Perfect Square
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- This article refers to the R.E.M. live recording. For the mathematical term, see Perfect square.
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| Video by R.E.M. | |||||
| Released | March 9, 2004 | ||||
| Recorded | Bowling Green Wiesbaden, Germany |
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| Genre | Rock music | ||||
| Length | 143 min. | ||||
| Label | Warner Bros. | ||||
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Perfect Square is a video recording of a concert by rock band R.E.M., filmed on 19 July 2003 at the Bowling Green in Wiesbaden, Germany. It was released in DVD format on the Warner Brothers label on March 9, 2004.
This concert is perhaps most notable for a performance of the song "Country Feedback", which Michael Stipe opens by declaring it his "favourite song". The rendition features appended lyrics from another song, Reveal's "Chorus and the Ring", and a guitar solo by Peter Buck, neither of which are in the original. The performance (in audio form) also found its way onto the limited edition issue of the In Time compilation, which was released a few months after the Wiesbaden concert.
Other concert highlights include the appearance of two then-new songs, "Bad Day" and "Animal", and the re-emergence of the long-lost song "Permanent Vacation". "Permanent Vacation" dates back to the band's Murmur days.
It is believed that the title Perfect Square is a play on one of R.E.M.'s earlier songs, "Perfect Circle", although that song does not appear on the DVD.
Included on the DVD release is a bonus documentary, A Stirling Performance, chronicling the band's three-night stand at Stirling Castle in Scotland in July 1999.
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[edit] Audio
- Dolby Digital Stereo
- Dolby Digital 5.1
[edit] Track listing
- 'Begin the Begin' (originally on Life's Rich Pageant) (4:04)
- 'What's the Frequency, Kenneth?' (originally on Monster) (4:12)
- 'Maps and Legends' (originally on Fables of the Reconstruction) (3:28)
- 'Drive' (originally on Automatic for the People) (4:44)
- 'Animal' (originally on In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003) (4:22)
- 'Daysleeper' (originally on Up) (3:46)
- 'The Great Beyond' (originally on Man on the Moon Soundtrack) (4:17)
- 'Bad Day' (originally on In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003) (4:24)
- 'The One I Love' (originally on Document) (3:22)
- 'All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)' (originally on Reveal) (5:00)
- 'Orange Crush' (originally on Green) (3:59)
- 'Losing My Religion' (originally on Out Of Time) (4:45)
- 'At My Most Beautiful' (originally on Up) (3:37)
- 'Electrolite' (originally on New Adventures in Hi-Fi) (4:28)
- 'She Just Wants to Be' (originally on Reveal) (5:58)
- 'Walk Unafraid' (originally on Up) (5:16)
- 'Man on the Moon' (originally on Automatic for the People) (5:57)
- 'Everybody Hurts' (originally on Automatic for the People) (6:26)
- 'So Fast, So Numb' (originally on New Adventures in Hi-Fi) (4:24)
- 'Country Feedback' (originally on Out Of Time) (6:11)
- 'Permanent Vacation' (2:52)
- 'Imitation of Life' (originally on Reveal) (3:55)
- 'It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)' (originally on Document) (5:55)
[edit] Personnel
[edit] R.E.M.
- Peter Buck - guitar, bass
- Mike Mills - bass, vocals, piano
- Michael Stipe - vocals
[edit] Auxiliary musicians
- Scott McCaughey - guitar, keyboard, vocals
- Bill Rieflin - drums, percussion
- Ken Stringfellow - keyboard, banjo, vocals
[edit] External links
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