I'm just really blessed to have seen R.E.M. in concert before they broke up. Truly some of the best stuff America has to offer. I don't even care how much people disliked Reveal. That album did a lot for me.

I have to give my brother, Mike, credit for liking R.E.M.'s Monster before I gave it a chance. Now, I see it is as essential a part of R.E.M.'s discography as any of their albums. I think that was around the time that I beat him up for making fun of my love of Beck Hansen.

Here is my R.E.M. setlist from the one and only time I saw them.

1. These Days
2. Living Well Is the Best Revenge
3. What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
4. Wolves, Lower
5. Man-Sized Wreath
6. Turn You Inside-Out
7. Imitation Of Life
8. Staring Down The Barrel
9. Ignoreland
10. Bad Day
11. Hollow Man
12. The Great Beyond
13. Houston
14. Electrolite
15. Walk Unafraid
16. The One I Love
17. Find The River
18. Let Me In
19. Departure
20. Life And How To Live It
21. Orange Crush
22. I'm Gonna DJ

23. Supernatural Superserious
24. Losing My Religion
25. Begin The Begin (w/ Eddie Vedder)
26. Fall On Me (w/ Johnny Marr)
27. Man On The Moon (w/ Johnny Marr)

What a find! I couldn't stop laughing.