I'm going to share two versions of the same recording this time. Info files in italics.

The first link is to a version that was seeded very recently on DIME and has had no adjustment made to it all, save for the transfer from recorded cassette to digital.

http://tinyurl.com/6pblkj

 REM
12 March 1991
Bullet Sound Studios
Nederhorst den Berg, The Netherlands

I still have a lot of old analogue tapes from the old days when I used to record radio shows broadcasting live concerts or studio shows/sessions.
Since I have an Edirol R09 now, I am trying to transfer these analogue tapes and recordings to digital and upload them on Dime.

Lineage: Analogue tape > Stand alone tape player > Edirol R09 (44,1 Hz/16 Bit Wave) > NERO Wave Editor 4 > Flac

I didn't do anything to improve the recording, apart from using NERO Wave Editor to split the recording in several tracks.

There may be bootlegs around with these recordings. However, this recording is not from a bootleg, but from my analogue tape that I used to record the songs when they were broadcast in 1991 (exact date unknown).
As far as I know, none of the versions recorded for the 2 Meter Sessions are available commercially.

The tracks are:

01.  World Leader Pretend
02.  Half A World Away
03.  You Are Everything
04.  Fretless
05.  Radio Song
06.  Losing My Religion
07.  Belong
08.  Love Is All Around (The Troggs)

Enjoy!!

The second, for any fans of re-masters out there, is one that has been changed considerably from the original. Not only that, the sequencing is different because the producer of the recording (thir13en) came to different conclusion as to the tracklist from his three sources. I would have to believe that the first tracklist is the correct one, since it was recorded directly from radio. However, I really like what thir13en did with his source tapes from an audio point of view.

PANDO  - 2 Meter thir13en re-master

**Remastered** by thir13en

My FAQ: http://zombtracker.the-zomb.com/forums.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=1232


R.E.M.
1991-03-12
2 Meter Sessie
Bullet Sound Studio's
Nederhorst den Berg, Holland


Much thanks to the compiler of these songs, nice to have them all together. Very cool REM era, with acoustic versions of "World Leader Pretend", "Belong", and the fine closer "Love is All Around" it's a no brainer.

With the sources being so varied it took some time to get them cohesive, but it sounds quite nice across the whole set now. Process: Q'd>Comp'd>S1'd>BBE'd>L3'd>FLAC'd.


Enjoy!


1 Fretless
2 World Leader pretend
3 Half a world away
4 You are everything
5 Radio song
6 Losing my religion
7 Belong
8 Love is all around


PRE-13 SOURCE INFO
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I compiled this complete session from 3 sources.
The best of my available versions are presented here.

lineage info is FM > CASS > CDR > EAC (secure) > HDD > CEP > Flac8

some small editing has been done to songs 5 & 8 (pasting the spoken intro to the songs)

Source 1: songs 1, music of songs 5 & 8
Source 2: songs 4, spoken intro of 5 & 8
source 3: songs 2, 3, 6 & 7

Quality of all songs is very good, except for "You are the everything"
which sounds a bit dull. If anyone has a quality-upgrade, please seed it here!!

I share, you decide.

Or so says this satirical piece by the Examiner.

I am not sure what part of this made people fall for it however. As the Examiner points out.

What concerns me the most is that people that are R.E.M. fans could actually fall for this that in some way that Obama would ask for a full account of the lyrics to 'Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight' among other things.

I guess I should come out of hiding and get people back on track. This article is reminiscent of the same types of posts that were made back when Obama was going to travel to Berlin when R.E.M. was going to be around there and people immediately assumed that maybe Obama would show up at an R.E.M. show. 

However, what more strikes me as satire are the huge R.E.M. fans that listen to their music incessantly and still will vote for John McCain in November. How can someone who votes for McCain be an R.E.M. fan?

Personally, I think that the people that found the above story to be true wanted it to be true because they want to believe there is a rift between R.E.M. and Obama. While this is truly just assumption and nothing less, we believe anything we need to believe in terms of politics. When that satirical story broke about Obama being against Stipe and Co., it felt good, their fears were answered when their favorite band would be denigrated by the magical politician that walks on water. 

This text is taken directly from the info file contained within the download. Files should be available until 20th August. Any problems, let us know in the comments.

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When your website sends you a dirty email about how you forgot your anniversary together. It is one thing if it was your significant other, but websites are much more mean and unforgiving. They might threaten to lock you out of your account or better yet alter photos of you nude having sex with farm animals. I will deny any farm animal sex, tropical animals on the other hand,well, no comment.

Yes, it has been a wonderful two years here that REMring has been around. For two years we have tried to keep things real, post some shows, and have a delightful time chewing the fat all things R.E.M.

However, the thanks as always has been to the fans that have come here and possibily enjoyed a laugh, got angry, downloaded a show or just were curious R.E.M. fans. Otherwise I would just be talking to a wall which would put me into a Psych Ward probably. 

As you have probably have noticed, I have not been around all that much. Oh, I have been around, but not here. A quick note about my life: things are great but busy. I am planning a trip to the Pacific Northwest starting next week and will be going all through Portland and Seattle so that should be fun. Secondly, my lease is up at the end of September, and it is time to move on. For the last week or so I have begun going through the catacombs of my closets and cleaning stuff out. It gets a little depressing sometimes, for example the moment I was digging through all my VCR Tapes and ran into all these R.E.M. which I now have to determine, did I get these on DVD yet and if so was there anything on the tapes which would be interesting to keep around?

I did find my copy of the first compilation of 'Gathering of Grunts and Greens' which I had been searching high and low in my apartments for at least a year. However, sadly, I also found my copy of Reveal. All the R.E.M. boots have been packed, so any requests that are not recent shows will have to wait for a bit. 

I have not been able to spend as much time as I have wanted following my favorite bald headed lead singer and his pack of cohorts. I initially thought that the festival shows were oh just so so and it seems they have started to kick it up a notch lately. 

Due to all of this fun stuff that is happening in my life I can say that things will be up and down around here for a bit. I figure when September rolls around and things start calming down and the kids go back to school that I should have much more time to have fun here.