And as if the two CDs aren’t enough yet, you also get an impressive live DVD in the process. Forget about that other live album they dropped in a not too distant past, this is the one you want to have if you want to know what R.E.M. It’s hard to believe these guys have been around as long as they have and still can sound that vital, yet they have the back catalog and this release to prove it. Instead of “Everybody Hurts” we get “Cuyahoga” and instead of “Man On The Moon” and “Losing My Religion” we are treated to rocking versions of “So. This isn't 1990 - we don't need to compress and RUIN music anymore with this 'lossy' garbage. Use FLAC/CDDA if you want to do anything in quality use MEGA too, Mp3 is worthless garbage. At the Olympia) 3:17 'Second Guessing' (from Live at the Olympia). So that means that their most known songs aren’t represented here but I didn’t miss them for a second. HUNDRED AND THIRTY ONE () tracks of fab REM great stuff, live. So on one hand you will hear a lot of songs that would make that album being tested on a live audience, on the other hand this one finds the band reaching way the fuck back to when they were a Byrds-influenced college rock band out of Athens, Georgia. Try-outs for what would become “Accelerate”, the band’s most defining album in years. “Live At The Olympia” is the result of five shows that R.E.M.
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