R. E. M. - Edinburgh, Scotland 1985 (sbd)

Coasters Ballroom

Edinburgh, Scotland

June 25, 1985

soundboard recording (quality Ex--; judging by the great sound, I’m guessing this is from the master tape or a first-gen. copy; the punters get rowdier after the first 4 or 5 songs, so you folks who like crowd noise hang in there — it’s coming…)

The performance? Smokin'...

MUCHOS GRACIAS to the original taper & sharer (whoever you are)

There are a few brief anomalies in the set. The most noticeable is track 2 switching from stereo to mono & back in a handful of places. The latter was necessitated by the repair job I did to replace intermittent dropouts in the left & right channels on that track -- which is still quite listenable.  

Coasters "Roller Disco", circa 1979

01 - feeling gravitys pull (cuts in)

02 - harborcoat

03 - green grow the rushes

04 - laughing

05 - driver 8

06 - so. central rain (i'm sorry)

07 - have you ever seen the rain? 
       (j. fogerty / ccr cover)

08 - can't get there from here

09 - maps and legends

10 - 7 chinese bros.

11 - hyena

12 - (don't go back to) rockville         
      (end cut, fades out)

13 - just a touch

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14 - auctioneer

       (another engine)

15 - old man kensey

16 - little america

17 - life & how to live it

18 - pretty persuasion

19 - this day

(? – extemporaneous ditty)

20 - talk about the passion

21 - see no evil

     (television cover)

22 - second guessing

23 - theme from two steps onward

24 - gardening at night

25 - 9-9

 
TT: 1:24:12 (suggested disc split: between #13 & 14)
  

Lossless WAV (800 MB)

MP3@320 (this was missing track 2, but that's been corrected)           
   

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