Succumbs

{{More citations needed|date=January 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Succumbs | type = video | artist = [[R.E.M.]] | cover = R.E.M. - Succumbs.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1987|10}} | recorded = | studio = | genre = [[Alternative rock]] | length = | label = UNI/[[A&M Records|A&M]] | producer = | chronology = R.E.M. albums | prev_title = [[Document (album)|Document]] | prev_year = 1987 | next_title = [[Eponymous (album)|Eponymous]] | next_year = 1988 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = R.E.M. | type = video | prev_title = | prev_year = | title = Succumbs | year = 1987 | next_title = [[Tourfilm]] | next_year = 1990 }} }}

'''''Succumbs''''' is [[R.E.M.]]'s first commercially available full-length [[Film|movie]]. Released in October 1987 by UNI/A&M, it contains video footage shot by R.E.M.'s lead singer [[Michael Stipe]] dating back to the early-1980s, while the band was still recording under the [[I.R.S. Records]] label. Stipe collaborated with local [[Athens, Georgia]] artist [[James Herbert (director)|James Herbert]], who directed [[Reckoning (R.E.M. album)#Left of Reckoning|Left of Reckoning]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ramirez|first=A. J.|date=2011-07-07|title=The Top Five I.R.S.-Era R.E.M. Music Videos, PopMatters|url=https://www.popmatters.com/the-top-five-i-r-s-era-r-e-m-music-videos-2495993152.html|access-date=2022-01-13|website=PopMatters|language=en-US}}</ref>

''Succumbs'' offers a glimpse of the unique feel of the [[band (music)|band]] before their commercial success. It was released only on [[VHS]] and [[laserdisc]], however, all the videos contained in this package are included on the ''[[When the Light Is Mine]]'' DVD, released in September 2006.

An introductory clip at the beginning of the collection features guitarist [[Peter Buck]] and the band's then-manager, [[Jefferson Holt]], introducing "citizens of the future" to an "outmoded artform" called the "[[music video|video]]", predicting it would have a staying power similar to that of [[Nehru jacket]]s and other forgotten [[fads]].

==Videos== All tracks written by [[Bill Berry]], [[Peter Buck]], [[Mike Mills]] and [[Michael Stipe]].

1. (Peter Buck and Jefferson Holt intro) 2. "[[Radio Free Europe (song)|Radio Free Europe]]" 3. "[[So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)|So. Central Rain]]" 4. "[[Reckoning (R.E.M. album)#Left of Reckoning|Left of Reckoning]]": .. (rain snippet) .. (Written intro for [[Reckoning (R.E.M. album)|''Reckoning'']]) .. (segues into) "Harborcoat" .. (segues into) "7 Chinese Brothers" .. (segues into) "So. Central Rain" .. (segues into) "Pretty Persuasion" .. (segues into) "Time After Time (Annelise)" .. (snippet) 5. "[[Cant Get There from Here]]" 6. (Michael Stipe railroads monologue) 7. (segues into) "[[Driver 8]]" 8. "Life and How to Live It" 9. "Feeling Gravitys Pull" 10. "[[Fall on Me (R.E.M. song)|Fall on Me]]"

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:R.E.M. video albums]] [[Category:1987 video albums]] [[Category:Music video compilation albums]] [[Category:R.E.M. compilation albums]] [[Category:1987 compilation albums]] [[Category:Warner Records compilation albums]] [[Category:Warner Records video albums]]