Tracks: CD 1 1 I Took Your Name 2 So Fast, So Numb 3 Boy in the Well
4 Cuyahoga 5 Everybody Hurts 6 Electron Blue 7 Bad Day
8 The Ascent of Man 9 The Great Beyond 10 Leaving New York
11 Orange Crush 12 I Wanted to Be Wrong 13 Final Straw
14 Imitation of Life 15 The One I Love 16 Walk Unafraid
17 Losing My Religion
CD2 18 What's the Frequency,
Kenneth? 19 Drive 20 (Don't Go Back To) Rockville 21 I'm
Gonna DJ 22 Man on the Moon
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Cynics
may dismiss R.E.M.'s first-ever live CD as a way to run out their
contract, and they may not be wrong. Despite the lack of a full-fledged
live album in their catalog — and some could call R.E.M. Live not quite
an album, since it is a two-CD/one-DVD package that documents a concert
the group gave at the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, on February 27,
2006, so it's as much a video as an album — there hasn't exactly been a
paucity of official live releases, not with all the home videos, DVDs,
and B-sides issued over the years (and this isn't even counting the
numerous bootlegs). If there wasn't necessarily a need for a live album,
it also is true that R.E.M.'s stock never was lower than it was in
2007, as the band was limping along after Around the Sun, which was not
so much a flop as it was merely ignored. So, the band could have
conceivably been running down their contract or they could have been in a
slump, needing the time that a live set bought them, or perhaps they
just wanted to offer a reminder of why everybody cared in the first
place, something that R.E.M. Live almost provides. At the very least,
R.E.M. Live proves that the group packs a stronger punch live than they
do in the studio, as the band gives songs from recent albums muscle they
sorely missed on record. They also can sound vital on classic material,
such as "Cuyahoga," which retains a fragile beauty here, and they give
"I Took Your Name" a mean, menacing vibe. Not that everything clicks
here — as they go to the encore, they get a bit too strident and
overblown, while Mike Mills' lead vocal on "(Don't Go Back To)
Rockville" turns the song into something a little too slight — but the
band sounds tight and enormous, a perfect example of old pros
comfortable in their skin. Now, this won't necessarily be everybody's
cup of tea — in particular, fans of the frenzied early R.E.M. rock &
roll will find this too anthemic — but this big, big sound on R.E.M.
Live speaks to the band's core strengths in a way no post-Bill Berry
studio album does.
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EAC extraction logfile from 9. December 2007,
12:04 for CD R.E.M. / R.E.M. Live
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