R.E.M. Live

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(65/100) ^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Austin Chronicle	^[3]
Billboard	(positive) ^[4]
Entertainment Weekly	C ^[5]
NME	(7/10) ^[6]
The Phoenix	^[7]
Pitchfork Media	(5.8/10) ^[8]
Rockfeedback	^[9]
Rolling Stone	^[10]
Spin	(6/10) ^[11]

Promotional banner for R.E.M. Live. From left to right: Peter Buck (guitar), Michael Stipe (image), Mike Mills (bass).

R.E.M. Live is a live album from R.E.M., recorded at the Point Theatre, Dublin, on February 26 and 27, 2005, the closing nights of the winter European leg of the Around the World Tour in support of their thirteenth studio album Around the Sun released in late 2004. It was released in the United Kingdom on October 15, 2007 and in the United States a day later as a two-Compact Disc audio set and a DVD, then released in February 2008 as a triple vinyl set. The performance was filmed by Blue Leach, who also directed Depeche Mode's Touring the Angel: Live in Milan.

R.E.M. Live features rare performances of "I Took Your Name" from 1994's Monster and "Ascent of Man" from Around The Sun as well as the previously unreleased "I'm Gonna DJ." A studio version of that song would later appear on the band's 2008 effort, Accelerate.

On September 26, 2007, the band launched R.E.M. Live Zine to solicit reviews from fans and promote the album.^[12]

The DVD has the option for stereo or digital 5.1 surround sound.

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe except as indicated.

CD 1

"I Took Your Name" (Bill Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (originally on Monster) – 4:08
"So Fast, So Numb" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (originally on New Adventures in Hi-Fi) – 4:40
"Boy in the Well" (originally on Around the Sun) – 5:16
"Cuyahoga" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (originally on Lifes Rich Pageant) – 4:25
"Everybody Hurts" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (originally on Automatic for the People) – 6:49
"Electron Blue" (originally on Around the Sun) – 4:13
"Bad Day" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (originally on In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003) – 4:26
"The Ascent of Man" (originally on Around the Sun) – 4:12
"The Great Beyond" (originally on Man on the Moon Soundtrack) – 4:49
"Leaving New York" (originally on Around the Sun) – 4:48
"Orange Crush" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (originally on Green) – 4:27
"I Wanted to Be Wrong" (originally on Around the Sun) – 5:02
"Final Straw" (originally on Around the Sun) – 4:10
"Imitation of Life" (originally on Reveal) – 3:53
"The One I Love" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (originally on Document) – 3:27
"Walk Unafraid" (originally on Up) – 5:02
"Losing My Religion" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (originally on Out of Time) – 4:53

CD 2

"What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (originally on Monster) – 4:06
"Drive" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (originally on Automatic for the People) – 5:41
"(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (originally on Reckoning) – 4:39
"I'm Gonna DJ" (later released on Accelerate) – 2:27
"Man on the Moon" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe) (originally on Automatic for the People) – 6:46

The DVD consists of all of the preceding songs, in the same sequence.

The original show was February 27, 2005 (except "Electron Blue", from the night before at the same venue) but had a longer setlist, and four songs were cut from the DVD: "Animal", "High Speed Train", "Sweetness Follows", and "The Worst Joke Ever".^[13]

Personnel

R.E.M.

Peter Buck – guitar
Mike Mills – bass guitar, background vocals, keyboards, lead vocals on "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville"
Michael Stipe – Vocals, harmonica on "Bad Day"

Additional musicians

Scott McCaughey – guitar, keyboards, background vocals
Bill Rieflin – drums
Ken Stringfellow – keyboards, guitar, melodica, background vocals
Daniel Ryan of The Thrills – guitar and background vocals on "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville"

Release history

The two-CD/DVD version was first released in the United Kingdom on October 15, 2007 and the United States the following day. A triple vinyl LP was released in the UK on January 21, 2008, with the US release on February 19, 2008.

References

↑ "Critics Reviews for R.E.M. Live - Metacritic". Metacritic. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
↑ "R.E.M. Live - R.E.M. : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards: Allmusic". Allmusic. Rovi Corp. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
↑ Stevens, Darcie (28 December 2007). "Review: R.E.M. - Music - The Austin Chronicle". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
↑ Letkemann, Jessica (2007). "R.E.M. Live". Billboard. Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 16 October 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
↑ Wolk, Douglas (19 October 2007). "R.E.M. Live Review | Music Reviews and News". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
↑ Webb, Rob (12 October 2007). "NME Album Reviews - REM: 'REM Live' - NME.COM". NME. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
↑ Drozdowski, Ted (13 November 2007). "R.E.M. - CD Reviews". The Phoenix. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
↑ Deusner, Stephen M. "R.E.M.: Live | Album Reviews". Pitchfork Media. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
↑ Thomson, Alex Lee. "RockFeedback- Review - R.E.M. - Live (Warner)". RockFeedback. RockFeedback. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
↑ Fricke, David (2007-11-15). "R.E.M. Live". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2012-08-27.
↑ Anderson, Stacey (18 January 2008). "R.E.M., 'R.E.M. Live' (Warner Bros.) | SPIN". SPIN. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
↑ "R.E.M. :Home". R.E.M. Internet Archive: Warner Bros. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2013. CS1 maint: Unfit url (link)
↑ White, Darryl. "R.E.M. Timeline - 2005 Concert Chronology". The R.E.M. Timeline. The R.E.M. Timeline. Retrieved 10 February 2013.

External links

R.E.M. Live Zine at the Wayback Machine (archived April 1, 2007)
R.E.M. Live at R.E.M.HQ
R.E.M. Live Zine Flickr pool
McCaughey announcing the album
Chris Bilheimer discusses designing the album
R.E.M. Live at AllMusic
R.E.M. Live at Metacritic

R.E.M.

Bill Berry Peter Buck Mike Mills Michael Stipe

Personnel	Nathan December Buren Fowler Peter Holsapple Barrett Martin Scott McCaughey Bill Rieflin Ken Stringfellow Joey Waronker

Managers	Bertis Downs IV Jefferson Holt

Studio albums	Murmur Reckoning Fables of the Reconstruction Lifes Rich Pageant Document Green Out of Time Automatic for the People Monster New Adventures in Hi-Fi Up Reveal Around the Sun Accelerate Collapse into Now

Compilations	Dead Letter Office Eponymous The Best of R.E.M. The Automatic Box Singles Collected In the Attic In Time iTunes Originals And I Feel Fine Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011 Complete Rarities: I.R.S. 1982–1987 Complete Rarities: Warner Bros. 1988–2011 7IN—83–88

EPs	Chronic Town Not Bad for No Tour Vancouver Rehearsal Tapes Live from London Reckoning Songs from The Olympia

Other albums	Man on the Moon r.e.m.IX R.E.M. Live Live at The Olympia Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions

Singles	"Radio Free Europe" "Talk About the Passion" "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" "Cant Get There from Here" "Driver 8" "Wendell Gee" "Fall on Me" "Superman" "The One I Love" "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" "Finest Worksong" "Orange Crush" "Stand" "Pop Song 89" "Get Up" "Losing My Religion" "Shiny Happy People" "Near Wild Heaven" "Radio Song" "Drive" "Man on the Moon" "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" "Everybody Hurts" "Nightswimming" "Find the River" "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" "Bang and Blame" "Strange Currencies" "Crush with Eyeliner" "Tongue" "E-Bow the Letter" "Bittersweet Me" "Electrolite" "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us" "Daysleeper" "Lotus" "At My Most Beautiful" "Suspicion" "The Great Beyond" "Imitation of Life" "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)" "I'll Take the Rain" "Bad Day" "Animal" "Leaving New York" "Aftermath" "Electron Blue" "Wanderlust" "#9 Dream" "Supernatural Superserious" "Hollow Man" "Man-Sized Wreath" "Until the Day Is Done" "Mine Smell Like Honey" "Überlin" "Oh My Heart" "We All Go Back to Where We Belong"

Other songs	"Sitting Still" "Gardening at Night" "Perfect Circle" "Pretty Persuasion" "Begin the Begin" "Cuyahoga" "Ages of You" "Turn You Inside-Out" "Texarkana" "Country Feedback" "First We Take Manhattan" "Ignoreland" "Dark Globe" "Star 69" "New Test Leper" "All the Right Friends" "Out in the Country"

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