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R.E.M. Live | 
| Artist: R.e.m.
Label: Warner Bros
Category: Music
List Price: £19.99
Buy New: £11.98
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 23687
Format: Live, Cd+dvd
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.8
MPN: 292668
UPC: 093624992530
EAN: 0093624992530
ASIN: B000VI04HK
Release Date: October 15, 2007
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | I Took Your Name | | • | So Fast So Numb | | • | Boy In The Well | | • | Cuyahoga | | • | Everybody Hurts | | • | Electron Blue | | • | Bad Day | | • | Ascent Of Man | | • | Great Beyond | | • | Leaving New York | | • | Orange Crush |
Disc 2
| • | I Wanted To Be Wrong | | • | Final Straw | | • | Imitation Of Life | | • | One I Love | | • | Walk Unafraid | | • | Losing My Religion | | • | What's The Frequency Kenneth | | • | Drive | | • | Don't Go Back To Rockville | | • | I'm Gonna DJ | | • | Man On The Moon |
Disc 3
| • | I Took Your Name | | • | So Fast So Numb | | • | Boy In The Well | | • | Cuyahoga | | • | Everybody Hurts | | • | Electron Blue | | • | Bad Day | | • | Ascent Of Man | | • | Great Beyond | | • | Leaving New York | | • | Orange Crush | | • | I Wanted To Be Wrong | | • | Final Straw | | • | Imitation Of Life | | • | One I Love | | • | Walk Unafraid | | • | Losing My Religion | | • | What's The Frequency Kenneth | | • | Drive | | • | Don't Go Back To Rockville | | • | I'm Gonna DJ | | • | Man On The Moon |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
Really original name! April 11, 2008
Not being a huge REM fan in the first place, I bought this CD purely because it was cheap...but it has converted me! Some of the songs on here are classics while others are less well known (to me anyway). However, it's the DVD that pushed this up to 4 stars. How I wish I had been at that concert now, especially when "Losing My Religion" started!
 Well worth buying January 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I must admit that the decision to get this wasn't easy, having been so disappointed by "Around the Sun"
However, it's an absolute blinder. Great sound quality, a few relevant comments from Mr Stipe between the songs and an appreciative crowd.
Rather than the usual regurgitation of greatest hits, there is a nice mix of old, new and not so well known. Like some previous reviewers, I shall be digging out "Around the Sun" again for another listen.
Not quite up the level of "One more from the road" (by Lynyrd Skynrd) where the live set is the definitive album, but well worth buying.
What's wrong with live albums?? October 27, 2007
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
Dismissing live albums because you can download bootlegs is not very persuasive. The fact that along with 2-cds you get the concert dvd makes for excellent value and firmly establishes its right to exist!
This is great - R.E.M. play through some of their best songs and do so with energy, passion, a little bit of political comment. Some of the songs have never sounded better. Specifically, those from Around the Sun are startlingly good and have made me return to that album to hear what went wrong. Haven't enjoyed an album as much for a long time.
 What's the point? October 25, 2007
1 out of 45 found this review helpful
What an original title for a live REM album! The only positive thing about this release is the fact that now they have bought out a Best Of album and a Live set, maybe they may decide to call it a day and spare us all from any more of this 6th-form pretentious twaddle. I can't believe that I have just written 'positive' and 'REM' in same paragraph.
Great record of great shows for disappointing album October 25, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I realised I've never bought a brand new live album before, but I've loved REM for over 20 years, saw this tour (in Manchester), and liked the value for money, so couldn't really not buy it!
I'd stayed clear of live albums due to concerns about 1) lack of new material and 2) poor sound quality. Neither concern detracts from this collection. The enthusiasm and energy of REM's live performances comes over perfectly, and the lyrics are actually more audible than on the originals. Stipe's inter-song comments are sufficient to convey the show's flavour without irritating or detracting from the songs.
As other reviewers have noted, the tour supported the disappointing 'Around The Sun', but the live performances representing that album here are much better than on the originals (as is 'Walk Unafraid'). A range of the group's finest moments - from 1984's 'Don't Go Back To Rockville' to 2001's 'Imitation of Life', about 1 per album but 3 from top-selling Automatic for the People and 2 from grungy, stadium-friendly Monster - are collected, tailed with passable new stadium rocker 'I'm gonna DJ'.
Highlights for me included great concert opener I Took Your Name, What's The Frequency Kenneth, So Fast So Numb, The Great Beyond, Cuyahoga, Man on the Moon, and Losing My Religion, but recording quality is maintained throughout.
The DVD, again, adds excellent value as a souvenir/introduction to REM live (many acts would sell this separately for the same price again).
There could have been more sleevenotes/packaging, and I'd have liked 'It's the end of the world as we know it', 'Fall on me', 'Welcome to the Occupation', 'Undertow' - etc.... - but with such an extensive catalogue, we can't have everything!
As an introduction to REM, most fans would recommend AFTP. I might actually offer this one: it's certainly better than Around the Sun, or - considering their greatness in concert - even 2004's 'In Time' 'greatest hits', which perversely omitted some of their more famous songs. REM love playing live, and if you're a newcomer to them and like rock live, you'll enjoy this selection.
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