L thru Q

"L.I.V.E."

• Recorded: University of Rochester, New York, April 8, 1983
• Quality: very good audience recording
• Format: LP
• Notes: This was the very first R.E.M. boot to be released. Only known bootleg to have the songs "Harlem Nocturn" and "Return"

• Tracks

  Harlem Nocturn/Moral Kiosk/Catapult/Pilgrimage/Return (Seven chinese brothers)/Wolves, Lower/Talk About the Passion/Gardening at Night/9-9 (not listed)/West of the fields (not listed)/Radio Free Europe/

"Last Defenders Of The Faith"

• Released: Italy 1995
• Recorded: Palastama - Turin, Italy - 2/10/95
• Format: CD
• Quality: Listenable audience recording that's heavy on the instrumental.

• Tracks

  What's the Frequency, Kenneth?/Crush with Eyeliner/Disturbance at the Heron House/You/I Took Your Name/Try Not to Breathe/Revolution/ Tongue/Country Feedback/Losing My Religion/Departure/I Don't Sleep, I Dream/Star Me Kitten/Get Up/Orange Crush/Everybody Hurts/Star 69

"Late At Night"

• Recorded: ?
• Quality: Excellent
• Format: CD

• Tracks

  Parade of Wooden Soldiers/See No Evil/Good King Wenceslas/Academy Fight Song/Ghost Reindeer in the Sky/Summertime/Baby Baby/Christmas Griping/Where's Captain Kirk?/Toyland/Silver Bells/Christmas Time Is Here/Sex Bomb/Christmas in Tunisia/ plus The One I Love/Time After Time etc./Disturbance at the Heron House (all live)

"Latex Or Oil Based?"

• Recorded: during 1991 acoustic tour (see notes in track listing) [1] from Mountain Stage [2] from Rockline rehearsal [3] from Rockline
• Quality: very good to excellent
• Format: CD

• Tracks

  [1] World Leader Pretend/Radio Song/Fall On Me/ It's The End Of The World.../Half a World Away/ Belong/Love Is All Around/Losing My Religion/ [2] Radio Song/Half A World Away/ Love is All Around (Fragment 1)/ Love is All Around (Fragment 2)/ [3] Half A World Away/Radio Song/Love Is All Around/ Losing My Religion/Jam & Dialogue/

"Life's Rich Pageant & More"

• Recorded: Tracks 1-14 are studio demos & outtakes, Tracks 15-24 were recorded from various locations
• Quality: C+ to B-
• Format: CD
• Notes: LRP Demos plus "selected live tracks"

• Tracks

  Theme From Two Steps Onward/Just a Touch/Mystery to me/Wait/Begin the Begin/Cuyahoga/I Believe/Interim Medley/Rotary Ten/These Days/PSA (Bad Day)/Underneath the Bunker/Swan Swan H/The Flowers of Guatemala/March/Theme From Two Steps Onward/California Dreaming/Mississippi Queen/Whole Lotta Love/Funtime/ After Hours/Oddfellows Local 151/Born to Run/Eight Miles High/Roadrunner/ When I Was Young/

"Listen Harder"

• Recorded: Live at the Opera House, Lawrence, KS, ?, 1982
• Quality: ?
• Format: CD
• Notes: Last six songs from Larry's Hideaway

• Tracks

  Gardening at Night/9-9/Moral Kiosk/Pilgrimage/Shaking through/7Chinese Brothers/Wolves/Lower/Romance/Sitting Still/Pretty/Persuasion/Catapult/1,000,000/Radio Free Europe Wolves, Lower/MoralKiosk/Laughing/Pilgrimage/Moon River/There She Goes Again

"Live At McCabe's Guitar Shop"

• Recorded: McCabe's - Santa Monica, CA - 5/27/87
• Format: CD
• Notes: Seems to be a cd copy of the same recording used on "TMOQ"

• Tracks

  Exactly the same as "TMOQ"

"Live at Yokohama"

• Recorded: Yokohama University, Japan 11/10/84
• Quality: Excellent
• Format: CD
• Notes: Mike announces that this is the very first time they've ever played Auctioneer in public.

• Tracks

  Gardening at Night/9--9/Old Man Kensey/So. Central Rain/ Auctioneer/Talk about the passion/Harborcoat/Hyena/Rockville/ Sitting Still/Catapult/Chicken Train/Pretty Persuasion/ Little America/Ghost Reindeers/Second Guessing/Radio Free Europe/ Femme Fatale/

"Live In Athens 1992"

• Recorded: November 19, 1992 (40 Watt Club, Athens, GA)
• Quality: Crystal Clear Soundboard
• Format: CD
• Notes: Another 40 Watt Club Show

• Tracks

  Drive / Monty Got a Raw Deal / Everybody Hurts / Man on the Moon / Losing My Religion / Country Feedback / Begin the Begin / Fall On Me / Me In Honey / Finest Worksong / Drive / Love Is All Around / Funtime / Radio Free Europe

"Live In Chicago"

• Recorded: Chicago Illinois 7/7/84 and TV (NJ 9/6/84)
• Quality: VG stereo from FM broadcast except * which are from the Rock Influences TV show.
• Notes: This is a plain-vinyl version of the ME Records 0100 picture disc.

• Tracks

  Side 1 Femme Fatale/Radio Free Europe/Gardening at Night/Sitting Still/Pale Blue Eyes*/So You Wanna be a Rock n' Roll Star (with Roger McGuinn)* Side 2: 9-9/Windout/Driver 8/South Central Rain/Harbor Coat/ Hyena/Pretty Persuasion

"Live In Chicago"

• Recorded: Chicago (July 7, 1984) and New Jersey (September 6, 1984)
• Quality: VG stereo from FM broadcast except * which are from the Rock Influences TV show.
• Format: LP Picture Disc

• Tracks

  Femme Fatale/Radio Free Europe/Gardening At Night/ Sitting Still/Pale Blue Eyes*/ So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star*/9-9/Windout/ Driver 8/So. Central Rain/Harborcoat/Cushy Tush/ Behind Closed Doors/Hyena/Pretty Persuasion/

"Live In Chicago"

• Recorded: Aragon Ballroom - Chicago, IL USA 7/7/84
• Format: 7" 45 RPM
• Notes: Broadcast on WXRT Chicago 93.1 FM

• Tracks

  Side 1: Harborcoat (label/cover says So. Central Rain)
  Side 2: Pale Blue Eyes

"Live In Paris"

• Recorded: Studio 105, Paris France, May 7, 2001
• Format: CD
• Notes:

• Tracks

  Imitation Of Life / The Great Beyond / WTF,K? / All The Way To Reno / Daysleeper / I've Been High / Electrolite / The Lifting / At My Most Beautiful / I'll Take The Rain / The One I Love / She Just Wants To Be / Walk Unafraid / Losing My Religion / Man On The Moon / So. Central Rain / ITEOTWAWKI.

"Live In USA 1987"

• Recorded: McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, CA 5/24/87 (CD copy of Acoustic '87 LP)
• Format: CD

• Tracks

  The One I Love/Welcome to the Occupation/ Disturbance At The Heron House/Finest Worksong/ Maps and Legends/Walk Don't Run/ 1,000,000/Trains/ The One I Love/Spooky/Disturbance at the Heron House/ Finest Worksong/Fever/So. Central Rain/ Medley: Leaving on a Jet Plane (w/Natalie Merchant)

"Live Collection"

• Recorded: see notes
• Quality: ?
• Format: CD
• Released: ?
• Notes: Tracks 1-5 were taken from live recordings in Madison (1982), tracks 6-15 were taken from the Orlando Westwood One show, and the last four tracks were recorded March 13, 1991 in London on BBC Radio One for the Nicky Campbell "Into the Night" radio show. The band also performed "Fretless," and "World Leader Pretend" at the same session.

• Tracks

  Gardening at night/Radio free europe/White tornado/ West of the fields/There she goes again/Pop song/ Listen to me/Turn you inside out/Orange crush/Swan Swan H/ Begin the begin/Stand/Perfect circle/Get Up/ It's the end of the world as we know it(And I feel fine)/ Losing my religion/Half a world away/Radio song/ Love is all around/

"Live Monster"

• Recorded: Milton Keynes, UK July 30, 1995
• Format: CD
• Quality: good
• Notes: Trimmed down to fit on 1 CD

• Tracks

  What's The Frequency Kenneth?/ Crush With Eyeliner/ Drive/ Try Not to Breathe/ I Took Your Name/ Bang and Blame/ Strange Currencies/ Man on the Moon/ Country Feedback/ Half a World Away/ Losing My Religion/ Pop Song '89/ Finest Worksong/ Everybody Hurts/ Fall On Me/ It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

"Live Unapproved"

• Recorded: 1989 Westwood One Broadcast with songs out of order
• Quality: Excellent.
• Format: CD

• Tracks

  Turn You Inside Out / Pop Song '89 / Exhuming McCarthy / Disturbance At The Heron House / You Are The Everything / Academy Fight Song / Gravitys Pull / Swan Swan H / Pretty Persuasion / I Believe / King Of Birds / Stand / Finest Worksong / Get Up

"Live USA 1989"

• Notes: Made in Italy, sold in Japan with Japanese insert and obi

• Tracks

  Another Westwood One Superstars in Concert from Miami and Orlando

(Version 1)

(Version 2)

(Version 3)

"Live Vol. 1 (Unauthorised)"

• Recorded: [1] Utrecht, Holland, Sept. 14, 1987 [2] Oslo, Norway, October 6, 1985
• Quality: very good
• Format: CD
• Notes: Purported to be the same as "Rapid Eye Movement" above. There are three different picture cover inserts for this title, both with same catalog number.

"Live Vol. 1 (Unlicensed)"

• Notes: Exists... Could someone please send me some info on this?

• Tracks

(Version 1)

(Version 2)

"Live Vol. 2 (Unauthorised) a.k.a. "Carnival Of Sorts""

• Recorded: 9:30 Club, Washington DC, 03/18/83
• Quality: very good
• Format: CD
• Notes: Probably a copy of "The Sound and the Fury" There are at least two different cover pictures floating around for this (Shown Above). There might be another (Possibly titled "Carnival Of Sorts") with the same catalog number and same tracks.

• Tracks

  Gardening at Night/9-9/Catapult/Pilgrimage/7 Chinese Bros./ Laughing/ Wolves, Lower/Romance/Sitting Still/1,000,000/ West of the Fields/Radio Free Europe/Last Date/Ages of You/ We Walk/Carnival of Sorts/

"Live Vol. 2 (Unlicensed)"

• Recorded: All 20 Songs from the Westwood One '89 Show
• Quality:
• Format: CD
• Notes: One continuous track on the CD. (You cannot skip to the next song without fast-forwarding.) Track 19 is "Get Up", though it is missing from list on CD case. Stipe is mis-spelled "Snipe" on case.

• Tracks

  Pop Song '89 / Exhuming McCarthy / Welcome To The Occupation / Disturbance At The Heron House / Turn You Inside Out / Orange Crush / Feeling Gravity's Pull / Swan Swan H. / Begin The Begin / Pretty Persuasion / I Believe / King Of Birds / Crazy / Finest Worksong / You Are The Everything / Academy Fight Song / Stand / Perfect Circle / Get Up / ITEOTWAWKI

"Live Vol. 3 (Unauthorised) (a.k.a. Pilgrimage)"

• Recorded: LA Forum - Los Angeles, CA - 03/15/89 (Green tour)
• Released: Australia (claims 1993, but who knows)
• Quality: good audience recording
• Format: CD
• Notes: There are two different front picture sleeves for this one, with same catalog number.
  This is a copy of the 1st CD of "Reminisence"
  Pre Occupation: Stipe says "...El Salvador prays for euthanasia" Inside Out: great version w/megaphone; good crowd reaction. Pre-Orange Crush:crowd reads along as house rules are projected above. Stipe sings "Be all that you can be" World Leader: prelude "We live as we dream alone...." Pre-Begin: Stipe "This is a song of great inspiration and personal motivation, and it was written especially for you." Pre-I Believe: Stipe sings " ... help me lord carry that heavy load ..." Pre-Crazy: Stipe "This is a song of great inspiration and personal motivation, and it was written by someone else especially for you" Get Up: with music boxes

• Tracks

  Pop Song 89/Exhuming McCarthy/Welcome to the Occupation/Turn You Inside Out/ Pilgrimage/Orange Crush/Disturbance at the Heron House/Feeling Gravity's Pull/ Time After Time/World Leader Pretend/Begin the Begin/Pretty Persuasion/I Believe/Crazy/Get Up

"Live Vol. 3 (Unlicensed)"

• Recorded: Langraaf, Holland - May 15, 1989 Milan - June 15, 1989
• Quality:
• Format: CD
• Notes: Copy of "The Dream" One continuous track on the CD. (You cannot skip to the next song without fast-forwarding.) Stipe is mis-spelled "Snipe" on the case.

• Tracks

  Exhuming McCarthy/Turn You Inside-Out/Stand/Orange Crush/ Feeling Gravity's Pull/King Of Birds/World Leader Pretend/ Underneath The Bunker/Pretty Persuation/Get Up/Auctioneer/ It's The End Of The World As We Know It/ Summertime/ Swan Swan H/Finest Worksong/Begin The Begin/Perfect Circle/ Dark Globe

"Live Vol. 4 (Unauthorised)"

• Recorded: LA Forum - Los Angeles, CA - 03/15/89 (Green tour)
• Quality:
• Format: CD
• Notes: Copy of the 2nd CD of "Reminicense".

• Tracks

  Auctioneer (another engine)/ It's The End Of The World/Stand/Wolves, Lower/Fall On Me/ You Are The Everything/Finest Worksong/King Of Birds/ See No Evil (not listed)/I Remember California/Strange/ Perfect Circle/ After Hours.

"Living Life Backwards"

• Recorded: Various
• Format: CD
• Notes: All demos. Quality soundboards but some sound tinny/echoey. (Some imaginative song titling has been corrected)

• Tracks

  Losing My Religion / It's a Free World Baby / Radio Song / Ghost Riders / Texarkana / Pop Song 89 / Orange Crush / I Remember California / Stand / Welcome to the Occupation / It's the End of the World as We Know It / Exhuming McCarthy / Finest Worksong / Oddfellows Local 151 / Theme From Two Steps Onward / Mystery to Me / Wait / Begin the Begin / Can't Get There From Here / Feeling Gravitys Pull / Maps and Legends.

"Losing My Religion"

• Recorded: 40 Watt Club - Athens, Georgia, November 19, 1992.
• Format: CD
• Notes: Automatically Live with the last track from Mountain Stage
• Quality: No better or worse than any of the other boots of this show.

• Tracks

  Drive / Monty Got A Raw Deal / Everybody Hurts / Man On The Moon / Losing My Religion / Country Feedback / Begin The Begin / Fall On Me / Me In Honey / Finest Worksong / Drive / Love Is All Around / Fun Time -> Radio Free Europe / Losing My Religion.

"Losing My Religion Vol. 1"

• Recorded: Muziekcentrum, Utrecht, Holland, 14 September 1987
• Format: CD
• Notes: Same as 1st CD from "Red Rain" 2CD set. This has been seen with two different front cover picture inserts. Both have same catalog #.

• Tracks

  Finest Worksong/These Days/Lightnin' Hopkins/Welcome to the Occupation/Driver 8/Feeling Garvitys Pull/I Believe/The One I Love/Exhuming McCarthy/Wolves, Lower/Fall on Me/Superman/Just a Touch

"Losing My Religion (Vol.2)"

• Recorded: Muziekcentrum, Utrecht, Holland, 14 September 1987
• Quality: Excellent from FM broadcast
• Format: CD
• Notes: Same as 2nd CD from "Red Rain" 2CD set.

• Tracks

  Oddfellows Local 151/Little America/ITEOTWAWKI(AIFF)/Begin the Begin/Strange/Disturbance at the Heron House/Funtime/Moral Kiosk/Life and How to Live It/Time after Time etc.--Red Rain/So. Central Rain

"Losing My Religion Vol 3 Live in USA 1989"

• Recorded: This is '89 Westwood One show. (19 songs)
• Quality: Weak on the bass compared to other boots of this show.

• Tracks

"Losing My Religion Vol 4 Live in USA 1991"

• Recorded: KCRW show (maybe not all of it though) + SNL live 91.

• Tracks

  World Leader Pretend/Half A World Away/Disturbance At The Heron House/Radio Song/Low/Love Is All Around/Tusk/Losing My Religion/Bandwagon/Endgame/Jackson/Swan-Swan H/Spooky/Radio Ethiopia/Fall On Me/Losing My Religion (Version #2)/Shiny Happy People.

"Love And Squalor"

• Recorded: A remastering of the Westwood One radio show - Orlando, April 30, 1989
• Quality: Excellent, but a "hiss" is a present throughout the CD.
• Format: CD
• Released: January, 1992
• Notes: Title comes from a J. D. Salinger short story that Peter once said he liked and had wanted to use it as an album title.

• Tracks

  Pop Song '89/Exhuming McCarthy/Welcome To Occupation/ Disturbance At The Heron House/Orange Crush/ Feeling Gravity's Pull/Begin The Begin/Pretty Persuation/ I Believe/Swan Swan H/Flowers Of Guatemala/Crazy/ Finest Worksong/You Are The Everything/Academy Fight Song/ Stand/Perfect Circle/Get Up/ It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)/

"Low"

• Recorded: Shocking Club (Milano) - March 22, 1991
• Quality: Excellent (first minute is average)
• Format: CD
• Released: August, 1991

• Tracks

  Disturbance At The Heron House/Half A World Away/Swan Swan H/ Belong/Driver 8/Low/Fretless/Love Is All Around/ Losing My Religion/Fall On Me/Get Up/

"Mada Mada"

• Recorded: [1] Larry's Hideaway 7/9/83 [2] Reflection Studios outtakes [3] Trenton, NJ - Nov 16, 1982
• Quality: excellent (mixed FM broadcast and soundboard)
• Format: LP (double)
• Notes: Also available on CD "Streets of Millionaires"

• Tracks

  [1] Laughing/Pilgrimage/There She Goes Again/ Seven Chinese Brothers/Talk About the Passion/Sitting Still/ Harborcoat/Catapult/Gardening at Night/9-9/Just a Touch/ West of the Fields/Radio Free Europe/We Walk/1,000,000/ [2] There She Goes Again/Lighten Up/Don't Want You Anymore/ [3] Romance/1,000,000/Pretty Persuasion/Ages of You/ Pilgrimage/Wolves, Lower

"Man on the Moon"

• Recorded: November 19, 1992 (40 Watt Club, Athens, GA)
• Quality: Excellent - Possibly a soundboard.
• Format: CD
• Notes: Nice picture disc of an astronaunt on the moon. Inside cover info is in German.

• Tracks

  Drive/Monty Got A Raw Deal/Man On The Moon/ Losing My Religion/Country Feedback/Begin The Begin/ Fall On Me/Me In Honey/Finest Worksong/Drive/ Love Is All Around/Fun Time/Radio Free Europe/

"Maps And Legends"

• Recorded: McCabe' Guitar Shop, May 24, 1987
• Quality: Below average. Listen BEFORE buying.
• Format: CD
• Released: January, 1992
• Notes: "Baby Please Don't Go"..."Stretch Out My Hand" are songs NOT performed by REM. I don't know who does them, but they're pretty bad.

• Tracks

  (set 1) Hello Stranger/The One I Love/ Welcome To The Occupation/Disturbance At The Heron House/ Finest Worksong/Maps And Legends/Baby Please Don't Go/ 1,000,000 Miles Away/Hello Stranger/Camp Fire Song/ Stretch Out My Hand/(set 2) The One I Love/Spooky/ Disturbance At The Heron House/Fever/South Central Rain/

"The Megatour"

• Recorded: Brisbane 1/22/95 (24 Cuts), 40 Watt Club 11/19/92 (Last 8 Cuts)
• Format: 2CD
• Notes: One collector comments that this may not be from the Brisbane show: "I think the bootleg called "the Megatour" is mislabeled as Brisbane 1/22/95. I think it is acutally a re-sequenced version of 1/16/95 Adelaide. While i don't have my copy of the Megatour anymore, i remember doing track comparisons when it first came out to "sweet adelaide", and they were identical... Another thing is, the Megatour is missing 5 songs from the tape boot of 1/22: Turn You inside out / pop song 89 / monty got a raw deal / begin the begin / Star me kitten.....while it contains 3 songs not played on 1/22: drive / country feedback / heron house. All 3 of these were played in Adelaide. "

• Tracks

  (Disc One) Circus Envy/Crush With Eyeliner/You/Me in Honey/King of Comedy/ I Don't Sleep I Dream/Revolution/Drive/Try Not To Breathe/Tongue/Man On The Moon/Half a World Away/Losing My Religion/Get Up/Star 69/(Disc two) Country Feedback/Disturbance at the Heron House/I Took Your Name/Finest Worksong/Let Me In/Everybody Hurts/Bang and Blame/What's the Frequency/It's the End of the World As We Know It/Drive/Monty Got a Raw Deal/Everybody Hurts/ Man on the Moon/Losing My Religion/Country Feedback/Begin the Begin/Finest Worksong.

"Metal"

• Recorded: MTV Unplugged Show 4/91
• Format: CD
• Notes: Says "limited edition to 250" (seems to be accurate for once) The name Metal comes from the fact that the case is made of metal--very heavy The name of this boot on the cover is simply "R.E.M."

• Tracks

  Half a World Away/Disturbance at the Heron House/Radio Song/Low/ Perfect Circle/Fall on Me/Belong/Love Is All Around/ITEOTWAWKI (AIFF)/Losing My Religion/Pop Song '89

"Mimed"

• Recorded: BBC Studios 3/13/91 & 3 others
• Format: EP
• Quality: Some of this 45rpm flexi is excellent (* taken from BBC studios, London, 13 Mar 91),
  rest is barely average.
• Notes: Borehole R.E.M. Fan Club 1991 (UK) MFO2-X2 (disc has no label
  although the sides are etched with number). Despite what the sleeve
  says, these are the actual cuts:
  

• Tracks

  Side 1: Fretless*/Thank You (Sly and the Family Stone)/Wayward Wind
  Side 2: Half A World Away*/These Days
  (Sleeve says: Benjamin Caroline Triangle/Rotary Thirteen/Wayward Wind/
  Half A World Away/These Days)
  

"Monster At Milton Keynes"

• Recorded: Milton Keynes - 7/30/95
• Format: CD
• Quality: Noticable radio air noise. B+
• Notes: Uncensored

• Tracks

  Disc 1: What's the Frequency, Kenneth?/Crush with Eyeliner/Drive/Turn You Inside Out/Try Not to Breathe/I Took Your Name/Undertow/Bang and Blame/I Don't Sleep, I Dream/Strange Currencies/Revolution/Tongue/Man on the Moon Disc 2: Country Feedback/Half A World Away/Losing My Religion/Pop Song '89/Finest Worksong/Get Up/Star 69/Let Me In/Everybody Hurts/Fall on Me/Departure/ITEOTWAWKI(AIFF)

"Monster B Sides"

• Recorded: Various
• Quality: Excellent
• Format: CD

• Tracks

  What's The Frequency Kenneth?/Bang And Blame/I On't Sleep, I Dream/Monty Got A Raw Deal/Everybody Hurts/Man On The Moon/Losing My Religion/Country Feedback/Begin The Begin/Fall On Me/Me In Honey/Finest Worksong/Drive/ Funtime/Radio Free Europe/Tighten Up.

"Monster Radio"

• Recorded: Berlin, Germany, Aug. 1, 1995
• Format: 2CD
• Quality: Good
• Notes: The last track is from the 1995 MTV video music awards, New York

• Tracks

  I Took Your Name/What's The Frequency, Kenneth?/Crush With Eyeliner/ Me In Honey/Bang And Blame/Near Wild Heaven/Undertow/Welcome To The Occupation/You/Strange Currencies/Revolution/Tongue/Man On The Moon/ Country Feedback/(CD 2) Star Me Kitten/Losing My Religion/Pop Song '89/ Finest Worksong/Get Up/Star 69/Let Me In/Everybody Hurts/So. Central Rain/Departure/Tusk/Ghost Riders In The Sky/ITEOTWAWKI/The Wake-Up Bomb

"Monster Radio '95"

• Recorded: Milton Keynes - 7/30/95 + 10 Early Tracks
• Format: 2CD
• Quality: Above Average
• Notes: Censored

• Tracks

  Disc 1: What's the Frequency, Kenneth?/Crush with Eyeliner/Drive/Turn You Inside Out/Try Not to Breathe/I Took Your Name/Undertow/Bang and Blame/I Don't Sleep, I Dream/Strange Currencies/Revolution/Tongue/Man on the Moon/Country Feedback/Half A World Away/Losing My Religion
  Disc 2: Pop Song '89/Finest Worksong/Get Up/Star 69/Let Me In/Everybody Hurts/Fall on Me/Departure/ITEOTWAWKI(AIFF)//West of the Fields/(Don't Go Back to) Rockville/Auctioneer/S. Central Rain/Sitting Still/Driver 8/9-9/Windout/Pretty Persuasion/Radio Free Europe

"Monument Valley"

• Recorded: 7/9/83 Larry's Hideaway FM broadcast
• Quality: One boot source rates it 2 stars out of 5
• Format: CD
• Notes: Claims to be Rhythmic Studios 11/9/83, actually it' the same as "Mada Mada" from the FM broadcast at Larry's Hideway in July 1983.

• Tracks

  See "Mada Mada" above

"MTV Unplugged 2001"

• Recorded: MTV Unplugged 2 - and bonus tracks from early Reveal.
• Quality: ?
• Format: 2CD
• Notes: Claims to be "The Complete Unedited Show" but it isnt.

• Tracks

  CD1: All the Way to Reno / Electrolite / At My Most Beautiful / Sad Professor / Beat a Drum / I'll Take the Rain / I've Been High / So. Central Rain / The One I Love / Losing My Religion / Country Feedback
  CD2: Cayahoga / Imitation of Life / Disappear / Find the River / The Great Beyond / Bonus tracks: Free Form Jazz / All the Way to Reno / All I Want / Fascinating / Imiatation of Life / She Just Wants to Be / I've Been High

"Mumble"

• Recorded: various locations (1986 demos, 1984 BBC broadcast, etc.)
• Quality: good to excellent
• Format: LP
• Notes: PSA is somewhat of a precursor to It's the End of the World..., and contains some of the same lyrics. Also, tracks marked with (*) are from 1984 Nottingham UK concert and most are also available on Nottingham LP.

• Tracks

  Underneath the Bunker/Gardening At Night (*)/ 9-9 (*)/ Windout (*)/White Tornado/Pretty Persuasion (*)/ PSA (Bad Day)/So. Central Rain/Swan Swan H/Auctioneer (*)/ West of the Fields (*)/Cuyahoga

"New Orleans"

• Recorded: Kiefer U.N.O. Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA 3/27/89
• Quality: fair (audience)
• Format: LP (double)
• Notes: LP's are colored. One is green (translucent) with black mottles (like a tye-dye effect), the other is clear with blue mottles. Some are just black vinyl only.

• Tracks

  Welcome to the Occupation/Disturbance At The Heron House/ Turn You Inside Out/Driver 8/Orange Crush/Cuyahoga/ Feeling Gravity's Pull/Time After Time/World Leader Pretend/ I Believe/Pretty Persuasion/Get Up/Auctioneer/ It's The End of the World As We Know It/Stand/Fall on Me/ You Are The Everything/Finest Worksong/King of Birds/

"New Test Surprise"

• Recorded: November 2, 1998 - Rockpalast - Hamburg, Germany.
• Quality: Awesome Soundboard - but no fade ins/outs
• Format: CD

• Tracks

  Losing My Religion / Electrolite / Lotus / Parakeet / New Test Leper / Daysleeper / Sad Professor / Country Feedback / The Apologist / So. Central Rain / I'm Not Over You / Walk Unafraid / Man On The Moon / At My Most Beautiful / Spooky / Perfect Circle.

(CD)

(Cassette)

"Nightswimming: Greatest Hits Live"

• Recorded: Various Places and Dates
• Format: CD, Cassette
• Notes: Nightswimming: Great looking blue translucent jewel case with large silver embossed REM.

• Tracks

  Stand/Orange Crush/ITEOTWAWKI(AIFF)/Finest Worksong/Radio Free Europe/(Don't Go Back to) Rockville/S. Central Rain/The One I Love/Fall on Me/Superman/Drive/Talk About the Passion/Radio Song/Belong/Losing My Religion/Drive/Everybody Hurts/Man on the Moon

"No. 8 Demos and Outtakes"

• Recorded: various locations 1987 thru 1990
• Quality: very good to excellent
• Format: CD
• Notes: all are outtakes from album sessions

• Tracks

  Exhuming McCarthy/Disturbance at the Heron House/ It's the End of the World/Fireplace/Lightning Hopkins/ I Remember California/Get Up/You Are the Everything/ Orange Crush/Losing My Religion/Trash Metal Song/ Shiny Happy People/Me in Honey/Endgame/Belong/Texarkana/ It's a Free World Baby/

"No. Central Rain"

• Recorded: 11 tracks from Glastonbury (6/25/99) and 5 tracks from "New York 1999" show. (1998 NYC Bowery Ballroom probably)
• Quality: very good to excellent
• Format: CD
• Notes: This boot is essentially identical to the boot "Glastonbury '99" (except Lotus from the NYC show is not included)

• Tracks

  The One I Love/Sweetness Follows/At My Most Beautiful/Losing My Religion/ Everybody Hurts/Walk Unafraid/Star 69/Finest Worksong (listed as "The Finest Work Song")/Man on the Moon/Crush With Eyeliner/ITEOTWAWKIAIFF (listed as "It's The End Of The World")/At My Most Beautiful/E Bow The Letter (complete with Patti Smith on vocals)/The Apologist/So. Central Rain/Lotus (not listed on Cd Case.)

"Non Album Tracks"

• Recorded: ?
• Quality: A
• Format: ?
• Notes: ?

• Tracks

  Rotary Eleven/Forty Second Song/It's a Free World Baby/Winged Mammal Theme/First We Take Manhattan/Fruity Organ/New Orleans Instrumental No. 2/Arms of Love/The Lion Sleeps Tonight/Fretless/ Organ Song/Star Me Kitten (demo)/New Orleans Instrumental No. 1 (long version)/Mandolin Strum/Chance/Dark Globe/I Walked with a Zombie/Photograph [Michael and Natalie Merchant]/Ghostrider/ Funtime/Memphis Train Blues/Pop Song 89 9acoustic]/Drive (live)

"Norwich"

• Recorded: November 23, 1984 - University of East Anglia, Norwich, England
• Quality: Excellent
• Format: CDR
• Notes: One of the few boots tith Wendell Gee.

• Tracks

  Femme Fatale / Moral Kiosk / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / So. Central Rain / Seven Chinese Brothers / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Thanks to the Lucy Show / Hyena / Swing Low Sweet Chariot -- Sitting Still / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / Talk About The Passion / Driver 8 / Radio Free Europe / Pretty Persuasion / Little America / Moon River / Second Guessing / Bandwagon / We Walk-- After Hours / 1,000,000 / Ghost Riders In The Sky / See No Evil / Wendell Gee / Just A Touch.

"Not Field Recordings - Not REM"

• Recorded: 17 Commercial Singles with Michael Stipe Singing with others
• Format: CD

• Tracks

  Arms Of Love (solo)/Guilty By Association/Your Ghost/Full Moon/To Sir With Love/Trout/Alive And Living Now/Kid Fears/Future 40's/Little April Showers/A Campfire Song/Boy (go)/Clustering Train/Omaha/Hot Nights In Georgia/Treason/Meeting

(Lunchbox)

"Nottingham"

• Recorded: Rock City, Nottingham, UK - BBC Broadcast - 11/21/84
• Quality: excellent
• Notes: Comes in four covers: green, red, generic w/orange insert sheet, and unique hand painted (in Lunchbox)
• Format: LP Comes in the following colored vinyl: black, green, red, pink, clear,

• Tracks

  Hyena/Talk About the Passion/Rockville/Auctioneer/ So. Central Rain/Sitting Still/Old Man Kensey/ Gardening at Night/9-9/Windout/Driver 8/Pretty Persuasion/ Radio Free Europe/

"Old Man Kensey"

• Recorded: Rock City, Nottingham, UK - November 21, 1984
• Quality: Excellent (radio show)
• Format: CD
• Notes: This CD was mastered from a BBC concert transcription LP which has also been bootlegged on vinyl (less "West of the Fields") under the title "Nottingham." An abridged version of this concert was recently pressed on CD as a Westwood One radio show ("In Concert") and aired in several markets. In a humorous moment during this show, Stipe announces that the heel of his boot has come off, and requests (and is given) a new shoe from the audience.

• Tracks

  Hyena/Talk About the Passion/West of the Fields/ (Don't Go Back To) Rockville/Auctioneer/So. Central Rain/ Sitting Still/Old Man Kensey/Gardening at Night/9-9/Windout/ Driver 8/Pretty Pervasion (sic)/Radio Free Europe/

"Old Man Kensey"

• Recorded: Utrecht (1), Oslo (2), 9/14/87 (1), 10/6/85 (2)
• Quality: ?
• Format: CD
• Notes: There is a boot of a different show with the same title

• Tracks

  Finest Worksong/These Days/Lightnin' Hopkins/Welcome to the Occupation/Driver 8/Feeling Gravity's Pull/I Believe/The One I Love/ Superman/Just A Touch/Oddfellows Local 151/Little America/Hyena/ Driver 8/Old Man Kensey/Pretty Persuasion/1,000,000

"On The Air (In The Air)"

• Recorded: BBC October 1998
• Format: CD
• Notes: The insert title says "On the Air", but the CD itself says "In The Air"

• Tracks

  Losing My ereligion / New Test Leper / Lotus / Parakeet / Electrolite / Perfect Circle / The Apolgist / Daysleeper / Country Feedback / At My Most Beautiful / Walk Unafraid / Man on the Moon.

"Original Lives"

• Recorded: McCabe's Guitar Shop - Santa Monica, CA - 5/27/87
• Quality: Listenable but not the best.
• Format: CD

• Tracks

  The One I Love / Welcome to the Occupation / Disturbance At The Heron House / Finest Worksong / Maps and Legends / Walk Don't Run / 1,000,000 / Trains / The One I Love / Spooky / Disturbance at the Heron House / Finest Worksong / Fever / So. Central Rain / Medley: Leaving on a Jet Plane (w/Natalie Merchant)

"Outtakes Of Time"

• Recorded: Studio Outtakes from "Out Of Time"
• Quality: Above average, some tape hiss
• Format: CD (AAD) [19 tracks, 75:57]

• Tracks

  Radio Song/Belong (instrumental)/Texarkana/ It's A Free World Baby/Here I Am Again/Instrumental #1/ Losing My Religion/Instrumental #2/Shiny Happy People/ Me In Honey/Endgame/Half A World Away/Sugar Cane/ Radio Song #2/Near Wild Heaven/Fretless Instrumental/ Low/42nd Street Song/Country Feedback/

"Pageantry"

• Recorded: University Ampitheatre, Los Angeles, CA; September 30, 1986
• Quality: poor
• Format: LP (double)
• Notes: due to poor quality, recommended for diehards only

• Tracks

  These Days/Radio Free Europe/Harborcoat/Sitting Still/ The One I Love/Shaking Through/Feeling Gravity's Pull/ Last Date/Drive 8/Flowers of Guatemala/I Believe/ Swan Swan H/Superman/Can't Get There From Here/ Pretty Persuasion/Just a Touch/Fall on Me/Cuyahoga/ 1,000,000/Strange/Funtime/Life and How to Live It/ Begin the Begin/So. Central Rain/

"Passengers"

• Recorded: 1-13: Later with Jools Holland, 6 Nov. 98; 2: 1-7: VH1 Storytellers, 6 Dec 98;
  8: MTV European Video Awards,12 Nov. 98 ; 9-10: Letterman, 22 Oct 98;
  11: Late Night with Conan O'Brien, 17 Nov. 98.
• Format: 2CD set in slimline jewel case.

• Tracks

  Disc 1: Later: Losing My Religion/Lotus/New Test Leper/Daysleeper/ Electrolite/At My Most Beautiful/The Apolgist/Country Feedback/ Parakeet/So. Central Rain/Walk Unafraid/Man on the Moon/ Passenger (outro).
  Disc 2: VH1: Daysleeper/Losing My Religion/Perfect Circle/Parakeet/ Fall on Me/Man on the Moon/At My Most Beautiful; MTV Europe: Daysleeper; Letterman: Daysleeper/ Interview; Conan: Daysleeper

"Peace And Love, Anyone?"

• Recorded: Out Of Time Outtakes
• Format: LP

• Tracks

  Side 1:Losing My Religion/Trash Metal Song/Shiny Happy People/Me in Honey/Endgame
  Side 2: Belong/Texarkana/It's a Free World Baby/Here I Am Again/Untitled

"Peasant Dreams"

• Recorded: Music Hall - Seattle, WA - 6/27/84 (NBC Source Radio Show)
• Quality: Very good from FM
• Format: 2LP
• Notes: Cover is a slip sheet.

• Tracks

  Side 1: Talk About the Passion/7 Chinese Brothers South Central Rain/Pretty Persuasion/Gardening at Night/9-9 Side 2: Burning Down/Pale Blue Eyes/1,000,000/So You Wanna be a Rock n' Roll Star/Box Cars/Taking Out the Seeds Side 3: Moral Kiosk/Driver 8/Hyena/Camera/Pilgrimmage Side 4: Old Man Kinsey/Little America

"Perfect Circle"

• Recorded: Live in the USA (Taken from an FM broadcast)
• Quality: Pretty good.
• Format: CD
• Released: 1991
• Notes: This would appear to be the same as the "Gravity" boot. Yet another version of the 1989 "Westwood One" Orlando Green Tour concert.

• Tracks

  Pop Song/McCarty (sic)/Welcome to the Occupation/Heron House/ If I Could Turn You Inside Out/Orange Crush/Gravity/ Swan Swan/Begin the Begin/Pretty Pursuasion/I Believe/ King of the Birds/Crazy/Finest Worksong/You are the Everything/Academy Fight Song/Stand/Perfect Circle/ Get up/End of the World/

"Perfect Circle"

• Recorded: Live In USA
• Format: CD (AAD)
• Quality: Pretty Good
• Released: 1993
• Length: 73.23
• Notes: This is the same as the "Gravity" boot.

• Tracks

  Pop Song/McCarty (sic)/Welcome to the Occupation/Heron House/ If I Could Turn You Inside Out/Orange Crush/Gravity/ Swan Swan/Begin the Begin/Pretty Pursuasion/I Believe/ King of the Birds/Crazy/Finest Worksong/You are the Everything/Academy Fight Song/Stand/Perfect Circle/ Get up/End of the World/

"Philadelphia 1984"

• Recorded: Says: Tower Theatre, Philadelphia Oct. 17, 1984 But really 29 September 1984 - Bayou Club, Boca Raton, FL
• Quality: Above Average (A-/B+)
• Format: CD (ADD)
• Released: 1990
• Notes: (according to the cover) Limited Edition, 1000 Copies

• Tracks

  Radio Free Europe/Hyena/Letter Never Sent/Camera/ Gardening At Night/9-9/Windout/(Don't Go Back To) Rockville/ So. Central Rain/Little America/Second Guessing/ Talk About The Passion/Wolves, Lower/Moon River/ Ghost Riders In The Sky/There She Goes Again/We Walk/

"Philadelphia 1984"

• Recorded: Says: Tower Theatre, Philadelphia Oct. 17, 1984 But really 29 September 19 84 - Bayou Club, Boca Raton, FL
• Quality: Above Average (A-/B+)
• Format: CD
• Notes: (according to the cover) Limited Edition, 1000 Copies

• Tracks

  Radio Free Europe/Hyena/Letter Never Sent/Camera/ Gardening At Night/9-9/Windout/(Don't Go Back To) Rockville/ So. Central Rain/Little America/Second Guessing/ Talk About The Passion/Wolves, Lower/Moon River/ Ghost Riders In The Sky/There She Goes Again/We Walk/

"Pilgrimage"

"Platinum Collection 2001"

• Format: CD
• Notes: ?

• Tracks

  All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star) / Daysleeper / Losing My Religion / Imitation of Life / Man on the Moon / Radio Free Europe / The Great Beyond / Shiny Happy People / Everybody Hurts / The Lifting / Strange Currencies / Lotus / Beachball / Electrolite / What's the Frequency, Kenneth? / Suspicion / The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight [sic] / Nightswimming

"Pluggelectric"

• Recorded: MTV Studios, NY, NY 4/10/91 "Unplugged" + "1993 Tour"
• Quality: MTV: Excellent , "1993 Tour": vg, somewhat muffled
• Format: CD
• Notes: ?

• Tracks

  Half A World Away/Disturbance At The Heron House/Radio Song/ Low/Perfect Circle/Fall On Me/Belong/Love Is All Around/It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)/ Losing My Religion/Pop Song '89/Emdgame/(Other)The One I Love/ "Corporation"/Feeling Gravitys Pull/Get Up/ITEOTWAWKI.

"Poets Of The Wheat"

• Recorded: [1] BBC Studios, (London) - 1991 [2] Seattle - 1991 [although the tracks are really from Westward One/Orlando '89 show]
• Quality: Average
• Format: Double CD
• Released: late, 1991

• Tracks

  (disk 1) [1] Don't Talk To Me/Me In Honey/Half A World Away/ Radio Song/Losing My Religion/It's Written In The Wind/ [2] Pop Song/Exhuming McCarthy/Listen (To Me)/ Disturbance At The Heron House/Turn You Inside Out/ Orange Crush/Feeling Gravity's Pull/Swan Swan H/ (disk 2) Begin The Begin/Pretty Persuation/I Believe/ King Of Birds/Crazy/Finest Worksong/You Are Everything/ Your Academy/Stand/Perfect Circle/Get Up/ It's The End Of The World As We Know It/

"The Pop Dream"

• Recorded: various locations, 1982-85
• Quality: mixed
• Format: LP (double)

• Tracks
  Neverland/Gloria/There She Goes Again/California Dreaming/ Toys In The Attic/Radar Love/Paint It Black/ I Can't Control Myself/Radar Love/ So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star/ I Can Only Give You Everything/Secret Agent Man/ See No Evil/Pills/Stepping Stone/ Have You Ever Seen The Rain/Eight Miles High/Roadrunner/ In the Year 2525/After Hours/God Save The Queen/ 20th Century Boys/Smokin' In The Boy's Room/Sweet Jane/ Louie Louie/Pale Blue Eyes/Wild Thing/Chicken Train/ Be Bop A Lula

"Pop Song"

• Recorded: Green World Tour;another boot from Westwood One Show, Orlando.
• Quality: very good/excellent
• Format: CD

• Tracks

  Pop Song 89 / Exhuming McCarthy / Welcome To The Occupation / Disturbance At The Heron House / Turn You Inside-Out / Orange Crush / Feeling Gravity's Pull / Swan Swan H / Begin The Begin / Pretty Persuasion / I Believe / King Of Birds / Crazy / Finest Worksong / You Are The Everything / Academy Fight Song / Stand / Perfect Circle / Get Up / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).

"Pop Songs '89"

• Recorded: Green demos (1988) and live performances (1989)
• Quality: good (demos) and fair (audience recordings)
• Format: LP

• Tracks

  Pop Song '89/Get Up/You Are the Everything/King of Birds/ World Leader Pretend/Orange Crush/Turn You Inside Out/ Hairshirt/I Remember California/Rotary 10/untitled/ Perfect Circle

"Popular Persuasion"

• Recorded:
  1-3 live Reunion Arean, Dallas (MTV)
  4-15: Green Tour USA (undoubtedly Superstars in Concert)
  16 & 17: live USA 1994 (sic)
  18. Unplugged live USA 1989 (sic)
  
• Quality: Very Good
• Format: CD

• Tracks

  I Took Yopur Name/Crush with Eyeliner/WTF,K?/Pop Song '89/Welcome to the Occupation/ Disturbance at the Heron House/Turn You Inside Out/ Orange Crush/Swan Swan H/Begin the Begin/Finest Worksong/Academy Fight Song/Stand/Get Up/ITEOTWAWKI (AIFF)/Everybody Hurts/Drive/Losing My Religion

"Precious Rarities"

• Recorded: Live in the USA 1982-1992
• Format: CD

• Tracks

  One/Fretless/Hello In There/Romance/Gardening At Night/Oddfellows Local 151/1.000.000/Have You Ever Seen The Rain/Last Date/Fun Time/Radio Free Europe/Crazy/Ages Of You/Love Is All Around/Driver 8/Man On The Moon/ Everybody Hurts/Drive/Losing My Religion/Carnival Of Sorts

"Preconstruction"

• Recorded: Meredith College Amphitheater Raleigh, NC 5-27-85
• Quality: ?
• Format: ?
• Notes: Does this bootleg exist?

• Tracks

  ?

"Pretty Pictures"

• Recorded: Athens '80, San. Fran. '83, Chronic Town Outtakes
• Quality: varied, mostly poor to fair
• Format: LP (double)

• Tracks

  That Beat/All the Right Friends/Tighten Up/ There She Goes Again/Moon River/That Beat/Burning Down/ Burning Hell/The Lion Sleeps Tonight/Skank/Camera/ Second Guessing/Just A Touch/Pale Blue Eyes/Catapult/ Wolves, Lower/Laughing/Romance/Shaking Through/ Carnival of Sorts/Stumble/All The Right Friends/ A Different Girl/Narrator/Just A Touch/Baby I/Mystery to Me/ Permanent Vacation/