R.E.M.
Paleo Festival
Nyon, Switzerland
27 July 2003
Source Information: Sony ECM-717 > Sony MZ-N707 MD (stereo setting) -> Cool Edit Pro 2.0 -> FLAC
Taped and edited by Matthijs van Geldere
Disc 1
1. Finest Worksong
2. Begin The Begin
3. Sitting Still
4. Drive
5. The Great Beyond
6. Animal
7. Fall On Me
8. All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star)
9. Bad Day
10. The One I Love
11. I've Been High
12. Daysleeper
13. So Fast, So Numb
14. Losing My Religion
Disc 2
1. At My Most Beautiful
2. Find The River
3. She Just Wants To Be
4. Walk Unafraid
5. Man On The Moon
6. Everybody Hurts
7. Country Feedback
8. Life And How To Live It
9. Permanent Vacation
10. Imitation Of Life
11. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
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Timeline notes: Actual written setlist from this show has the encores slightly different, with 'Life And How To Live It' not included.
Notes:
-After Begin The Begin, MS notes what was apparently a spectacular fireworks show "I've never seen fireworks like that and I've been around for a while". He goes on to note it's cold & rainy (again he notes being hot later so sarcasm here) and does his 'here & now' thing.
-Before Animal MS notes the end of the 6 week European leg of the tour.
-Fall On Me and ATWTR are noted as requests via the website. ATWTR is "About some place in Nevada".
-Standard intro to Bad Day
-Before Daysleeper MS says he is having trouble with his IEM and his tie "Which Peter is now sporting". He revisits the fireworks display "I still see [makes several exploding noises] The ones with the little...It's like watching the universe explode right in your face but it does it like 85 times all at once. That's some heavy shit. You're not going to see that on science educational television. That's a live experience, nothing can top it." He goes on to ask "you people in the building, are you warm?" then encourages them to throw money, jewelry, toupees, or high heels.
-MS toasts the crew before SFSN and notes they look really good in the showers.
-Standard intro to LMR
-Standard intro to AMMB which also has a false start.
-Find The River is notes as Peter's request "because he likes to play it and it's our last show and we thought you guys might enjoy it". He goes on to send it out to Buena Vista Social Club and then rattles off a line of SFSN.
-Before SJWTB MS gets his tie back from PB "suddenly I'm feeling formal" before winding up the crowd "are you ready to go where I'm going to take you?"
-MS Before MOTM "Can you see what's going on here? It's like spaghetti or something. I tried to be stylish for the Swiss audience, I know how you are". No idea what he's talking about here.
-After Everybody Hurts MS announces they will play longer than they are supposed to. He goes on to add that the next two songs are requests from the website and Country Feedback is his "other favorite song". PB solo 1:55.
-After Country Feedback MS thanks some friends for coming out then expresses his dismay at having to return to "the stupid United States. But that's ok, it's where we're all from and there's another side to everything". He goes on to note everyone's age at the time L&HTLI was written. He also notes his age when Permanent Vacation was written before that song.
Grade: C
-Track splits not done well, causing small pops/ gaps between tracks