C&L's Late Nite Music Club with R.E.M. (Exclusive!)
R.E.M. Live At The Olympia is a double CD and DVD packed with 39 songs from their "rehearsal shows" in Dublin from 2007, where they played to smaller crowds over five nights at the Olympia Theatre.
The band used these shows to test-drive material from the album Accelerate before recording it and to treat fans to classics from all stages of their formidable career. They graciously offered C&L the chance to premiere one of the clips, and we happily accepted.
The set comes out on October 27th. It's pretty obvious from this clip that they still pack the vitriol and passion that most bands that have been cranking for 29 years have lost long ago.
(BTW, R.E.M. is the first concert I ever went to -- my Dad took me to see them at the Felt Forum in New York City for my 7th birthday (I thought I was older until I Googled the show). Legendary indie-rockers The Feelies opened, so technically they're the first live band I ever saw, but my only memory is of R.E.M. playing "Superman" and "Fall on Me", and being generally mesmerized by live rock music for the first time.)
I love it :)
Bad Day
Just so ahead of its time.
This is a fine song indeed!
I've always liked "Man on the moon", makes me feel about a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
oh yea. LOVE that song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhzhiQA6-Aw
Bad Religion- Atomic Garden.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCPRsxvCoHU
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Cool tune!
I likey, fastfeat :)
Thanks
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
You got "superman" live! Damn! I saw them in 95 and last year. Great show!!!!
REM's "Wendell Gee": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcHORmlabYU
and Belly's "Feed the Tree":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMStlGsQTr0&fe...
always seemed to go together somehow in my f'ed up head...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
LOVE LOVE LOVE the feelies and their velvet underground fed through mid american 80s jangly rock vibe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7EpGVB7-kk&fe...
I'm impressed that they still go all the way back to the Chronic Town EP for live material.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Every Word Means No
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
I was at that (amazing) show and have a fairly good quality recording of it I made myself. If you are interested, contact me and I can send you the mp3.
I remember someone with microphones on their hats at that show. any way that was you?
I would not mind a recording of that show as I was there. could you contact me at johndillworth@live.com?
thanks
You were SEVEN when you saw that concert????
I saw it too (although in LA) I was in college. *sob*
I really have to insist you stop making me feel so old.
;)
P.S. My dad would never have gone to a concert like that. My dad was, however, a big fan of Broadway. Whenever we went to NY--which was semi-regularly, my mum's family was in NYC and NJ--I'd always get to catch all the B'way shows. I still know all the words to Evita, Phantom, Les Miz, etc.
I saw them on that tour as well in the Bay Area. Damn, these kids are so young! :)
I saw REM many times over the years, they are a fantastic live band for sure.
After all these years, I still maintain their best album is Life's Rich Pageant. Document and Green are very good records, too.
Automatic For The People is (IMHO) their last good album.
It was a great show. Michael Stipe wore a dress and railed against our nuclear power plant, which we were trying to get shut down (and subsequently did).
Also caught them during Fables of the Reconstruction of the Fables of the...you get the picture. It was in a hockey rink in Chicago. Aimee Mann's old band opened. Also fantastic.
My eyes aren't red and puffy. I was mesmerized by the live rock music!
Thanks for the post. It was kind of my personal theme song while going to a community college way back in the very early 80s. That and "Don't Go Back to Rockville". Great fun to know they still like their old stuff.
So, going back to the Green tour, I had a few friends who went to the show in Minneapolis, who, jointly had letters to spell "BOXCARS". Well they didn't do the song, but (and if anyone who was at the show can verify this because I was at the one in Iowa City, not the Twin Cities) the story goes, Michael Stipe used their "S" when they did Stand.
As I say, I can't verify, but it's in character. I can say they did So. Central Rain in Iowa, and it's... more powerful in person. (had to think there, it's a tough song to describe)
Funny how the singer of one of the most Beatlesque bands, Michael Stipe, said the Beatles became elevator musak.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
at the felt forum show too, pretty cool. But REM is dead & gone, they should have quit a long time back.
R.E.M. may not have lost it, but they put it on ice for a while. This hearkens back to when they created college rock. I saw them in 88.
"Radio Free Europe!!" must have drove Stipe crazy.
I remember that show. Was a bit older than you though. That was the one with no seats, just standing room. They had some mettle barriers at the front and the show got stopped for a bit because the crowd pushed someone into the barriers.
Some of my favorite tunes:
Man On The Moon
The Great Beyond
Bad Day
Losing My Religion
E-Bow The Letter
Everybody Hurts
Imitation Of Life
for the Reckoning tour & again in Atlanta at the end of their Rich Pageant tour - very fun indeed!
I'd actually much rather see the Feelies than REM. I saw them a couple times in the late '80s and always really dug them. I just found a couple of their records on iTunes (released in that format just this year). Give 'em a try if you haven't heard them.
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