An REM thread for r.e.m. stuff

in case anyone is interested... i compiled (for myself and a friend) a four disc boxset of r.e.m. rarities. a miraculous hodgepodge of all eras of the band, various sources and sound quality, heavily inspired and structured after guided by voices' suitcase boxsets. maybe not a format for everyone but for me it's been a great way to consume the best non-album r.e.m. out there. dig it:

Dropbox

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Vol. 1
1. Live For Today
2. Mystery To Me
3. Academy Fight Song (Mission of Burma cover)
4. The Last R.E.M. Song
5. Skank
6. Cushy Tush
7. Surfing The Ganges
8. Speed Metal School
9. I'm In Love
10. Baby I
11. Catapult (RCA demo)
12. Magnetic North
13. Wait
14. See No Evil (Television cover)
15. Black Sky 4-14
16. Passenger (Iggy Pop cover)
17. Jun '02 #2

Vol. 2
1. Romance (Murmur version)
2. Bad Day (demo)
3. New Fast
4. Throw Those Trolls Away
5. Experiment In Terror
6. Title (live)
7. Ha! We Get Paid For It
8. Arms Of Love (Robyn Hitchcock cover)
9. Devil Rides Backwards
10. Animal
11. Ages Of You (Chronic Town version)
12. Laughing (RCA demo)
13. Fretless
14. Trains
15. Country Feedback (live w/ Neil Young)

Vol. 3
1. Airliner
2. It's A Free World Baby
3. Narrator
4. Shaking Through (RCA demo)
5. Revolution 4-21
6. Great Big
7. Time After Time (demo)
8. Run Away
9. Ages Of You (Murmur version)
10. Mandolin Strum
11. Eastern 983111
12. Theme From Two Steps Onward
13. Mike's Pop Song
14. E-Bow The Letter (live w/ Thom Yorke)
15. Sex Bomb (Flipper cover)

Vol. 4
1. Why Not Smile (Oxford American version)
2. Sponge (Vic Chesnutt cover)
3. That Beat
4. Permanent Vacation
5. Unknown 1 (Live January 22nd, 1982)
6. The Great Beyond
7. Tricycle
8. Where's Captain Kirk? (Spizzenergi cover)
9. Organ Song
10. Sitting Still (alt. version)
11. Unknown 2 (Live June 25th, 1982)
12. Title (instrumental demo)
13. Wall Of Death (Richard Thompson cover)
14. Unknown 3 (Live August 3rd, 1982)
15. Jun '02 #3
16. Lucky (Live w/ Radiohead)
17. Fascinating
18. All The Right Friends
 
Hello everyone, does anyone have a recording of The one I love performance from this video (starting at 2:15)?

 
tb_abc said:
New source for Tyrone's 1981-07-23: https://dbs-repercussion.blogspot.com/2025/03/r-e-m-1981-07-23-tyrones-athens-ga-sbd.html

This blog also has several remasters of REM shows: https://dreamremaster.blogspot.com/2025/03/rem-look-to-days-how-long-can-this-last.html
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I'm sorry to say this to whoever did this job, but it sounds terrible to my ears. They've just exploded the trebles and made it distorted. The original recording I have (named "That Beat In Time") sounds a lot more comfortable and honest.
 
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gargumma said:
I'm sorry to say to whoever did this job, but it sounds terrible to my ears. They've just exploded the trebles and made it distorted. The original recording I have (named "That Beat In Time") sounds a lot more comfortable and honest.
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totally agree here. it's shocking how much they ruined it. that hi-hat has become ear piercing and the bass is muddy when compared to the original soundboard recording and the That Beat in Time bootleg. It's possible to boost the volume without overmodulating. But this is a hack job.
 
I'm trying to find these shows with no luck. I checked on archive.org too. If anyone can help it's greatly appreciated. Thanks

R.E.M. 1986-09-27 County Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA
R.E.M. 1981-10-23 Zappa's, New York City, NY
R.E.M. 1986-10-04 "Way Beyond Thunderdome" Paramount Theater, Seattle, WA
R.E.M. 1983-04-30 The Ritz, New York City, NY
R.E.M. 1990-07-xx Out Of Time Studio Outtakes JEMS
 
9daughters&stereo said:
I'm trying to find these shows with no luck. I checked on archive.org too. If anyone can help it's greatly appreciated. Thanks

R.E.M. 1986-09-27 County Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA
R.E.M. 1981-10-23 Zappa's, New York City, NY
R.E.M. 1986-10-04 "Way Beyond Thunderdome" Paramount Theater, Seattle, WA
R.E.M. 1983-04-30 The Ritz, New York City, NY
R.E.M. 1990-07-xx Out Of Time Studio Outtakes JEMS
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I didn't know if you meant audio, video or setlists, here are setlists


www.setlist.fm

R.E.M. Setlist at Zappa's, Brooklyn

Get the R.E.M. Setlist of the concert at Zappa's, Brooklyn, NY, USA on October 23, 1981 and other R.E.M. Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
www.setlist.fm www.setlist.fm

www.setlist.fm

R.E.M. Setlist at Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara

Get the R.E.M. Setlist of the concert at Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA, USA on September 27, 1986 from the Pageantry Tour and other R.E.M. Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
www.setlist.fm www.setlist.fm

www.setlist.fm

R.E.M. Setlist at Paramount Theatre, Seattle

Get the R.E.M. Setlist of the concert at Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA, USA on October 4, 1986 from the Pageantry Tour and other R.E.M. Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
www.setlist.fm www.setlist.fm

www.setlist.fm

R.E.M. Setlist at The Ritz, New York

Get the R.E.M. Setlist of the concert at The Ritz, New York, NY, USA on April 30, 1983 from the Murmur Tour and other R.E.M. Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
www.setlist.fm www.setlist.fm
 
9daughters&stereo said:
I'm trying to find these shows with no luck. I checked on archive.org too. If anyone can help it's greatly appreciated. Thanks

R.E.M. 1986-09-27 County Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA
R.E.M. 1981-10-23 Zappa's, New York City, NY
R.E.M. 1986-10-04 "Way Beyond Thunderdome" Paramount Theater, Seattle, WA
R.E.M. 1983-04-30 The Ritz, New York City, NY
R.E.M. 1990-07-xx Out Of Time Studio Outtakes JEMS
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Hey chief, every single one of these shows is on the Archive. took less than one second to plug the title into google to get a result for east show. There's a lot of different OOT outtakes. There's one called time of outtakes on archive.
 
Bad Wednesday said:
Hey chief, every single one of these shows is on the Archive. took less than one second to plug the title into google to get a result for east show. There's a lot of different OOT outtakes. There's one called time of outtakes on archive.
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I found them. Thank you. I think i just searched archive.org originally and nothing came up for those. My apologies. I just didn't find this one there:
1990-07-xx Out Of Time Studio Outtakes JEMS

It supposedly has the best sound out of all the OOT outtakes.
 
9daughters&stereo said:
I found them. Thank you. I think i just searched archive.org originally and nothing came up for those. My apologies. I just didn't find this one there:
1990-07-xx Out Of Time Studio Outtakes JEMS

It supposedly has the best sound out of all the OOT outtakes.
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A little more info please. Where did you find out about such a set, specifically a JEMS master? Might help me searching for it if you can provide more info. I can't find anything where any OOT outtakes are listed as JEMS masters. Not saying it doesn't exist, but I don't have it in my archive and I can't find any reference to it anywhere on the internet (not just IA). I have a few physical OOT demos bootlegs (Peace and Love, Anyone?) plus sets like Trolling For Olives, Outtakes of Time, Time of Outtakes, Out of Time Demos and of course the Special Edition of the the Out of Time 25th Anniversary which has the highest audio quality demos of them all, but can't find any reference to a JEMS remaster.
 

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