R.E.M.
1989-04-11
War Memorial
Syracuse, NY
disc one:
(Missing)Pop Song 89
01.Exhuming McCarthy
02.Welcome To The Occupation
03.Pilgrimage
04.Turn You Inside-Out
05.Driver 8
06.Rules
07.Orange Crush
08.Sitting Still
09.Feeling Gravitys Pull
10.Cuyahoga
11.World Leader Pretend
12.Begin The Begin
13.Pretty Persuasion
14.Low
15.Stony River/Tired Of Singing Trouble
16.I Believe
17.Get Up
disc two:
01.Auctioneer (Another Engine)
02.It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
encore 1:
03.Stand
04.With A Girl Like You/Dark Globe
05.You Are The Everything
encore 2:
06.Finest Worksong
07.King Of Birds
08.See No Evil
encore 3:
09.Harpers/Summertime
10 Micheal talking
11.Crazy
12.Perfect Circle
13.After Hours
14.Ages Of You (filler)
15.1,000,000 (filler)
Stipe before Sitting Still - Talks about playing Orange Crush at a venue called 'War Memorial'
Quality issues:
-Missing 1st song (Pop Song '89)
-Skipping in Inside Out (at approx. 1:30)
-The taper can be clearly heard on a few occasions wondering what
will be played next.
-World Leader Pretend cut.
-grade
C-
Notes:
-As Eric Z has stated previously, this is a very interesting version of Low
-Dark Globe is aborted which draws a laugh from the crowd (?)
-31st time they have preformed Perfect Circle
-hilariuos version of Afterhours. Can you say rhubarb?
-filler seems to come from a studio performance/soundboard by my guess.
-The quality of this show is not stellar, and there are songs missing/
cut, so I'd reccomend this for completists/hardcore fans. It should
be noted though that Low and Afterhours make this a must-have for said fan. With spontenaiety at such a premium on this
tour, this version of Afterhours is priceless.
R.E.M.
War Memorial
Syracuse, N.Y.
April 11, 1989
Lineage: Audience (walkman w/ built-in mics, Karen R. source)
> 1st generation tape > NERO ROM > Cool Edit (separation of
file into tracks; adding fades) > FLAC > you!
Sound Quality: B/B-
Disc 1:
1. Pop Song 89
2. Exhuming McCarthy
3. Welcome to the Occupation
4. Pilgrimage
5. Turn You Inside-Out
6. Driver 8
7. Orange Crush
8. Sitting Still
9. Feeling Gravity's Pull
10. Cuyahoga
11. We Live As We Dream, Alone / World Leader Pretend
{ Begin the Begin - missing, not recorded }
12. Pretty Persuasion (first half missing, not recorded)
13. Low (FIRST PERFORMANCE - LOUDER DRUMMING!)
14. Stony River
15. Tired of Singing Trouble
16. I Believe
17. Get Up
18. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
19. It's the End of the World As We Know It...
Disc 2:
1. Stand
2. With a Girl Like You (Mike Mills vocal)
3. Dark Globe
4. You Are the Everything
5. Finest Worksong
6. King of Birds
7. See No Evil
8. Harpers
9. Summertime
10. Crazy
11. Perfect Circle
12. Afterhours / [ Michael's "rhubarb" experiment ]***
This may seem like an average Green Tour recording, which is
true with one important exception: the first (and most
unusual) performance of "Low", including Bill Berry's
full-strength drumming. After this performance, they didn't
play the song again until mid-September, and by that time
it sounded much more like the "Out of Time" version complete
with quieter percussion.
My friend Karen R. recorded this on her walkman, and this is
from my first-generation copy. Unfortunately she missed
the last few seconds of "World Leader Pretend", all of
"Begin the Begin", and the first half of "Pretty Persuasion".
Does anybody have an upgrade? I'd love to have one!
*** Michael stops "Afterhours" and asks everyone in the crowd
to repeat the word "rhubarb" over and over again. He explains
that in the early days of movie-making, actors in the background
of a scene would do this to create the sound of quiet
background conversation. I'm not sure if it worked the way
he thought it would, but it certainly was memorable and weird!
certainly was weird!
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Grade: C