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There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
"She Calls Your Name" - Beth Orton
t cough She Cries Your Name t cough.
An ex-boyfriend of mine always used to burst into tears at Simon & Garfunkel's The Boxer.
Hec, ending In The Pines with Black-Eyed Dog is a stroke of genius. I bow to your mix skills.
She Cries Your Name
Only about the ninth song title error I've made this month. I need a fact checker. I've got a great live, in a radio studio version of this, incidentally.
Hec, ending In The Pines with Black-Eyed Dog is a stroke of genius. I bow to your mix skills.
Thank you! That's one of my favorite tapes. The whole beginning of that tape blends beautifully (Women of Ireland - Laurie Lewis; Wayfaring Stranger - Emmylou Harris; Bargain Store - Dolly Parton; Blue Moon - Elvis Presley; Ain't No Ash Will Burn - Ranch Romance). The Ranch Romance song is particularly gorgeous, but not well known.
My all-time most heartbreaking section, though, is on Blackwater Side where it goes from: Jesus Help Me To Stand - Alison Krauss; My Youngest Son Came Home Today - Mary Black; A Heart Needs a Home - Richard & Linda Thompson. The Alison Krauss song is devastating, and Mary Black's cover of the Phil Bogle classic equally so. Then you just crawl into the solace of the Richard Thompson.
Find your first show! R.E.M Timeline
I'm too brain-addled by work to offer anything to the lists, which seem pretty damn perfect to me, anyway.
Tommy, if you can't get a copy of The Good Earth, let me know. I'll send you one via Soulseek.
Tommy, if you can't get a copy of The Good Earth, let me know. I'll send you one via Soulseek.
Thanks, but I ordered one from Rasputin....
Find your first show!
17 October 1984 - Tower Theater, Philadelphia, PA
My first R.E.M.:
12 March 1983 - 9:30 Club, Washington DC
support: Let's Active
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Catapult / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Laughing / Wolves, Lower / Romance / Sitting Still / 1,000,000 / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore: Last Date / Ages Of You / We Walk / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: Mike introduces Last Date as 'this is a slow dance song as I can tell you have plenty of room'. This show can be found on the CD bootleg "The Sound And The Fury" as well as "Unauthorised Live Volume 2"
David, did you live in D.C., or were you visiting someone?
This is not my first show. This is the show I am VERY bitter about missing because it was right across the street from my dorm and I hadn't yet connnected the name R.E.M. with the song that I liked so much on the radio. . . plus the ad campaign was stupid. (Sock hop in the gym! -- guaranteed to drive me away.)
24 September 1982 - Huff Gym, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Pilgrimage / We Walk / Wolves, Lower / Laughing / Romance / Sitting Still / 1,000,000 / Pretty Persuasion / Catapult / West Of The Fields / Moral Kiosk / Radio Free Europeencore: Perfect Circle / White Tornado / Ages Of You / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / That Beat / Skank
This is not my first show either. This is the show my friend Micha is particularly bitter about missing because her manager at work wouldn't let her have the night off because she was going to this show!
25 May 1983 - Park West, Chicago, IL
support: Let's Active, The dB's
set: Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Sitting Still / Shaking Through / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Laughing / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Just A Touch / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: White Tornado / Ages Of You / We Walk / 1,000,000
encore 2: In The Year 2525
notes: most likely the show finished with Carnival Of Sorts and possibly Skank, however this can't be confirmed as no more of the show was recorded
This is the actual first R.E.M. show I ever saw:
7 July 1984 - Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Femme Fatale / Radio Free Europe / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Letter Never Sent / Sitting Still / Driver 8 / So. Central Rain / Seven Chinese Brothers / Harborcoat / Cushy Tush / Hyena / Pretty Persuasion / Little America / Second Guessing / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / King Of The Road / Walk, Don't Run
notes: This show was recorded by a local radio station, WXRT 93.1 FM, and broadcast twice: once at a length of 1 1/2 hours, the next time broadcast it was cut to fit a 1 hour timeslot. This show can be found on the CD bootlegs "Disturbances" (along with what is reportably the worst sound quality in bootleg history) and "Back To Rockville", as well as the vinyl bootleg "Live in Chicago"
David, did you live in D.C., or were you visiting someone?
I was there on spring break, staying with my good friend Lars Hanson. Lars is a NY actor incidentally, and if you've seen a lot of L&O, chances are you've seen him. Anyway, Lars was the twin brother of Ivor Hanson, the drummer in numerous DC hardcore bands including: SOA (with Henry Garfield, nee Rollins), Faith (his most famous band) and Embrace (post Minor Threat, pre-Fugazi Ian MacKaye band).
It was an AMAZING show. I'd never heard them before - we went because they were from Athens and had some dim notion they'd sound like Pylon. It's still probably the best live show I ever saw.
Lars is a NY actor incidentally, and if you've seen a lot of L&O, chances are you've seen him.
I've seen a lot of L&O commercials on TNT, does that count? (I think I'm the Last Person in America who's never seen an episode of Law & Order, or any spinoff thereof.) But thank you for satisfying my curiosity.
And my first/last/only R.E.M. was:
10 September 1999 - Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD support: Spacehog set: Lotus / What's The Frequency, Kenneth? / Wake-Up Bomb / Suspicion / Camera / Daysleeper / Low Desert / Everybody Hurts / The Apologist / Sweetness Follows / The Great Beyond / The One I Love / Find The River / At My Most Beautiful / Finest Worksong / Losing My Religion / Man On The Moon / Walk Unafraid encore: Hope / Why Not Smile / Pop Song 89 / Tongue / Cuyahoga / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
(It took me forever to find it on the site because I couldn't remember the date, year or venue. Which is extra-odd because the date was three days after my 21st birthday.)