R.E.M. - 1984-11-21 - Nottingham, UK (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Rock City, Nottingham, UK 

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Sanyo portable stereo > Soundblaster 16 > Cool Edit Pro 2.1 > CD Wave Editor > Shorten 

01 - Talk About The Passion [3:08] 

02 - (Don't Go Back To) Rockville [4:24] 

03 - So - Central Rain [3:55] 

04 - Sitting Still [3:12] 

05 - Gardening At Night [3:39] 

06 - Driver 8 [3:24] 

07 - Radio Free Europe [3:46] 

Total: [25:28] 

Complete recording of a partial broadcast. 

Here's a little gem from my archives that's been kicking around on my PCs since 2001. This is a complete recording of a partial FM broadcast of the BBC recording of R.E.M. at Rock City in Nottingham in 1984. To the best of my knowledge none of this has been officially released. While I didn't use fancy equipment to make it, the recording is excellent. I recorded straight to my HD, split the tracks with CD Wave Editor, and made Shorten files to post to Usenet. This is the original file set, no CD-R in the lineage. It's only 25 minutes, but it's good. Sample below.