REM has a live CD due out in October. Here's a link for more info...

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/art ... 1003628660

I'll get it, of course, but I would like have had something like this 20 years ago. Maybe from the Fables of the Reconstruction tour...

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Disc 1 (CD)
01. I Took Your Name
02. So Fast, So Numb
03. Boy In The Well
04. Cuyahoga
05. Everybody Hurts
06. Electron Blue07. Bad Day
08. The Ascent Of Man
09. The Great Beyond
10. Leaving New York
11. Orange Crush
12. I Wanted To Be Wrong
13. Final Straw
14. Imitation Of Life
15. The One I Love
16. Walk Unafraid
17. Losing My Religion

Disc 2 (CD)
1. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
2. Drive
3. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
4. I'm Gonna DJ
5. Man On The Moon

Disc 3 (DVD)
1.I Took Your Name
2.So Fast, So Numb
3.Boy in the Well
4.Cuyahoga
5.Everybody Hurts
6.Electron Blue
7.Bad Day
8.Ascent Of Man
9.The Great Beyond
10.Leaving New York
11.Orange Crush
12.I Wanted To Be Wrong
13.Final Straw
14.Imitation Of Life
15.The One I Love
16.Walk Unafraid
17.Losing My Religion
18.What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
19.Drive
20.(Don't Go Back To) Rockville
21.I'm Gonna DJ
22.Man On The Moon

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VI04HK/?tag=imwan-20

I will get this for sure but I wish they would start an "archive" series (like Neil Young's series except with a box set coming sooner)

Let the tracklist complaints begin! Particularly given the fact that relatively little early material is here, I'd love to see them put together a live set from the earlier days, perhaps around the time of their transition from IRS.

I've heard they do a lot of unusual covers in concert, or at least they used to. I'm only a casual REM fan but I would buy a collection of those.

If you compiled various REM promo releases and non-lp b-sides, you'd come up with a pretty good live collection.

Rarities? I see no rarities in the setlist !!

I am with you on this one, Walter P. Granted, songs from the latest album figure heavily in their current shows, but I would also like to see an official live release of earlier material. Their earliest live video "Tourfilm" dates from the "Green" album, their first on Warner Brothers.

For my money, as a fan from the first e.p., they were at their peak when it was just the four original members on stage. When they started supplementing their sound with additional musicians, they kinda lost sight of their muse.

What would have been really great is if they'd released the shows they did in Dublin this past July. I've got two great sounding boots and the new songs sound really good. This is probably the first time I've been excited about an REM album since Bill Berry left. Mark T.

i still like the dvd perfect square that they released in 2003 or 2004.a very good dvd



http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0001ENXYA/?tag=imwan-20

I agree, it has a lot of fun energy to it.

Consider this post my complaint!

I have pretty much no interest in hearing 2005 R.E.M. live. Certainly not as an official release.

How about giving us an official CD version of the audio from Tourfilm? Or at least something from that era? They had crazy energy then. When they touch on songs from the 1980s these days, it sounds like they're going through the motions (which is understandable, of course).

I like eelkiller's idea. I'd like to see a LOT of long-running bands do something of that sort; just start getting official, good recordings of concerts from throughout the years out there.