R.E.M. with Keith Phipps

Stipe. Buck. Mills. Berry. Beaton. Hillman. One of the most important and significant American bands of all time gets the TMGT treatment. It's R.E.M. week!

Joining the show to talk 32 years, 15 albums, and a pod-record seven late night clips is former AVclub editor and current "The Reveal" film critic Keith Phipps! They span the late-night TV globe from America to the UK to Europe to break down the band's prolific and varied longtime career. The guys discuss R.E.M.'s incredible indie run on IRS Records in the 1980's before watching superstardom performances on SNL and the MTV Video Music Awards. And Germany's late night show "Wetten, dass..?" makes quite a first impression.

Want to watch along with us? Check out the links below for the performances discussed this week!

Radio Free Europe/So. Central Rain, 10/6/1983 on Late Night with David Letterman

Driver 8/Can't Get There from Here, 10/25/1985 on The Tube UK

Stand/Get Up, 10/17/1989 on The Arsenio Hall Show

Losing My Religion, 4/13/1991 on Saturday Night Live

Everybody Hurts/Drive, 9/2/1993 on the MTV Video Music Awards

The Great Beyond, 12/13/1999 on The Late Show with David Letterman

Supernatural Superserious, 3/29/2008 on Wetten, dass..?