Live at the Borderline 1991
Live at the Borderline 1991 | ||||
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Live album by Bingo Hand Job | ||||
Released | April 13, 2019 (2019-04-13) | |||
Recorded | March 15, 1991 | |||
Venue | The Borderline Club, London, England, UK | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Language | English | |||
Label | Craft | |||
R.E.M. chronology | ||||
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Live at the Borderline 1991 is a 2019 live album released for Record Store Day on April 13. The recording features alternative rock band R.E.M. performing under the pseudonym Bingo Hand Job at a 1991 surprise gig around the release of Out of Time.[1]
Recording and release
The band played two nights at the 200-capacity London venue (March 14–15, 1991) as part of a small promotional tour of radio and television programs;[2] tickets were reportedly exchanging hands for $200[3] (equivalent to $447 in 2023) and the gigs were widely bootlegged at the time. This is the first official release.
Members of R.E.M. were joined by Billy Bragg, Peter Holsapple and Robyn Hitchcock, who also adopted pseudonyms.[1]
The official release was proceeded by a free NoiseTrade download of "Radio Song".[3]
Several of the songs had been released as B-sides on singles such as "Near Wild Heaven".
Track listing
All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe, except where noted.
Side A
- "World Leader Pretend" – 4:47
- "Half a World Away" – 3:56
- "Fretless" – 5:46
- "The One I Love" – 3:40
Side B
- "Jackson" / "Dallas" (Jerry Leiber and Billy Edd Wheeler/Jimmie Dale Gilmore) – 5:32
- "Disturbance at the Heron House" – 3:53
- "Belong" – 4:46
- "Low" – 5:10
Side C
- "Love Is All Around" (Reg Presley) – 4:07
- "You Are the Everything" – 4:22
- "Swan Swan H" – 3:03
- "Radio Song" – 4:56
- "Perfect Circle" – 4:38
Side D
- "Endgame" – 4:04
- ”Pop Song 89" – 3:27
- ”Losing My Religion" – 5:20
- "Fall on Me" – 3:31
- "Get Up" – 3:09
- "Moon River" (Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer) – 2:33
Personnel
Bingo Hand Job
- Bill "The Doc" Berry – drums
- Peter "Raoul" Buck – guitar, mandolin
- Mike "Ophelia" Mills – bass guitar, backing vocals
- Michael "Stinky" Stipe – vocals
Additional musicians
- Billy "Conrad" Bragg – guitar, vocals on "Jackson", "Dallas", "Disturbance at the Heron House", and "Fall on Me"
- Peter "Spanish Charlie" Holsapple – guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
- Robyn "Violet" Hitchcock – vocals
Technical personnel
- Spencer Kelly – project assistance
- Tony McGuinness – project assistance
- Doug Schwartz – editing and mastering at Mulholland Music
Chart performance
Live at the Borderline 1991 spent one week on the Billboard Top Album Sales chart at 83rd place.[4]
References
- ^ a b "R.E.M.'s heavily bootlegged 'Bingo Hand Job' show gets vinyl Record Store Day release". Slicing Up Eyeballs. February 28, 2019. Retrieved March 26, 2019.
- ^ Rosen, Craig (April 4, 2019). "Peter Buck, Mike Mills & More Give the Story Behind R.E.M.'s Secret Shows as Bingo Hand Job". Billboard. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
- ^ a b "Bingo Hand Job – Live at the Borderline". NoiseTrade. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
- ^ "Bingo Hand Job". Billboard. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
External links
- Announcement from R.E.M.'s site
- Live at the Borderline 1991 at Discogs (list of releases)
- Live at the Borderline 1991 at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
- v
- t
- e
- Murmur
- Reckoning
- Fables of the Reconstruction
- Lifes Rich Pageant
- Document
- Green
- Out of Time
- Automatic for the People
- Monster
- New Adventures in Hi-Fi
- Up
- Reveal
- Around the Sun
- Accelerate
- Collapse into Now
- R.E.M. Live
- Live at The Olympia
- Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions
- R.E.M. at the BBC
- Live at the Borderline 1991
- Dead Letter Office
- Eponymous
- The Best of R.E.M.
- The Automatic Box
- Singles Collected
- In the Attic
- In Time
- iTunes Originals
- And I Feel Fine
- Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011
- Complete Rarities (I.R.S. · WB)
- 7IN—83–88
- Man on the Moon
- r.e.m.IX
- "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
- Tourfilm
- Pop Screen
- This Film Is On
- Parallel
- Road Movie
- In View
- Perfect Square
- When the Light Is Mine
- R.E.M. Live
- 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