R.e.m. this fall will release "Live At The Olympia," a double-disc live album culled from a 2007 five-night residency at the Irish theater.
The Athens, GA-based alt-rockers spent five nights in July 2007 at Dublin's Olympia Theater, testing out songs from their then-forthcoming album, 2008's "Accelerate." The forthcoming 39-track Warner Bros. Records live set hits shelves and digital retailers Oct. 27, and will also be available as a CD/DVD combo complete with concert and backstage footage.
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We were just trying to do something we hadn't done before, which meant there was no relaxing during the set," guitarist
Peter Buck said in a press release. "
Every second we were playing something we didn't know all that well, which was kind of good - there were all kinds of terror elements going on during the show."
The two-disc set features different incarnations of the songs before they were recorded for "Accelerate," including singles "Man-Sized Wreath" and "Supernatural Superserious." Two bonus songs not included on the album - "On The Fly" and "Staring Down The Barrel Of The Middle Distance" - also made the track list, as did a handful of songs from earlier R.E.M. albums, including "Murmur," "Reckoning" and "Life's Rich Pageant."
Thanks for the report to Livedaily.com.
