R.E.M.
21 June 2008
Lakewood Amphitheatre
Atlanta, GA
Unknown Audience recording -> ? -> FLAC fiels received in trade
Disc I
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Soundcheck
01 Strange Currencies (without Vocals)
02 Strange Currencies (w/Vocals)
03 So Fast, So Numb
04 Time After Time (Annelise)
05 Time After Time (Annelise) (part)
05 Living Well Is The Best Revenge
06 Nightswimming
Disc II
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01 These Days
02 Living Well Is the Best Revenge
03 So Fast, So Numb
04 What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
05 Time After Time (Annelise)
06 Driver 8
07 Man-Sized Wreath
08 Walk Unafraid
09 Hollow Man
10 Ignoreland
11 Houston
12 Electrolite
13 (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
14 Auctioneer (Another Engine)
15 Harborcoat
16 The One I Love
17 I've Been High
18 Let Me In
19 Bad Day
Disc III
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01 Horse To Water
02 Orange Crush
03 I’m Gonna DJ
encore:
04 Supernatural Superserious
05 Losing My Religion
06 Pretty Persuasion
07 Nightswimming
08 Fall On Me
09 Man On The Moon
10 Post show chat
note:
Johnny Marr guests on Fall On Me and Man On The Moon
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Notes
-Soundcheck is recorded from outside the venue, likely from a parking garage as a diesel pulls up next to the taper and idles for all of Nightswimming. In terms of SQ I'd grade it an F but it does make for an interesting listen.
-Setlist highlights: So Fast, So Numb (11), Time After Time (8), Auctioneer (14), Harborcoat (9), Nightswimming (11)
-MS teases his standard intro for MSW before the song, noting he'll go into more detail later.
-Before Ignoreland MS revisits playing MSG after the 2004 election, notes his dad is still thinking about Iran-Contra, and gives the standard intro for the song.
-Before Electrolite, MS offers the standard intro then asks for everyone to hold up their phone during the middle 8 to recreate the view from Mulholland Drive. After the song "That was awesome! I'm going to take that to Europe!".
-After Harborcoat MS I think we played that maybe for the first time on this tour, maybe for the first time in like 20 years or whatever. We suddenly realized the degree to which because, Ill just do a little shout out right here because there are two bands you've already seen tonight; Modest Mouse and The National, they're fucking awesome bands and I've had to personally work really hard on this tour not to steal directly from them. But I've learned a lot. Anyway, we know what it's like to be in an opening slot. And in fact, that song we just played, none of us realized until the other day when we were rehearsing, well kind of fake rehearsing it how much we owed to The English Beat, one of the great bands we opened for. The Gang Of Four was one of the bands, we met the through Pylon and we owe both of those bands an enormous amount. If nothing else, World Leader Pretend was exactly basically Gang Of Four meets Leonard Cohen, run through R.E.M.". He also notes he has his Robbie Williams mic.
-Pretty Persuasion is sent out to Modest Mouse "if you could bottle intensity you would have Modest Mouse".
-After Nightswimming, MS talks about a shirt he got From The National's merch stand, the MLK grave desecration, and implores Georgia to vote for Obama.
Grade: D
-rumbly, blown out kick drum, bass seems over-accentuated.