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Ha, big of him to own up to it.

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Oops, that Fuck kinda slipped through, they may have caught it on the radio though
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LuthierJustin wrote:Oops, that Fuck kinda slipped through, they may have caught it on the radio though


Talking about the Lera Lynn song? I believe there was a "shit" in there too. I don't think they even noticed in the studio. For those that are interested this will be available as a podcast later this evening on the Dave FM website.

**Edited to add: The podcasts from Dave FM are already available online here.

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Complete photo gallery from this afternoon's show here.

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For anyone that's interested in seeing it, here's a link to Mills' playlist from yesterday. When he played "Battleship Chains" from the Georgia Satellites he gave a shoutout to Terry Anderson (Fabulous Knobs, the Woods, the Yayhoos, Olympic Ass Kickin' Team) from North Carolina but accidentally referred to him as "Terry Adams". Guess he had NRBQ on the brain...

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Part 1 of 6 of an R.E.M. fan's history of his love for the band from The Onion's A.V. Club.
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Kevn Kinney of Drivin n Cryin is the guest editor at Magnet Magazine this week. In this entry he waxes poetic on all things Peter Buck.

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On the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of R.E.M., Bertis Downes has posted this brief piece to REMHQ.com along with several links to articles that were posted online after they announced they were disbanding in September of last year.

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ON THIS DATE (28 YEARS AGO)
April 9, 1984 R.E.M. Reckoning is released.
# ALL THINGS MUSIC PLUS+ 4.5/5
# allmusic 5/5
# Rolling Stone (see original review below)

Reckoning is the second album by R.E.M., released on this date in 1984 by I.R.S. Records. Released to critical acclaim, it reached number 27 in the United States—where it was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1991—and peaked at number 91 in the United Kingdom.

Produced by Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, the album was recorded at Reflection Sound Studio in Charlotte, North Carolina over 16 days in December 1983 and January 1984. Dixon and Easter intended to capture the sound of R.E.M.'s live performances, and used binaural recording on several tracks. Singer Michael Stipe dealt with darker subject matter in his lyrics, and water imagery is a recurring theme on the record.

After its debut album Murmur (1983) received critical acclaim, R.E.M. quickly began work on its second album. The group wrote new material prodigiously; guitarist Peter Buck recalled, "We were going through this streak where we were writing two good songs a week [...] We just wanted to do it; whenever we had a new batch of songs, it was time to record".

Due to the number of new songs the group had, Buck unsuccessfully tried to convince everyone to make the next album a double record. In November 1983, the band recorded 22 songs during a session with Neil Young producer Elliot Mazer in San Francisco. While Mazer was briefly considered as a candidate to produce the band's next album, R.E.M. ultimately decided to team up again with Murmur producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon.

R.E.M. started recording Reckoning at Reflection Sound in Charlotte, North Carolina, on December 8, 1983. The group recorded over two eight-day stretches around Christmas 1983, separated by two weeks of canceled studio time that allowed the band to play a show in Greensboro, North Carolina, go out to see a movie, and shoot a video in the studio. While the studio diary listed 16 days for recording, the album sleeve later claimed the album was recorded in 14 days, while in interviews Buck at times commented that the album was recorded in 11 days. The producers both disputed that the sessions were that short; Dixon insisted that they were at the studio for at least 25 days (during which he worked eighteen-hour days), while Easter said, "When I read 'eleven days' I thought, what the fuck! It was twenty days, which was still short, but it's not eleven."

ORIGINAL ROLLING STONE REVIEW
Murky yet emotionally winning, brainy but boyishly enthusiastic, R.E.M.'s debut album, Murmur, burst onto the pop scene last year with minimal fanfare. Though some critics lumped the Athens, Georgia, quartet with the big-guitar bunch (the Alarm, Big Country), R.E.M.'s approach was more delicate and pastoral. Their sound was a curious fusion of vocalist Michael Stipe's bookish, still-wet-behind-the-ears pretension and guitarist Peter Buck's cheerful folky energy. The tunes aside, there was something positively seditious in a song like "Laughing," where an engagingly bright acoustic guitar arpeggio accompanied a lyric like "Laocoon ... martyred, misconstrued." Stipe's words may largely have been indecipherable, but Murmur was consistently intriguing. In short, the best LP of 1983.

On Reckoning, R.E.M. has opted for a more direct approach. The overall sound is crisper, the lyrics far more comprehensible. And while the album may not mark any major strides forward for the band, R.E.M.'s considerable strengths — Buck's ceaselessly inventive strumming, Mike Mills' exceptional bass playing and Stipe's evocatively gloomy baritone — remain unchanged.

If Murmur showed Buck to be a master of wide-eyed reverie, Reckoning finds him exploring a variety of guitar styles and moods, from furious upstrumming to wistful finger-picking. "Letter Never Sent" displays Buck at his sunniest, whirling off twelve-string licks with hoedown fervor, from a lock-step part in the verse that recalls early Talking Heads, to a cascading, Byrds-like riff in the chorus. Buck proves to be an equally infectious keyboard player; his echoey chords slide easily underneath Stipe's cry of "sorry" on the album's single, "So. Central Rain." And on "7 Chinese Brothers," Buck does it all: curt, distorted background chords, icy piano notes, warm chordal plucking and high-string riffs that drone as Stipe sketches, in a mournful hum, the fairy-tale story of a boy who swallowed the ocean. Yet, for all that aural activity, the song flows with elegiac grace.

Stipe, whose voice is usually mixed way back, comes up front for "Camera," an enigmatic account of failed love that's enhanced by an eerie single-string solo from Buck. While less powerful than Murmur's "Perfect Circle," this ballad demonstrates a surprising degree of emotional depth in Stipe's singing. On "(Don't Go Back to) Rockville," a more traditionally structured country rocker, Stipe stretches himself even further, singing in an exaggerated, down-home twang.

There's an off-the-cuff feel to much of Reckoning — even some of the band's jams and coproducer Mitch Easter's exhortations are preserved on side two. Unfortunately, improvisational songwriting has its pitfalls. The group, for example, could benefit from a tougher drum sound. Bill Berry shows a deft touch on the cymbals in the peppy "Harborcoat," but the martial beats of "Time after Time (Annelise)" are about as threatening as the Grenadian army. Stipe's amelodic singing also poses problems at times. While the band tends to use his voice as an instrument, his vocalizing in such songs as "Second Guessing" and "Little America" seems out of place, unsatisfying.

As a lyricist, Stipe has developed considerably over the past year. In "So. Central Rain," he notes, intriguingly, that "rivers of suggestion are driving me away." Yet he still waxes pedestrian on occasion, as in "Pretty Persuasion," which finds him griping, "Goddamn your confusion." His erratic meanderings may give the band some hip cachet, but they are an impediment that will prevent R.E.M. from transcending cult status. With skill and daring like theirs, the tiniest commercial concessions — some accessible lyrics from Stipe and a major-league drum sound — could win this band a massive audience.

Even without those changes, however, R.E.M.'s music is able to involve the listener on both an emotional and intellectual level. Not many records can do that from start to finish. "Jefferson, I think we're lost," cries Stipe at Reckoning's end, but I doubt it. These guys seem to know exactly where they're going, and following them should be fun.
~ Christopher Connelly

TRACKS:
All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe except where noted.
Side one – Left
"Harborcoat" – 3:54
"7 Chinese Bros." – 4:18
"So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" – 3:15
"Pretty Persuasion" – 3:50
"Time After Time (AnnElise)" – 3:31

Side two – Right
"Second Guessing" – 2:51
"Letter Never Sent" – 2:59
"Camera" – 5:52
"(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" – 4:32
"Little America" – 2:58

1992 I.R.S. Vintage Years reissue bonus tracks
"Wind Out" (With Friends) – 1:58
"Pretty Persuasion" (live in studio) – 4:01
"White Tornado" (live in studio) – 1:51
"Tighten Up" (Archie Bell and Billy Butler; cover of Archie Bell & the Drells, 1968) – 4:08
"Moon River" (Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer; cover of Audrey Hepburn, 1961) – 2:21

2009 Deluxe Edition bonus disc (Live at the Aragon Ballroom)
"Femme Fatale" (Lou Reed; cover of The Velvet Underground, 1967) – 3:19
"Radio Free Europe" – 3:54
"Gardening at Night" – 3:38
"9–9" – 2:48
"Windout" – 2:13
"Letter Never Sent" – 3:03
"Sitting Still" – 3:13
"Driver 8" – 3:28
"So. Central Rain" – 3:23
"7 Chinese Bros." – 4:27
"Harborcoat" – 4:34
"Hyena" – 3:26
"Pretty Persuasion" – 3:49
"Little America" – 3:23
"Second Guessing" – 3:07
"(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" – 4:30

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If the 28th anniversary of the release of Reckoning didn't make you feel old...

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ON THIS DATE (29 YEARS AGO)
April 13, 1983 – R.E.M. Murmur is released.
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Murmur is the debut album by R.E.M., released on this date in 1983 on I.R.S. Records. The record reached number 36 on the Billboard album chart. A re-recorded version of "Radio Free Europe" was the album's lead single and reached number 78 on the Billboard singles chart that year. Despite the acclaim awarded the album, by the end of 1983 Murmur had only sold about 200,000 copies, which I.R.S.'s Jay Boberg felt was below expectations. Murmur was eventually certified gold (500,000 units shipped) by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1991. In 1989, it was rated number eight on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. In 2003, the TV network VH1 named Murmur the 92nd greatest album of all time.

Murmur drew critical acclaim upon its release for its sound, defined by singer Michael Stipe's cryptic lyrics, guitarist Peter Buck's jangly guitar style, and bassist Mike Mills' melodic basslines. R.E.M. started recording its debut album in December 1982. I.R.S. paired R.E.M. with producer Stephen Hague, who had a higher profile than the band's previous producer Mitch Easter. Hague's emphasis on technical perfection did not suit the band; the producer made the group perform multiple takes of the song "Catapult", which demoralized drummer Bill Berry. Also, Hague took the completed track to Synchro Sound studios in Boston and added keyboard parts to the track without the band's permission and to their dismay. Unsatisfied, the band members asked the label to let them record with Easter. I.R.S. agreed to a "tryout" session, allowing the band to travel to North Carolina and record the song "Pilgrimage" with Easter and producing partner Don Dixon. After hearing the track, I.R.S. permitted the group to record the album with Dixon and Easter.

R.E.M. entered Reflection Studios in Charlotte, North Carolina in January 1983 to begin recording sessions with Easter and Dixon. Much of the band's material for the album had been tested on preceding tours. Because of its bad experience with Hague, the band recorded the album via a process of negation, refusing to incorporate rock music clichés such as guitar solos or then-popular synthesizers, in order to give its music a timeless feel. Berry in particular was resistant to "odd" musical suggestions, insisting that his drums be recorded in a drummer's booth, a practice that was antiquated at the time. Dixon and Easter took a hands-off approach to much of the recording process. The pair would only fix up a vocal track or ask singer Michael Stipe to re-record a vocal if it was very substandard.

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Leaving behind the garagey jangle pop of their first recordings, R.E.M. developed a strangely subdued variation of their trademark sound for their full-length debut album, Murmur. Heightening the enigmatic tendencies of Chronic Town by de-emphasizing the backbeat and accentuating the ambience of the ringing guitar, R.E.M. created a distinctive sound for the album -- one that sounds eerily timeless. Even though it is firmly in the tradition of American folk-rock, post-punk, and garage rock, Murmur sounds as if it appeared out of nowhere, without any ties to the past, present, or future. Part of the distinctiveness lies in the atmospheric production, which exudes a detached sense of mystery, but it also comes from the remarkably accomplished songwriting. The songs on Murmur sound as if they've existed forever, yet they subvert folk and pop conventions by taking unpredictable twists and turns into melodic, evocative territory, whether it's the measured riffs of "Pilgrimage," the melancholic "Talk About the Passion," or the winding guitars and pianos of "Perfect Circle." R.E.M. may have made albums as good as Murmur in the years following its release, but they never again made anything that sounded quite like it. [As far as deluxe editions go, Universal's 2008 expansion of R.E.M.'s 1983 debut Murmur leans toward the skimpy: it may spill over to two CDs, but the only bonus material is a live show recorded at Larry's Hideway in Toronto, just three months after the album's release. There was enough room on the first disc to add both the early Hib-Tone single of "Radio Free Europe" and their first EP, Chronic Town, plus assorted stray tracks; much of this material has shown up on various releases over the years -- the bulk being reissued on 1987's clearinghouse Dead Letter Office, which also had Chronic Town on the CD, but the Hib-Tone single has popped up on Eponymous and the rarities disc, 2006's And I Feel Fine -- so most R.E.M. fans have this in their collection, which is necessary as it's not here. Any lingering resentment over this missing music should be soothed by the live show on the second disc, which captures the band in full flight. This release constitutes the first official release of an early R.E.M. concert (there are bootlegs containing a slightly longer set but this is close enough to qualify as a full show) and it's a welcome addition to their catalog as it crackles with an energy that is missing from the hazy, ethereal Murmur. R.E.M. barrel through the bulk of the album -- only "Moral Kiosk" and "Shaking Through" are absent -- plus a chunk of Chronic Town, throwing in a cover of "There She Goes Again" and early versions of Reckoning's "Harborcoat," "7 Chinese Bros.," and "Just a Touch," which didn't surface until 1986's Lifes Rich Pageant. This wasn't a showcase night for R.E.M., it was just another gig on the tour, and that's the great thing about it: the band isn't self-conscious, they're just tearing through their songs, rocking harder than they did on any of their studio albums. It's direct and a little raw -- with microphone feedback on occasion -- in a way that none of their early albums are, and that's what makes it worthy of a special edition, even if it's hard not to wish that first disc had just a few extra cuts as well.

TRACKS:
All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe, except where noted
Side One
"Radio Free Europe" – 4:06
"Pilgrimage" – 4:30
"Laughing" – 3:57
"Talk About the Passion" – 3:23
"Moral Kiosk" – 3:31
"Perfect Circle" – 3:29

Side Two
"Catapult" – 3:55
"Sitting Still" – 3:17
"9-9" – 3:03
"Shaking Through" – 4:30
"We Walk" – 3:02
"West of the Fields" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe, and Neil Bogan) – 3:17

1992 The IRS Vintage Years edition bonus tracks
"There She Goes Again" (Lou Reed) – 2:48
"9-9" (Live in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, July 13, 1984) – 3:04
"Gardening at Night" (Live in Boston) – 3:47
"Catapult" (Live in Seattle, Washington, United States, June 27, 1984) – 4:03

2008 Deluxe Edition bonus disc (Live at Larry's Hideaway)
"Laughing" – 3:51
"Pilgrimage" – 4:08
"There She Goes Again" (Reed) – 2:43
"Seven Chinese Brothers" – 4:15
"Talk About the Passion" – 3:02
"Sitting Still" – 4:11
"Harborcoat" – 3:45
"Catapult" – 3:51
"Gardening at Night" – 3:33
"9-9" – 3:16
"Just a Touch" – 2:27
"West of the Fields" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe, and Bogan) – 3:06
"Radio Free Europe" – 4:57
"We Walk" – 2:55
"1,000,000" – 3:05
"Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)" – 3:58

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Part 4 of the previously mentioned 6 part series from the AV Club at The Onion called Perfect Circle: An R.E.M. Story by Steven Hyden. I'm not sure if anyone else has been following these but I've found them to be very compelling reading, especially the latest installment which focuses on the first three records they did after Bill Berry left. As Hyden points out, it was a tough time to be a R.E.M. fan during this period. I also agree with him about Up and how I feel that it stands up to the best of their 90's work. At the time it was released, I found it to be one a very difficult album to digest. After about a year though, I had come to thoroughly enjoy it. I believe the closer, "Falls To Climb", to be one of their finest moments with or without Bill Berry.

Part Four: Who Threw the Crushing Blow? (Up to Around The Sun)

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Mike Mills makes a cameo on P. Hood's "Mountain Stage" performance.
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Smitty wrote:Mike Mills makes a cameo on P. Hood's "Mountain Stage" performance.


Thanks for the reminder, I saw some of the pictures from the show when it was recorded several weeks ago but I still haven't listened to the actual concert.

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Part 5 of Perfect Circle: An R.E.M. Story from the AV Club at The Onion:

Part 5: Feeling Gravity’s Pull (Fables Of The Reconstruction)

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The final installment in the Perfect Circle: An R.E.M. Story series from the AV Club at The Onion:

Part 6: Until the Day Is Done (Accelerate and Collapse Into Now)

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R.E.M. Archive Blog Preemptively Shut Down by Universal
Label disputes post featuring the band's earliest demo cassette

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By Rolling Stone

June 7, 2012

The digital archivist who restored the singles catalogs of the Smiths, Joy Division and New Order in a series of blog projects is being strongly discouraged from starting a similar project collecting R.E.M.'s earliest work. In a blog post on the nascent R.E.M.cycle site, the blogger known as Analog Loyalist explained that Universal, the record company that owns the band's IRS Records catalog, issued a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice for an R.E.M. post on the writer's sister site The Power of Independent Trucking featuring a restored version of the band's first cassette demo, with early renditions of "Radio Free Europe," "Sitting Still" and "White Tornado."

"Tell me, what role does the IFPI (of which Universal is obviously a member) have to do with unreleased material recorded when the band had no record contract?," Analog Loyalist writes, referring to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. "These were demos freely given away by the band. On low-fi C45 cassettes. And the IFPI thinks it's their business how?"

The blogger is now reconsidering the wisdom of pursuing the project. "So you can see why I'm very hesitant to move forward with this blog, only because I don't want to see my efforts as a writer/archivist/engineer wasted," he writes.

The site would in fact be a very labor-intensive process. As explained in the sidebar for the R.E.M., Smiths and Joy Division/New Order sites, the tracks used are "taken from the best/earliest possible sources to avoid modern mastering techniques which crush the dynamics," and the artwork is "scanned at the highest possible resolution and the type was reset when possible using the original fonts." All works featured in these projects are from out-of-print sources, and some tracks have never been commercially released or reissued.

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The Sacred Sites of R.E.M.'s Athens, Georgia (The Onion's AV Club)

R.E.M. at the BBC, a compilation of their appearances on the BBC from over the years that originally aired earlier this year with a concentration on the Warner Brothers years though it does start off with a pretty kick ass "Moon River">"Pretty Persuasion" from 1984.


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Four years ago tonight I saw R.E.M. for what would be the last time when they played the Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta. It was a great show but the pit seating turned out to be a nightmare. Fortunately, no one got hurt (at least that I'm aware of). As much as I enjoyed Atlanta, Raleigh was my favorite concert of that tour despite the 100 degree heat at 9 o'clock at night.


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Complete show from the promo tour for Up recorded in Stockholm in '98. Mills rocks his ass off throughout and R.E.M. is in very rare form in general. Pretty unique setlist as well that eschews a lot of the standards such as "Driver 8", "The One I Love" and "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" in favor of showcasing Up. They also break out the rarely played "Strange" and their roof raising rendition of "Passenger".



Losing My Religion
Lotus
New Test Leper
Daysleeper
Electrolite
At My Most Beautiful
The Apologist
So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
Walk Unafraid
Man On The Moon
I'm Not Over You
Fall On Me
Parakeet
Perfect Circle
Country Feedback
Pretty Persuasion
Strange
Radio Free Europe
Passenger

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Another complete concert. This one was televised in Athens, Greece for MTV Day as part of the launch of MTV in Greece. It was the last date on their European tour for Accelerate back in 2008.



Living Well Is The Best Revenge
What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
Drive
Man-Sized Wreath
Ignoreland
Bad Day
Hollow Man
Electrolite
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville
The Great Beyond
The One I Love
She Just Wants To Be
Losing My Religion
Let Me In
Horse To Water
Orange Crush
Imitation Of Life

Encore
Supernatural Superserious
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Man On The Moon

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The packaging for the 25th Anniversary edition of R.E.M.'s Document which will be released on September 25th. A limited edition master recording of Document will also be released that day on vinyl. More info here.

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Wolfgang's Vault is currently streaming R.E.M.'s concert from October 12, 1984 at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ in it's entirety. The quality is so good it makes one wonder why this show wasn't included on the 25th anniversary edition of Reckoning that came out a few years ago rather than the one from the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago that they included instead.

On the Document tip, the folks over at The R.E.M. Timeline page on Facebook have recently uploaded a couple of Work tour era gems from '87 (including "Fireplace" from my second ever R.E.M. concert at Duke). Apparently they've come upon several old tapes from this tour (which appear to be few and far between) that they're cleaning up and are going to be uploading to The R.E.M. Timeline page leading up to the 25th Anniversary reissue of Document on September 25th.

Here's a couple of the tunes they've uploaded so far:

"Unknown Song" 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA September 3, 1987

"Fireplace" Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke University, Durham, NC October 3, 1987

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Another gem from the R.E.M. Timeline folks that was unearthed from R.E.M.'s concert at Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke during the Work tour on October 3, 1987.

R.E.M. "Midnight Blue>Heartbreak Beat>I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For>Peace Train>Bad"

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