Perfect Square
Perfect Square | ||||
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Video by R.E.M. | ||||
Released | May 9, 2004 (2004-05-09) | |||
Recorded | July 19, 2003 | |||
Venue | Bowling Green, Wiesbaden, Germany | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length | 143:00 | |||
Label | Warner Reprise Video | |||
Director | Julia Knowles[1] | |||
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Perfect Square is a 2004 concert film of the alternative rock band R.E.M., filmed on July 19, 2003, at the Bowling Green in Wiesbaden, Germany. It was released by Warner Reprise Video on March 9, 2004.
The concert features a performance of the song "Country Feedback", which Michael Stipe opens by declaring it his "favorite 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" (Also originally known as PSA when first written in the early 1980s) and "Animal", and the re-emergence of the long-lost song "Permanent Vacation". "Permanent Vacation" dates back to 1980, years before their first album, while "Bad Day" dates back to 1985.
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. The documentary demonstrates the effect the concerts had on Stirling and its residents. It was released in 2000.
Audio
- Dolby Digital Stereo
- Dolby Digital 5.1
Track listing
All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe except as indicated.
- "Begin the Begin" – 4:04
- "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" – 4:12
- "Maps and Legends" – 3:28
- "Drive" – 4:44
- "Animal" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 4:22
- "Daysleeper" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 3:46
- "The Great Beyond" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 4:17
- "Bad Day" – 4:24
- "The One I Love" – 3:22
- "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 5:00
- "Orange Crush" – 3:59
- "Losing My Religion" – 4:45
- "At My Most Beautiful" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 3:37
- "Electrolite" – 4:28
- "She Just Wants to Be" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 5:58
- "Walk Unafraid" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 5:16
- "Man on the Moon" – 5:57
- "Everybody Hurts" – 6:26
- "So Fast, So Numb" – 4:24
- "Country Feedback" – 6:11
- "Permanent Vacation" – 2:52
- "Imitation of Life" (Buck, Mills, Stipe) – 3:55
- "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" – 5:55
Personnel
- R.E.M.
- Peter Buck – guitar, bass guitar, banjo, mandolin
- Mike Mills – bass guitar, backing vocals, piano
- Michael Stipe – lead vocals
- Auxiliary musicians
- Scott McCaughey – guitar, keyboard, vocals
- Bill Rieflin – drums, percussion
- Ken Stringfellow – keyboard, banjo, bass guitar, vocals
Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[2] | Gold | 7,500^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[3] | Gold | 25,000* |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
References
- ^ "R.E.M.: Perfect Square". IMDb. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2005 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
- ^ "British video certifications – R.E.M. – Perfect Square". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
External links
- Perfect Square at IMDb
- A promo for A Stirling Performance by Stylorouge
- A behind-the-scenes story
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- Murmur
- Reckoning
- Fables of the Reconstruction
- Lifes Rich Pageant
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- Green
- Out of Time
- Automatic for the People
- Monster
- New Adventures in Hi-Fi
- Up
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- Around the Sun
- Accelerate
- Collapse into Now
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- Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions
- R.E.M. at the BBC
- Live at the Borderline 1991
- Dead Letter Office
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- "Radio Free Europe"
- "Talk About the Passion"
- "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)"
- "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville"
- "Cant Get There from Here"
- "Driver 8"
- "Wendell Gee"
- "Fall on Me"
- "Superman"
- "The One I Love"
- "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"
- "Finest Worksong"
- "Orange Crush"
- "Stand"
- "Pop Song 89"
- "Get Up"
- "Losing My Religion"
- "Shiny Happy People"
- "Near Wild Heaven"
- "Radio Song"
- "Drive"
- "Man on the Moon"
- "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
- "Everybody Hurts"
- "Nightswimming"
- "Find the River"
- "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"
- "Bang and Blame"
- "Crush with Eyeliner"
- "Strange Currencies"
- "Tongue"
- "E-Bow the Letter"
- "Bittersweet Me"
- "Electrolite"
- "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us"
- "Daysleeper"
- "Lotus"
- "At My Most Beautiful"
- "Suspicion"
- "The Great Beyond"
- "Imitation of Life"
- "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)"
- "I'll Take the Rain"
- "Bad Day"
- "Animal"
- "Leaving New York"
- "Aftermath"
- "Electron Blue"
- "Wanderlust"
- "#9 Dream"
- "Supernatural Superserious"
- "Hollow Man"
- "Man-Sized Wreath"
- "Until the Day Is Done"
- "Mine Smell Like Honey"
- "Überlin"
- "Oh My Heart"
- "We All Go Back to Where We Belong"
- "Sitting Still"
- "Gardening at Night"
- "Perfect Circle"
- "Pretty Persuasion"
- "7 Chinese Bros."
- "Begin the Begin"
- "Cuyahoga"
- "Ages of You"
- "Turn You Inside-Out"
- "Texarkana"
- "Country Feedback"
- "First We Take Manhattan"
- "Ignoreland"
- "Dark Globe"
- "Star 69"
- "New Test Leper"
- "All the Right Friends"
- "Out in the Country"
- Succumbs
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- This Film Is On
- Parallel
- Road Movie
- In View
- Perfect Square
- When the Light Is Mine
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- Live from Austin, TX
- REMTV
side projects
- Discography
- List of songs
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- 170 College Avenue
- Peter Buck
- Athens Andover
- "I Belong to You"
- Hib-Tone
- Surprise Your Pig: A Tribute to R.E.M.
- Drive XV: A Tribute to Automatic for the People