21 August 1999
Midway Stadium,
St. Paul, MN
support: Wilco
soundcheck: Begin The Begin / Perfect Circle / Wolves, Lower / Lotus
01. Intro
02. Lotus
03. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
04. So Fast, So Numb
05. Fall On Me
06. Suspicion
07. Daysleeper
08. Everybody Hurts
09. Electrolite
10. The Apologist
11. Sweetness Follows
12. The Great Beyond
13. The One I Love
14. Find The River
15. At My Most Beautiful
16. Banter
17. Finest Worksong
18. Losing My Religion
19. Man On The Moon
20. Walk Unafraid
21. Banter
encore:
22. Long Road (Michael solo, one verse)
23. Hope (Stipe solo)
24. Long Road (Mills & Stipe)
25. Why Not Smile (Mills & Stipe)
26. Crush With Eyeliner
27. Tongue
28. Banter
29. Cuyahoga
30. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Timeline notes: The encore had to be cut short due to an approaching thunderstorm, so 'Why Not Smile', 'The Wake-Up Bomb' & 'Tongue', had to be cut from the set. During the set trains could be heard going past the venue, so in tribute the band performed a short version of 'Train, Train', & Michael sang part of 'Driver 8' a capella.
Notes:
-Before Fall On Me MS "Peter pointed out to me earlier today this might be the only hardball whatchya call it...grounds that we've ever performed in. And we're surrounded by trains which makes me invetably (?) happy and the rain hasn't come yet which makes me equally happy".
-I wish I was in the back story and standard intro before The Apologist
-Before MOTM MS notes it has started raining and jokes(?) that being from Georgia, he has never seen a mosquito.
-Country Feedback solo 1:21
-Before AMMB MS notes that Brian Wilson was in the audience a few nights previous.
-MS returns from the encore break with his Elvis impersonation Thank you very much. It's kind of futile but I brought my towel with me. I'm not going to get electrocuted am I? No? Ok. I like being wet. I think people look better when they're wet, I have to say. As a lover of photography and you look at pictures that were taken 10 years, 20, 30, years ago 100 years ago, it's the ones where the people were wet you can't tell what kind of stupid hairstyle they have. They look really good all the time. So throw down those barrettes people! Take off those baseball caps people! You! Is that a R.E.M. cap? You can keep it on. If it's a Nike cap you better fucking throw it down. Ok wait a minute is Nike a Minneapolis organization? Alright cool. I fucking hate Nike I have to say. But that's not why we're here tonight is it? No. We could talk about Target, a Minneapolis corporation aren't they? According to my friend Heather who was born here, Target was one of the first companies to kind of publicly embrace equal rights for same sex partners before it was cool to do that. So I never go to Walmart, I always go to Target. [Lightening flash?] Whoa! I better watch what I'm saying! Those Walmart people have pretty high connections don't they? [Thunder] Sorry McDonalds, sorry Nike, I'm sorry Coca-Cola I didn't mean it. Any of it I promise. I love you all.
-SQ really falls off towards end of ITEOTWAWKI, taper possibly covering mics due to rain
Grade: B
-This digital copy replaces my cdr that suffered from gaps between all tracks, missing tracks and other maladies.