R.E.M. - LIVE AT THE OLYMPIA (2CD + DVD + 4LP)

R.E.M. Live At The Olympia Deluxe Edition 4LP + 2CD + DVD Set

Band's Best Work in More Than A Decade

Staggering 39-Song Live Set Performed With Passion

Musical Program on Both Analog and Digital Formats; Beautifully Packaged Set Also Includes Memorbilia

R.E.M.'s Live At The Olympia Special Edition 4 LP/2 CD/DVD Box Set features 39 tracks from the band's acclaimed 2007 working rehearsals in Dublin, where the band set up camp at Ireland's capital city and tested new material over five nights before capacity crowds. Features rarities, fan favorites, unreleased tracks, and original versions of songs that would end up on Accelerate. Better still, the set finds the group rediscovering its rock roots and unearthing catalog gems it hadn't played in decades. A truly marvelous collection.

The DVD is a 59 minute performance documentary by Vincent Moon of the five nights of live rehearsal in Dublin, and features "Until The Day Is Done," "Houston," "Drive," "Horse To Water," and more.

Contents also include an Olympia 24" x 36" tour poster, essay notes from Peter Buck, and liner notes by Andy Gill.

"Whether due to the decreased pressure of the informal settings, or by virtue of revisiting myriad deep-catalog tunes ignored for years, or the thrill of playing still-unreleased new material, this is the R.E.M.—bold, lively, attuned, passionate, engaged, balanced, loose, jangly, unfussy, noisy, literate—that in the 80s established the precedent for indie-rock acts to follow." -Bob Gendron, TONE Audio, Issue 25

R.E.M. Live At The Olympia Track Listing:

CD 1
1. Living Well Is The Best Revenge
2. Second Guessing
3. Letter Never Sent
4. Staring Down The Barrel Of The Middle Distance
5. Disturbance At The Heron House
6. Mr Richards
7. Houston
8. New Test Leper
9. Cuyahoga
10. Electrolite
11. Man Sized Wreath
12. So Central Rain
13. On The Fly
14. Maps And Legends
15. Sitting Still
16. Driver 8
17. Horse To Water
18. I'm Gonna DJ
19. Circus Envy
20. These Days

CD 2
1. Drive
2. Feeling Gravity's Pull
3. Until The Day Is Done
4. Accelerate
5. Auctioneer
6. Little America
7. 1000000
8. Disguised
9. Worst Joke Ever, The
10. Welcome To The Occupation
11. Carnival Of Sorts
12. Harbor Coat
13. Wolves Lower
14. I've Been High
15. Kohoutek
16. West Of The Fields
17. Pretty Persuasion
18. Romance
19. Gardening At Night

Disc 3
1. Bonus Content DVD

LP1
1. Living Well Is The Best Revenge
2. Second Guessing
3. Letter Never Sent
4. Staring Down The Barrel Of The Middle Distance
5. Disturbance At The Heron House
6. Mr Richards
7. Houston
8. New Test Leper
9. Cuyahoga
10. Electrolite

LP2
1. Man Sized Wreath
2. So Central Rain
3. On The Fly
4. Maps And Legends
5. Sitting Still
6. Driver 8
7. Horse To Water
8. I'm Gonna DJ
9. Circus Envy
10. These Days

LP3
1. Drive
2. Feeling Gravity's Pull
3. Until The Day Is Done
4. Accelerate
5. Auctioneer
6. Little America
7. 1000000
8. Disguised
9. The Worst Joke Ever
10. Welcome To The Occupation

LP4
1. Carnival Of Sorts
2. Harbor Coat
3. Wolves Lower
4. I've Been High
5. Kohoutek
6. West Of The Fields
7. Pretty Persuasion
8. Romance
9. Gardening At Night