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Gotta love the Oktoberfest.
Living Well
Kenneth
So Fast So Numb
I Took Your Name
Drive
Man Sized Wreath
Ignoreland
Just A Touch (!)
So. Central Rain (!)
Hollow Man
Great Beyond
Time After Time(!)
She Just Wants To Be(!!)
Horse To Water
The One I Love
Electrolite
I've Been High
Let Me In
Walk Unafraid
Bad Day
Orange Crush
Imitation Of Life
encore:
Supernatural Superserious
Losing My Religion
Country Feedback(!)
End Of The World(!)
Man On The Moon
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R.E.M. Play Surprise Song at Tribute to Their Three-Decade Career
A wide assortment bands and singers including Patti Smith, Kimya Dawson, the Feelies and Darius Rucker turned out at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall last night to pay tribute to R.E.M. by reinterpreting songs from the band’s back catalog before the erstwhile Georgians capped off the show with a surprise appearance and a few tributes of their own.
The concert — the latest in a series at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall arranged by New York entrepreneur Michael Dorf — was designed as a fundraiser for music programs benefiting underprivileged youth in the New York area. Previous events held for the same cause have honored the work of Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Sedaka, and Elton John and Bernie Taupin. R.E.M. were welcomed into that elite group with an enthusiastic set of performances, many of which were bolstered by country rockers Calexico, who served as the evening’s house band. Highlights included ex-Husker Du frontman Bob Mould retaining the incomprehensible beauty of “Sitting Still,” Glen Hansard’s uncannily accurate solo rendition of “Hairshirt” and Kimya Dawson managing to convert the cold-war era rumination of “World Leader Pretend” into a playful, xylophone-tinged lullaby complete with interpretative dancers dressed in circus costumes. Almost certainly a first for the Carnegie stage.
Inevitably, it was Patti Smith’s arrival that garnered the show’s biggest reaction and she prefixed her performance by saluting the “inspiration and joy” that R.E.M. have given her before adding that Michael Stipe “bought me up when I was down… and I ain’t never been down since.” Accompanied only by a piano, Smith then sang “New Test Leper” but forgot the lyrics halfway through, becoming visibly flustered in the process. “I learned them so good,” she laughed before regaining her composure and finishing the song in style.
Although it was billed as the final performance of the night, Mike Mills, Peter Buck and Michael Stipe emerged with Smith in tow for an unexpected encore. Sporting a beard that could give Joaquin Phoenix something to think about, Stipe returned Smith’s compliments by saying that the name-checking of Jesus in the first line of “New Test Leper” had been inspired by her rendition of “Gloria.” During the elegant, semi-acoustic version of the 1996 single “E-Bow The Letter” that followed, Stipe underlined his debt to the punk poetess by dropping to his knees almost in worship during the song’s final section.
Set List:
The dB’s – “Fall On Me”
Fink – “The Apologist”
Keren Ann – “Man On The Moon”
Calexico – “Wendell Gee”
Rachael Yamagata – “The Great Beyond”
Bob Mould – “Sitting Still”
The Feelies – “Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)”
Ingrid Michaelson – “Nightswimming”
Glen Hansard – “Hairshirt”
The Apples In Stereo – “So. Central Rain”
Guster – “Shaking Through”
Marshall Crenshaw – “Supernatural Superserious”
Rhett Miller – “Driver 8″
Kimya Dawson – “World Leader Pretend”
Vic Chesnutt And Elf Power – “Everybody Hurts”
Kristin Hersh And Throwing Muses – “Perfect Circle”
Dar Williams – “At My Most Beautiful”
Jolie Holland – “(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville” (featuring Kyp Malone of TV On The Radio)
Darius Rucker (from Hootie and the Blowfish) – “I Believe”
Patti Smith – “New Test Leper”
R.E.M. – “E-Bow The Letter” (featuring Patti Smith)
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The R.E.M. reissue campaign continues with a 25th anniversary deluxe edition of their second album, 1984's Reckoning, due out June 23 on I.R.S./A&M/UMe. Like last year's deluxe treatment of R.E.M.'s debut, Murmur, the deluxe Reckoning is a two-disc set. The second disc contains a live show taped at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago on July 7, 1984 and aired on Chicago radio station WXRT. The Aragon show features eight Reckoning songs, old songs "Gardening at Night" from Chronic Town and "Radio Free Europe," "9-9" and "Sitting Still" from Murmur, and new songs "Driver 8" and "Hyena", which would show up on Fables of the Reconstruction and Lifes Rich Pageant, respectively.
180 gram vinyl versions of the reissued Reckoning and Murmur will also be released on June 23.
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Could someone rename the topic please?
As we approach the Independence Day holiday weekend here in the States, our thoughts can't help but harken back (somewhat ironically) to Dublin where exactly two years ago, the band spent five nights at the venerable Olympia Theatre rehearsing new songs for what would eventually become ACCELERATE while also rolling out a dizzying array of older numbers, including the four tunes that comprise the soon-to-be released digital E.P. RECKONING SONGS FROM THE OLYMPIA (available at iTunes and other digital outlets on July 7th)
Of course all of this leads up to the fact that in October Warner will be releasing R.E.M. LIVE FROM THE OLYMPIA, a special 2-CD set featuring songs from the aforementioned five-night stint in Dublin. The double CD will come in various packages and is expected to included 30-plus songs. More on this release in the coming weeks.
finishing today the REM live dvd, cant wait, pretty crazy, a quite experimental approach, love to do that with them