion!
Yes, Michael Stipe DID once have hair!

Murmur, what an album.