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R.E.M.
12 February 1989
Festival Hall
Melbourne, Australia

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(soundcheck on cdr version, cdr main set complete.  HD main set incomplete, lacks any soundcheck)

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could make a complete version with these two sources although Just A Touch needs some gaps removed

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soundcheck: (found on cdr version)
01. Welcome To The Occupation (partial)
So. Central Rain
02. Driver 8
03. Boy (Go)
04. Boy (Go)
05. Maps And Legends
06. Eleventh Untitled Song

Grade: D
Lots of audience noise, probably recorded from outside the venue, but nice to have nonetheless.

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set: (cdr version incomplete, HD version complete)
01. Pop Song 89
02. Exhuming McCarthy
03. Welcome To The Occupation
04. Orange Crush
05. Wolves, Lower
06. Disturbance At The Heron House
07. Feeling Gravitys Pull
08. Time After Time (Annelise)
09. World Leader Pretend
10. Tired Of Singing Trouble / I Believe
11. Superman
12. Pretty Persuasion
13. I Remember California
14. Get Up 

15. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

16. Auctioneer  (Another Engine) 

17. Begin The Begin
encore 1:

18. Stand 

19. We Walk 

20. Academy Fight Song 

21. You Are The Everything
encore 2:

22. Finest Worksong
15. King Of Birds
16. Fall On Me
17. Just A Touch (many dropouts)
18. Summertime
encore 3:
19. These Days
20. So. Central Rain
21. Eleventh Untitled Song
22. After Hours

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Grades: CDR: C+  Slightly better then average. Many dropouts

              HD: B Missing most of Fall On Me and everything after

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Notes:
-sound improves with Orange Crush and maintains for the rest of recording
-before Welcome To The Occupation, MS, compares South Americans to the Aborigines
-Wolves, Lower introduced as 'A song from the old times'
-tape is screwed up during Feeling Gravity's Pull
-Dropout after Superman
-after Summertime,MS: 'The last song was by George Gershwin.  You know that?  You know Americans don't know that .  He's American, it's kind of weird.  I used to do Rhapsody in Blue, but it's 22 minutes long.  It's kind of hard to stand through.  
-Takes MS a couple of tries to get Afterhours going. After a couple of false starts, MS: 'That's too high.  Go to G.'