R.E.M. - Live at the Olympia

[Rickenbacker]

Disc One

1. "Living Well Is the Best Revenge" (from Accelerate)
2. "Second Guessing" (from Reckoning)
3. "Letter Never Sent" (from Reckoning)
4. "Staring Down the Barrel of the Middle Distance" (Previously Unreleased)
5. "Disturbance at the Heron House" (from Document)
6. "Mr. Richards" (from Accelerate)
7. "Houston" (from Accelerate)
8. "New Test Leper" (from New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
9. "Cuyahoga" (from Lifes Rich Pageant)
10. "Electrolite" (from New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
11. "Man-Sized Wreath" (from Accelerate)
12. "So. Central Rain" (from Reckoning)
13. "On the Fly" (Previously unreleased)
14. "Maps and Legends" (from Fables of the Reconstruction)
15. "Sitting Still" (from Murmur)
16. "Driver 8" (from Fables of the Reconstruction)
17. "Horse to Water" (from Accelerate)
18. "I'm Gonna DJ" (from Accelerate)
19. "Circus Envy" (from Monster)
20. "These Days" (from Lifes Rich Pageant)

Disc Two

1. "Drive" (from Automatic for the People)
2. "Feeling Gravitys Pull" (from Fables of the Reconstruction)
3. "Until the Day Is Done" (from Accelerate)
4. "Accelerate" (from Accelerate)
5. "Auctioneer" (Another Engine) (from Fables of the Reconstruction)
6. "Little America" (from Reckoning)
7 "1,000,000" (from Chronic Town)
7. "Disguised" (Later released as "Supernatural Superserious" on Accelerate)
8. "The Worst Joke Ever" (from Around the Sun)
9. "Welcome to the Occupation"(from Document)
10. "Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)" (from Chronic Town)
11. "Harborcoat" (from Reckoning)
12. "Wolves, Lower" (from Chronic Town)
13. "I've Been High" (from Reveal)
14. "Kohoutek" (from Fables of the Reconstruction)
15."West of the Fields" (from Murmur)
16. "Pretty Persuasion" (from Reckoning)
17. "Romance" (from the Made in Heaven soundtrack; later released on Eponymous)
18. "Gardening at Night" (from Chronic Town)


The new live album from R.E.M. was released today. These are recordings of a working rehearsal from Dublin's Olympia Theater from 2007. There are few if any hits, and plenty of deep cuts. The performances are tight and energetic, and the band sounds quite young here. ****, it's got "Romance?" I didn't even think that the band themselves remembered that one! Ha!

Anyway, I went out and bought it and I'll be listening within minutes. Anybody have thoughts on this one?