18.03.1989
USA, Tempe, A.S.U. Activities Center
The Green World Tour Tempe
vg / exc. Aud.

Disc 1: [1:10:00]
01. Pop Song '89 [3:15]
02. Exhuming McCarthy [3:23]
03. Welcome to the Occupation [2:58]
04. Turn You Inside-Out [5:46]
05. Shaking Through (band loses its way) [3:28]
06. Underneath the Bunker (atonement) [1:54]
07. Orange Crush [4:17]
08. Disturbance at the Heron House [3:18]
09. Feeling Gravity's Pull [6:14]
10. Flowers of Guatemala (tape flip) [4:21]
11. Begin the Begin [3:21]
12. World Leader Pretend [5:10]
13. Tired of Singing Trouble [0:37]
14. I Believe [4:02]
15. Pretty Persuasion [4:31]
16. Superman (Clique cover) [3:03]
17. Get Up [2:33]
18. Auctioneer [3:05]
19. It's the End of the World As We Know It [4:37]

Disc 2: [58:15]
01. Stand [3:30]
02. Boy (Go) (Golden Palominos song) [4:57]
03. Fall On Me [3:23]
04. You Are the Everything [4:35]
05. Finest Worksong [4:15]
06. King of Birds [4:40]
07. Summertime (Gershwin cover) [2:12]
08. These Days [3:45]
09. See No Evil (Television cover) [2:55]
10. Dark Globe (Syd Barrett cover) [2:14]
11. Harpers (Hugo Largo cover) [2:14]
12. Crazy (Pylon cover) [3:10]
13. Perfect Circle [4:52]
14. Academy Fight Song (Mission of Burma cover) [3:43]
15. "trying to think of one loud song" [1:07]
16. Radio Free Europe [3:46]
17. After Hours (Velvet Underground cover) [2:51]

Recorded by JEMS
Nak 300 > Sony WM-D3

Master Cassette Transfer: Nak CR-7A > Gentle JEMS remaster via TC Finalizer > Marantz CDR-610
Remastered CD-R > FLAC

Notes:
Saw a lot of great R.E.M. shows over the years but this one always stuck out. Friends had gone to the four previous shows in California at a time when the band's taste for the Golden State was, how shall we say it, yet to be acquired. Those shows were good, but leaving CA for AZ must have had a positive effect, as the show in Tempe was a stunner, boasting some unusual set-list inclusions among them "Boy (Go)," a song Stipe sang on the Golden Palominos album, several terrific covers (see above), a rare-for-this-tour audible of "Radio Free Europe" and the always rare "Underneath the Bunker."

This is a mono recording, done with a single Nak 300 mic. I did circulate this show privately to some R.E.M. collectors several years ago, but it deserves, in my opinion, wider distribution. Hear for yourself in the MP3 sample below. Butterking