he moves efficiently
beyond security.
great opportunity awaits.
airport fluorescent
creature of habit
labored breathing and sallow skin
recycled air
moving sidewalks
great opportunity blinks.
great opportunity blinks.
discounted.
Song: Airportman
Album: Up
beyond security.
great opportunity awaits.
airport fluorescent
creature of habit
labored breathing and sallow skin
recycled air
moving sidewalks
great opportunity blinks.
great opportunity blinks.
discounted.
Song: Airportman
Album: Up
Airportman at Youtube
Airportman at Youtube
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2026 at 7:00 AM
he moves efficiently
beyond security.
great opportunity awaits.
airport fluorescent
creature of habit
labored breathing and sallow skin
recycled air
moving sidewalks
great opportunity blinks.
great opportunity blinks.
discounted.
Song: Airportman
Album: Up
beyond security.
great opportunity awaits.
airport fluorescent
creature of habit
labored breathing and sallow skin
recycled air
moving sidewalks
great opportunity blinks.
great opportunity blinks.
discounted.
Song: Airportman
Album: Up
temperatures dipping down to the 40s on Saturday it’s finally Up season
Airportman
YouTube video by R.E.M. - Topic
youtu.be
October 12, 2026 at 10:44 PM
temperatures dipping down to the 40s on Saturday it’s finally Up season
he moves efficiently
beyond security.
great opportunity awaits.
airport fluorescent
creature of habit
labored breathing and sallow skin
recycled air
moving sidewalks
great opportunity blinks.
great opportunity blinks.
discounted.
Song: Airportman
Album: Up
beyond security.
great opportunity awaits.
airport fluorescent
creature of habit
labored breathing and sallow skin
recycled air
moving sidewalks
great opportunity blinks.
great opportunity blinks.
discounted.
Song: Airportman
Album: Up
Airportman at Youtube
Airportman at Youtube
www.youtube.com
October 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM
he moves efficiently
beyond security.
great opportunity awaits.
airport fluorescent
creature of habit
labored breathing and sallow skin
recycled air
moving sidewalks
great opportunity blinks.
great opportunity blinks.
discounted.
Song: Airportman
Album: Up
beyond security.
great opportunity awaits.
airport fluorescent
creature of habit
labored breathing and sallow skin
recycled air
moving sidewalks
great opportunity blinks.
great opportunity blinks.
discounted.
Song: Airportman
Album: Up
Post-Bill Berry R.E.M. songs that are great/really stuck to my ribs (ABC order)
Aftermath
Airportman
All The Best
The Apologist
The Great Beyond
Hope
Houston
Imitation of Life
It Happened Today
I've Been High
Leaving New York
Lotus
The Lifting
Man-Sized Wreath
Supernatural Superserious
Suspicion
Aftermath
Airportman
All The Best
The Apologist
The Great Beyond
Hope
Houston
Imitation of Life
It Happened Today
I've Been High
Leaving New York
Lotus
The Lifting
Man-Sized Wreath
Supernatural Superserious
Suspicion
October 1, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Post-Bill Berry R.E.M. songs that are great/really stuck to my ribs (ABC order)
Aftermath
Airportman
All The Best
The Apologist
The Great Beyond
Hope
Houston
Imitation of Life
It Happened Today
I've Been High
Leaving New York
Lotus
The Lifting
Man-Sized Wreath
Supernatural Superserious
Suspicion
Aftermath
Airportman
All The Best
The Apologist
The Great Beyond
Hope
Houston
Imitation of Life
It Happened Today
I've Been High
Leaving New York
Lotus
The Lifting
Man-Sized Wreath
Supernatural Superserious
Suspicion
64-year-old Michael Shannon droning “Airportman” would be the live-music event of my lifetime.
September 29, 2026 at 2:36 PM
64-year-old Michael Shannon droning “Airportman” would be the live-music event of my lifetime.
Airportman, the opening track to R.E.M.’s album Up, has gotta be my most skipped song ever. Anytime I listen to that album I go straight to Lotus. I don’t know what it is but it’s probably my least favorite R.E.M. song out of their entire discography. I quite like the rest of Up, however.
August 27, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Airportman, the opening track to R.E.M.’s album Up, has gotta be my most skipped song ever. Anytime I listen to that album I go straight to Lotus. I don’t know what it is but it’s probably my least favorite R.E.M. song out of their entire discography. I quite like the rest of Up, however.
♪ #nowplaying Airportman - R.E.M. (Up - 1998) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
August 26, 2026 at 4:12 PM
♪ #nowplaying Airportman - R.E.M. (Up - 1998) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
♪ #nowplaying Airportman - R.E.M. (Up - 1998) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
August 26, 2026 at 4:12 PM
♪ #nowplaying Airportman - R.E.M. (Up - 1998) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
♪ #nowplaying Airportman - R.E.M. (Up - 1998) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
August 26, 2026 at 4:12 PM
♪ #nowplaying Airportman - R.E.M. (Up - 1998) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
he moves efficiently
beyond security.
great opportunity awaits.
airport fluorescent
creature of habit
labored breathing and sallow skin
recycled air
moving sidewalks
great opportunity blinks.
great opportunity blinks.
discounted.
Song: Airportman
Album: Up
beyond security.
great opportunity awaits.
airport fluorescent
creature of habit
labored breathing and sallow skin
recycled air
moving sidewalks
great opportunity blinks.
great opportunity blinks.
discounted.
Song: Airportman
Album: Up
Airportman at Youtube
Airportman at Youtube
www.youtube.com
August 13, 2026 at 9:00 AM
he moves efficiently
beyond security.
great opportunity awaits.
airport fluorescent
creature of habit
labored breathing and sallow skin
recycled air
moving sidewalks
great opportunity blinks.
great opportunity blinks.
discounted.
Song: Airportman
Album: Up
beyond security.
great opportunity awaits.
airport fluorescent
creature of habit
labored breathing and sallow skin
recycled air
moving sidewalks
great opportunity blinks.
great opportunity blinks.
discounted.
Song: Airportman
Album: Up
he moves efficiently
beyond security.
great opportunity awaits.
airport fluorescent
creature of habit
labored breathing and sallow skin
recycled air
moving sidewalks
great opportunity blinks.
great opportunity blinks.
discounted.
Song: Airportman
Album: Up
beyond security.
great opportunity awaits.
airport fluorescent
creature of habit
labored breathing and sallow skin
recycled air
moving sidewalks
great opportunity blinks.
great opportunity blinks.
discounted.
Song: Airportman
Album: Up
Airportman at Youtube
Airportman at Youtube
www.youtube.com
July 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM
he moves efficiently
beyond security.
great opportunity awaits.
airport fluorescent
creature of habit
labored breathing and sallow skin
recycled air
moving sidewalks
great opportunity blinks.
great opportunity blinks.
discounted.
Song: Airportman
Album: Up
beyond security.
great opportunity awaits.
airport fluorescent
creature of habit
labored breathing and sallow skin
recycled air
moving sidewalks
great opportunity blinks.
great opportunity blinks.
discounted.
Song: Airportman
Album: Up
Anyone think Radiohead’s Worrywort and REM’s Airportman are very very similar
February 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Anyone think Radiohead’s Worrywort and REM’s Airportman are very very similar
Thanks James, great work.
Did anyone else pick Airportman?!
Did anyone else pick Airportman?!
October 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Thanks James, great work.
Did anyone else pick Airportman?!
Did anyone else pick Airportman?!
#REMtop30
30. Airportman
from Up. 1998
Maybe not an obvious one to start with, and I'd be surprised if many people are picking this; but I really like it.
The sound of a band a bit uncertain with their direction after the departure of Bill Berry.
youtu.be/Bv42R1IrvN8?...
30. Airportman
from Up. 1998
Maybe not an obvious one to start with, and I'd be surprised if many people are picking this; but I really like it.
The sound of a band a bit uncertain with their direction after the departure of Bill Berry.
youtu.be/Bv42R1IrvN8?...
R.E.M. - Airportman (Official Visualizer from "UP" 25th Anniversary Edition)
YouTube video by remhq
youtu.be
September 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
#REMtop30
30. Airportman
from Up. 1998
Maybe not an obvious one to start with, and I'd be surprised if many people are picking this; but I really like it.
The sound of a band a bit uncertain with their direction after the departure of Bill Berry.
youtu.be/Bv42R1IrvN8?...
30. Airportman
from Up. 1998
Maybe not an obvious one to start with, and I'd be surprised if many people are picking this; but I really like it.
The sound of a band a bit uncertain with their direction after the departure of Bill Berry.
youtu.be/Bv42R1IrvN8?...
#19
The great American rock band loses their drummer, and where most would frantically race to prove their vitality when cut down, R.E.M. open their first album as a trio by basking in the cradling tranquility of Eno-style ambient, executed as if they'd always been doing it!
youtu.be/28VlDklpidw
The great American rock band loses their drummer, and where most would frantically race to prove their vitality when cut down, R.E.M. open their first album as a trio by basking in the cradling tranquility of Eno-style ambient, executed as if they'd always been doing it!
youtu.be/28VlDklpidw
R.E.M. | Airportman
YouTube video by Anonymous Listener 13
youtu.be
November 21, 2024 at 4:03 PM
#19
The great American rock band loses their drummer, and where most would frantically race to prove their vitality when cut down, R.E.M. open their first album as a trio by basking in the cradling tranquility of Eno-style ambient, executed as if they'd always been doing it!
youtu.be/28VlDklpidw
The great American rock band loses their drummer, and where most would frantically race to prove their vitality when cut down, R.E.M. open their first album as a trio by basking in the cradling tranquility of Eno-style ambient, executed as if they'd always been doing it!
youtu.be/28VlDklpidw
On OOT and AFTP there is a couple of songs I don't love, monster love it all so much fun. Up is a beautiful beautiful record only song I don't like is at my most beautiful. Yes I love airportman 😀
May 31, 2026 at 8:27 PM
On OOT and AFTP there is a couple of songs I don't love, monster love it all so much fun. Up is a beautiful beautiful record only song I don't like is at my most beautiful. Yes I love airportman 😀
I legitimately love airportman
January 10, 2026 at 8:13 PM
I legitimately love airportman
I absolutely love airportman 😊
September 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I absolutely love airportman 😊
Airportman: Hold my beer😁
September 18, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Airportman: Hold my beer😁
Great idea. Here’s my two cents.
1. West Was Won
2. Begin the Begin
3. Kenneth
4. Drive
5. Worksong
6. Radio Free Europe
7. Harbourcoat
8. Gravity’s Pull
9. Living Well
10. Leaving NY
11. Airportman
12. The Lifting
13. Pop Song 89
14. Discoverer
15. Radio Song
1. West Was Won
2. Begin the Begin
3. Kenneth
4. Drive
5. Worksong
6. Radio Free Europe
7. Harbourcoat
8. Gravity’s Pull
9. Living Well
10. Leaving NY
11. Airportman
12. The Lifting
13. Pop Song 89
14. Discoverer
15. Radio Song
R.E.M.'s openers often made bold statements. Here's my ranking:
1. Gravity's Pull
2. Begin the Begin
3. The Lifting
4. Worksong
5. Harborcoat
6. Radio Free Europe
7. West Was Won
8. Drive
9. Kenneth
10. Airportman
11. Pop Song '89
12. Leaving NY
13. Discoverer
14. Living Well
15. Radio Song
1. Gravity's Pull
2. Begin the Begin
3. The Lifting
4. Worksong
5. Harborcoat
6. Radio Free Europe
7. West Was Won
8. Drive
9. Kenneth
10. Airportman
11. Pop Song '89
12. Leaving NY
13. Discoverer
14. Living Well
15. Radio Song
November 20, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Great idea. Here’s my two cents.
1. West Was Won
2. Begin the Begin
3. Kenneth
4. Drive
5. Worksong
6. Radio Free Europe
7. Harbourcoat
8. Gravity’s Pull
9. Living Well
10. Leaving NY
11. Airportman
12. The Lifting
13. Pop Song 89
14. Discoverer
15. Radio Song
1. West Was Won
2. Begin the Begin
3. Kenneth
4. Drive
5. Worksong
6. Radio Free Europe
7. Harbourcoat
8. Gravity’s Pull
9. Living Well
10. Leaving NY
11. Airportman
12. The Lifting
13. Pop Song 89
14. Discoverer
15. Radio Song
Adam's 10... Blimey
I was surprised going through the albums - there's great stuff there, but so much meh.
Even still, picking the likes of Airportman and Hallelujah over much of the other stuff feels wilfully obtuse.
Interesting lists to be sure.
I was surprised going through the albums - there's great stuff there, but so much meh.
Even still, picking the likes of Airportman and Hallelujah over much of the other stuff feels wilfully obtuse.
Interesting lists to be sure.
March 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Adam's 10... Blimey
I was surprised going through the albums - there's great stuff there, but so much meh.
Even still, picking the likes of Airportman and Hallelujah over much of the other stuff feels wilfully obtuse.
Interesting lists to be sure.
I was surprised going through the albums - there's great stuff there, but so much meh.
Even still, picking the likes of Airportman and Hallelujah over much of the other stuff feels wilfully obtuse.
Interesting lists to be sure.
14 tracks isn’t it. I can live without The Apologist and Suspicion is a little soporific but oddly I find the baffling Airportman intriguing. And the rest I will happily hear anytime
March 8, 2026 at 2:40 PM
14 tracks isn’t it. I can live without The Apologist and Suspicion is a little soporific but oddly I find the baffling Airportman intriguing. And the rest I will happily hear anytime
R.E.M. Best Song Poll - 2nd Round - Group10 Tie Break
1️⃣ Airportman
2️⃣️ I Believe
3️⃣ Sweetness Follows
📅 Ends: March 1, 2025, 4:00 PM UTC
📊 Show results
1️⃣ Airportman
2️⃣️ I Believe
3️⃣ Sweetness Follows
📅 Ends: March 1, 2025, 4:00 PM UTC
📊 Show results
March 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
R.E.M. Best Song Poll - 2nd Round - Group10 Tie Break
1️⃣ Airportman
2️⃣️ I Believe
3️⃣ Sweetness Follows
📅 Ends: March 1, 2025, 4:00 PM UTC
📊 Show results
1️⃣ Airportman
2️⃣️ I Believe
3️⃣ Sweetness Follows
📅 Ends: March 1, 2025, 4:00 PM UTC
📊 Show results