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Venue
City
State
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Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
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Rockline Interview (FM Broadcast)
Unknown
Unknown
40 Watt Club
Athens
GA
Orange Crush
Stand
Pop Song 89
The One I Love
I Remember California
You Are The Everything
Uptown Lounge
Athens
GA
Sunshine Love, The Tears, Chestnut Mare, Tiffany Queen, You Ain't Goin' Nowhere, Feel A Whole Lot Better, Mr. Spaceman, Bells of Rhymney, Mr. Tamborine Man, Turn Turn Turn, Eight Miles High, Knockin' On Heaven's Door
40 Watt Club
Athens
GA
Feeling Gravity's Pull, It's the End of the World As We Know.., Begin the Begin, Stand, Cuyahoga, Fall On Me, You Are the Everything, Finest Worksong, Auctioneer (Another Engine), Pop Song 89, Exhuming McCarthy, These Days, Turn You Inside Out, Maps and Legends, Welcome to the Occupation, World Leader Pretend, Time After Time (Annelise), Pretty Persuasion, I Believe, Get Up, Feeling Gravity's Pull
40 Watt Club
Athens
GA
Orange Crush
Pop Song 89
Title
Hairshirt
You Are The Everything
Stand
Finest Worksong
Ardent Studios
Memphis
TN
Finest Worksong
Welcome to the Occupation
Oddfellows Local 151
Pop Song 89
Green Instrumental 3 ("Title")
Green Instrumental 2
Untitled
Hairshirt
Green instrumental 1 ("Night Swim"?)
Stand
Green instrumental 4 ("Drive")
Gardening At Night (Acoustic) 1/83
All The Right Friends 1/83
Tighten Up 1/83
Moon River 1/83
Document and Green Demos
Athens Music Festival
Athens
GA
Ain't No Sunshine, First We Take Manhattan, Hairshirt, I'll Give You My Skin, Midnight Train to Georgia, Prince of Darkness, 11th Untitled Song, Kid Fears, Harpers, All Along the Watchtower, Dark Globe, Summertime
Athens Music Festival
Athens
GA
R.E.M.
"Under The Moonlight"
CFC - 101
Recorded: Athens Music Festival - 11/25/88 + 3
Quality: Poor to Very Good
(Actually Michael Stipe solo with the Indigo Girls)
Radio Festival Advertisement with Michael
Ain't No Sunshine
First We Take Manhattan
Hairshirt [Michael; first public performance?]
I'll Give You My Skin
Midnight Train to Georgia
Prince of Darkness [Indigo Girls]
11th Untitled Song from 'Green'
Kid Fears
Harpers [Michael]
All Along the Watchtower
Dark Globe [Michael]
Summertime
Big Day Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, 3 Jun 1990
Michael, Natalie Merchant, Billy Bragg
Disturbance at the Heron House
Don't Talk
Hello In There
1988 Christmas Single
Fanclub
Release
Parade Of The Wooden Soldier (Alternate Version)
See No Evil
Unreleased Live
N/A
N/A
7 Chinese Brothers
Catapult
Radio Free Europe
9-9
Gardening at Night
Windout
Letter Never Sent
Kohoutek
So. Central Rain
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville
1,000,000
Hyena
West of The Fields
Old Man Kensey
second Guessing
This recording was supposed to be R.E.M.'s last album on the I.R.S. Records label. However, Michael Stipe did not want it released; instead the band settled on the release of "Eponymous".
The Complete Green Demos
Athens
GA
Pop Hit 89 (Pop Song 89)
Orange Crush
Get Up (instrumental)
I Remember California
Untitled Instrumental 1
Title (instrumental)
Great Big (instrumental)
Untitled Instrumental 2
The Wrong Child (instrumental)
Get Up (vocal)
So Awake, Volunteer (The Eleventh Untitled Song) (instrumental)
Hairshirt (instrumental)
You Are The Everything
Stand
R.E.M.
The Complete Green Demos
John Keane's Studios, Athens, GA / Bearsville Studios, NY
This boot has an interesting story behind it. I used to go every month, religiously, to a record show at
the Holiday Inn in Hillside, IL back in the mid-90s. Usually it would be the same pile of crap at every dealer,
with the odd surprise find every now and then.
This was one of them.
An elderly lady was minding her son's table, whereby he had about a half-dozen cassettes in a box amongst
the Zeppelin bootlegs he was selling. I was quite surprised to see a cassette labeled "Green demos" amongst
the crap he had, and for $2.00, snapped it up. I normally didn't buy bootleg tapes but from the tracklisting
I could tell this was something special. I never did meet the guy whose table it was, so I was never able
to confirm lineage or the source.
This tape not only contained all the previously-known Green demos floating about on various bootlegs, but it
ALSO had 3 additional songs that I do not believe EVER appeared on any boots. In fact I don't think that prior
to me trading this tape, these three tracks were known amongst collectors to exist as "Green demos".
The three songs are:
09 - The Wrong Child (instrumental) --- much longer than Green version
10 - Get Up (Vocal) --- partially written lyric, with music boxes but different musical backing tracks
14 - Stand --- no wah-wah guitar solo, different musical backing tracks
I confirmed the above with Todd Ploharski, owner of Athens, GA's Low Yo Yo record store and one of the scene's
biggest REM collectors. If it existed in the REM trader/collector universe, Todd knew about it (if he didn't
actually have it himself). He'd never seen these three songs out there anywhere.
I suspect this originated with either a band member late in the Bearsville sessions or a Bearsville studio staff
person because of the development stages of the songs (i.e. the music boxes on "Get Up" - the idea came in a dream
Bill Berry had late in the day while the band were recording at Bearsville, and the previously-leaked instrumental
demo does not have the music box interlude). If the newly-discovered songs were simply tacked on the end of a tape of previously-leaked demos that would be one thing - but since they were interspersed amongst the others I think
this is a different source altogether than the one used to seed all the boots containing Green demos ("Sleeping
Songs", "Archival Footage", etc...). Furthermore the 4 unreleased instrumental tracks are FAR better quality here
than any of the pre-existing bootleg releases.