R.E.M. Reconstruction tour northeast - 20th anniversary series, Volume 4.  

August 25, 1985 - JB Scott's Theater, Albany, NY  

Sony TCD-6M/Nacamichi CM-300 > Audience cassette master > Cassette > Cassette > CDR > dBpowerAMP > WAV > FLAC Frontend > Flac files

Here's another David O. Thomas recording, and it is very similar to all of the others.  I think this does not sound as good as Toronto, but it is better than the Barrymore's show.  Probably somewhere between A-/EX- and B+/VG+.    

This is another great show from this run.  The reason to get this one is the version of "Time is on MY Side", which is mostly faithful to the Stones version and I think the only time it was played by R.E.M.  The "Satisfaction" medley is much sloppier.  Overall, a great show and recording.                 


 
DISC 1 - SET:
1.Feeling Gravitys Pull
2.Harborcoat
3.Green Grow The Rushes
4.Hyena
5.Laughing
6.Time After Time
7.Driver 8
8.Fall On Me
9.So. Central Rain
10.Have You Ever Seen The Rain?/PSA (Bad Day)
11.West Of The Fields
12.Can't Get There From Here
13.Barney Miller Theme
14.Auctioneer (Another Engine)
15.Old Man Kensey
16.Pretty Persuasion
17.Little America
18.Femme Fatale

DISC 2 - ENCORES:
1.Ghost Riders In The Sky
2.Second Guessing
3.Time Is On My Side
4.(Don't Go Back to) Rockville
5.Skip a Rope
6.See No Evil
7.Two Steps Onward
8.Singing Cage
9.Life And How To Live It
10.We Walk
11.Satisfaction/Tired Of Waiting/My Generation
12.Wild Thing
13.Louie Louie

 

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Timeline notes: The only known time The Rolling Stones song 'Time Is On My Side' is covered by the band.
'Bad Day' isn't the full song, just Stipe singing 'it's been a bad day please don't take my picture' and some other lyrics that are thrown into the short song as well.

Notes:

-DO Thomas master on HD, CDR graded C
-Rolling Stones covers have been a staple of recent shows.  Two of them in this setlist

Grade: A