Professionally recorded, the Durham show was meant to be an official live album for the label I.R.S.
It was to be the band’s final album for the label. However, Stipe (so legend goes) objected to its release, which is perfectly believable when you hear him tell the crowd that he has a head cold and that they should expect “a less than perfect performance tonight.”
And, in fact, it never saw the light. Well, un til NOW !

1. 7 Chinese Bros.
2. Catapult
3. Radio Free Europe
4. 9-9
5. Gardening at Night
6. Windout
7. Letter Never Sent
8. Kohoutek
9. S. Central Rain
10. (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
11. 1,000,000
12. Hyena
13. West of the Fields
14. Old Man Kensey
15. Second Guessing

Disc 1
01 Finest Worksong
02 These Days
03 The Wake-Up Bomb
04 So Fast, So Numb
05 Exhuming McCarthy
06 Animal
07 Sweetness Follows
08 Bad Day
09 World Leader Pretend
10 Strange Currencies
11 Losing My Religion

Disc 2
01 At My Most Beautiful
02 She Just Wants To Be
03 Walk Unafraid
04 Man On The Moon
05 Life And How To Live It
06 Welcome To The Occupation
07 Nightswimming
08 Final Straw
09 Permanent Vacation
10 Imitation Of Life

Michael Stipe – lead vocals, occasional harmonica, percussion and guitar
Mike Mills – bass, keyboards, backing vocals, occasional lead vocals and guitar
Peter Buck – lead guitar, mandolin, banjo, occasional bass, keyboards and drums
Scott McCaughey – rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, occasional lead guitar and bass
Bill Rieflin – drums, percussion, occasional keyboards and guitar
Ken Stringfellow – keyboards, bass, backing vocals, occasional rhythm guitar

1 Intro
2 Imitation Of Life
3 Great Beyond
4 Kenneth
5 All The Way To Reno
6 Daysleeper
7 I´ve Been High
8 Electrolite
9 The Lifting
10 My Most Beautiful
11 I´ll Take The Rain
12 The One I Love
13 She Just Wants To Be
14 Walk Unaffraid
15 Losing My Religion
16 Man On The Moon
17 South Central Rain
18 It´s The End Of The World

THE MONSTER TOUR

This was the final show of the “Monster Tour”, the last ever show with Bill Berry.
The band give it all they’ve got – the longest show of the tour, with an amazing surfeit of rarities – ‘Zither’, ‘Find the River’, ‘Nightswimming’, ‘Radio Free Europe’ and a goofy cover of ‘Wild Thing’ to finish it off.

1. (Intro)
2. What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
3. Crush With Eyeliner
4. Drive
5. Fall on Me
6. The Wake-Up Bomb
7. Undertow
8. Losing My Religion
9. Binky the Doormat
10. Bang and Blame
11. Zither
12. Strange Currencies
13. Revolution
14. Tongue
15. Man on the Moon
16. Country Feedback
17. Find the River
18. The One I Love
19. Pop Song 89
20. Get Up
21. Star 69
22. Nightswimming
23. Let Me In
24. Everybody Hurts
25. (banter)
26. Java (Allen Toussaint cover) (+ Band Intro)
27. So. Central Rain
28. Happy Birthday (Mildred J. Hill cover) (to Rain Phoenix)
29. Departure
30. Radio Free Europe (only performance in 1995)
31. It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
32. Wild Thing (Chip Taylor cover)