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26 April 1983
Spize Club,
Farmingdale, NY

01. Moral Kiosk
02. Catapult
03. Sitting Still
04. Pilgrimage
05. Talk About The Passion
06. Shaking Through
07. Romance
08. Wolves, Lower
09. Harborcoat
10. Pretty Persuasion
11. Gardening At Night
12. 9-9
13. Windout
14. 1,000,000
15. West Of The Fields
16. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
encore:
17. White Tornado
18. Ages Of You, Seven Chinese Brothers (false start)
19. Seven Chinese Brothers
20. Radio Free Europe
21. Pills

Notes:
-Very enthusiastic crowd (and taper) who announces 'Fuck Spize! We came here for R.E.M.!'
-Before Moral Kiosk, MS announces that the band didn't get to soundcheck, and warns the crowd they may be 'in for it'
-Before Talk About The Passion, PB is tuning, and the taper shouts 'Say something.', to which MS replies 'OK.  This song is for Billy of Braveman.'
-1,000,000 contains some lines from an old punk song 'Make this batch with extra grease.  This one's for the Cheif of Police.'
-After the Seven Chinese Brothers false start, MS gives some insight into the lyrics, which come from the Children's book 'The Five Chinese Brothers'

Grade: B
One of the better sounding aud recordings of 1983.  Crowd noise is confined to between song banter, and the insight into Seven Chinese Brothers is priceless.

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