Michael Stipe

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Michael Stipe is forever cemented in the minds of music fans as the lead singer of R.E.M., one of the biggest rock bands in history. He's also made some fun appearances on shows like At Home with Amy Sedaris and The Adventures of Pete and Pete. R.E.M. was also recently inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame where they performed their classic song "Losing My Religion." When Stipe was last on Bullseye, we talked with him about discovering his voice, his passion for photography, and the new music he'd been writing.

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0:12.0	More information is at walton family foundation.org.
0:17.1	Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:23.6	It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne. My first guest this week is Michael Stipe. You know him as
0:41.8	the lead singer of REM, one of the biggest rock bands in the history of the genre. Maybe you know
0:47.7	him from his appearances on shows like at home with Amy Sideris in The Adventures of Pete and Pete.
0:53.6	Outside of REM, which broke up in 2011, he's collaborated with Warren Zvon, Patty Smith,
0:59.7	Billy Bragg, KRS1, and so many others.
1:03.0	R.M. has also reunited.
1:05.4	They were recently inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
1:09.3	They joined forces again to perform their classic
1:11.6	Losing My Religion at the induction ceremony.
1:30.7	I talked with a song, life, losing my religion, trying to keep up with you, and I don't know if I can to rest.
1:32.7	I talked with Stipe in 2022.
1:35.9	He'd been recording his own material sporadically back then.
1:36.7	He still is.
1:38.1	Here's one of those songs.
1:40.0	It's called Drive to the Ocean.
1:46.4	I'll drive through the mountains, the crumbling west.
1:52.9	I'll sing like the whales before man was a pest.
1:59.3	Radio transistor, my friend, by my side.
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