r.e.m.
demos, promos & x-mas singles
The Essential demos:
volume 1
Radio dub...Ages of you...Carnival
of sorts (boxcars)...Shaking through...Wolves, lower (fast
version)...Catapult...Laughing...Romance...That beat...Burning hell...The lion
sleeps tonight... Skank...Theme from two steps onward...Just a touch...Mystery
to me...Wait...Begin the begin... Cuyahoga...I believe...These days...
great demos unfortunately my copy has lots of digital pops and clicks.
X-Mas Fan Club singles
Where's Captain
Kirk?...Toyland...Silver bells...Christmas time is here...Sex bomb...Christmas
in tunisia...Wicked game...Java...Only in america...I will survive...Live for
today...
copied directly from original singles...some pops and scratches but great sound
Should we Talk About the
Weather (promo)
interview disc with some songs and samples from green album
Sleeping
Songs...Document, Green and Life's Rich Pageant demos
Finest worksong...Welcome to the
occupation...Exhuming mccarthy...Disturbance at the heron house...Pop song
'89...It's the end of the world...Orange crush... Fireplace...Lightning hopkins...I
remember california...Oddfellows local 151...Get up...You are the
everything...Underneath the bunker...Swan swan h...Flowers of guatemala...King
of birds...
great sound throughout...there is a mix of instrumentals and rough lyrical
out-takes...very cool
Time Of Outtakes...Out
Of Time demos
Half a world away...Night
swim...Fretless...instrumental...Texarkana (Stipe on vocals)...It's a free
world, baby...Low...Endgame...Radio song (soft)...Country feedback...Losing my
religion...Speed metal...Kerouac No. 4...Near wild heaven...Shiny happy
people...Belong...Radio song (hard)...Me in honey...
Great sound. This boot is the best versions of all the Out Of Time demos.
Slightly Out Of Time
Radio song...Belong...Texarkana...Losing
my religion...Instrumental...Shiny happy people...Me in honey...Half a world
away...Losing my religion (alternative version)...Radio song...Near wild
heaven...Instrumental (Fretless)...Low...Country feedback...Ghost riders
(Reindeer)...Gave too much away...New song...Endgame...
Okay sound.
It's REM Jim...But Not
As We Know Them
Where's captain kirk?...Parade of
the tin soldiers...See no evil...Good king wenceslas... Academy fight
song...Spooky...Dallas...Half a world away...Texarkana...It's a free world
baby... Low...Radio song...Country feedback...Losing my religion... Near wild
heaven...Shiny happy people...Radio song...Me in honey...
various x-mas singles and Out of time demos...excellent sound on most tracks
Rare Frequencies
Deck the halls...Parade of the
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 (Listed but
missing)...Sex bomb... Christmas in tunisia...Wall of death...I walked with a
zombie...Ghost rider... Funtime... Photograph...Pop song '89
(acoustic)...Gardening at night...Dark globe...Alive and living now...
Excellent sound. X-mas singles and
hard to find tracks on this one.
"Up" demos new
dec.2007
Daysleeper...Parakeet...Lotus...Fall
To Climb (mandolin version)...Hope...Why Not Smile...
Up Demos From Toast Studios, San Francisco.
Lots of digital noise in background. Decent sound.