- Jim O’Rourke, I’m Happy, and I’m Singing, and a 1,2,3,4 (disc 1)
- Günter Christmann, Vario 34-3
- ICP Orchestra, Incipient ICP (1966-71) (disc 1)
- The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra (feat. Cecil Taylor)
- To Live and Shave in L.A., The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg (disc 1) (feat. Tom Smith)
- Tarot or Aorta - Memories of a PRE Festival (feat. Tom Smith)
- Subterranean Modern (Ralph Records)
- MX-80 Sound, Hard Attack
- MX-80 Sound, Big Hits
- Captain Beefheart, The Mirror Man Sessions (disc 2)
- R.E.M., Document
I still love the run of R.E.M. albums from Reckoning (1984) through Green (1988) every bit as much as I always have. Every note, every word. (Well, not quite. But nearly.)
Saw them in a suburban-Chicago arena on the Green tour (1989), and the music was amazing, even from way up in a balcony seat, but I was getting sick and I ended up in bed for days afterwards. By the time they were playing encores my body was literally shaking and I was so aggressively miserable I left and sat in my car, piled anything I could find around myself in a desperate effort to keep warm, and waited for the friend who came with me.
Here’s the setlist. They covered Pylon and Wire and Television and Syd Barrett and the Velvet Underground, and I thought they covered Mission of Burma but I must be confused. I think I bailed after “See No Evil”.
Actually, this is another post about Tom Smith (RIP), of To Live and Shave in L.A. In the late 1970s he was briefly in a band with Michael Stipe, called Boat Of. Later, one of Smith’s projects made an album called “Jehovah” My Black Ass — R.E.M. Is Air Supply!.
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