Track Listing
DISC 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
DISC 2:
1. Drive
2. Feeling Gravitys Pull
3. Until the Day is Done
4. Accelerate
5. Auctioneer
6. Little America
7. 1,000,000
8. Disguised
9. Worst Joke Ever, The
10. Welcome To the Occupation
11. Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)
12. Harborcoat
13. Wolves, Lower
14. I've Been High
15. Kohoutek
16. West of the Fields
17. Pretty Persuasion
18. Romance
19. Gardening At Night
| Details | | Producer: | Jacknife Lee, R.E.M. | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Live | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Michael Stipe (vocals); Mike Mills (keyboards, bass guitar, background vocals); Bill Rieflin (drums).
Audio Mixers: Jacknife Lee; Sam Bell.
Liner Note Author: Andy Gill.
R.E.M.'s five-night residency at Dublin's Olympia in the summer of 2007
"This is not a show," murmurs Michael Stipe at the start of LIVE AT THE OLYMPIA and it's not quite misdirection. R.E.M.'s five-night residency at Dublin's Olympia in the summer of 2007 functioned as working rehearsals for their fourteenth album ACCELERATE, with the band testing out each of the songs, exploring arrangements, finding breaking points, and pairing them with older songs that informed their back-to-basics move. As rehearsal, it paid off splendidly -- road-testing the material made it stronger, resulting in their best album in years -- but the audience was in for a real treat, with the band digging deep into their back catalog to play some of their best non-hit songs. Just as importantly, the band sounds completely engaged with the material, enjoying playing the songs again. And that is what R.E.M. is here -- a tighter, cleaner band than the scruffy renegades of the '80s, but still the same band, which is evident here in ways it never was on the perfectly fine R.E.M. LIVE. That was a production. This is rock & roll.
Editorial Reviews
3 stars out of 5 -- [This] captures intimate, occasionally great performances....The selling point on LIVE AT THE OLYMPIA is R.E.M. spelunking through early catalog gems...
Rolling Stone
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