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Titolo: la prima a Cape Town - setlist+

Cape Town, South Africa 4/03/05 Setlist:
I Took Your Name
So Fast, So Numb
Animal
The Outsiders
So. Central Rain
High Speed Train
Bad Day
Electron Blue
Drive
Departure
Leaving New York
Orange Crush
I Wanted to be Wrong
Final Straw
Imitation of Life
The One I Love
Walk Unafraid
Losing my Religion
Encore:
What's the Frequency Ken?
Everybody Hurts
Exhuming McCarthy
The Great Beyond
I'm Gonna DJ
Man on the Moon
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Review:
And seemingly out of nowhere, Michael Stipe appears centre stage,
wearing a vest. Bloody hot night, you see... Suddenly, it dawns on
everyone, who this bald man is and a roar of acclaimation builds. When
the noise subsides, Stipe's voice eminates through the sound system
and he introduces: Arno Carstens' New Porn. (Quite nice of him,
really) This was my first EVER R.E.M. show, so please bear with me...
This opening band was pretty good, with a few of their songs quite
well known - predominently for being in tv ads, unfortunately. Arno's
most famous for being the lead vocalist for 'the Springbok Nude Girls'
- a great South African band, but we had to settle for his new project
- not as good but still pretty good. I had wished that we would get an
overseas act like 'The Thrills', but we are lucky enough to have REM
coming here as it is.... Also everyone was wondering about the strange
verticle lights and the VERY wide, but thin screen on the roof. What
was it all for... little did they know that they were in for the
biggest spectacle of their rocking lives!
So the lights dim, we see movement on the stage - which bursts into
light as 'I Took your Name' comes blaring out. A great set starter,
although I think people mistook it for crush-with-eyeliner at first
which threw the audience a little. Michael was now in Zorro makup and
a full suit (Don't forget it was a really hot night) 'So Fast, So
Numb' was great and I was surprised how delicious 'Animal' actually
sounds live - I HATE the recorded version and I must say the song with
Michael doing the: 'future and the truth on the rooftop, Whoa' part -
its much, much better. 'The Outsiders' was awesome live, especially
the rap part: 'I am not Afraid' projecting across the big screen makes
for a big impact. 'So Central Rain' came as quite a surprise to me
(remind me, has it been played on the tour yet?) Stipe introduced it
as: 'A song we wrote in 1983' and the crowd seemed to like it although
I know none of them actually knew it. 'High Speed Train' was
introduced as a 'love song', I must say that Stipe was really chatty
tonight, often making a comment about each song!
I could tell that the crowd was getting a bit irrate about not hearing
anything they knew thus far and when 'Bad Day' was played, they
definitely got into it... Although Bertis mentions in his last post
that the audience was very responsive in Cape Town, I must say that
they weren't that great where I was standing... Stipe had to make the
gesture before anyone else started clapping or waving hands for
instance (except me of course - I was Automatic) 'Electron Blue' was
preceded by Michael saying that it was his favourite song off of ATS
and it was a song about looking positively into the future. 'Drive'
was incredibly well received with everyone doing the tick-tock thing,
'Departure' - the most amazing thing ever, so great live and I cannot
fathom why REM never released it as a single - even largely unknown it
still got people jumping. 'Leaving New York' was cool especially with
the visuals of the music video intercut into live footage! 'Orange
Crush' came on and everyone went 'ape-shit', it was extrordinary to
see it all with all the Orange glow, the only thing was that I could
bearly hear Stipe during the mega-phone bits. Now the next part
worried me before it even happened... I didn't know how the crowd
would react to the new 'political' material, but I must say that I was
pleasantly surprised, having the lyrics up on screen had great
emotional impact and people applauded at the appropiate times durning
the songs - hearing these two live, make the recorded versions seem
impotent by comparison. 'Imitation' was a great hit and got most
people bouncing, while it was funny to see the audience collectively
realize that they knew 'The One I Love' and start singing! 'Walk
Unafriad' was disonantly brilliant and 'Losing My Religion' lit
everyone in Red and I saw myself on screen briefly, singing the words!
Before the Encore - the visual guys have a great new gimick, whereby
they show a world map and list all the citys covered on the tour, thus
far... it goes fast through all the places and when it stopped on
'Cape Town' the crowd went absolutely bananas! During the Encore,
Stipe offically introduced the three 'freelance' members of REM - when
he named Scott, Scott played the riff from 'Smoke on the Water' by
Deep Purple and Stipe said: 'What the f*ck was that, I never want to
here that on this stage again... How rude, but it was done
tongue-in-cheek. Some guys in the Golden Circle had a banner with
'What's the Frequency' written on it. (As if R.E.M. weren't gonna play
it  ) Suffice it to say that they got their wish at the begining of
the Encore. I know some people at murmurs here think that 'Everybody
Hurts' is a bit old and has lost its emotional significance, but this
was the song that really connected with the audience this evening! All
with lighters and Sparklers and Cell phones waving, by the build up
everyone was loving it! I don't think anyone knew 'Exhuming McCarthy',
but this was one of the highlights of the evening for me - great live
- but I also couldn't here a damn thing out of that tape-recorder.
'Great Beyond' was great, but this was the one where I heard Michael's
voice taking a bit of strain - not too noticable, thankfully. I cannot
reiterate to anyone reading this how unbeleivebly cool 'I'm Gonna DJ'
is, introduced as the song that didn't make it on the new record for:
'reasons that will be apparent in 2-and-a-half minutes' it was
incredibly loud and crazy! 'Man on the Moon' the perfect closer, all
went nuts during the chorus, but when R.E.M. went off stage, all the
people just stayed put, hoping for another Encore - the thing is, when
End of the World isn't played you can't really leave, can you?! 
I'm seeing tomorrow's show also, and I hope they mix up the setlist a
bit! I promise to post it, but probably with no review this time
(thank god, I know you're thinking).
Cheers - Outsider. Over and Out.
Ciao!
Vero - 
High Speed Train Jumpers #2
"The ascent of cactus" club #3
--
JMS: I wanted to change the band's name every time we made a new
record, because I don't like it. [Laughs] I mean I'm okay with it. 
It is what it is, but I wanted a name that didn't have periods in it
and wasn't mispronounced in ROMANCE-LANGUAGE countries.
[Ogni riferimento/allusione è puramente casuale :P ]
PB: How do they pronounce it?
JMS: [Rolling his tongue] Remm-eh. [Laughs] The term R.E.M. is almost
impossible to say in certain languages so it just became something
else, which is fine. But it's very hard to work with periods,
graphically
                              **ROTFL!**

 I Took Your Name
mo je presa co sta i took your name speriamo che per roma la perdano sta 
pessima abitudine 

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a me,me pia(s)ce!

pessima abitudine 
Concordo, brano brutto al posto sbagliato (il primo brano di un
concerto deve avere un minimo di riguardo... ;-) )

GIŮ LE MANI DA I TOOK YOUR NAME?????
Non pensate a quei poverini che non hanno vissuto il Monster Tour????
Spero tanto che la facciano!!!!!!!!!
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