R.E.M. 01/19/1995
Set I
What's the Frequency Kenneth?, Circus Envy, I Took Your Name, Turn You Inside Out, You, Drive, King of Comedy, I Don't Sleep I Dream, Revolution, Try Not to Breathe, Tongue, Man on the Moon, Monty Got a Raw Deal, Country Feedback, Losing My Religion, Star Me Kitten, Begin the Begin, Star 69, Get Up, Finest Worksong, Let Me In, Everybody Hurts, Crush With Eyeliner, Bang and Blame, It's the End of the World As We Know..
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| User (active/rating) | Media / # | Show | Sound | Details | DB Source | User Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tulum | FLAC / 27 | View | slipkid68 master recording + 2021 mjk5510 transfer and JEMS mastering | |||
| Notes: | This master recording features R.E.M. on January 19 in Sydney, Australia, the fifth date of Monster ’95. It sounds similar to the one I made the following night, and maybe like the previous night’s tape, too — more about that in a moment. For its 1995 tour, R.E.M. designed a stage show around music from its three most-recent LPs, “Out of Time,” “Automatic For The People,” and “Monster” (11 of its 12 tracks make the evening's setlist). The I.R.S. era, represented here by three numbers from Lifes Rich Pageant and Document, assumed a supporting role. Michael Stipe made a shift, too, interacting with the audience far less than he had on previous tours. Now content to sing and shimmy, he was a polite and effective front man. “Thank you,” he’d say. “Here’s another song.” And how: by the end of the tour, the band had written or debuted much of what they’d release in 1996 on “New Adventures in Hi-Fi.” From January to October that year, I saw R.E.M. 11 times. This one, the second of three in Sydney, I'd recollected as something akin to a really good dress rehearsal. But it plays back with verve. Sure, the guys hit some bum notes (“Tongue,” whoops), the odd miscue, and instances where a song’s elements hadn’t entirely come together. In other places, the band sounds almost as good as it did any time that year, and maybe others, too (e.g., “Turn You Inside-Out,” “Man on the Moon”). As the band got accustomed to its new act, they still experimented, changing setlists and keeping the flow somewhat ecclectic. Though the show was noisy and glam, it still made room for “Monty Got a Raw Deal” and “Star Me Kitten,” songs that didn’t seem like obvious choices, but worked in the overall scheme of things. By contrast, “Drive” and “Try Not To Breathe,” from the same moody LP, got revved up. Now, about that recording from the night before: four songs in, I got busted. The R.E.M. crew chief emerged from backstage to lower the boom. He confiscated my tape and offered a frank, unvarnished opinion on what he characterized as the band’s stance on taping. (Not long after, a friend remarked, “maybe the band was fine with taping — it’s the getting caught part that’s the problem.” He could be right.) As everyone back home was understandably eager to hear a report from the first R.E.M. tour in six years, I ’phoned Jared. Our conversation set me straight: I changed the batteries, unwrapped a fresh DAT, and walked in on January 19 determined to make this capture. So here’s to my fellow tapers who’ve gotten the dreaded tap on the shoulder — and gone back the next night. Truly a team effort on this one: I taped, mjk5510 made the transfer, BK mastered. And Jared made sure it all happened. “A tape,” he always said, “is better than no tape.” Turn it up for him and Stan, our dear friends who've passed on. Share it freely, and for free! - slipkid68 | |||||
| LordFlapjack | FLAC / 2 | View | Sonic Studios (DSM6) > Sony TCD-D7 > DAT-M > FLAC | |||
| Mike Marteny | cdr / 2 | B+ | View | ANA(?)>CDR(1) | ||
| Notes: | D1 61:35 D2 50:19 | |||||
| BLG | FLAC / 1 | View | Sonic Studios (DSM6) > Sony TCD-D8 > DAT-M > FLAC | |||
| audiowhore | CDR / 2 | B | B | View | ||
| Notes: | audiowhore remaster | |||||
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